Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' o , Iihv~ (,onw>lliht?'tl 11 ittwo i? ant*, and no a ea>iy to furiitnh an vthi-'g hi tlm M untl IjUIiiIkm line-, witn h well #- | tipped F >undr\ mi l M i liine i"dioj?, ami Door, Saah ami KiJinl Fac#or? or facilities are un |tialie?l in I it it- |nri of the State HE A I'EltS MOW Eli"*, I IlitKsnKK-v (JINS, EN (JIN E > -A V MILLS II A Y AND CO ON I'UESSES H A KIi( > -VS. < A-> IN(JS, K I C AL O SEC0N3 HAH J MACHINERY. Ha*~ 15i I Is for I > w -11 i Ht*?re K loim, ev *?eiH hn list of your wit'its, ami wwill answer by return to til . i Kr-p"' IfullV. CHtSTtil MaCMINE & ! LUMB.K COMPANY. . I ) Ji w z. *o 2. "3 ??5! s. _ s ? g.-H ! t s-s-r < | a ? ? "^b J_5 * O ? - 5 I a 25! : o 5 ts 3 ' ?? 5 * e i' j, o 9- 3~ ^ * m -5 ? ^ r"' . - (g a 8 i- - ? 5-? f- T? c s 3.5 ? " ? > -W M? 5 C?. * ~ 5 & <? I: > fM g c 5. ? a <5 z! Km d ? 3" -z 5 ? < t> x 3Q r - r X ^ or. ZZT g cr. ' 1 i ? ? H *? ?.? ?3Sy * 5C ? ? ?"*? 3". ? <3 crp ?s |g-|^ -a p> <o s f !?> S ? p p -? -. & El ? 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It destroys Worm* euros Diarrhoea and Wind 'roubles, cures Constipation tes the Food, regulates tlio healthy and natural sleep, i Mother's Friend. ORIA ALWAYS Signature of _ iiSST re Always Bought er 30 Years. LANCASTER AMI' (IIESI'ER KA I |,W A ,1 Kfhfdule in tf -ot \|?ril 28, 11)00. (I >ail> except tSuudit ) WE^TliOUN l> | KAMTH UND. No's. H nni Hi ' Nn'h >?nd 15 j \ M. P M. \ P M j i >7 ' t<J \r h.'tiMt (jV J?4? 8 10 7 21 8 .81 lti<>hl>urir 10 2 47 | 7 i: > .'?) itasc.rnbville lo 40 57 8 57 6 00 Fori Lawn U 00 t '3 l? M 8 80 5 80 Ly Lancaster Aril 40 9 . No 14 l*avimt i.aiicaster 6*30 am. ill - If* ckmm ooii'iwvlnu mi "hester I w/ih ^ tu'ht-ru Railway No 38 for Cha<loite a <1 points norili; toil Sea h mr-t Mr Liae ' Atlanta Special" for Mi'iiita ami points west A'no wiili aroiiun ami Northwestern Rail way No 10 f<>r enoir N C? ami intermediate points, ami -nutheru Railway No 33 for < 'olumhl and points sotp I) ^o. 17 leaving luster 10.30 a m cnniierts with Southern Railway No, 3'? from i olumbta ami "oinli south; S ah ur>l sir I.me " \tlanta "Special" from northern ami eastern points am) Southern Its Iwhv No HJtfr..ir? ern H.t.l eastern points, an * a Lancaster with ? f A (J E for Itla('k?l>urK. N ?. i'i leaving Lancaster 4.00 p m, connects al liiiiic i ler wl< h H ' A G E from urnden ami flurion and South- I itij liahwiy No 84 at ? heater for harlot'e and point.* north. No 15. leaving Cheater 8.10 p iu, Bonn cim at < heater with southern Hallway No. 84 from 'oluishia and point* aoiiih Ja-< M HE\TH,Qen Pmhm. Agt LKKOY HP KINGS. President... * FOUR PAPERS A WEEK +\ FOR ABOUT THE * PRICE OF ONE. + + 4* This paper and the Atlanta 4 b I ? Twice-a-Week Journal for ? _ 51. fb. | { Ilore you get the ntws of J ? the world and all your local ? 1 4 news while it is fresh, |>aying ? * rorv little more than one a 2 p*l>er cost*. Either paper ? ? ie well worth #1.00, but by fr 4 special arrangement wa are ? ? eiiahhd to put in both of ? | them, giving three papers a * <* week for this low prioe. You 2 \ cannot equal this anywhere ? j J else, and this combination ie ? !> t lie best premium for thoee $ || who want a groat j>?i>er and ? ;J a home paper. Take these fr i and you will keep up with I :j the times. ? j | iiesidea general news, the * i Twice-a-Week Journal has a j | much agricultural matter ? 1 | and other articles of special J I interest to farmers. It has j || regularcontributions by Sam ? ] | Jones, Mrs. W. H. Felton f i i John Temple Qravea, Hon. 2 || C. H. Jordan and other dis- ? j | tinguiahed writers. j i I Call at tfcla amaa ataS taava jaar a 1 | aaSici lptio?M far Nth pa para. Vaa aaa ? | fat a aaaapla aapp af tttW papac bar# ? l | mm appltcaUaa. ?. I U*T llave you forgotten t j >ay yo ur subscription to Ledg) "SENATOR TILLMAN KNEW IT TO BE FALSE." CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAOE. by meant* of it their own advanU 1 age rather than the restraint of vice. And as a corrupt political machine, Satan himself couldn't I improve on it! But they din in our ears that prohibition is impracticable. Impracticable ! Let u* havo a little common sense about this question. It is no more impracticable than many other laws already on our etui lit A ilr ami n/v "? ?