The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, February 13, 1896, Image 4
Somehow jour words kept
loff through my hood. I •
self to be a
— »■«
Those who knew him best would
hover hove suspected It. A club men,
o boo vivoat, hero of on endless or rev
of more or less exciting love scropes,
gentlemen end ell around good fellow
—he, Cherlie Brown, actually In the
meshes of love, frightfully, sentlmen-
tolly, desperately In love.
And with whom? A girl he con
fessed did not core osnap for him —
Mary Chisholm, rich, cultured, travel
ed, cynical and proud. ;
“Look here, Brown," sold Van
Tweet, one day In Brown’s room,
throwing one leg over the other and
looking his friena straight In the eyo,
" something very serious Is the mat
ter. 1 have quietly studied you for
some time and diagnosed your case
very carefully. You are in love. Come,
now,! who is she ? Out with It.”
Brown tried to look surprised and
then flippant.
“Tut tut 1" sold Van Tweet, “you
can’t simulate any beguiling nonchal
ance before me4 you can't deceive Van
Tweet. If you are in trouble over an
affair of the heart, make me your con
fidant. I haven’t a thing in the world
to worry about. I haven’t even a
thing to think about just now. Let nn*
in on the ground floor. Now, then, It’s
love, Isn’t lt y”
Brown swept his hand over his fore
head and stretched himself, \llke i>
man who is undergoing a struggh
with himself, and then he blurted out:
“ It’s love, damn it all; just think oi
it 1—me—falling iu love ! Don’t you
think trepanning would be good foi
me
And he Jumped to his feet an<>
towsled bis hair like a tragedian.
“Sit down, Brown. It’s a might}
good thing you relieved yourself o'
this seoret. The fever has mounteo
from your heart to your brain. A fev
months more of this suppressing agon}
and 1 don’t know hut trepanning wouh
have proved the mly remedy. 8li
down, I say.
“ Now, tell me all, and after I am
possession of the facts, as wo say in h
newspaper office. I’ll help you W) d<
some thinking." _
II was the same old hypnotic power
which he exerted over all men and all
women, too, that made Charlie Browi
relinquish all resistance to Van Tweet'-
appeal.
“All right,” said Brown, after i
moment’s reflection. “ I trust yoi
with my secret on your promise of
sllenoe. I have been, like Tantalus
the possessor of a ravished heart evoi
since 1 met Miss Chisholm at the bead
last season. ”
“Oh, It’s Chisholm, is It r said Vai
Tweet, interrupting him.
“ I don’t know what possessed me t
fall in love with her,” continued
Brown ; “but she provoked me.”
“ That’s right; the woman Is alway-
to blame,” put In Van Tweet.
“ She provoked me by her Inferna
Indifference. There she was, the con
scious center of a lot of fellows, ah
trying to make themselves agreeable,
and sne only laughed at them—laugh
Ing at them as a queen might at u
roomful of gibbering parrots. Shi
thought she was too good for the lot.’
“And most likely she was right in
her oonoluston,” said, Van Tweet
" What did that concern vou Y Did
you try to make a parrot of yourself,
as well ?”
“Try?” echoed Brown. "Try?
Great Scott, I was the worst of them
all.”
You crouched at her feet and
twanged at your lyre like the rest
—you, Brown?" Van Tweet was ovi
* dently surprised.
f “Oh, not like the rest," said Brown.
“Catch roe bearing any woman's
train. No, I did worse, as I am about
to tell VOU. First, I studiously avoided
her. She must have noticed it, and
before long she seemed not to see me
at all. 1 knew what that meant. She
wss going to punish me by pretending
that there was no s<icn person a«
Charlie Brown on this terrestrial
plane.
“ So 1 laid myself out to he as coolly
■oornful as she. You ought to have
seen us. And so things went on, until
one day we were all iu the surf togeth
er, and It fell to my happy lot to rescue
Miss Chisholm from drowning.
“ It was a more serious matter than
I bad reasoned. Expert swimmer as
she is, she completely lost her svnse*
and she folded her arms around my
neck as impulsively as If wo had been
old acquaintances. All this occurred
under water, or I shouldn't have mind
ed it half as much.
