Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SAM jo: AV rites A.bout South < Carterville, Ca., Feb. 20. ! To th'.' Atlanta Journal: 1 have spent three days of this week in South Carolina, and 1 have been thinking considerably over what 1 saw and i heard on this trip as well as ou other tours through South Carolina. 1 spent last Monday night in Charles ton. Our train on Coast Line was late. We got to Charleston about'.? o'clock. 1 inquired al the hotel for a decent restaurant. I was referred to one in thc block of thc hotel. 1 went in. ordered my supper. At the tabb' next to mo were four young meu, not eating but drinking. They were full when 1 got in; they were fuller when I got out. When 1 got hack to thc hotel I remarked that there seemed to be more to driuk than to cat at tho restaurant they referred mo to. That brought on moro talk, and thc dispen sary, with all its characteristics, was discussed. A gentleman standing high in thc financial and political life of South Carolina proposed to mc that he would show me something if I would go with him, and I accepted his invitation, and within two blocks he carried me into six full-fledged Charleston blind tigers. Ho said thero were 300 of them there. Some of them were raid ed by tho Stale and city constabulary frequently. Others wcro immune ; they never had been raided. Thero aro 14 State dispensaries in Charleston. I suppose tboy only do a small per cent of thc business io li quor. Tho dispensaries must C?OHO at 6 o'clock in the evoning and open at 0 in thc morning, but tho blindtigcrs do business after the boura of the dis pensary, and they do business until the weo small hours of tho morning. The names and places of these blind tigers are as well known in Charleston as the clothing stores of George Muse and Kiseinan, or thu dry goods stores of Chamberlain-Johnson and Keely in Atlanta. Tho dispensary in the small er towns do a largo business, and per haps the only liquor business of any of them worth speaking of ; but they do business, selling bust-head from 15 cents a half pint bottle to $2 a quart. Tho Stato is the wholesale dealer and furnishes all tho dispensa ries, and the State's profit is made in their profits as they sell to the county and town dispensaries. For instance, oaoh dispensary pays the State dis pensary 12 cents a bottle for that pop skull, whioh tho town dispensary sells for 15 cents, and it has the stamp of the State chemist on it, reading, "Nothing chemically impuro in this liquor." I do not know why they do not stamp on the bottlo, "Nothing morally impuro either." The ono would go aa far with mo as tho other. I onco favored thc dispensary as a choice between thc saloon and the dis sary, for the following reasons: First, Loss o? Flesh When you can't eat break fast, take Scott's Emulsion-, When you can't eat bread and butter, take Scott's Emulsion. When you have been living on a milk diet and want something a little more nourishing, take Scott's Emulsion. To get fat you must eat fat Scott's Emulsion is a great fattener, a great strength giver. Those who have lost flesh want to increase all body tissues, not only fat. Scott's Emulsion increases them all, bone, flesh, blood and nerve. For invalids, for con valescents, for consumptives, for weak children, for all who need flesh, Scott's Emulsion is a rich and com fortable food, and a natural tonic Scott's Emulsion for bone, flesh, blood and nerve. We will send you a free sample. Be sure that this picture In the form of a label ls on the wapper of every bottle s IiS i: Caroli ia Dispensary. I thought tlic dispensary would put tho bar room crowd und thc liquor in tcrcstH out of politics, and wc all know what a potent factor they make. Sec ondly, that tin- license feature, by which the coilers of thc town and State are enriched would lye done away ' with; and, Thirdly, because I believed less li-)nor would he drunk. Hat the South Carolina dispensaries demon strate that liquor is in politics worne in South Carolina than any State in the union. And Secondly, that the taxpayers arc getting more money out of it. And, Tinnily, that lhere is more liquor drunk out of thc dispon Hatics (d' South Carolina, per capita, in my candid judgment, than out of the full-fledged bar room.