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m** PROHIBITION PROHIBIT ? i Look luto th? Past, th? Present, the Future. j Childrens, Texas, Jan. 6.-Special: |Thl8 Is a beautiful Sunday morning. .Church bella are vying with each /other ia their call of the faithful to /their devotions. Light-hearted and I happy children are wending their j tray thither to learn of the meek aud f lowly Jesus, who came Into the world to aav? the souls of men: Under the Influence of a perfect: day wo uro constrained to offer up our thanks to a bountiful Ood tor His goodness. It does not seem flt that on such a day there should be cause Nfpr sorrow or reproach among men. Indeed, there would be none were lt hot for th? dark 'plot of a sad trag edy, which |P being enacted in our midst. WBJ# BP - fifr ,TM A maa aoross the streot Is dying! Dylngl but not as mon, should die, who have lived a^ good and faithful Rfe. He t* prematurely dying of ? aelf-lnfltcted cause, just as thousands ' of other, ?en arp dying every day, I from that accursed sin, alcoholism. He is a' husband and a father, a man of '.teen,, intellect, who in a few short years accumulated an independence, and but recently, at the age of 40, retired from active business. En dowed with exceptional capabilities tor good, God expected better things at his hands. Somewhere,' at some time, ho was tempted and fell, and the tempter being the stronger, he never recovered form the fall. He ia there now, in the last death strug gle, surrounded hy his faithful wife and sorrowing children, who Badly await the flight of his spirit to an swer before the God who gave it. I have been thinking about this man for several days? In fact, I have thought of but little else. How much are'the Christian peo ple of this land to blame for this man's suicide? There has long been in my mind an idea that systems of civilization and Christianity, which permit this self-destruction nave something wrong in practice, if not In foundation. The law says that a man who takes bis own life, or that Of another, is guilty ot murder; and willie thin is God's law, it has been accepted and incorporated tn the Jaws qt Christian civilization for ages. Christian elvi ll? at lon makes another law which allows men to make whiskey, and' also' allows tuen to become self-murderers by drink ing it. Christian society places, the ban upon the xnilrderer and yeo Christian society tokes to her bosom the whiskey maker, the man who is, In every moral sense, as bad as the murderer. It ls of no aval! to polish , lt over- with thread-bare Arguments Of personal liberty. The cold fact remains that the manufacturer of whiskey ls trafficking In the damna tion of human souls. But there ls another phase of this great unsettled question^-one that the average person gives no thought: It is the keynote of the whol? prob lem, and when the great mass of Christian people are brought face to.' face with the cold, hard facts, the li quor question shall have been for ever settled. The law creates the whiskey manufacturer, and through his agency more than one hundred thousand men fill drunkards' graves every year. But who creates the whiskey maker? The Christian voter. Therefore, the responsibility really narr > ws down to thc vdter; and upon him must rest the blame. Any whis key manufacturer- qr dealer will ex cuse his business by saying it is just ha lega' as the grocery business, and he is perfectly correct from a legal point ot view, for the Christinn voter lias legalized the business. The voter has never realized his personal re sponsibility, losing sight of the fact that, as an individual, he ls an Inte grant part of the government. When the voter can be brought to realize his individual responsibility for the whiskey evil, the solution is at hand. There are certain voters wHb have always voted for prohibition. Pro hibition, as taught and practiced for ; the past and present, simply means l III wlitK*^Oci?*wy?