“Anyhow, 1 rescued her, together
with about a ton of salt water, which
made me sick for a woek, and after
that we were worse enemies than
ever.
"I say we," continued Brown, “but
that Is a little too sweeping. By what
process 1 know not, but from the mo
ment I held her in my arms and
drsgged^h^cr limp and dripping to
where hermother and brother could
lay hands on her, I felt—felt—”
“ You're sure she bates you?"
“Oh, I have no doubt of it," said
Brown. “I called, and that call com-
leted my downfall. I have never
the same respect for myself
since.”
“ And you think she hate’s you ?”
“By iove, I tell you she is getting
even with me for being the instru
ment of fate to rescue her from the
waves. That girl would a thousand
' times rather have died than owe her
life to my efforts.”
Van Tweet thought for the briefest
of moments, and then looked up like
a physician who has reached a con
clusion at his patient’s bedside.
“Brown,” he said, “you are either
a fool or else you are porversely en
tertaining—I will not even say beguil-
ing—your heart with an Interesting
Illusion. You know that the girl loves
you, or else you are so blind that it
would be charitable to held you non
oompoe mentis. Now, don’t try to
bewilder my judgment with a mass of
petty fancies ooujured up just because
the girl has too much good sense to
fling peraelf into your arms the flrst
time you knock at her door. Your
confounded pride does not allow you
to uee that sne Is just as proud as you
ane; but thi right is all on her side,
and you are acting the part of a very
stupid ass, If you will pardon my
plainness, for not stripping off this
unbecoming dignity at once and going
to her very humbly with a plea for
humiliate yourself by asking her—
what t—whether she loves you Y"
But Brown insisted that he knew
what he knew, smote the side of his
chair with his fist, and declared that
nothing could alter bis views. She
hated him, and was only waiting for
aim to humiliate himself, like the rest
of her suitors, so that she could give
him his quietus, and pay him off for
having savod her life.
3 formal,
ng-dong-
said to my-
sell to oe a moral coward and tremble
heoeuse a woman may tnrn you down
is almost as bad as to run when your
manhood is assaulted. It wae a hard
fight, but I made it. And—”
“ She accepted you ?” asked Van
Twootf*
“No; she wa* not to be had so
oheaply ; but I left her with a strong
MCHOUS VM PATTON.
Wa» hs a Drsamsr or a Prophst—A
ana Unlqus Character.
Major Wm. Hoy in Ttas Spartan.
In my short sketch of the early cot
ton manufactures la tha up country,
I stated that I would give my reoolleo-
t'oa of Nicholas van Patton, who
gava up oottoa manufacturing nod
attempted to invent perpetual motion,
impression that I had won a victory, working at,It about half a oentury. doomed
jU
Tl
plet«
had
The next morning Miss Chisholm
received the following letter by mall:
“My Dear Miss Chisholm—Will
you pardon me If I avail myself so late
of a long standing Invitation to call,
and may I hope to find you at hom«
this evening?
Cordially yours,
** P. It. Van Tweb«v"
Van Tweet found Miss Chisholm
both cordial and radiant. They talked
about the latest book of short stories.
Then they switched off to dlscusr
operas and the visit of a Parisian star,
and then Van Tweet brought Brown
on the tapis.
You know Charlie Brown, of
course ?” he began.
“Ob, very well. He favors me oc
casionally with a formal call,” sbt
said, _ ■ •
“ Well, you ought to knowUlm bet
ter,” said Van Tweet In Ais peculiar,
matter of fact way ; “ he Is really a re,
markable character. Of course yoi
read in to-day’s Beagle how he ac
quitted blowelf in that row Iasi
night?" * * 3 - 'i
“A row—Mr. Brown?" asked Mist
Chisholm with a manifestation ol
mild surp|Ise. “Is Mr. Brown In th<
habit of engaging In rows ?”
Van Tweet produced a copy of thi
Beagle and read:
“Shortly past 11 o’clock last night
Mr. Charles W. Brown, the well known
club man, was going home. He heart,
a woman’s voice calling for help noai
the corner of Waldon street am-
Verona avenue, which is rather dark
at that hour. Bunn Ing in the direc
tion of the cries he saw three rufftam
bending over the prostrate form o>
an old man, and 1 a young lady a short
distance away screaming for assis
tanoe.
