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For weeks much a dollar' from; and wha on many lines winter stock. ~IL Oi mings need a A ~ placet can bu; I- w - 6 Jackets Tailor they m Su and $1i & If -%Made must g TEMPERANCE COLUMN. ~ a] Conducted by Paxvmie W. C. T'. U. gij in National Motto-" For God, Home and Na g Stat motto-" Be Strong and of Good Cour- gi On9ur watchword-Agitate, Educate. Organize. l God helping mc, I promise not to buy. Intoxicating liquors while I live; Facts and Thoughts About Tobacco. c [Written for the Christian Temperance o Worker by a member.] la One fact is a vast area of God's ei earth is cultivated in tobacco tc that might be used for other ai valuable products-.a 'But for what good is all this g;. tobacco farming? It is for the p "needless self-indulgence," spok fc en of in the rules of the Metho dist church. Is the stuff raised - to make se stoves of many of our men, a< women and children? It is a sad fact that many women and in children use the weed in many m ways. The habit, already be- 31 gun by children, gives trouble e: to those trying to teach tnese little ones. Shall we remain o 'silent? It does seem that the oi time has come that we should le see and speak and act, if we can al see the right thing to do. o Last year, in and around the church in which an assembly of fE ministers met a well-bred lady ~ complained of the filth to be t passed over in getting into the h Lord's Home! The church is desecrated in many places similar to the above 3 -even worse-for the floor in- a side is covered till the filth is too much for decent folks to sit near. To one who has been some thing of a missionary near a large cotton mill district, for several years just past, the evils of tobacco are most appalling. The beautiful young girls have their mouths filled with snuffII from morning till night, till the F lower lip bulges to a deformity ~ sad to behold.b What can church members, i called Christians, think of while ~ planting, aiding and abetting the b raising of the poverty-begetting P stuff. Not to say the health- i destroying abomination that it seems to me it is. No doubt God created it for ti 0 Kodol Dyspepsia Cure.a Digests all classes of food, tones and () strengthens the stomach and dig'estive organs. Cures Dyspepsia, Incigestion, Stomach Troubles, and makes rich red p blood. health and strength. Kodol re-' 't builds wornout tissues, purifies, st.iengthens and sweetens the stomach. I Gov. G. W. Atkinson, of W. Va., says:| I hav's used a number of bottles of g Kodol and have found it to be a very in effective and, indeed, a powerful reme- 54 dy for stomach ailments. I recom mend it to my friends. The R. B. rye Dr nug Store. and months y wil buy at th: t is better sti Bai of goods. W Dress G( r entire line of Fine Dress re now put on the market at nice dress for yourself or yo > come. It will astonish yo - Dress Goods here now. ackets, Suits e now put the knife to. our e . The remainder of our stoc Suits will be closed out at st go. its that sold for $10 must no Suits must be closed out at you need a nice, comfortabl uit or a nice Fur, here is e medicinal purpose; but t should not some of us cry ud as to the abuse of His fts? Could not the time taken the cultivation of tobacco and d preparing ft for use, be en to planting and harvest and selling that which would for aiding home and foreign issions? South Carolina law relating to ~arettes and minors, Statutes S. C., Vol. XX., page 321: SECTION 1. It shall not be ful for any person or persons, ther by himself or themselves, sell, furnish, give or provide y minor or minors under the e of eighteen years with ci Lrettes, tobacco, or cigarette Lper. or any substitute there SEC. 2. That any person or ~rsons violating the preceding ctin, either in person or by rent, or in any other way, shall held and deemed guilty of a isdemeanor, and upon indict nt and conviction therefor iall be punished by a fine not :ceeding one hundred dollars, )r less than twenty-five dollars, -by imprisonment for a term not more than one year, nor ss than two months, or both, the discretion of the court: ie-half of the fine imposed to be iid to the informer of the of use, and the other half to be iid to the treasurer of the coun -in which conviction shall be O A BT O IA. us th TheKind You Have Always Bought TE SOLDIER IN MODERN WAR. iePeculiar Nervouis Strain, Yet the Danger of His Being Killed Less. "Self-preservation is the first w of nature." Avoidance, .ght of the danger is so comn n so general, so apparently Lvoluntary with both man and ast as to convince us that it is e natural, the instinctive, ethod of self-preservation. In ttle the requirements of pelf reservation are undoubtedly ie facing and destruction of ie enemy. The side that fies lost. On one hand, then, is ne instinct of flight: on the her the necessity of fight. To ~adicate this instinct of flight d put in its place something iat will make men fight, that .ll save destruction and accom ish self-preservation, is the hole object of training. In more recent times the dif ulties of such training have reatly increased. The strain g life of highly organized ciety has undoubtedly made n more nervous, more hys ..r.1cal adlae able to face dan -ou have been Is store, and a: ll, the -S Hai e are anxious iods. Goods, Silks and Trim reduced prices. If you ur little ones here is the u to see how cheap you and Furs. itire line of Ladies' Fine k of