^wrM?6? Bi Cotton Yie The value of co been demonstrated both government ai tests. We stand r< you at any time tha crease your yields p Virginia Fen SHon.R.J.Redding,] a Exp. Station, is autl experiments made at balanced commercial f< of land, and well cultiv; pected to produce an cotton. At the presen mean a large extra pro after deducting the prie You'll find reports o tests, together with muc ccrning land culture iii Year Book or Almanac ^ dealer for a cop free, If you write Virginia-Ca? Richmond, Va. Norfolk, Va. Columbia, S. Atlanta, Oa. Savannah, OJ prohibiting tie sale and manufacture of whiskey li a certain locality or section of country. It ls my purpose to briefly show that the system ls wrong so long as the Interstate com merce law remains aa it ls. The pro hibitionist of the past and present has been working along the wrong lines. This little city has bad a prohibi tion law for years. It 1B as well eft? torced;? as that ot any prohibition town. With the law well'enforced, and the better element lu ita fs;Vor lt does not prohibit. Men aro still ab!e! to nend their sou's td hell and bring Borrow and reproach upon those whom they should cherish and protect. With the great wave of re form that is swooping the country, and the varloun laws that are dally being passed prohibiting the whiskey ll, the object is not being attained, teems strange that during all these ^rs of fighting tho Sale of whiskey . leaders of tho temperance move ment have boon fight lug the tail of the monster and allowing tho head to outgrow ali pTrevlous records. Lit tle by little they have been chopping away at the tall of the thing, while its head' has surely increased in sise, until lt has outgrown Itself and stands to-day the greatest monument of slr in the world's history. No man ever killed a snake hy cutting off ita,] tall. It ls even said that if a snake's head ls cut off the tail will live until sundown. So lt is with the whiskey serpent. We will never have prohi bition as hpng as we simply prevent the sale of whiskey and allow its unlimited manufacture. Even then, if we succeed' in chopping off the head of the whiskey serpent, its tail will continue to live until the sun down of its' iniquity has come, and the shade of public reproach shall have forever crushed it. The Christian voter will go to the polls and vote to make a certain community dry and turn right around and cast another ballot In the Kamo box to legalize the manu facture of whiskey in every othersec t|on of tho United States. He casts one vote for God and one for. the devil and clears his conscience with the delusion that the manufacture of whiskey ls a national Issue, abd that, Individually, he has nothing to do with il. '? man may be a prohibi tionist'and pot be a Christian, but no man can be a Christian and voto to l?galis? the manufacture of whis key. For every such vpte be casts ho assumes added responsibility for the thousands of human souls that are being damned every year. The churches of the country raise annu ally millions of dolla -s for foreign missions and sit idly - by and see the whiskey Juggernaut crush its thou sands. It ls also a deplorable fact that' wherever 'Christian civilization sends her missionaries this whiskey devil has followed close upon the j trail. Further evidence that prohibition, as taught and practiced lu-day, is not prohibitory, is to bb obtained from the statement of the internal revehue ?ureau for the fiscal year that closed une 3?t'h, 1907. Statistics are dull, dry facts that rarely Interest the or dinary mind. We read themvand think no more about them. They are cold facts just the same. Th? , fiscal yenr just closed has broken all previous records in the amount of liquor and beer consumed. The roclpts of Internal revenue for the fiscal year closed June 30th amounted to $269,664?022.00,agatnHt $249,102,738.00 for the preceding year, or over twenty million dollars increase. These figures db not in clude receipts frorxt fermented spirits, which also show larg-i increase. The mind is astounded when lt Is consid ?rele what quantities of whiskey and beer were consumed during the pe riod. The amount of beer with drawn for consumption, on which revenue was paid, was 58,646,11 bar rels, or 3,894,474 barrels more than the preceding year. In gallons the Increase was 116,833,220. The coun try consumed the enormous amount of one billion eight hundred and lourteen millions nine hundred and twenty-nine thousand and forty-one mmercial fertilizers has over and over again by nd private comparative eady to demonstrate to t the surest way to "in er acre" is to use Lg3p former Director of the Geor ?ority for the