“Mr. Biown ran to the assistance o
the prostrate man, dealing the firs
ruffian a blow that sent him sprawling
into the gutter, and giving the secom
a love Up on the angle of the jaw tha,
made him forget the day of the week
The third man clinched, hut in a trici
Mr. Brown had thrown the fellow over
his head and was complete master oi
the situation. As soon as the assailant*
could gather themselves together the}
tied, leaving Mr. Brown in undlsputei,
possession of the field. ^
“The facts developed by a reportei
of Jhe Beagle show that Mr. it. X.
Walker, the well known wholesah
grocer, had attended one of thi
theatres with his daughter, and hao
left the cafflo car about three blocks
from his own residence. Turning the
corner of Waldon street he was sud
denly set upon and knocked down by
one of three assailants who had evi
dently planned to rob him.
“Mr. Brown, in the struggle with
the last of the three men, was wounded
by a knife thrust. He was able to,
walk home, but bled profusely, and is
under the care of a surgeon. At the
time of going to press no interview
could be obtained with Mr. Brown, and
the physician declines testate whether
his injuries are serious.”
Miss Chisholm had listened to the
account with a pale face and tremb
ling lips, and when Van Tweet folded
up the paper and tossed it carelessly
on the table, ho saw her eyes filled
with tears uni! h«r hsmtu
“ Oh, the poor fellow,” she exclaim
ed, in a sympathetic tone of voice.
After all, thought Van Tweet, she
feels only a broad sympathy that would
be extended to any other mao, no
matter how obscure. She doesn't love
him.
That night Brown was much im
proved, and Van Tweet was admitted
to his room. Mingling with the odor
of iodoform and carbolic acid Van
Tweet’s olfactories were able to dis
tinguish the scent of roses that came
from an enormous bouquet on a small
table near the invalid's bedside. Brown
himself was in bright spirits. lie
held out his hand with a happy smile.
“Phlebotomy seems to have done
you some good. 1 haven’t seen you in
such a lively state of mind since you
fell in love with Miss Chisholm,” said
Van Tweet, slyly.
“ Yes," said Brown with a smile,
“ the operation on my heart has done
me much good in that connection.” ’
“ You’ll get over your wotind the
same as you’ll get oy.er your love for
Miss Chisholm,’’ gravely remarked
Van Tweet. "When a man of sense
once coroeMkto the conclusion that a
woman doesn't love him the recovery
is rapid. »<
“ Yes,” said Brown with a concealed
smile of supreme happiness.
“ She wasn’t worthy of you." » ,'
“ You thought she was too good for
pardon—”
“ Pardon 1 ?” exclaimed Brown.
’I
ask pardon—I ?”
Van Tweet’s eyes began to flash
angrily. “See here, old man,” he
said, “this girl is ter too good for you
and yon know it. Do yen stand there
and toll me that yon love her. lore her
to distraction, to rashness—for yon do
—Md. yet bold her too oheaply to
left her with her decision in abeyance,
he letter tells the rest.”
Van Tweet congratulated Brown,
but there was a cloud on his brow as
he took bis departure.
“I thought! know something about
human nature,” he muttered, “ but
whofi It comes to telling what a wo
man means I’m still in my swaddling
clothes.”
Isn’t that the way the world wags ?
Bill ARP IN FLORIDA.
He Finds a Few Oranges and Many Rare
Birds—An Old Caslle Gone to Ruin.