Ladies' Ready-Made greatly reduced prices; w be closed out at $7.50, 10. Jacket or a nice Tailor the place to come; they ger, suffering and death. The growth of peace and civilization with their relief from hardships and the frequent necessity of defence of self and rights, have made them more than ever loth to risk their lives in war or bat te. But most of all, in the last third of a century the prodig ious improvements in firearms, their scientific, deadly effective ness, stun and affright the ima gination and hold men afar off from danger and the enemy. It has been estimated that since 1870, the general effectiveness of the infantry rifle has been in creased from 1 to about 13, and of artillery from 1 to about 40. These figures affect the nerves. Again, when men fought in masses under the eye of the higher leaders, discipline to the crists of battle; but under the enforced individualism of exten ded order fighting, the leader is often far away, or there is no leader and the soldier then must become a leader for himself and perhaps for others near him. To win, then, we must make him feel himself something more than discipline and tactician training, something that will hold him to the fight, something that will send him on,; something of those high qualities, honor, puts pride, ambition, heroism, patriotism. Of the horrors and carnage, the suffering and long esposure of the wounded to be expected in future battle with improved arms, our soldiers soon hear enough and enough that is logi cal and probable, to unsettle a good man's nerve and make his reassurance a matter of impor tance. Undoubtedly soldiers should know the dangers of bat tle, but not the dangers alone. All facts, all circumstances that favor his chance for life in bat tle should be repeated and em phasized until deeply impressed upon his mind. They will add to the confidence, bravery and daring with which he will press the fight. Show him: That, notwithstanding modern arms, the magazine rifle, the Gat ling, automatic guns and pistols, revolving cannon, machine and field guns send missiles "in a perfect hail," "in streams" and "in showers," yet the fact re mains and statistics all prove that the more these improved weapons are used, the fewer men are killed in battle; the more What's In a Name. Everything is in the name when it comes to Witch Hazel Salve. E. C. DeWitt & Co. of Chicago, discovered, some years ago, how to make a salve from Witch Hazel that is a specific for Piles. For Blind, bleeding, itching and protruding Piles, eczema, cuts, 'burns, bruises, and all skin diseases DeWitt's Salve has no equal. This has given rise to numerous worthless coun terfeits. Ask for DeWitt's--the gen Inine. The B. R Torea Drug Store. saving money nother advant reBee to reduce our GREAT SALE OF Those who need a nice E now as a deep cut has been mn we have on hand now must g< is valueless to us. We would carry over Millinery. Come and get your Hat ij 300 Dozenl I For the convenience of 1i gotten in a stock of 300 doze lot you can get almost any k Ladies' pure Linen Handla Gent's Linen Handkerchi' Ladies' fine Embroidered each. If you need nice, cheapI to fill your wants. deadly the arm the fewer its vic tims: That, notwithstanding the guns of ship, sea coast, siege, and field belch tons of iron, thousands of missiles so far, so wide, so searchingly that nothing, it would seem, could live under their fire, yet men do not die in front of them as they did in front of the old smooth bores. More, far more, are left to tell, and do not fail to tell and exaggerate, the tale of horrors. Witness the more recent siege and sea coast bombardments. That notwithstanding 10o n g zones are "swept," -beaten" and "ploughed" by fire, yet men live there. Think of the enemy. He too, is suffering. If we stick strictly to business, giving him and not ourselves our whole at tention, he will have his woes. At the crisis the men who re member this, who can think of this and make yet one more dash, will save honor, the battle and themselves. That, though trees are shot through, walls are battered and houses knocked down, yet this does not mean death to all that are behind or in them. Thousands of bullets are shot, but it takes ten thousand to kill one man and the number is ever on the increase.. Many are hit, perhaps, yet few are instantly killed. To fall does not mean death. Improved field hospitals, elaborate and com plete arrangements for the care of the wounded, wonderful med icines and skilled nurses are pro vided and are greatly reducing their sufferings, and skilled mod ern surgery is ever reducing the percentage of those who die of wounds. Though in the crisis it seems terrible to stand, and more terri ble to go forward, yet that of which we instinctively think, to go back, is most terrible of all. It is sure destruction. The bullet's most explosive and fatal effect is at ranges less than 400 yards. To this range, how ever, it is now rarely necessary to go, or to go only under cover. Before this the battle will have been lost or won, at ranges of from 1,000 yards to 4,000 yards, where wounds are far less deadly. These are reassuring and en couraging thoughts, and cannot fail to help steady the human nerve and send the soldier fur ther in the fight.