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PROHIBITIONISTS WORK EARNESTLY v .* * Preachers, Teachers, Doctors, Lawyers, Bankers, Faimers, Merchants, Are Taking an Active Part. ?S ? DEGRADES TEE PEOPLE To the people of Lexington county: On Monday, July 14, 1913, a meeting of rare interest and importance was held at Lexington. Every section of the county, except one or two, Was represented by men of as high Character and intelligence as the county affords. Preachers, teachers, doctors, Lawyers, bankers, merchants, farmers and others turned from their claily toil and at their own personal expense came to the county seat to confer about matters of the first importance to eyery man, woman and p ; child in Lexington county. They were not there as politicians or partizans, but as the friends of humanity. It is doubtful if our temple of justice ever witnessed such a meeting as that held in it on July 14. It began with prayer, it progressed in prayer, it ended in prayer and singing a hymn of praise to a holy God. A large majority of those present were men of prayer. Daring the four hoars of constant deliberation the very atmosphere of the place seemed charged with a spirit of solemn purpose and enthusiastic earnestness. Those were serious men with a serious purpose for imperative work. That meeting instructed the undersigned to prepare and publish an address to all the people of the county, especially to the voters. It is well known that an effort i9 being made to reestablish the Dispen . a mi _ sary m oar couuiy. xae success ux that .effort spells calamity to all oar people and to the moral standards of oar county. It will be a long step backward and downward. No fact is more patent than that the liqnor traffic degrades the people engaged in it. The supreme need of oar country is a higher type of manhood. Intoxicating liquor, in its 6ale and use, mutilates manhood in its maturity or destroys it in its making. We, in South Carolina and in Lexington county, are not without painful experience as to the baneful, blighting effect of the mmrnrn AM AM* MAAWIA P*AtM fl?A MB|miKKJ. VU UUi pcuj/ic. X-lViU HUB. church of God down, the life of our people has felt and shown the wreck and rain, of mm. Knowing all this, the oner purpose of the meeting mentione& aboye was to raise a standard against it* We'are convinced that all thatneeds to be is to get the people to think. When that is done the battle is won. What is to be done? What r .. . ... do yon think ought to be done? The issn8 is before ns and its decision is in our bands. "'What shall the answer be? A case as solemn, e?en more solemn than life and death i3 on trial ,*v - ' < - v - .. and we are the jury. What shall the verdict be? We are fully aware of what Qiany. are saying; liquor is a bad thing, the Dispensary is bad, but? And then we hear a lot about blind tigers and profits, and men haye visions of good roads, paved streets, more and better schools, lower taxes, ] etc., etc. If there were no blind tigers in Dispensary connties there might be some force in the argument, bnt as is well known blind tigers in their Mrs and clubs are just as numerous where Dispensaries are as where they are not. The idea in all this is that as much, or even more liquor, is consumed in drv counties than in others. Many good men, loyal citizens, firmly believe it. Why? Simply because they have heard it so often. Do you know that this matter has tie en tested by a thorough investigation in two counties in this State? Well, it has and here is the result. In Chester county it was shown that under prohibition the quantity of liquor consumed was about one-fifth or onefourth of what it was under the Dispensary. In Sumter county, where the investigation was made jointly by the friends and foes of the Dispensary, it was found that about one-fourth as much liquor was consumed under prohibition as under the Dispensary. Please bear in mind that this was ?u? as a Mine wucu Lucre was uu xeouiotion on liquor shipments from outside the State. In that respect conditions more favorable for prohibition than they have ever been. It is simply impossible