I had been down to Matanee and
Bradentown to see what the great
freeze of last winter had done to thi-
oranges. I found that most of the crop
had been gathered and marketed, but
the boats still take on a few more boxes
every day. The crop was not a full one,
hut brought about five times as much
K r box as it did the year before. The
lit was never liner in size or more
luxurious lu flavor. One orange was
given me that measured 18 inches In
circumference, and it was not puffy oi
or overly thick in the rind. The grow-
ors realized about 93 75 per box, and
those that have been held back are now
bringing Id. As a rule the best grpvet
belong to residents. Non-residents got
discouraged last year at f>0 cents a box
and quit fertilizing and quit paying a
man to look after their property. Con
sequently, you will see many grove*
that have been practically abandoned,
hut right alongside you will see a grim
.n perfect and vigorous contfULou. Ate
trange grove," said Sheriff Watson,
’‘requires as much nursing as a baby,
hut it will, reward you if you care foi
it.” The clever sh riff took me out t.
tee the ItoyatDalm nurseries that an
conducted by^ Mr. Iteasoner and son
The young man was kind and courte
ius and i wondered at bis enthusiasm
is he explained everything and dis
joursed of the beautiful tropical plants
and talked botany and floriculture
.nuch of which was ait Greek to me
tO MM
would bo at
up all the lands from his sboul to
rso Jim Anderson's bridgs, and i
ft tbo band of ths shoal 35 foot, which
olaod to the natural fall 56 teataad
the volume of water three times as
as strong as it is at Pelham, using ths
water on both sides of the river several
tlmee, he would have the greatest
manufacturing establishment in the
world. But all his calculations were
> go
me,” said Brown in a tone of resent
ment.
“Sol did,” said Van Tweet, “-but
then I’ve sounded her and found she
doesn’t love vou. On the whole, you’d
better give her up and let me try my
luck. I’ve taken rather a fancy to heF
myself, and I think I’m not altogether
indifferent to her.”
“ Do if you want to be laughed at
like the rest of the fellows,” replied
Brown. He pointed to the flowers.
“ Aren't they refreshing ?” he asked.
“ Very beautiful," said Van Tweet.
“ From your landlady, I suppose ?"
“No!” said Brown. “From
Chisholm.”
“Get out!” he exclaimed. “The age
of miracles is over.”
“Van,” said Brown, “if this Infernal
wound doesn't put me hur* de combat
(’ll marry Miss Chisholm in six
months. Just read this :
“ My Own—1 have learned of your
Injury, and my heart Is pressed with
nameless agony lest something serious
tod
MUs
should ensue. It has i
me to a
promp
quick decision, a decision I could have
f ivon you many months ago If you had
ut spoken. For my sake get well, pay
hero and deliverer I I shall await
with trembling and tear news from
your bedside, news toat you are out of
danger, and shall pray Tor you night
and day.”
Van Tweef glanced at the signa
ture and folded up the letter without
a trace of emotion. “Woman,’’ he said
solemnly, “thy name Is mystery. How
did it happen?” -
Brown smiled as he had not smiled
in months. “!« had left her Louso
but a few moments before the scrim
mage oocurred la Waldon street," he
Be gsve me clippings of coffee and tot
and rubber and camphor and ctnnamoi
md other exotics, and showed me or
ders from the north and west and fron
across the water. If I was a young mai
t would pursue this busines for on*
reason if for no other. I have observer
that ail florists are enthusiasts abou
their calling. Tnev love it and an
uappy. l>x>k at Mr. Berckmans, oi
Augusta—what a noble, earnest mat
16 (s. Just think how much pleasun
nis fruits and flowers have given tb«
people, especially the wives and daugh
lent all over this Southland of ours
Bow intensely he studies nature anc
bow extensively be diffuses knowledg<
over his adopted country! Ho ha*
neither time nor inclination for poll
tics. He hankers after no office, he ha*
no quarrels with mankind, but is hap-
oy in communing with nature and na
ture’s God. I would rather know what
he knows than to be learned in an}
other profession. Besides all this, hor
ticulture is a profitable business and
brings its sure rewards. These Keae-
oners began on a small scale and from
year to year have enlarged their plant
and now are financially Independent.
I looked into the depot at Bradentown
and saw boxes of their trees and plants
waiting for theJhoat, and some of them
were marked to Nebraska and Michi
gan. Their palms and Terns and aca
cias go to Boston and New York, where
they arc wanted for funerals and fetes
and weddings. They can get 950 for
the leaves of a single plant.
In company with Judge Cornwell I
visited Manatee, which is only three
miles from Bradentown and is the old
est town on the river. The country
between the two is thickly settled and
is ornamented with orange groves and
date palms and other tropical trees.