--Major R. L. Bullard, Twenty-Eighth United States Infantry, in The Journal of the Military Service Institu tion. Get a free sample of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets at The R. B. Loryea drug store. They are easier to take and more pleasant in effect than pills. Then their use is not followed by constipation as is often the case with pills. Regular ize, 95c, per box. up for holiday age you have] n Put stock on thesi at will do well to see our line ~de in this department. What . Old, carried over millinery much prefer half price than you want it cheap. Ianidkerchiefs. oliday shoppers we have just n Handkerchiefs. -Out of this nd of Handkerchief you need. erchiefs from 5c to 25c each. ~fs from 10c to 25c each. Handkerchiefs from 10e to 3.5c [andkerchiefs here is the place Light on Venezuelan Situation. ARBITRATION GUARANTEES. The suggestion that the Unit ed States shall guarantee that Venezuela will abide by the award in case the current dis putes are submitted to arbitra tion is reported not to be well received at Washington. That is not in the least surprising. On the contrary, it would be sur prising if the suggestion were entertained and accepted. For thus there would be created a new precedent in international litigation, one fraught with grave possibilities o'f embarrass ment and one on the whole not calculated to promote the cause of international arbitration. It is, of course, premissi ble for Great Britain and Germany to decline arbitration with Venezue la, despite the intimation that their acceptance of it would be gratifying to the United States. Or they may discriminate among their various claims, holding that some are and some are not arbitrable. But for them to ask that the United States shall ~guarantee fultillment of the ar bitral decree seems to be a pro cedure in. excess of all former practice among sovereign states, and one not to be commended to favor. It is a fundamental principle of international arbitration, as indeed of other international relations and actions: that the obligation of the award rests up on good faith. There is no le gal sanction nor coercion behind it, as there may be in the case of arbitration between individual citizens of the same state. The good faith of the parties concern ed and the constraining force of world-wide public opinion afford the only guarantees of fulfilment 'of the award. Nor are these to lightly dismissed as inadequate. They have hitherto invariably proved adequate. There is no record of the repudiation of an arbitral verdict between nations. The only approach to it is in the case of our northeast boundary dispute in 182'7-42. It is true that the United States declined to accept the findings of the ar bitrator, but that was because the king of the Netherlands in his decree exceeded the terms of the reference. Inte rnational lawyers recognized that his award was properly voided, as such a one would have been in a private suit. Even that, then, was not a repudiation of award. The award by its own terms an nulled itself. In all the rest of the record there is not even so mnch of an approximation to failure of arbitration. There have been dozens of arbitrations since the treaty of Ghent. Some of them have involved states of less responsibility and trust worhiness than Venezuela. In shopping. It aere, you have led Do 3 lines, as we C IClothuing & G Our stock of Cloth meet the demand of the broken places and now dren's Clothing,~ Shirts, C Neckwear specially 1 H. C. GOI Our great line of GO Children is complete in e' kinds of Shoes at the low If you need Shoes tl place to get them. some of them the verdicts have been most unwelcome and even repugnant. But they have all been loyally accepted and fulfill ed: That is an impressive fact, and it is one of the most encour aging facts connected with the whole subject of international arbitration. So far as Venezuela individual ly is concerned it is not to be denied that she has in other things been neglectful of her obligations. For her delinquen cies and ill doings she has been criticised here. even in the col umns of The Tribtine, as sharp ly as in London or Berlin. But so far as international arbitra tion is concerned, that country does not seem to have forfeited her title to credit. We can re call three international arbitra tions to which she has been a party. In two of them the ver dicts were against her, and in the third the arbitrators prac tically "split the difference." But we have heard no complaint that she repudiated or attempted to repudiate any of the awards. The last of the three suits was with France. The judgment was against Venezuela. But Venezuela behaved so well in the case that France has been willing to enter into arbitration with her again on later matters of controversy, and is in fact at the the present moment thus engaged. In these circumstan ces it is difficult to perceive ainy good reason for the unpreceden ted proposal which has been made by one or both of the al lied powers now o pera ti n g against Venezuela. If the case is to be arbitrated at all, and it is to be hoped it is, it is worthy to be dealt with as all other in ternational controversies have been when submitted to arbi tration. There certainly seems to be no reason for the United States to ind.orse the notes of Venezuela.