in an addres* like this to 9av even a small part of what might easily be said of the blessings of prohibition and the blight of th9 liquor traffic. AVe would be delighted to call attention especially to -what prohibition has done for Kansas and North Carolina. In North Carolina there has been decided improvement and in Kansas it has amounted to a revolution. Wnat was possible in those States is possible in South Carolina. Manhood did it there; manhood can do it here. Are we men? Everybody admits that sobriety is a blessing. Nobody contends that liquor is or can be. Its work is as deadly when done by the Dispensary as it is by others. It it the monster f \ evil which is doing more for the ho of onr homes and nation than is ai other thing. It is an evil itself and gives being to a legion of other evil It is a business without a redeemii feature; a thing for which a go< word can not be said. Men of Le ington, we call you to witness. A these things true? Is the above a li ment or a fact? Lay your hand < your heart, look up towards God ai then make reply. Tnere is but o: answer. You know, as all men kno' that what we say is solemn trut Y/e are face to face with a conditi< from which there i9 no escape. Eve man of us must needs be on one si or the other. There is no neuti zone. The next 39 days holds in i hands, in large measure, the well! ing of Lexington county for years come. We come to you as your fi low citizens, - as your neighbors, your brothers, in a common cau? We appeal to your manhood, to yo chivalry, your patriotism, your love humanity. We make our plea to yo conscience, to the best that is in yo If it be necessary we plead that y< do not allow yourselves to be contro ed by considerations which are simp sordid and selfish. It is true that t Dispensary will be a source of reven to the county and some of the towr But alongside of that will be an i crease of lawlessness which to poli o r\miiaVi txtiII nnnoiimo o lovrrn auu jf" ||*P" TVlli UVU o UUiU o loigo C if not all the profit. But granti] that all the profit will be clear are y willing to accept it? You are a mi of property. You know that a ve large part of the money spent at D pensaries i9 by negroes and poor whi men. Don't yon know it? These a the weak ones who need the prote tion of the strong. The Dispensary their worst enemy. Are you willii to profit in a small way financially 1 that which degrades and begga them, are you? Good roads, pavi streets, better schools, etc., are i very desirable and they mean ma indeed. Bat in order to have go* roads and paved streets are we willii to mix the clay and sand or the c ment and sand with the life blood weak men and the tear* of helple women and dependent children? 1 we want and will we have improv schools at the price of men's bodi and sonls. That is costly edncatio isn't it? After all, if yon refuse to convinced, if you are determined th your influence and your ballot shall for the Dispensary we want to make request, which is that you read tl address to your boy and then tell hi why you favor the sale of liquor. Sa will you do it? N. N. Burton A. E. Driggers, J. A. Cromer, W. E. Black, P. J. Minis, Committee. A Recall Days of Long Ago. Mr. Editor.?I remember sixty yea ago when the fertile fields in this se tion of Lexington county was a dent forest and deer, turkeys and othi game were plentiful. The people wei not so thickly settled. They we] neighborly and kindhearfced. Whe one needed help his neighbors woul go to his assistance. Axes, maul wedges, wagons, teams and whatevt was needed in tools was kept in reac iness to repair or replace fences an save the crops and they were willing ly lent to the neighbors. If sicknee was in the home the farm work wee ji ? " - ? i un ana was not allowed to suffer fc I want of work; his \theat was reaped threshed and even carried to the mil] and the neighbors were on the alert t ! render each other assistance. ! But Now. In those days they went to churc and behaved like ladies and gentle men. It was a disgrace to get drun or to act ugly at church. You coul not tell saint from sinner by their cor duct. But Now. Monday morning