At the beautiful home of Mr. Adams,
of Boston, I saw more beautiful bird*
than 1 have ever seen in all my life.
The veranda was full of cages—large
cages, six feet square and six feet high,
and iu them he bad pairs of most every
fancy kind to be found in the world
Strange to say they were a happy fam
ily from the tiniest linnets to the paro
quets. In other cages be hao rabbits
and guinea pigs, and there were doves
and quails and pigeons and pheasants
from South America and Honolulu and
the isles of the sea. He has been a
great traveler and has brought treas
ures from every country. I never saw
at any fair such beautiful fowls, nor so
many of them as those that grace his
grounds. There was only one thing
lacking to make his home complete,
and that was children—little girls and
lioys to brighten up the picture. Not
far away from Manatee is,the old cas
tle, the tumbl ing walls of a once stately
mansion that was built of concrete
away back in the 40s. Spacious naflr
and spacious rooms up stairs and down,
broad verandas without floors and win
dows without sash, wild orange trees
and palmettos crowding the walls and
a wilderness almost impenetrable
around. Surely this must be the place
where Hood wrote “The Haunted
House”—“O’er all there bung a shad
ow and a four.” Mr. Braden, for whom
the town and a river is named,lived in
it like a prince until the Indians drotl'e
him from it. For a long time he and
his family and his slaves successfully
defended it by firing from every win
dow, but they carried off everything
he had dutside, and he- was forced to
abandon his beautiful and dostly home
stead. How little do we know of the
brave deeds, the sufferings, and perils
of the pioneers of Florida ! If tradi
tion is to be believed, there is not a
county or township in all this region,
from Pensacola to Charlotte harbor,
that is not consecrated , by the blood of
the early settlers. It took thirty mil
lions of money and twenty thousand
soldiers first and last to subdue 8,000
Indians, under the lead of Osoeola and
other chiefs.
But I must leave fair Florida for a
time and go home to comfort the bet
ter half of the family. It Is hard on us
old people to have to run after the
children, but It won’t last much long
er—our time is almost out, our jour
neys will soon be ended, and we will
have to trust them to the keeping of a
parent who dooth all things well.
'ILL Arp.
Mr. Van Patton came to the shoal on
Knoree that now bears his name just
sixty-five years ago. He brought capital
with him and had the reputation of
being a trained machinist, and general
report said be bad no superior In the
mechanic arts. Before putting his
mechinrey in motion he looked
about with regard to getting a
helpmate in his affairs and came near
being successful. He bad centered
bis affections on a handsome young
lady well off,' but politics, unfortu-
nately (or him, sprung up—union and
nullification—and when he thought he
had nothing to do but set the day,
competition sprang up in the person
of a dashing young widower of the
same faith of hi* intended, and his
politics appears to have preponderated
and the widower bore off the prize.
He laughed at his owq defeat and see
ing his rival in public company he ap
proached him and pointed him out at
he fellow that had three wives and
had cut him out to get the fourth one.
His rival afterwards had the fifth wife.
For sometime to come he appeared
to have discarded all thought* of mat
rimony aud devoted his entire energy
to building up his factories, merchant
mill and saw mill. Carding wool and
spinning all followed in rapid succes
sion. He actually built a double row
of cottages over a quarter mile toug
for prospective operatives to live in.
Its an old and true saying, Mr. Editor
to let well enough alone. Few men of
bls< day and time appeared to be so
well advanced on the road to complete
success. He appeared all at once to
drop all interest Inhis machinery ano
turned all bis attention to discovei
perpetual motion and bent all his en
ergy to that end. His numerous Im
provements, one by one, went down for
the want of his personal attendance
He peddled, or sold his cottages a*
best he could. Some bought thorn foi
kitcheus, lumber or store houses
Some of them traveled miles. Mr. Van
Pattoa thought sometimes that tri
umphant * access was almost in sight
that a bright future was almost in his
grasp, but M never realized them.