-* ' nwvu vv nil\( n lliv ll IIW C11UIU or civilized man would see re pealed. It is no more impracticable than the law against murder. I doubt if there would be as many violations of a prohibition la.v or as many violators of a prohibi tion law in the county of Greenville, S C, in a year us there are violators of the murder law. And there is no sort of question that it would 1)0 far better enforced ? if all polieemeu were to go to sleep the sleep of death?it would bo, then, far better enforced than the law against carrying coneeaUd weapons is now. Now, if we must not have a prohibition law because some law less persons would violate it, by the same logic we ought to repeal the laws against murder and against pistol carrying because j they are violated almost every day in ths year, by anybody that chooses to do it. Will the antiprohibitionists advocate the repeal of these laws? They bare not, and et that is the logic of their position. If vou oughtn't ' r? to put h law on the statute book because it cunnot he ideally enforced, then yon ought to takeoff the statute hook nil In^s that are not likewise enforced. They advocate the retention of the law which has broken down in its boasted moral aims, which is violated every day in the year by anybody that see* tit to do it, and which, in addition to that, is vicious in moral principle, hut they oppose prohibition forsooth because somebody wt>uId violate it, although they must admit that it is correct in moral principle. It has been openly charged that the preachers und barkeepers are in an alliance led by Col Hoyt to defeat the dispensary That charcre is too absurd!v talsa to re n ------- ?u-v " ~ ceive a inomont's credence from any human being who has the slightest lingering regard for truth left io him. Senator Tillman, who made that charge, kuew it 10 he false when ho uttered it. The charge cannot ho interpreted as anything elso hut a mean and contemptible effort to break the force of the almost unanimous advocacy of prohibition by the preachers, and served its author as a good occasion also to throw contempt upon a class of men for which ho has in many other ways expressed his contempt. It may be true that hoiiio of the liquor men are ngnimg me dispensary. I am not the keeper of their con - | sciences, and 1 am not in alliance with them. Hut 1 will tell you thin much is clear: The State has prohibited their selling liquor as individuals on the ground that the business is wrong and detrimental to the public welfare, and then the State turns around and goes into the business itself, and thereby declares that tho business is right, and conducive to the public welfare. The State forbids them to engage in that business and then the State is educating them and all its citizens in the idea that liquor selling as a beverage is justifiable on economic and moral grounds. The State, in its blundering attempt to correct and restrain a had business, is teaching its citizens that there ars good and Hutlicient reasoaR to engage in it. It is very certain that a man would infer that when the State forbids him to engage in a business it is wrong and hurtful, and then turns about and engages in that business itself, that it is an act of tyranny by the State, anil also an act of dishonesty by the State towards its citizens. And isn't the State br that verv act teaching its own citizens to dis obey its own law ? All laws have an immense educational influence. The dispensary system is radically wrong in its educational tendency. It inculcates a radically wrong idea. One of the happy features of the prohibition system is the educational influence of the law. It educates the conscience and ( thought of the people ulong right < linos. It teaches that the liquor i business is wrong ; wrong in prin jt ciple and hurtful in its effects, and j that it cannot ho justified on ! ' moral or economic grounds. Soil far as laws are educative in their J j |effect upon tne minds of men, a < I prohibition law lifts them up in i their moral ideals, and so becomes a great civilizing and moralizing It influence among men. The dis-il pensary is the very opposite ; and ' I that is one of my chief charges against it. It was to be honed i that the dispensary system would ! i bring home to the consciences of J the people the sense of their direct and immediate responsibility for the liquor traflio and all its at tnndnnt evils, a responsibility < which exists under any system i of liquor selling and which has the L approval and consent of the law. ! i It was hoped, 1 say, that the dis|>enKary system would bring so 1 squarely home to the conscience 1 of * the people direct moral re- < sponsihility for the business that j1 it would become intolerable to i to them and they would be forced by tho ptotests of their own bet tor natures to get out of the business. But if the dispensary is to be used as an agency to teach thej i people that tho liquor traflic is justifiable, is, in fact, so just itiahle < and good that they themselves, as I component parts of the State can i afford to engage in it, it becomes ' a means of debauching tho public conscience. That is just exactly J tho use to which it is being turned j toda*. Tho license system confuses the conscience of the people ; it beguiles them with the I plea that they are really taxing I the evil business, and thus many! of them fail to realize their re-1 ! sponsihility, or think they have! j discharged