work began an went on five or six days. People live at home, had plenty and to span The watch word in dry weather wai "crowd boys, crowd," now is the tim to kill the grass, and in wet weathe it was, "crowd boys, crowd," or tb grass will take us. But Now. The Good Book says by reason ( the cold the sluggard will not plo1 and shall come to want, but naw t soon as work time, as they call i comes, they open up their lien and g in debt for the very things they shoul have for sale to city folks. In thos days, sixty years ago, beef was foi or five cents a pound. But Now. Commercial fertilizer was unknow and canned goods of every descriptic were unknown, very few raised co ton for market but grew corn, pea pjtatoes, rice, wheat, oats, rye. iDdig and live stock of all kinds. Isobod was in debt. A man's note was i good as money. His word then w; better than his bond now. Peop had confidence in each other thei but now?do away with the homi stead law and confidence will be r< stored. Let everybody know he mu pay his debts or work for the count: Sixty years ago men were more can ful about going in debt. But Xov. V. W. J. 1 ;; FAVORS RETURN * OF DISPENSARY Dd Senator Sharpe Says Greal x- Moral Institution is Remedy re For Illegal Sale of Liquor ir gn Lexington County. ^ NO PROFIT FROM ITS SALI oe To my fellow citizens of Lexingtoi on coonty: Permit me to say that for a quarte ^ of a century, off and on, yon havi honored me with your suffrage, an< . no one appreciates it more than I do I haye endeavored to do my full dut; in the public service without fear o j reward or hope of reward. It no* becomes necessary for U9 calmly am <e dispassionately to reason together. . In consideration of the high manlnr ^ stand that 0. E. Corley, supervisor ur ha9 taken in performing an officia duty required of him under the law ou we now have the privilege to vote o: the 19th day of August for the e9tab ily lishment of county Dispensaries ii T.PTiriorfenn nrmnfcv. B Qe We now have illegal sales going oi all over Lexington county under thi n[ so-called prohibition law, which ha ce been an ignoble failure in the count; irt for four jears; we have had all of thi evils with none of the good. We hav oa had drunkeness, confusion, bloodshei an and crime with no profits from thi rv sale of liquor to protect our peopl jg. from the effects of it. We have los te at least $80,000 in revenue from thi re source in the past four years alone !C_ This revenue has mainly gone to Rich is land and Aiken counties and some o Qg it to other points, thereby empoverish by ing Lexington county and its taxpay ,rH ere. If we are to have the evil?an< have it, we will under any systemill let us have the profits as well. Ch Think, my fellow citizens, of tb< 0d condition of your county now badl; Qg in debt, with the certainty of havinj e. to pay its past indebtedness and it 0f public losses in bank failures, etc. >88 think of the condition of your road Do and think of putting your hands ii ed your pockets to pay the expenses o es the county government, its past in 11, debtedness and building your roade be think how much $20,000 a year Dis at pensnry profits would help, be Our prohibition friends hold out th< i a argument that we are to get rid o d8 liquor. 1 ask candidly and in all sin m cent}', wui tney get rid of it r Hav y, fcbey gotten rid of it in the past fou years? If it were possible to get ri< of it without national legislation ther< would be some force to their argu ment. I stand for sobriety and tern perance in all things, but each indi vidual must control this for himself Hear me my, fellow citizens, huni up your tax receipts, go to the pollf on the 19th day of August, vote foi rg the Dispensary and establish a system c- of the legal sale and control of liquoi 3e instead of the present system of abso0r lutely no control and illegal dealing G with it, and let our county have the re profits that rightly belong to it. ,n This is no question of sentiment. It ^ is vote for the Dispensary and have s the liquor and the profits therefrom, ' or. vote for prohibition and have the 3r liquor and no profits. It is a cold1 