Knowing that I was no mechanic
he at different times showed me parts
of his machinery that he thought
would lead him to success. One mam
moth machine he made. I never saw
anything like it He could set it t
moving and would show differen
forms. In one of those forms it slight
!y resembled an Oriental saddle ant;
about double the size. This immenst
concern was made out of pure bras
ind as polished as if it came fron
iht-ffield or London. The number ot
things or joints oould be hut described
by the name of legion. None of thest-
things were more than four or five
inches long and it would require close
inspection to hoe the joints. The bot
tom of it was flat. The only time It
would appear to assume the shape of
a saddle would be when the side would
fly up, the top of each side would be
about the height of a man a little
under medium height. About two
feet from the bottom there were five
pieces of brass, I will call them
punch£| not knowing the proper same.
There were two la each side. I can’1
state their length precisely, but they
were fastened to the joints. The five
ends all pointed inwards. When the
machine was standing in the position
I am attempting to describe, the bot
tom appeared to be about two feet
wide. Right on the bottom lay two
brass balls not attached to any part of
the machine. Their weight was said
to be fifty pounds each. J’heir round
ness was said to be perfect. Every
time the machine was put in motion
the punchers were to punch the balls
to the other side, there to
opposite punchers and be punched
back It was reported that when this
machine refused to do what he in
tended, he took a sledge hammer and
smashed it.
About this time Mr. Van Patton
made another advance towards matri
mony 'and was in a fair way to meet
with success. He selected a lady at
Spartanburg well off and highly re
spected. Nothing |was to do but set
the day and call on the parson. He
made her aware of his pecuniary mat
ters, and that he was in debt nine
thousand dollars. He was doomed to
another disappointment. ‘He then
married a daughter of ono of his ten
ants, a clever woman. She preceded
him to the the grave. Ho ever after
ward remained single. Unfortunately
for Mr. Van Patton, when his perpetu
al motion failed, he thought he could
invent a machine that would make one
horse do the work of twenty. He
spent years at that aud failed. Mr.
Van Pattou and Dr. J. P. Barrett, of
Abhqvillb. a scientist, were lifetime
friends. The Doctor once sent Mr.
(Van Patton a message by me, that
when he completed bis machine he
claimed that the first use to make of it
was that they were to take a trip to
the moon. I delivered the message to
him in public. Some of the crowd
made light of lt^ ^hat angered him.
Mr. Van Patton, spying aside his no-
' TtOus about perpetite! motion,
rank high as an intelligent man. Hi*
three business trips to England added
much to his- information. His third
trip he wae in the employ of General
Green's grandchildren’ to put up a
factory near Nashville, Tenn. He was
sometimes censured for his religious
views, being called a Unlversallst, but
he remedied that by joining the Bap
tists.
Mr. Van Patton was a native of New
York State. He was of respectablei
parentage. I have seen a letter that,
How to Care All Skin Diseases.
Simply apply “ Swayne’s Oint
ment." No Internal medicine re
quired. Cures tetter, ecsems, itch, all
eruptions on the face, hands, nose, Ac.,
leaving the skin dear, white and
healthy. .Its great healing and cura
tive powwa are po—assod by no other
remedy. , Ask your druggist tor
Swa yne’s Ointment.
aad that unlimited
A his disposal, he would boy
wealthy relations i
itment. His
North offered
to plane him In easy circumstances, if
he would go back to the North., He
made cboioe of remaining near where
the bones of his wife and children
rested. They gave him some slight
assUtanoe, but they should have been
more liberal.
THE CAUSE OF THPERANCL
A MEMORIAL TO THE LEGISLATURE.
Ths GospSI Temperance Union Wants to
Fleetrict the Dispensaries and Liquor Sold
for Medicinal Purpoees Only.
The following memorial In renql to
the bill recently introduced 1n the
General Assembly, looking*- to the
amendment of the dispensary law so
as to do away with the use of liquor as
a beveragej and the profit feature oi
the present system, ha* been placed on
the desks of the members:
The memorial of the Gospel Tem
perance Union of South Carolina, re
spectfully presents to the General As-
•embly of South Carollua that it Is ac
organization composed of citizens ol
the State, having for its object tht
suppression of the liquor -traffic, fr
pursuance of this object the executive
committee of this organization have
had prepared a bill to amend certain
sections of the existing dispensary
law, which is now before both houses
of the General Assembly for your con
sideration.
