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PROHIBITION SENTIMENT.
^ Rev. J. L. Harley Writes of Work of
g?*Anti-Saloon League.
fc'' Editor The Bamberg Herald: The
cause of prohibition is moving on
jfef gloriously in our State. The visit of
fe'.Mrs. Armor, of Georgia, Dr. Baker,
of Ohio, and Gov. Glenn, of North
Carolina, did us much good. Mrs.
griArmor came at the invitation of the
Woman's Christian Temperance
. 'TTnion, and being- a noted leader in
her own State, drew large crowds,
g&r* who heard her with much pleasure
and profit. Dr. Baker, the National
- Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon
||*r League, came to aid the State Super:
intendent in planing the work in
BP'S thla State. While here he eave us
p|. Biz of his best speeches, to the great
llp'.'V delight and edification of those who
heard him. From all accounts Gov.
Glenn captured Columbia. We are
glad that this movement has taken
on a national phase at last. We
E&j.-. are glad that the day has come when
..the people of the North can lay aside
party prejudice and narrow-minded:
ness, and receive with enthusiasm a
WW George Stewart, of Tennessee, or a
Seaborne Wright, of Georgia. We
Bag" <are rejoicing that while* narrow parfejT
tisan papers try to appeal to prejuE^V'-.dlce
about "imported speakers" that
g -ithe people of South Carolina crowd
'auditoriums and receive just as enthusiastically
a Glenn, a Baker, or a
Mrs. Armor. The cry of "fanatictan,"
"hypocrisy," and "personal
Ik.; liberty," has become an old song and
the people will not even join in the
chorus.
We find a growing sentiment in
every county against any legalized
form of the liquor traffic. The people
Ppv-^ in the country have found that while
? . the dispensary may seem to bring
if- ' * DUUiC 1CVCUUC IV IUC OUU ViW4<^P,
Ev- - Is possibly helping to pave streets
pV. and pay off floating bonds on school
'if- buildings, at the same time, it is robbing
the people in the country of
the necessities of life, and is ex|T;
posing their families to all the dan|||;;._.
gers which follow in the wake of
drunken men. No police protection
is their cry, when crowds come back
y into the country from the dispensary
g : towns, drunken on dispensary liquor,
gp- especially on Saturday nights. This
has become so notorious that the
y. State has been called upon to pro|w:;
vide rural police for the protection
of .the people in several counties.
The merchants, too, are finding
that the millions of dollars going
| out of the State in cash for liquor,
is hurting them in their business and
if turned into channels of legitimate
trade, would not only give bread to
the hungry children robbed, but
Ep would add much to the merchant's
cash account which he is now los?
ing.
The literature being published by
the Anti-Saloon League is being cir-culated
throughout the twenty-one
wet counties, and some of the county
papers are reproducing it in their
columns. The demand is great, but
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THAT'S 1X1 JCj ItXiABUr
We've Brought
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a sit up and take notice. Ther<
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we consider this part of the work
very important, and we are sparing
neither money nor labor in supplying
it. Inquiries are coming in from
every direction to know if the league
will be able to stand the strain of
this campaign. I do not hesitate to
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supported by those who have faith in
it, and while we have no large contributions,
the work goes on all
right financially. Some time ago we
sent a circular letter to subscribers
who were in arrears, urging them
to pay their dues that we might have
the funds to do the work as it should
be done. Of course, some papers
published at once that we were
"begging for funds to save the life
of the league." But they could have
saved the ink as well a sthe false
impression they meant to convey;
for the league is in no danger whatever
of dissolution. It has been
published all over the State that the
contributors to the league are paying
thousands of dollars to the National
League up North and that the
National League is using this money
to suit their own purposes. Of
course, this is nothing more nor less
than a published falsehood, for the
purpose of prejudicing the minds of
the people against the league in this
State. We pay our dues to the National
League, which have amounted
to just $100 for the whole State of
South Carolina during the past fourteen
months. By paying our dues to
the National League we are kept in
touch with them and have the privilege
of calling on them for men
when needed, without cost except expenses.
In this way we got Dr. J. W.
Young to start the work in South
Carolina, Dr. Hare to campaign and
organize for us seven weeks, and Dr.
Baker to help us for ten days during
the month of April of this year.
But while we stand ready to do
our part, we beg the brethren to
push this battle for all it is worth.
Let the pastors in each county get
together or write each other, and
plan campaigns among the churches.
Send thirty-five cents to us and we
will mail you prepaid the Anti-Saloon
League year book, which contains
nearly three hundred pages of
data, covering the United States.
The central committee at each court
house town must look after matters
in the county. Appoint local committees
at each voting precinct to
obtain the vote if possible. Do this
at once. Work on the doubtful voter.