-- in other States. It will take South Carolina a hundred years to recover from the effects of the dispensary; for dispensary liquor not only debauches thc poor devils that drink it, hut the dispensary will de bauch the whole State in its politics and morals. I am as much against the open saloon as I ever was. I am as much against thc dispensary as I am against the saloon, and for thc same reasons. And I keep saying that if wh -ikey is a good thing, then tum it loose, aud let it flow ankle deep, and a dip per on the limb of every tree and give the world all tho good there is in it. If it is a bad thing, then down with and out with the whole business in extenso. Greenwood, S. C., has never had a dispensary. For first-class citizen ship, intelligence, morality and de cency she stands without a peer in that State. Clinton, S. C., I believe, is another of the samo stripe. But whenever you find a dispensary you will find a dobaunched sentiment, and a growing greed on the part of thc tax payers to push its business, and to in crease its profits. Tho best elements of South Carolina are against thc dispensary, tho worst elements of South Carolina are against the dispensary; and these two classes together do not inako a un: j uri ty in that State, lt is an anomalous state of things if the best and worst cle ments of society be together against anything. I do not remember that I have met a singlo minister in South Carolina, or devout Christian man who wasn't against the dispensary; and the worst feature of the dispensary system is, it haB fastened itself like a leeoh, and has como to stay. I rather undertake to voto the saloons out of Maocn, At lanta or Savannah, than to undertake to vote tho dispensary out of Athens or Home. I have not only got to fight the liquor, but/1 have got to fight the profits of liquor that cornea to eaob tax-payer of the county, and when you touch tho average fellow's pocket, you have hit a vital spot. If any town in Georgia or othor States contemplates inaugurating a dispensary, let them send a commit tee of three boneut men to Charleston or Columbia, and tako in also some of the smaller towns, and see the thing as it is. That committee will come back and report unfavorably. Keep I your saloons until you can voto them out, but don't ever compromise by swapping your saloons for the dispen sary. A saloon ie the smallpox, a dis pensary is the measles. I, for one, had rather have the smallpox and get well than have the measles . forever. I am frequently asked, whioh would you choose saloons or dispensary or blind tigers??I reply, why don't you .sk me which I had rather have small pox, .yellow fever or measles? By the grace of God, I don't want either one of the three in mine, and am not go ing to have them if I can help it. C Georgia's and Texas's looal option law, and Tennessee's four mile law is handling tho whiskey business about as wisely and judiciously as 1 sec it handled anywhere by prohibition or any other method. As long aa corn crows-, and hogs arc raised, hogs and corn arc going to m'x up. Thc only way to keep them from mixing is to quit raising corn, or kill your hogs. I With all due respect to wise and perhaps good men who differ on how to handle and hamper and control tho liquor business, I havo studied tho question, looked at the facts and seen the working of the various methods, until I have come deliberately to the conclusion that the only prohibition that will prohibit will be found in the elevation of manhood, and tho refor mation of character, so that all men will see that to drink it is a sin against the common brotherhood of man. If liquor, like morphine, would sim ply render helpless the victim of tts ure, instead of developing tho fight in him and putting bim en the rampage. ?r? i h i-file md gun io fi?h? aid kill iou. !'< ii long <i- \i nerves thc ti ii rile re i*'H arin and pulls tho trigg-ri d' the deadly pistol, it ought to he au . utlaw, cha.-ed and driven beyond tl" ion ti nen 'd' civilization. If any fellow j ->ay* I am in favor of barrooms h? is lying hk<- a dei' trotting. Yours truly, .Sam I'. .Jones. . No Female Augels." Thc Kev. l>r. Kaylor, of Westmin ister, Long Island, is accredited with holding a belief which is likely to precipitate a heated but futile contro versy among persons who rejoice io oscasiou for argument concerning the non-essential details of thiugs reli gious. .Speaking to his congregation on Sunday last Dr. Kaylor said: "Most people's idea of an angel ia of a beautiful, graceful, white-robed fe male ligurc with wings on either shoulder, peacefuily floating through the air. 1 want to say there arc no female angels." The astonishment occasioned among his auditors is .said t) have been very great; and one may well imagine that it was. When he added, ''angels arc Htrong and glorious creatures" it is not