These amendments propose to elim
inate any profit further than necessary
to enforce the same; and further
eliminate the dispensing of intoxicat
ing liquors as a beverage, so that they
shall be sold only for medicinal,mechan
ical, scientific and sacramental uses.
These amendments represent the
wishes of the Gospel Temperance
Union of South Carolina and theChrls-
tian sentiment of the State.
We make this appeal for their adop
tion for the reasons following :
I. These aueadnaate are tuoh as
will pot the dispensary law in lasting
favor with the beet and most law abid
ing people of our State.
Tl. The law. as amended, will have
(be hearty support in Its enforcement
of the conscientious citizens end lovers
>f sobriety.
III. It will allay the discontent of
prohibitionists and others If intoxicat
ing liquors are no longer sold as s
beverage, as there are many who
think the State has no right to sell it
ss a beverage.
IV. If such amendments arc adopted
as will unite the good people of the
State in giving their moral support to
the enforcement of the law, the illict
sales will necessarily be decreased.
Such changes wi{l in no wise affect the
provisions of the act regarding its en-
forqi-munt, all such provisions remain
ing in full effect.
V. The sale of liqhors will then be
much or more under the control of the
State than it oould possibly be other
wise, inasmuch as gojd or better men
could be secured to act as officers in
the dispensary, and no church could
refuse to keep a member in good stand
ing who hela such an office, which Is
not the case now.
VI. As the act now stands we find
the Slate with a law under which no
consistent church member can accept
au office, and an institution of the
State upon which he can not invoke
God’s blessing.
Afjl. The law, in its present shape.
Is particularly objectionable because
it provides that the State shall do
that which the church has said cannot
be done without sin.
meet ~Th6't Vttl. Tt humlttates, debases and de
stroys public conscience in receiving
for education Lush-money—the price
of tho eternal ruin of Immortal souls;
such money as the Scribes, and Phari
sees who purchased the Saviour's
blood refused to receive when return
ed to them by Judas Iscariot.
IX. It is further objectionable be
cause it gives the gloss of respectabili
ty to a traffic that undermines society,
demoralizes its victims, impoverishes
its\citizens and becomes responsible
for a great majority of the crimes and
the constant infraction of the laws ol
the State.
X. The sale of intoxicat’n-r liquors
az a beverage, by Individuals or by the
State, never being right, no good man
can consistently do other than protest
against any legal approval of the same.
XL The dispensary law makes every
citizen a stockholder, sharing in the
profits if there be any, and in the lia
bilities, which are.certaln. See Hab-
akkuk 2:12, 15, “Woe to him that
givetb his neighbor drink, that put-
teth thy bottle to him, and maketb
him drunken also. Woe to him that
buildeth a town with blood and eetab-
lishqth a city by iniquity.” This be
ing true, the State has covered with
shame all of her citizens, Instead of
protecting th« ra frt m such dishonor as
a true mother would her children.
XII. Toe pnsout law antagonizes
the church, aud guod society, makes
and law-breakers of her citi
zens, as no man filled with liquor is
any longer a law-abiding citizen, but
Is a fit subject for arrest for drunken
ness, If not for disorderly conduct, and
for crimes he Is very liable to commit.
XIII. These amendments suggested
are not political or partisan in their
nature; they are the demamjs.made by
the great Christian chimsh of our
State, which can not be silent without
sin, and which, in the name of her
communicants and by her Gospel Terr-
eranee Union appeals for deliverance
was written to his father by Generali from the unholy alliance into which
"Th# CommonlPsopte,"
As Abraham Lincoln called them, do |
not care to argue about their ailments.
What they want is a medicine that
will cure them. The simple, honest
statement, “I know that Hood’s
Sarsaparilla cured me," Is the best!
argument in favor of this medicine,
and this Is what many thousands <
voluntarily say.
Our people are growing more and,
more li> the habit of looking to Dr. K.
Norton for the latest and best of every
thing in the drug line. He sells Cham
berlain’s Cough Remedy, famous for!
its cures of bad colds, croup and whoop
ing cough. When in need of such a
medicineogivo this remedy a trial and
you will be more than pleased with
the result. .