it in taxing a bad, business. The dispensary brushes away all that illusion. It makes ! the responsibility direct and un' questionable, and it is bound, in tho nature of things, to have one I of two effects upon the people;' either the dispensary by bringing home to the consciences of the people their responsibility will J arouse their conscience as if it j ' were loucneu wnn a 1101 iron, and drive them out of the business, and drive the State out of the j business and lead inevitably to1 prohibition, or it is bound to ! deaden the consciences of the peo? \ pie, until they acquiesce tamely in the fact thai the*' are all liquor | dealers and justify the busiuebs to themselves, and fall in a dreadful I moral decadence. And the tenj dency is in that direction. Why, friends, it ought to burn everyj ! man's face, it ought to burn1 every man's heart, it ought to stick a knife into the centre of I every man's self-respect, the idea j that you and 1 tonight are liquor dealers! That's what-we are! Ami a man that will tamely sit down i under that and acquiesce in it and i sav it is all ri<?ht. and he likes the ' j business, and it is a very good | ; business, u..d it brings a very good profit, it saves bun taxes and be is satisfied with it, and will i stay in the business; the man j that does that has passed through the very samo process of moral decadence that the barkeeper does j when lie first embarks in the deadly trade. | A prohibition law is the State saying to its citizens and teaching them that the traffic in intoxicating beverages is wrong. It is the voice of the groat State saying to its young that the business is bad and dishonorable and hurtful .to your fellow man, and you cannot afford to go into it. It is the State, the great State, pointing the thoughts of its children up? ward and directing their minds toward larger and juster and more humane conceptions of their moral relations to their fellow man. The average life of a people cannot go higher than its laws, and we will never lift the average life of our State above the moral degradation of the liquor business and clean our hands of it until we rise up in our might and in our sense of responsibility to Almighty God and to our fellow men, and particularly to our children, and say: We will have none of it ! Wo will not he in the business ! We will say to them, it is wrong. It is wrong ! Yes, if the evil 1 ? - men in our couim.inii.ies are so numerous and so powerful that they shall tie our handa so that we cannot enforce it, at any rate we will do this, we wilt write it lown in the statute booKs, th*t mr boys aR they grow up may ead it there, that it is the deliberate judgment of the intelligence ind conscience of the people of South Carolina that the liquor business is wrong, and cannot be justified economically or morally >r any otherwise; ami that much it any rate will bo gained. I don't want my boy to grow ip to be taught by the State that tho liquor business is a good and lllinnvn llln urwl i I.of i fin I. In 4 K n ? ?w.v ??IIM | l| P I I I I H ' I K' tiling. \nd that is what tho State is now raying to every hoy that is grow iog up among us. At the conditions of the sermon: D?* A J S Thomas, editor of the Baptist Courier, arose ami said: 14 Brother Gardner, I cannot speak for the church, for I am not authorized to do ho, hut 1 apeak for myself, and 1 know I am representing a part of the church and a part of tho community when I Btv we feel hon >red in having a man of God as >?r pastor who can tuko the position that you have tonight, and speak the truth as you have, and we thank y u for it." Dr Gardner replied: t4l appreciate very much Brother Thomas your words. It is a church and a community in which I have always felt that I could afford to speak the t* uth as I saw it without fear ; ami that is a privilege which I always claim anywhere in the world wherever I preach." Prohibition Carried the Day at Kershaw. Special to the Stale. Kershaw, July 24.?The campaign party left Camden at 7 this morning and readied the flourishing town of Kershaw at f>. Two hundred people from the counties of Kershaw. Lancaster, and Cheitertield were present to greet the campaigners on their arrival. This is not u regular campaign meeting, hut none was scheduled for today. The crowd increased until it reached six or seven hundred earnest and attentive hearers. At least fifty ladies were present, all of whom favored prohibition, and waved the badge "For Iloyt and Prohibition.'' On the lapel of the coats and on the hat hands of the many men, old and young, was seen the name badge. Col Hoyt is clearly the favorite here, judging from the hadrrnq worn nn?l tha r*r^nl ion given whou ho was presented on the stand. There wero hoiuo calls for Gov McS weeney. Mr Gary had his friends in the audience. Mr Patterson could l?e seen in close conversation with gentlemen