impossible that something ot' anger as well as amaze ment was felt hy tho ladies present. As a matter of fact a theological ipso dixit of this character proves nothing. There is no reason for pre suming that Dr. Kaylor has any light on the subject of the sex of the bless ed that has not been vouchsafed to others. It is true, wo believe, that tho Scriptures nowhere mention a fe male angel while they do record the names of a few whom we have some reason for believing belonged to the opposite sex. But this is hardly sufficient ground upon which to base the conclusion reached by Dr. Kay lor. Because the one or ten angels who were selected as special envoys to earth happened to be "gentlemen" angela is certainly not proof positive that there were no "strong and glor ious creatures" of thc opposite gendei who could havo performed the service de.:ircd. It is not entirely clear whether Dr. Kaylor draws a sharp distinction be tween tho older generation of angels and those who have been added t( the ranks of Heaven's hosts within tho last several thousand years. I he do, it will, of course, tend to les sen the opposition which his view o the matter is calculated tu ufous among the devout women of the world Even granting, however, that h meant no reflection upon living o dead women, we are unable to se how he^hopcB to establish to the salis faction of all persons concerned tb accuracy of the position he has taken Some people may suggest that an arge ment in his favor is supplied by Re ve lations VIII, where it ?B distinctly de olared, "and when he had opened th seventh seal, there Tras silence i heaven about the space of half a hour;" but even this will be accepte as in no wioo final in determining question in which the Bible itse does not supply a categorical anBwei We regret that Dr. Kaylor did ne give in detail bis reasons for the fait that is in him in tho matter, for the could not have failed to prove inte estiug to all no matter what their te rcstrial sex may bo.-News and Cot ncr. _ _ Too Anxious. Mrs. Barr, an elderly Sootchwomai had been seriously ill for weeks, du iog wbiob time even the members < her immediately family had been e: duded from the sickroom. At las however, she so longed to see her r latives that it was deemed advisab to admit thom one at a time. Whc the moment for Mr. Barr's visit a rivedo the trained norse cautione him against showing too muoh em tion over ?bis wife's changed appea anoe. "What you must do," said the nura "is to oheer her np. Yon mast te her how muoh better she is lookio what a nioe oolor she baa in h cheeks and how bright her eyes ar Above all things you must be ohee foi." Mr. Barr promised faithfully to si the proper things, but when ho a preached tho bedside and beheld tl pitiful ravages that illness had mat in ?Mre. Barr's once plump cou^t nance he became so Agitated that 1 forgot the nurse's caution and c claimed in the rieb Scotch brogt that strong emotion always cailt forth : "Oh, Maggie, Maggie, woma whaur wad yo like tobo burrit?" "Yo'll not gea a chance to bnry o this time, William Barr," returni the invalid' with unexpected apiri "You're entirely too anxious." It was afterward said that Mi Barr's rapid recovery dated from th moment.-Lippiucott'a Magazine. - An ideal ia one who is willing Bpeod more of her husband's har earned cash for groceries than for d goods.-Ghioago News. - A school teaoher saya there ia fixed rule for ascertaining -.ow mat rods it takes to make a wiseaoro -UV simply impossible for a m to loveJkwo worn"?? at the came til 'Vu ?'fiit'h (s!r!? i? 1,'?'ur < liilUrcn. j London, I'Vb. '?1 -Au innovation in ed loation is being proposed by the ' liondou county council, ami the < scheme is meeting with great favor < among educators. i Schoold are to bc established and training given for the care of children, \ aud it is strongly recommended that I girls of ill classes should be admitted. < Mrs. Mar-dell Creighton, the wife of thc late bishop of London, is presi- 1 dent of thc Women's Industrial Coun- < ci!, and is strongly advocating the ] scheme. ; It has been recognized for a long time that the modern girl is very I deficient in her knowledge of home t duties, and that although in thc i technical schools, cookery, lessons in i household management and sewing ( have been given, it is time that cdu- j cation should be extended, and '.hat i all girls should receive at least twelve 1 month's training in thc care and up- ' bringing of children. I It is proposed that the schools be < provided with india-rubber babies life size, wicker