blooded proposition of adopting a sys3 tem of dealing with an evil that is here with us and here with us to stay. *' I am your obiedient servant, W. H. Sharpe, [t Sen. Lexington Co. ir July 21st, 1913. [' There is more Catarrh in this section '* of the country than all other diseases o put together, and until the last few years wa9 supposed to be incurable. For a great many veais doctors pronounced it a local disease and prescrib" ed local remedies, and by constantly J- failing to cure with local treatment, k pronounced it incurable. Science has j proven Catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires coni stitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney D_ . J- rvu i.i i /-"i 3 oe co., xoieao, cnio, is me onjy constitutional cure on the market. It is d taken internally in doses from 10 drops J. to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on 5> the blood and mucous surfaces of the ' system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send }r for circulars and testimonials, te Address: F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. lake Hall's Family Pills for cou9tiw pation. adv. ls > l' Can You Do All This? >0 3 Here are some things you can't do. ;e Or, if you can, you are different from lr 99 per cent of mankind. Can you repeat from memory (don't look!) the u wording on a two-cent stamp? (Jan in you copp out from memory the exact t_ figures as they appear on the dial cf 5 your watch? Can you copy from rQ memory the exact wording on a onev cint piece or say which way the head l9 on the coin is facing? Can you say ls from memory whether the heads on a le cent, a nickel, a dime and a quarter t all face the same wav? All these are things you have seen and handled p. since boyhood. They should be far more familiar to you than the alpha ym bet. Vet it is ten to one you can't give correct answers to one of the foregoing questions. Why can't you"? Try them on your friends. at. ) - , .( Grand Changes Hands. j ' The Grand Theatre, recenty managed by E. E. Edwards and owned by S. A. Lynch, of Asbeville, N. C., was k recently purchased by Mr. H. B. Shultz, of Atlanta, and is now being managed by Joe Spiegelberg, a theat ncal man of many years experience. Mr. Spiegelberg took charge on July 1st and already a decided improve2 ment has been shown in the class and attractions and in the treatment the 3 public is getting. la an interview with the writer, Mr. Spiegelberg r stated that he was very much impresse ed with Columbia and the few acd quaintances he had made since here, > he felt that there was a great future Y for the Grand and an amusement r place of refinement, and cater especi? ally to the ladies and children. Tabd loid musical comedies and high class vaudeville with two reels of Mutual y pictures changed daily will be the m A ^ U l? A M M /I 1 w-9 f Vl A |JJ.UgICl.LU dU LUIS UUU3C, dUU UUiJf LUC '? very best and cleanest of talent will 1 be offered in every branch of the program mentioned. A standard and Q popular price of admission has been adopted, 2o cents for adults and lo " cents for children, and the public can a always rest assured of a clean, high class show and their money's worth at Q the Grand in Columbia. e ' fl Di/l v aii? a ^ \ir n xvxu iuui vxxxxuxoxx ux vr uxxxxs 7 e You can change fretful, ill-tempered e children into healthy, happy youngj sters, by aiding them of worms. e Tossing, rolling, grinding of teeth, e crying out while asleep, accompanied t with intense thirst, pains in the stom9 ach and bowel9, feverishness and bad breath, are symptoms that indicate - worms. Kickapoo Worm Killer, a f pleasant candy lozenge, expels the . worms, regulates the bowels, restores 1 your children to health and happiness, i Mrs. J. A. Brisbin, of Elgin, 111., says: _ "I have used Kickapoo Worm Killer for years, and entirely rid my children e of worms. I would not be without it." Y Guaranteed. All druggists, or by mail. ^ Price 25c. Kickapoo Indian Medicine 8 Co., Philadelphia and St. Louis. The Harmon Drug Co. adv. a It is no profit to us to know that f malaria is only transmitted to man by a certain kind of mosquito, if we make no effort to protect ourselves from the >t attacks of this carrier of disease i- which works only at night. Screens on the doors and windows areof 1 ittle value while we are sitting on an unB screened porch offering ourselves as * victims to this carrier of malaria " germs. He steals quitely up to his 6 victim in the dark, as many another r evil-doer does, and if we are wise we ] * will screen the porches or not sit on 3 them after dark when mosquitoes are your bui .