-—Two brothers named Hart were
arrested for bouncing a farmer. As
the judge sentenced them to five yean
apiece he suitf it called to his mind that
touching pnosage, “Two souls with
but a single thought; two Harts that
beat as one.” o
—It Is said that ther^ are two words,
aud two only, In our language, which
contain all the vowels iu their order..
They are—“abstemiously ” and “face
tiously.’,’
—There is a time in every man’s life
when he think* there Is nothing sweet
er under the sun than somebody’s
daughter.
—By not doing without the things
we don’t need, we tometimes have to
do without the things that we do need.
—There arc|two classes of people in
this world—tuose who make fools of
themselves and those whs don’t need to.
—One of the latest inventions is a
three-cornered nail that will drive
easily, and will not split the wood.
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ness. The attacks came upon him most In
opportunely. One time failing from a carri
age, at another down stairs, and often In the
street. Once he fell down a shaft In the
mill, his Injuries nearly proving fatal. Mr.
Qallaher writes from Milwaukee, Fob. 16,'
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“There are none more miserable than epi
leptics. For 20 years I suffered with epilep
tic fits, having as high as five in one night. I
tried any number of physicians, paying to
one alone, a fee of 1500.00 aud have dona
little for years but search for something to
help me, and have taken all the leading
remedies, but received no benefit. A year ago
my son, Chas. 8. Qallaher, druggist at 191
Reed St., Milwaukee, gave me Dr. Milos'
Restorative Nervine, and I tried It with
gratifying resalts. Have had but two fits
since I began taking It. I am better now In
every way than L have been In 30 years."
Dr. Miles' Re mod 1.x are sold by* druggists
ou a positive guarantee that the flrst mtUe
will benefit or price refunded. Book on the
Heart and Nerves. fr» a. Address,
Dr. Miles Medical Oo., Elkhart, Ind.
Or. Miles' toudies testore Health.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY OO
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JANUARY 9, ISM.
Washington,
as some men
If he had been as selfish
are, he would have put
the letted on the market. Tke late
Hon. Simpson Bobo saw the letter and
urged him to make a present of it to
Wofford College. He permitted the
letter to go to the College for inspec-
ero being empty with the excep
tion of the driver*. Seme of hia neigh
bors thought that such yarns as that
had a touch of Munchausen to them,
but from a half century’s acquaintance
with him, I think he was perfectly re
liable as to anything he taw or heard.
His sons mads fine soldiers In the Con
federate war. One of them was dread
fully wounded. At ooa time when he
thought that he was oa the sun road
she, as a part of the State’s citizenship,
has been forced \o participate.
XIV. This appeal is also made by
the Gospel Temperance Union in the
name of the 400 ministers of the gospel
who have written the executive com
mittee that it is their wish to have
tion and it was unfortunately lost. He said amendments made to the present
law
XV. Lastly, gentlemen, we urge
upon you in the name of our God and
of oar fallen and helpless brothers
victimized by strong drink, with broken
wills, unable t* take advantage of a
Keeley cure.'anxious to be delivered ;
and then we Invoke you, in tho name
their broken-hearted and impoverish
ed families, tjp grant our appeal, thus
had resided in different places, Lowell,
Mass., Ut lev; New York, and Borden-
town, New Jersey. At Burdentown he
became familiar with Joseph Bona
parte, ex-King of Spain. He said that
when the ex-King would wish to go
over to Philadelphia on a shopping
expedition, he would take twenty-
eight carriages along with him and
had nobody to ride in them but his
daughter and himself, twenty-seven removing”*' tbo most prolific sources of
of them being empty with the excep- misery and crime and the greatest
hindrance to the progress of the cause
of Christ,” doing what we think is
right, amd failing to do which would
be wrong, and forever tarnish the
good name of our State and fig, per
haps forever, the gi
curse with the divlae sentence of
u woes ” upon the citizens thereof.
D. L. Boozer, President.
T. J. La MOTT K, Secretary.
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Fitted with '
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people, and to renew our acquaint
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Ws will ship this splendid Cooking
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