cradles and a complete ! wardrobe, including the two stages in the baby's career, the long and the short clothes. Thc girl will be taught how to nuise, how to feed and how to clothe thc child. how to doctor its ailment; in fact she is to play at being mother. ? In Switzerland this subject is part of the compulsory examination, and the results have been singularly suc cessful//? AmoDg the working classes here the great majority of girls now go to thc factories or to tho shops as soon as they leave school, and in thousands of instances they are mar ried without the faintest knowledge of the duties of wife and motherhood. Surely tho woman movement could have no better adjunct that such a school. The Maid's Evasive Answer. Strange as it may seem, there is a public man in this city who is blessed or cursed with a tender conscience that worries him in small matters as well as in great. Among the things > that he cannot justify to himself is the bidding a servant to say that he is not at home when in reality he is in side his house. At thc same time he is not able ?o receive the many vis itors who ?.?ii upon him, and his only resource was to give instructions that polite?* excuses should be given. Upon one occasion* buch instructions were given to a maid,?[an Irish girl gifted with the readiness and good wit of her nation. "Then I'm to bj saying, sir, that you're not at home?" the maid in quired. "No, Mary, noT* was the [ reply : "that?would not be true. If any one should ask for me, you must just put him off-give him aomo evasive answer, you know." ? |ESffi?&a ?3 ?t?'Tll do it, sir, never fear," was the maid's reply. Mary was as good as her word. That afternoon a person of import ance made his appearance, and was duly sent away. The faithful maid reported the ciroumstance to her em ployer. "What did you do, Mary?" inquir ed the latter with somo trepidation. ''Oh, I just put him oif, sir, as you told me. I gave him an evasive an swer." "Yes. but what did you say lo him?" "Oh, sure, he azked me if the bots was homo, and I axked him, was his grandmother a monkey?' "-Philadel phia Telegraph. HM ? ? - At a caucus of the Republican members of tbe Ohio legislature Gen. Charles Diok was nominated by accla mation for United States senator to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Hanna and also for the full term. Of course he will be elected, as the Republicans are largely in the majority. - At the age of three score and ten a man realises how little he knows although his wife may have realised it half a century earlier. - Most of our worry is due to the anticipating of things that never hap pen._ Stood lindy Up in I'll I pit. Indianapolis, Ind., February 22. rhe most unique funeral service ever conducted in Indiana took placo Sun iuy at l'ol-joinville, Warrick County, when tho body of ''Uncle James Hart," au old-time Baptist minister, who died Thursday, was stood up in ilje pulpit in a ooil?o while tho funeral iiscoursc was delivered. Hart's dying request was that his >ody tshould bc stood in the pulpit luring the funeral services, as he had preached in thc church for forty rears. His request was granted. The undertaker who prepared the jody decided that it could not be stood up in the pulpit except by ty ng it to thc altar, but this plan was jot favored. A platform was then instructed, just back of the pulpit, md on this the collin was placed in such a manner that its interior could ac seen from all parts of the church. The lid was removed and the body of .he aged minister exposed to the eyes jf thc congregation. Hart had been in the ministry in Southern luaia^a for nearly sixty years, and, it is said, baptized more that ono thousand persons.-Phila delphia Record. Newest Health Craze. London, Feb. 27.-Ooo of the nc est health crazes is the "sleep-cure." The inventor is a Swedish dootor, and of course, for the time it will bo the rage io these days of mental worry and strenuous living, and moro than one society woman, worn out with _the constant round of entertainment, is looking forward to her sleep-euro. Prolonged sleep, from which there is no awaking, except to eat and drink, j is kept up for a period which varies I according to eaoh individual case, sometimes for as long as six or eight weeks. Epileptics and diplomaniacs are being treated with manifest suc cess. One girl who had suffered terribly from fits, paid a visit to the Sleep Cure establishment and remained un der the treatment for exactly a month. All efforts had before been absolutely unavailing, but she is now reported