Put information into his hands. See
to it that the election is conducted
legally. Use all papers favorable to
our cause. Remember, we have
only three months to work. The
same election commissioners appointed
by the governor for the last
general election will act at the election
in August. Find out who your
three men are and ask for at least
one good sensible prohibitionist to
be appointed as one of the three
managers at each voting precinct Be
sure to have every qualified voter
registered when the books are opened
for registration, the first Monday,
Tuesday, and Wednesday of June
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and the first Monday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday of July. If the central
committee at the court house towns
and the local committees at the voting
precincts will only be on the
nlart and rap that thia plpption id
conducted strictly according to the
law, our cause will be won in at
least sixteen of the twenty-one wet
counties. We are claiming eighteen
and possibly all. Work is now being
done on bills for the next legislature,
looking to the law enforcement
part of our work.
Let me close by quoting Article 11
of our constitution:
"The object of this league is the
suppression of the saloon. To this
end we invite the alliance of all who
are in harmony with this object, and
the league pledges itself to avoid
affiliation with any political party as
such, and to maintain an attitude of
neutrality upon questions of public
policy not directly and immediately
concerned with the traffic in strong
drink "
J. L. HARLEY, State
Superintendent
Spartanburg, S. C.
A NEW COMET.
Traveling Towards Sun Millions of
Miles a Minute.
A new comet which is flying
through space at the rate of many
million miles a minute, may be seen
by the naked eye just after sunset
any evening on the Southwest horizon,
according to Edward Fairfax
Naulty and other noted astronomers.
Because of the direction of the
comet's flight and the relative position
of the earth, its head is not visible,
but Mr. Naulty says that its
tail, which is several million miles in
length, can be clearly detected. The
astronomers agree that there is no
danger of a collision with the earth.
Backward, turn backward! O time
in your flight, feed me on, gruel just
for to-night; I am so weary of sole
leather steak, petrified biscuit and
galvanized cake, oysters that sleep in
a watery bath, and butter as strong
as Goliath of Gath. Weary of paying
for what I can't eat, chewing up rubber
and calling it meat. Backward,
turn backward, how weary I am. just
give me a swipe of grandmother's
jam; let me drink milk that hasn't
been skimmed, let me eat butter
whose whiskers are trimmed; let me
once more have an old-fashioned
pie; then I am ready to curl up and
die.
Cyclone Passes Denmark.
Denmark, June 3.?A small cyclone
passed about one mile northwest
of Denmark about 6 o'clock
this evening, wrecking the home and
stables of Mr. Asa Baxter and a tenant
house of Mr. J. W. Baxter's. Mr.
Asa Baxter's eldest daughter was
slightly injured. No one killed.
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Old Trapper Tells of Life with
Plainsman.
"Walks like an Indian," a bystander
remarked regarding an old
weather-beaten man who carried a
plainsman's cowhide grip and walked
with a long, thick staff.
There was a certain air of adventure
about him that induced the pad
and pencil man to follow him from
the Grand Central station.
"It's hard luck," the old man observed,
as he stopped to fill his pipe,
"missing the train to New Orleans.
Now I must wait till night.
"Coming far," the reporter ventured,
as an opener to talk.
"From Arizona, and going back to
Dixie. You see, a Southerner, as his
life's sun rays lengthen, likes to go
back to his own land to stay till the
last bugle call, and yet I like the
free, wild West; or, rather the remembrance
of it, for it is growing
tame now, and the stirring life of
long ago, with its perils and pleasures,
is disappearing before the advance
of Eastern notions.
"You see," he said, "I fought with
Kit Carson on the plains. I used to
read about him in the papers and I
wanted to live like him, sleeping on
the ground, with one eye cocked for
the ever near savage and his horde.
"I ran away from my plantation
home on the Potomac river to find a
life like that lived by Carson and his
kind. I was then 17 years of age. I
went to Missouri to seek my hero at
his nome, out learnea tnai ne was in i
the far West, where I was advised
not to go, so thick were the Indians
and wild beasts. But the fighting
fever was on me, and so I wandered
on.
"After a time I had my wish. I
found my hero after much search
and told my story. He was then in
the prime of life. I had imagined a
lion in weight, a giant in height,
with a roaring voice and lightning
eye. i
"Instead, I saw a rather small
man, weighing about 150 pounds.!
His voice was soft and fine, like a;
woman's, and his manner as gentle
as a child's. He laughed at my wish
to conquer Indians, but to make the
story shorter he finally let me go
with him, and until a few years before
the fall of Sumter we were al- :
ways together. I would have gone
back with him, but I wanted to run 1
a cotton boat on the Mississippi.
Then the war changed all. Captain
Kit wrote me that he had volunteered
in the United States army
and for me to join him in the same
company at Laos.
"For the first time we differed;
but T wrote him my best wishes and
hoped we'd meet again. And so we
did. When the battle of Manassas '
was fought I was captured with j
some ten of my Louisiana Tiger
comrades and carried to Washington, i
"It seemed like a dream when I :
saw Captain Kit walking down the !