statement that this station show that well Utilizer applied to one acre ated,may be reasonably ex increase ol yield of seed t price of cotton this would fit (for both lint and seed), e for fertilizer." f many other comparative h valuable information con the new Virginia-Carolina Ask you local fertilizer y-or we'll send you one our nearest sales office. olina Chemical Co. Durham, N. C. Charleston, S.C. C Bal H iure, Md. Columbus, Ga. i. Montgomery, Ala, Memphtt, Tenn. Shreveport, La. gallons of beer during the year, or an average of mare than twenty galions for every man, woman and child in the United States. This avoragjei may seem high, and yet the revenue officials say it was a bad year for oefcr drinking owing to the cold, wet spring. There was consumed 134,14)2,074 gallons of whiskey, an increase of eleven million four hundred and nine thousand two hun* dred and fifty-two gallons' ever th? preceding fiscal year. There was au increase in the consumption of spirits made from apples of over 200,000 gallons, the consumption being 1, 993,688 against 1,781,664 gallons for the preceding year. These fig ures cannot bo disputed, and any who may desire can obtain them from the internal revenue bureau lu Washing ton. They show that present move ments of reform and prohibition are falling in their pvrpose. What aro'you going to do about lt. Christian America? There is but one remedy-united organisation-a campaign of educa tion among the Voters, educating them to feel their individual and per sonal' responsibility; the election of men to Congress, regardless of party, pledged to voto for national prohibi tion of both manufacture and sale of whiskies of nil kinds as a beverage. It will take time and a hard fight, but it oan be done. Thore are cold blooded business men who. will ask, where will we raise the money to oft set * he two hundred and sixty-nine millions of revenue the government will lose. I answer, in th? words of England's greatest modem states man, "Give ms a sober citizenship and I will get the money." Just make a small mathematical calculation: Allowing an average of three dollars per gallon for the whis key consumed, which ls below the average, and there is saved to the American people over four hundred million dollars annually, not count ing the beer, which can be figured at the low average of five dollars per barrol, and then we have nearly three hundred million dollars more saved at wholesale price. The con sumer paid very much more. Do this, and this fair land of ours will blossom like th? rose. Her valleys will flow with milk and honey; men will stand up with honest faces, clear eyes, and the future generations will be Spared the effect of the curse that is upon us. . Where do you stand, ye. slothful, lopsided, hypocritical so-called Chris tians? Where aro you, ye sainted women of the white badge of purity, who meet In great conventions and wrangle over, the niel ties of palia montary law, and allow this Increase of the devil? Has the axiom that "the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world" slipped from your grasp, or are you too busy with your clubs to bo about the Master's business? Walco up! Stop your fruitless ef forts in killing the serpent's tall: bring fo-ih from among you pome mighty leader who will dare cut oft the serpent's head. The right ls with you, and right will prevail now, as it has forever, In all ages past. The man across the street ls dead. As if from shame or 'ear his trem bling, bleeding soul took its flight In the dead hours of the night. His mortal body Will be tenderly laid away In mother earth. Sorrowing, loving hands will place sweet flowers upon his . grave. The wall of "the widow and orphan is heard; there ls sadness in heaven and rejoicing in hell. Another BOUI has been offerd up-a sacrifice-and the great Re cording Angel has placed another dark blot on the Book of Life ag?lnst the Christian voters of America. Guy T. Grove. . How to Avoid Pneumonia. You can avoid pneumonia and oth er serious results from a cold by taking Foley's Honey and Tar. It stops the cough and expels the cold from the system, as lt ls mildly lax ative. Refuse any but the genuine in the yellow package Sold by all druggists. Sorry for Union. The people of Gaffney regret very much that our sister county