< again^ti " ? rauib , you thai Badly neglected?and you are th< MASTIC PAINT for 40 years of building*,. For quality?se: finish it has no equal* Ask for c Enterprise ] l We Have VERY Some Che I Studebaker. I Babcock and I I Our guarant I Gregoi ! 1 "0u present. Better still, drain or pnt oil on their breeding places.?The Progressive Farmer. WARRANTED FOR ALL TIME. If you purchase the NEW HOME yoa will have a life asset at the price you pay. * id will act have an endless chain of repairs. ' Quality L nhll Considered Cheapest ? enc^ if you want a sewing machine, write Tc. ar latest catalogue before you purchase. Is New Home Sewine Wne Co., Orange, fcss. FOR SALE AT SCOTT HENDRIX'S FURNITURE STORE. THE LEXINGTON COUNTY DENTIST. To My Friends: This will inform von that I am again in my office and wish to say that I will ^ a^o ^ y our * r ' ^r^HI charges for what you want done, I von what '^EKm. S it will cost so you will know jast what you will have to pay. I do no Dental Work for NOTHING and want the cash when it is delivered. I work on STRICTLY ethical princiEles and guarantee satisfaction, as I ave alwavs done, if my work does not do as recommended and if you don't come to see me about it, it is your fault. DR. 6. R. HARDING 3404 Main Street, Columbia, S. C. Ridge wood cars pass the office every 15 minutes. rare ii outjbi ,rry Fire Insurance?and why P se of the danger of sudden loss. te it protects you against this uncer lings may never burn down. a protect them against decay?agains le dead certainty of depreciation resul to go unpainted. Why not ? Insurance is worth even more to y 1 Fire Insurance?yet is often f e loser. { / j has proven the "real protector" rvice?ecc aomy?and beauty of olor card, Sardware Co. \ ? H W rm > i a Large Numl BEST I SIZI aper if You V Mitehei and Hac] lackney the best ee means somethi: ry-Conder Mnl COLUMBIA, S. C. r Guarantee Means Something IPale Children Ayer's Sarsaparilla helps nature to make rich, red blood. No alcohol. Sold for 60 years. Ask Your Doctor. uSeu^lu^'. feKd^aadBhddcrBcjJes*' I FOLEY KIDNEY ! fefPILLS I rfgl tor Backache. |l ^ Rheumatism. vrm.Kidneys '0J Bladder, FOR SALE BY HARMON DRUG CO SOUTHERN RAILWAY 80HEDULE EFFECTIVE May 25,1913 A ??iTTAlfl AM/Q /?Arnii?hiwac T ^vinnrfAri xiui?aiD auu uruanuioo ju\'^iugtvu) South CaroliDa. (N. B. These schedule figures shown as information only and are not guar- ? ranteed. 7:07 No. 19, daily, local Columbia to Augusta. 8:53 A M.?No. 131 daily, the "South em's Southeastern Limited" from New York to Augusta. 11:21 A. M.?No. 8, daily from Augusta to Columbia, connecting with "Carolina Special" for Spartanburg, Asheville, Knoxville, Cincinnati, etc. ' 5:40 P. M. ?No. 7, daily, from Columbia to Augusta. Connecting from Carolina Special from Cincinnati, Knoxville Asheville, Spartanburg and intermediate points. 6:02 P. M.?No. 132,daily, the "Southern's Southeas-eni Limited" from Augusta to New York; arrives Washington 8:53 a. m., Baltimore 10:02 a. m.f Philadelphia 12:23 noon, New York 2:31 p. m. R?4S No. 20. dailv. luCil from Ancnata to Colombia. ^ Pullman car service ?>n all through trains; dining car service for meals. For further information, call on ^ ticket agent or S. H. Hardwick,P. T. M., Washington, D. C.; H. F. Cary, G. P A., Washington, D. C.; E. H. Coapman, V. P. & G. M., Washington, D. (J.; W. E. MoGee. A. G. P. A., Columbia, S. C.; A. H. Acker. T. P. A.. Augusta, Ga. / Fresh bread always found at Harman Bazaar, ; "yourself" tainty, although { it the weather? ting from allow//Or pHER-l ?a? hum in ii iji i m jgI Ul LI I w MULES I ss? I Vant Them I kney Wagons. 11 built Buggies. 11 I0 Oocj I ? flK