who seemed to I>h listening to what he was saying. A stand had been erected for the meeting in the grove near the depot. At 1C o'clock J W Hamel, uditor of the Kershaw Kra, called the meeting to order. Prayer was offeied by Kev Jabez Ferris. The chairman road a letter from Dr Timmerman and then intro dticed Mr Jennings, who gave n brief sketch of his life and recited his qualifications. N \Y Blocker made his charges against J 1 Derham for neglect of duty. Mi Dorham was absent. The chairman read a letter from him denying the charges. W I) Maytield, B B Evans, '1 N Berry and .J E l'ettigrew cacl: made a ten minutes' speech ii which ho set forth hi* views. Col Iloyt was introduced amid applause and spoke earnestly and etTeetivoly to an appieciative and receptive audience. He made t strong plea for prohibition and gave a brief account of the law* which have and do now provide for the sale of liquor in the State He anticipated tha speeches of hit op|>onents who were to follow him and logically met the pointi they made against prohibition. At the close of his speech h< was roundly applauded, and the Kov (V A Betts of the Methodisl church appeared on the stand and 111 " 1 1 I in a happy speech presented him | in the name of the ladies of Kershaw with a most appropriate and i beautiful banner which Col Hoyt j accep ed most gracefully, j Mr Whitman mado hti earnest effort to get his hearers to believe .a* he now says he believes. Frank B Gary made a forcible | speceb and was well received. He contended that he had always been a friend to the dispensary law. lie condemned the effort I being made to produce a contrary Opinion and s id Mr Patterson had (lenounced newspaper statements and >et he us s a newspaper atateI meut to show that he (Gary) is in i favor of high license. Mr Gary declared it had been said there wore six hundred blind tigers in Charleston and the rea* son was because the law was not (enforced, and that there were two ! hundred in Columbia for the same (reason. Chief Constable Bitoman frojn the audience contradicted the statement as -to Columbia. Mr Gary replied that Batoman should bo now in Columbia locating blind timers instead of I following up this campaign, and ! saiil that there had been three or j four constable* following the campaign lor reasons unknown to him. Mr Patterson argued in favor . of the dispensary system :is it stand.-, pronounced prohibit ion a I failure, s*id Mr Gary had failed to answer whether or not he favored high licenfO when in Chuileston ami Georgetown, and read from the newspapers to show it. Mr Gary interrupted him, and they could not agree as to what , Mr Gary did say in Charleston. G >v. McSwenney was absent. C L Winkler, Jauies H Tillaian and Knox Livingston closed the meeting. Cole L Blease and John T Sloan "were absent. The i campaign party went to Lancas* tor in the afternoon. The meeting was evidently for lioyt, Livingston and Maytield. J k 1). ? RHEUMATISM and CATARRH CURED BY Johnston's Sarsaparilla QUART BOTTLES. IN THE SHADOvToF DEATH. Wkolt Kmmlly Car*d. Mrs. C. II. Kingsbury, who keeps a millinery and fancy goods store at St. Louis. Gratiot Co., Mich., and who is well known throughout, lie country, says: * I was badly troubled with rheuma! tism, catarrh and neuralgia. 1 had liver complaint and w as very bilious. I was in a bad condition; every day I began to fear that I should never be a well woman; that I should have to settle down into a chronic invalid, and : live in the shadow of death. 1 had JOHNSTONS SARSAPARILLA rec uuiuiciiucu iu uio. 1 1UUIV fUUlfc BOTTLES AND IT CUUKD ME, and , j cured my family both. I am very (flad j that I heard of It. I would cheerfully ! recommend it to every one. I have taken many other kinds of medicine. I | 1 prefer JOHNSTON'S to all of them." MICHISAN Bll'ft (U, D?lr*ll, Mick. I ('rnwii*i<l ?tro* Lnnorts'er.H O *s. . M J K Mauhey ?. . anca?t? r | Daniel A. Hicks F?nt l.?w' H. ('. J I). H Jordan, Fori I .awn, H. C. * A negro boy lifteen years old . is in jail at Newberry for attempted J assault upon Myrtle Farrow, a i little white girl. The young coon ' narrowly escaped lynching. J STOItY Oh' A SLAVE , To lie bound hand and foot j for years by the chains of disease .lis the worst form of slavery. George D Williams, of Vlanchester ' j Mich., tells how such a slave was II made free. He says: "My wife i has been so helpless for live years 11 that she could not turn over in ! hoi I Iihtnn A ftr>r nwinir lvoi? 1ml t ? ft ""v ties of Klectrio Bitters, who is wonderfully improve<l and able to do her own work. " This supreme remedy for female diseases quick* r ly cures nervousness, sleopiess( ness, melancholy, headache, hack* ache, fainting and dizzy spells. This miracle working medicine is * a godsend to weak, sickly, run > down poople. Kvery bottle guart anteed. Only 50 cents. Sold by I Crawford Bros Druggist.