of Un ion showed by her vote that a ma jority of tho people of that county are in favor of the dispensary. If the people of Union knew how much better off this county ls without tho dispensary wo a.? satisfied that they would have voted overwhelmingly the other ' way. It ls claimed by numbers of peopte that prohibition does not prohibit. That is in a sense perhaps true, but no man who knows what ho ls talking about will fail to admit that prohibition lessens the sale of whiskey, and where a community is against tho sale of whiskey as is the case in Gaffney, it comes so near prohibition that there ls very little cause for com plaint, and we believe that where such a condition exists lt will not be long until prohibition will pro hibit in the strictest sense of the word.-Gaffney Ledger. A Card. This is to certify that all druggists are authorized to refund your money If Foley's Honey1 and Tar falls to cure your cough or cold, lt stops the cough, heal-.-, the lungs and pre vents serious results from a cold. Cures la grippe coughs and prevents pneumonia and consumption. Con tains no opiates. The genuine is in a yellow package. Refuse substitutes. Sold by all druggists. When the stomach, heart or kid ney nerves get weak, then these or gans always fall. Don't drug the sto mach, nor stimulate the heart or kid neys. That ls simply a makeshift. Get a prescription known to drug gists everywhere as Dr. Shoop's Re storative. The Restorative ls pre pared expressly for these weak In side nerves, build them up with Dr. Shoop's Restorative-tablets or li quid-and Bee how quickly help will come. Free sample test sent on re quest by Dr. Shoop, Racine, Wis. Your boo1th ls surely worth this sim ple test. J. W. Bell. ?4?r? - Four Thousand Men Dropped, New .Orleans, Jan. 8.-Between 3,000 and 4,000 Illinois Central rail road employees have been dropped from the company's pay rolls on ac count of the financial situation. Will coro any case beyond the reach of n OUT UP BODIES. Threw thom La Hirer' ?Men and Wo man were Murdered. Florence, Colo., Jan. 9.--i AatEr ?ole Buffet), Dominick Minechetto, 08. Minechetto and Mrs. Frank Pal metto, who mysteriously disappear ed in this city, were murdered and their bodlos chopped to pieces, ls rho positive opinion of tho police hom to-day. The disposition made of their bodies ls believed to have beep partly revealed by the finding of human lungs, a thorax and a piece of a tongue in the Arkansas river. It ; le believed that other ghastly remains are being scattered along the hod ot tho river by the swift our rout, and towns below here have been notified to watch for the ap pearance ot any evidence of murder. Tony Bovorlo, who ls in jail charg ed with the murder of the Mine chetto brothers, ia said by Chief of Police Furnias to have confessed; that he killed a man In Italy before coming to America, In his house was found to be a bundle of letters addressed to Tony Neronini, and this ls believed to be his real name. Boverl was engaged in gardening here In partnership with the Mine chetto brothers. Buffettl was an old man employed in the garden. The police believe he was killed because of his knowledge ot other alleged murders. Mrs. Palmetto was a young divor ced woman, who disappeared two months ago. She had kept house for Bt?verl, but repeatedly refused to marry him. All her clothes have been found in Boveii's cabin. A blood-stain od axe was also found there, and a Mexican woman has in formed the police that she washed the blood-Staned clothing for Boverl. Special Announcement Regarding the National .Vure Food and Drug li!UV. We are pleased to announce that Foley's Honey and Tar tor coughs, co?de and lung troubles is. not affect ed by the National Pure Food and Drug Law aa lt contains no opiates or other harmful drugs, and we rec ommend it as a safe remedy for chil dren and adults. Sold by all drug gists. Major Jenkins's Homo Barned. The residence of Major Micah Jen kins, collector of internal revenue, was totally destroyed by fire at Ridgewood, near Columbia, on Janu ary 3, practically none of the furni ture being saved. The building was the property pf Mrs. Watkins,,worth $7,000, and was partially insured. Major Jenkins's furniture also was partially insured, 'the fire resulted from carelessness of the servant In leaving