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of Them Too
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street as we were hustled off the car.
Captive as I was, I cried at the top
of my voice, 'Kit Carson!' A bayonet
stopped a second shout, but he
had heard me and came forward to
the batch of prisoners, scanning each
with eager eyes. Then he saw me,
and you may bet that he knew me,
too. We fairly fell upon each
other's neck, and, wearing the
United States uniform as he did, we
had our talk undisturbed.
"I can remember his very words.
'Why, Grish, I can just smell the old
beavers, when I see you, that we
trapped on South * Platte, and hear
again the growling bear in the Raton
mountains.'
- "Why, sir," the old raconteur
said, "you've set me going on Captain
Kit, and I'll never know where
to stop.
"So mv old friend got me ex
changed by personal request of Lincoln.
We spent four days together
and 1 was sent South, under a flag of
truce, and I never saw "him again.
But those four days were worth a
common lifetime, I tell you.
"He talked of his experience in
the Mexican war and of his present
position with Uncle Sam. Kit Carson
was never prejudiced. He said
that if he'd been born as far South
as I and knew it as well, he, too,
would have fought for that flag."
The old trapper displayed a badge
made for him by Carson in Sierra
bearing the initials "C. C." (Christopher
Carson), and the year of the
sojourn in the far West. His eyes
grew moist as he told the story of
the souvenir.
Carson was born in Madison county,
Ky., in 1809, but went to Missouri
when a child.
"The Southerners," the veteran
went on to say, "feel that the United
States has made mistakes; but in
nothing, sir," he almost shouted,
"has she shown such ingratitude as
towards Kit Carson. A monument
reaching to the clouds should be
built to his memory.
"General Fremont would have
gained nothing but ior uarson s in-i
telligence, bravery and tact. He |
could talk more Indian dialect than
all the white men combined, and but
for him the treaties between the
United States and the savages would
never have been made.
"As a soldier in the Mexican war
he saw the best means of effecting
peace between the confederated
tribes and the government, and Kit
Carson never made a mistake nor
changed his mind.
"Fremont gets credit for what
Carson did, but he never cared for
that. I can see him always, when I
try, sleeping on the ground, a pistol
half cocked on either side, and his
'baby,' as he called his old rifle, in
his arms, and at his feet old Snuff,
his faithful dog, that never seemed
to sleep and could scent danger
greater than human sense.
"Kit married a pretty Mexican
girl, a cousin of a governor of Mexico.
I saw her when she went to
Laos while he was an Indian agent
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for the United States. She wrote to
me when he died, which waa May 23,
1868, at Fort Lyon, Col.
"He was wounded three times, ,. Vs?|
once at Bnena Vista, by an Indian at
Platte and in the battle of Chickamauga.
"I have always wondered why Mr.
Boosevelt, who talks so much about
a 'square deal,' did not give greater
credit to Captain Kit in his 'Win- ;:M
ning of the West' Yes, it was won,
and but for Carson the winning
would have been postponed a half
century.
Then he arose, leaned on his staff
and said "Goodby. I'm 83 years old;
my days are numbered; but I want
to keep my memory to the last hour . '
of life and recall all that life with
Kit Carson on the plains fighting Indians,
and my friends of the old
South. I am going to Memphis to \
the Confederate reunion in June to
see once more the old fighting 'Tigers'
of Louisiana that helped make
a hard time for the enemy of. the
'60s.
"And don't you forget," he said
again, "that Kit Carson did more to
help the United States in conquering
the Indians than any man or many
of them that ever lived."
A picturesque figure was the old
warrior as he walked away, stalking
like the trappers of long ago, or the
savages that feared old Carson,
whose body seemed to them charmed
?arrows glancing aside as if guided
by the White Spirit.
The veteran said his name was
Gri8holm Pickens, that Gen. Jubal
Early was his kinsman, as well as
Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, the plumed
cavalier of the Confederacy.?Cin- *
cinnati Commercial Tribune. 4$
Orders for 80 Aeroplanes.
The Wright brothers have orders
in hand for eighty of their aero
planes, including one from the shah
of Persia and another from a Chinese
mandarin. They have declined <
offers of capital with which to extend
their business.
?
Changed Conditions.
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"You say you had great difficulty
in borrowing your first $2,000?"
"Yes," answered the man of millions.
"And now you could borrow that
sum with ease."
"I don't have to borrow," was the
proud response. "If I see $2,000
that I take a fancy to I simply send
my lawyers around after it."
?Washington Star.
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Old Darkey's Prayer.
An old negro "exhorter" down in
Orangeburg county sat with the congregation
in a big meeting recently.
The preacher sighted him, and called
upon him to lead in ; ayer. Here is
his prayer verbatim:
"Oh, Lord, confound our souls this
ebening, imperfect u? in thy love,
and if e have done anything agreeable
to thy will, blot it out. Amen." ? ^