-From The N e w York Tribune. MONROE DOCTRINE ORIGIN. So much misinformation about the Monroe doctrine exists that a brief history of it is important at this time. That doctrine is simply that Feuropean nations must not acquire more territory and extend their political insti tutions in the western hemis phere. Is grew out of the Na poleonic wars and was originally suggested by Great Britain as a result of the continental wars with Napoleon. England said CASTOR IA Tor Tnfants and Children. e Kind You Have Always Boughi Bears the g nature of . . will surprise ~ such a large on't want toc ellts Furnishin1 ing has been badly broken, 1b holiday trade we have filledi offer a nice line of Gent's and ollars and Cuffs. yought for the holiday trade. )MAN SHOE DMAN Shoes for Ladies, Boy rery detail; also a large stock st possible prices. at will give .satisfaetion, here * that we ought to give our moral support to the contest, and thought our complaints of im pressment of seamen of little involved. Napoleon, with his marvelous capacity for deceit, maneuvered so as to appear the friend of this country and throw on Great Britain the onus of de stroying our commerce, though he was perhaps the worst ogen der in this respect. In settling that war and bringing about peace George Canning, of the British ministry, was a promi nent factor. When Napoleon was sent to St. Helena Great Britain was satisfied, but Spain was not. During the wars she had lost all her .American posessions except Cuba and Porto Rico. and she wanted to get them back, but was handicapped by a revolu tion in the peninsula. At the congress of Verona the holy - al liance was formed to establish legitimacy in Europe and heip Spain get back her colonies. This did not suit Great Britain, who was content that whatever gains had been made mn the way of liberalism should stand, but her power in the premises seem ed limited. When Canning was made secretary of the foreign office he communicated to our Minister Rush the important news that if President Monroe would take strong grounds on the subject of the independence of the South American repub lis he would receive the moral support of Great Britain. The few sentences which an nounced the famous doctrine were originally written by John Quincy Adams, secretary of state, and with slight amend ments were placed in Monroe's message. The result was that the holy alliance gave up its plans so far as this hemis phere was concerned. As Great Britain had borne the brunt of the Napoleonic wars, it was use less to start a war with her and this country against the doc trines of liberal government. Canning's hint to this country came most opportunity. We had at that time recognized most of the southern republics, but close investigation showed that they were mere oligarchies, as most of them have remained to this day. Nevertheless we could not see them disturbed with composure, but to defy the whole of Europe was a task that made Monroe hesitate. We had just escaped from the war of 1812, where we made a rather poor showing against a small portion of the British army, though in a few battles we had shown that American soldiers could defeat Wellington's veter ans. Nevertheless there was no desire for another war, and the moral aid of Great Britain ten dered by Canning-s was as grate rou to see how stock to select larry over any it to(( n all Chil 1 and f all the - ful as it was unexpected. It settled the question 6f the hour, and although Great Britain has often said that it was a purely temporary affair which covered only the particular situation of. the time, and though other for eign nations-- have protested against it and France once de fined it, the doctrine has been maintained in its integrity up to. this time. It is unfortunate that the southern republics .for whom we have 'risked so much have shown little appreciation of our effort on their behalf. There is not a republic south of us worthy the name. Dictators or oligarchs rule the nations in the interest -of private greed, and we have not only received little of the trade of these coun Itries but are generally disliked7 by them. The Monroe doctrine is simply that of America for Americans. barring those foreign settlements which were in existence ~ at the time the doctrine was announc ed. It does not affect Canada or the Guianas, but it does mean that foreign governments are iot to extend their territory of political institutions here. And that is all that it does mean. It has no reference to the collecting of debts or wars waged on just considerations.-From the Phil adelphia Inquirer. Flag Languay. The black flag is a sign of pi racy. To "strike the flag" is to lower the colors in submission. Dipping the flag, is lowering it slightly and hoistimg it again to salute a vessel or fort. The yellow flag shows a vessel to be in quarantine or is a sign of a contagious disease. A "flag of truce" is a white flag displayed to an enemy to in dicate a desire for parley or con sultation. The red flag in our service is a mark of danger and shows a vessel to be receiving or dis charging her powder. A flag at half mast means mourning. Fishing and other vessels return with the flag at half mast to announce the loss or death of some of their crew. Flags are used as the smybol of rank and command, the offi cers using them being called "flag officers." Such flags are square to distinguish them from other banners. The white flag is a sign of peace. After a battle parties from both sides often go out to the field to rescue the wounded or bury the dead under the pro tection of the white flag. If the president of the United States goes abroad, the Ameri 'can flag is carried in the bow of his barge or hoisted at the mast of the vessel on board of which he i.-New Education.