hot ashes in the kitchen! The finest cottee substitute ever made has recently been produced by Dr. Shoop, of Racine, Wis. You don't have to boll it twenty or thirty min utes. "Made in a minute," says the doctor. "Health Coffee" is really the closest coffee Imitation ever yet pro duced. Not a grain of real coffee in lt either. Health Coffee Imitation is made from pure toasted cereals or grains, with malt, nuts, etc. Really it would fool an expert-were he to unknowingly drink lt for coffee. A. P. Crisp. Each Got, What He Wanted. "A hunter set out one day to hunt, and a panther set out at t he same time to eat," said the lecturer. " 'I must have a fur overcoat,' said the hunter. " 'I,' said the panther, 'must have [a dinner.' "Some hours later, in a lonely I wood, the panther and the hunter I met. " 'Aha,' said the hunter, gayly, ?leveling his gun, 'here ls my fur [overcoat.' "And he shot, but the panther, ?dodging behlud a tree, escaped un I hurt. "Then the panther rushed forth I before the hunter could reload. " 'Aha,' here's my dinner,' said ?tho panther. "And he fell upon the hunter and I devoured him. "Thus each got what he wanted, I the hunter getting his fur overcoat and the panther getting his dinner. A Ring's Dyspepsia Tablet after each meal overcomes indigestion,dys pepsia and other stomach ills. Two days' trial free. Ask our dealers-J. W. Bell, Walhalla; W. J. Lunney, Seneca. Showman Lynched by Negroes. Charlotte, N. C., Jan. 9.-An unusual lynching is Just reported here from Pine Lovel, near Selma, N. C., in which the victim was a negro showman and the participants negroes wearing guano sacks for mnsks. The showman had advertis I. ' a, big show, and all the negroes tu mod out to suffer bitter disap polrtment. He tried his bluff a sec o: 1 time with tho above results. The horribly mangled form of the showman was found Tuesday morn ing on the Southern railway tracks near Pine^Level. The showman's fe malo companion has skipped aud the j names of both aro not known. EES Ul CONTAIN? NOMBY 4 An Improvement o eystem of . cold by satisfaction or mon? Sold by DR. J. W. HELL, of KidW or madder pu aedicine. No medicine can SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. KILLING g. O. BOOZE. Thirsty Georgians oro Flocking to Palmetto Dispensaries for Relief. Columbia, Jan. 4.-Thirsty Geor gians, driven to desperation by the new prohibition law in that State, threaten to mn ko South Carolina dry by drinking up all tho liquor on this sido ot tho Havannah river. Not a bar is open in our sister State, not a ti ger is stirring. Not a single demi john ls left in the Georgia cellar; not a little brown jug that is not empty, not a quart bottle nor a pint bottle, nor a wee half pint bottle that glown and glistens with tho spat kling juice of the corn kernel or the sediotlve grain of rye. Not a julep, not a high ball-not a drink. Augusta, alon? with all other Cracker towns, has geno dry, bad dry, and that of South Carolina on the opposite side ot the river from Au* gusta hail gone wet, had wet. Re ports say that more Georgia folks are riding the street cam between Aiken and Augusta than ever before, possibly more are riding than ?are staying at home. AU are coming over, to South Carolina just because they love lt, rot the State, but the plain old fire water, whioh they of over the Une used to laugh about and joke about. State Dispensary Auditor West re turned from North Augusta yester day, and ho states that while ho was helping to oiu.-k up the dispensary at that place a crowd of more than 60, mostly from Augusta, waited patient ly around the door of the dispensary for the shop to open, and more, were coming over on every car from the city. "And I toll you," said Mr.West: "that dispensary is doing a land office business." Mr. West said That from all he could learn the Georgia city just across the river ls "as dry as a bono." ile talked with a traveling man who had come over tb North Augusta to gel a "little smile," ind told by him it was impossible to "et a thing to drink in AuguBta. Our neighbors [across the Une are flocking to the Pal metto boose shep in drivas, und tue indications are that this dispensary, just recently established, will prove the heat paying dispensary m the 8tate. _ _ .