to be entirely cured. The Bare-foot Cure is another strange idea. With a view to ward ing off colds, many society women walk across Hyde Park in thc early morning without shoes or stockings and in the lightest of hygienic attire. The foundation of a bare foot colony conduoted on tho higher science system is being seriously discussed by the little clique which dubbed itself "Souls" a season or two ago. _ _ The Czar Went to Bed. A foreign nobleman who, if report speaks true, is somewhat henpecked invi some men a night or two ago to play cards in his house. Tho meeting was a oonvivial one, and all went "merry as a marriage boll." It grew late, and fears were expected by the party that they were tres passing upon the kindness of the mistress of the house, who, by the way, was not present. "Not at all, gentlemen; not at all. Play as long as you please. I am ozar here," said the master of the mansion. "Yes, gentlemen, play as long as you please," said a silvery voice, and all rose immediately as the baroness stood before them. "But as it is after 1 o'olock the czar is going to bed." He went. _ _ - A bachelor's idea of a hero is a married man who refuses to admit that he wishes he had remained sin gle. - It always angers s girl who breaks off an engagement if the young man in the oase refuse to make a fuss about it. - When a young man is old enough to cast hia first vote what he doesn't know about running the country isn't worth knowing. - Nothing ia oaloulated to jar a man like the efforts of a bald-headed barber to sell him a bottle of hair tonio. Rheumatism * Is Not a Silin Disease. Most people have an idea that rheumatism ia contracted like a cold, that the damp, chilly air penetrates the T .?seles and joints and causes the terrible ?ches and pains, or tint it is something like a skin disease to be rubbed away with lini ment or drawn out with plasters; but Rhuematism originates in the blood and is caused by Urea, or Uric Acid, au irritating, corroding poison that settles in mus cles, joints and nerves, producing inflammation and soreness and the sharp, cutting pains peculiar to this distressing disease. Exposure to bad weather or sudden ? ? Bowline* ors?. Ky. chUlingof the body will hasten au at- rJ^^&S^f^i^^S^^^% tack ofRheumatism after the blood and ie?a below tho kaos. I oould notralno my system are in the right condition for it fcrm to comb my hair. Doctor* preaaribod to develop, but bavo nothing to do with " mU?ny?ra^K^?figfe the real true causes of Rheumatism, and decided to try it. Immediatoly Xoom Which are internal and not external fl menead ita usa 1 feltbetter. ajad remarked Liniments, plasters and rubbing 1%^^^^^^^^ will eomotlmes reduce tho in?lamma- entirely well. I will always fool deep]* tion and swelling and ease tho pain for Jntoroated in tho aucoeaa of 8. fi. S. sluoe a time, but fail to relieve permanently w m* .? ?noa cooa, because they do not reach the* seat of 8,1 Bfc MB?. HORTON, the trouble. S. S. S. cures Rtar natisra because it attacks it in the blood, und S_n i /mtmmmmm. TNE UI.J Acid poisou is neutralized, tho sluggish cir? {SSI* rs**m\\ cale tion stimulated and quickened, and soon the sys \V^^ \%?s^, tem ls purified and cleansed, the aching muscles and H^%a s^*>l joints are relieved of all irritating natter and a io ?ting rL^^J iL^rzJ cure of this most painful dlseasa effected. ?r ^^^^ S. S. S, is a h?rmten vegetable remedy, unequalled ss a blood purifier and an invigorating, pleasant tonic. Book on Rheumatism wit] be taaUed free. OWSFF ?PEOIF?S CO., ?TZ?tSYA* CA? Firs', 'un of RHEUMATISM? Dangerous to let tt ran rjsy to cure now. A single battle of Will p.-bsbly ?Jo ?ho work. Bad cues require nore. RHEUMACIDB cure? by getting tid of the cause, to that no trice ol the disease lineen ls the syf??ns. !t p M ri the b!oi, fcUc?? f 1 ^ * ' ? fl ammnlnn nf th? kid? neyt, the chronic constipation and the catarrh that follows such a condi tion of the srstcm. Thooeb Mrs. Mary E. Welborn, of Hi(h Point. N. C.. ls 80 yean old .cd had suffered from rheumatism for 20 rears, she was Completel/ cured by RHEUMACIDE. and declares abe feels "years younter" and ls anxious for "all who are suffering from any of the forms of this dread disease" to try RHEUMACIDE and be fared. REV. J. R. WHEELF-R. a noted Methodiit minister, of Relsterstown, Md., writes enthusiastically of RH KUM AC! OE, which cured bim. He U 75 years old and has been in the ministry SO rears, SAMPLE DOTTLE FREE PROM ? BOBBITT CHLMICAL CO., PROPRIETORS. 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