- ': 'S* iii AMI. i un s rms stimulate tho TORPID LIVER, strengthen tb? digestir? organ*, regulate tf?s bowels, and are un equaled as au ANTI-BILIOUS MEDICINE, En malarial dlotrfcts their virtues are pSc^r^pr system fron silgar coated. Tolte No Substitute^ -:-m*m Candidate for the Senate. Spartanburg, Jan. 8.-That Ex I Governor John Gary Evans ls in Co lumbia for a final conference w?t,h his friends before announcing his candidacy for the United States Sen ate was the announcement made here to-night. It has been definitely de cided that ? he will enter the race, and his announcement will be made to-morrow according to his friends here. "I trust this may be read by many sufferers from kidney and bladder trouble," writes Mrs. Joe King, of Woodland, Texas. '"A suffered four years and could find nothing to give even temporary relief. Our drugglet at last Induced me to try your 80 days' treatment of Plueules for $1. This one bottle has cured me and money could not buy the value is has been to me." Guaranteed Sold by J. W. Bell, Walhalla, and W J. Lunney, Seneca. _ _; Tho Williamson Plan. ... (The State.) Rudolph Stoudmyer, of the Peak section, planted oue acre of corn by the Williamson plan, following close ly the method outlined by Mr. Wil liamson. Under the old plan of cul tivation the trial acre, Mr. Stoud myer says, would have producedl about fifteen bushels, while with the Williamson method lt made 50. Hereafter Mr. Stoudmyer will plant his entire crop according to the Wil liamson plan. Itching piles provoke profanity, but profanity won't cure them. Donn's Ointment cureB itchlng.bleed ing or protruding piles after years of suffering. At any drug store. KILL.T.: COUGH AND CURB THE LUNGS wiT Dr. King's Nsw Discovery AND ALL THROAT AND LUNQ TROUBLES. GUARANTEED SATISFACTORY! 1 OR MONEY REFUNDED. IXATIYE CO! iHO TAR. OONCORNI1 TO WATIOt ver many Coutfh, Lung and Bronc! acting ss a cathartic on the bowel ry refunded. Prepared by P1NEULB Walhalla. W. J Cares Backache Correcta Irregularities Do not risk having jeaae not Brights Pinnae do more* or Piabetct \mm cw. .ti MW W. J. CARTER, M. I>., Dentist. VV?'& ?Offlc? tUv. doors above the Bank, tn Cnrtor'H Pharmacy, WESTMINSTER, 8. O._ DR. W. F. AUSTIN, Dentist, Sen oe?, South Carolina. ! Office over J. !W\ Byrd A Oo. !.1 ??..?. DR. D.P.THOMSON, Dentist, Walhalla, South Carolina. Office over CW. Pitchford Co'? fe'ore Phone No. 86. DR.J.H.BURGESS, Dentist, Seneca, South Carolina. Office ovor Nlmmons' Store, Doyle Building. Office Hours:?-9 A. M. to 1 P, M. 2 P. M. to 6 P. M. B7?\ BENTLEY, R. T. JAYNES, Manager. Attorney. OCONEH COLLECTION AGENCY. Special attention given to' collec tions in the county. Try us. Ad dress all communications to B. A. BENTLEY, Manager, Walhalla, S. C. ?__. B. Ii. HBRNDON, Attornoy-at-LAW, Walhalla, South Carolina. PHONE No. 61. -?.i?'.>-,u ; ti-: I J. P. Carey, J. W. Sholor, Pievens, S. C. Walhalla, 8. 0. . W. C. Hughs, Walhalla. CAREY, SHELOR & HUGHS, Attorneys and Counsellors, Walhalla, S. C. [?'ractlco in State and Federal Courts. R. T. JA YNES, Attorney ?at-Law, Wc??iul?n, Mouth Carolina. I Practice in State and Federal Courts. Bell Phone No. 20. , M. C. LONG, Attorney-at-Law, (Office Over Post Office,) Anderson, S. C. Will practice in all Courts in South I Carolina. 4 6-'08 LQW RATES Offered \>y the 3Vorth, Northwest, West, Southwest. WRITE J. G. HOLLENBECK, Division Passenger Agent, fJS ATLANTA, GA. REAL ESTATE. We are offering, for a limited time, some SPECIAL' BARGAINS IN LAND t 2-aore lot; dwelling, outbuildings; Midway; a bargain, at low price. 124 acres, near Walhalla, for $2,100. 48% acres, near Walhalla, for $800. 72 acre?, near Walhalla, for $1,100. 54 acres, 2% miles west of Wal halla, for $1,000. 4 acre lo:. West End, Walhalla, to be sold in 1-ts to suit purchaser. These are some special bargains we are offering. If you have anything you want to sell, or If you want to buy, lt will be money In your pocket to Bee us. A.1 C. BURTON and B. A. BENTLEY. LOTH'S STOVES AND RANGES. CHICAGO AND COLUMBIA AIR TIGHT HEATERS. TINWARE, ENAMEL AND STOVE WARE. KTTOHEN FURNITURE. GENERAL REPAIRING AND TIN WORK. -CALL ON BJ. WlHH, U. UGH SYRUP ?AL PUnt FOOD AND DRUQ? LAW. ital Ramed te?. b*c*u?? lt rid? tkm A ls. No opiata?. Guaranteed to glv? fl MEDICINE CO.. CHICAGO. U. 9. A* " , LUNNEY, Seneca. 11 * -.1*3)