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PERSONAL MENTION.
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People Visiting in This City and
^ at Other Points.
?Dr. Leighton A. Hartzog, of Govan,
was in the city yesterday.
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JU1SB .UU^CllC v^vptiouu v?v i
home from a visit to Orangeburg.
?Mr. Geo. J. Hiers, of the Ehrhardt
section, was in the city Monday.
?Dr. J. P. Ott, of Columbia,
spent several days in the city last ;
week. i
i ?Mr. J.'F. Willis, of Spartanburg, i
has accepted a position with The i
Herald.
?Miss Jennie Smith, of Orangeburg,
is visiting Mrs. G. Frank Bam- j
berg.
?Mr. H. N. Folk is at home from 1
> Wofford College, Spartanburg, for ,
vacation.
?Miss Genie Cope, from Colum- :
* bia College, is spending vacation in 1
Bamberg. i
?Messrs. H. J. and WT. H. Ritter, 1
of the Kearse section, were in the 1
city Monday. 1
?J. Aldrich Wymar. Esq., spent
yesterday in Barnwell on profes- \
sional business.
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ivirs. vztro. r. nmr auu umiuicu (
returned last Thursday from a visit
to friends in Georgia. j
?President F. N. K. Bailey and ]
family, of Edgefield, are visiting at ]
si Dr. J. B. Black's. 1
?Mrs. C. D. C. Adams and chil- 1
dren, of Walterboro, are visiting rel
atives in th^ city. 1
'*? ?Mr. C. D. C. Adams, of Walter- !
horo, has been visiting relatives and
friends in the city. !
?Messrs. Eugene and Henry .
Stokes and David Hill are at home
from Clemson College.
?Mrs. .Claude Gilbhrist, of Flor- <
ence, is visiting her parents, Mr. and ;
^ Mrs. W. M. Brabham.
?Master Eugene Myrick, of Ul- i
mer, has entered The Herald office '
to learn the printing Dusiness.
?Miss Mary Livingston is at [
home from Lander College, Green
wood, for the summer vacation.
?Misses Carrie and Laura Bam- ]
berg left yesterday for Augusta for a j
stay of ten days with relatives. (
, ?Mr. Bert Carter is at home from
the S. C. University, Columbia, ]
where he has been studying law.
?Mr. David E. Pifer, of Olar, who 1
holds a responsible position with the '
Saltkeatchie Lumber Co., was in the 1
citv Monday. <
> ?Mr. A. H. Bruce and Mrs. Hebron
Berry and little son, of Branchville,
spent last Thursday in the city 1
with relatives. 1
?Mr G. Moye Dickinson has gone 1
to Charleston to attend the, meeting
of the South Carolina Seed Crush- ,
ers' Association.
?Mrs. J. D. O'Hern and little son, j
of Lakeland, Fla., are in the city on ,
* a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mi's. ,
Geo. A. Jennings. 1
?Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Stubbs, of !
Augusta, spent Sunday in the city :
*. with the family of Mrs. Stubb's moth- l
er, Mrs. F. M. Bamberg.
?Dr. S. B. Fishburne and Mr. W. 1
R. Fishburne, of Columbia, were in 1
the city last Monday, having made 1
the trip down in automobiles. ]
?Mrs. Otis Brabham and children
and Mrs. LeRoy Wilson, Jr., of Allendale,
have been in the city on a
visit to the family of Mr. H. J. Brabham.
?Mrs. J. Paul Ridgway, of Royston,
Ga., arrived in the city Wednesday
for an extended visit to her (
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Harrison.
?Mrs. E. O. Kirsch leaves Mon- i
day for Sullivan's Island, where she
" joins her son, Cadet Carl Kirsch, up- <
on the Citadel encampment, on the
island.
?1*1168 1UU111C luauvj , U1 ikbius
ville, N. C., who has been on a visit
to the family of Mr. S. A. Hand, left (
for her home last Monday. She was
accompanied by Mrs. Hand and little '
t son, who will spend the summer in
the mountains. 1
Disappointed Suitor Tries to Suicide. '
Aiken, June 15.?Late yesterday
evening Ed. O'Neil, of Charleston, attempted
to commit suicide here by
drinking several drams of laudanum.
The quick presence of a physician
saved his life, though the man avows
his intention of yet committing the
rash act. He was placed in the city
^ jail last night to prevent him carrying
out his avowed intentions.
O'Neil is a young man, who came
to Aiken from Charleston. He has
been in the city for some time. Several
days ago he was heard to say
that he intended taking his own life.
Yesterday evening he went into
Hall's drug store, on Main street, and
said he had toothache and bought
j some laudanum for the purpose, he i
said, of eating it. He then seated
himself at a table and called for a
soft drink from the soda fountain. 1
Instead of drinking from the soda
glass he drank about half the con- ;
tents of the laudanum bottle and in
a few moments he arose, threw a
note across the counter to the clerk
s . and swooned. A physician was with i
him in n mnmfint and after a great
deal of effort he was made to drink
an emetic, and soon recovered from
the effects of the laudanum. But he
still insisted that he would kill himself,
saying he would jump from the
hotel window. Accordingly he was
locked up for the night. The note
was addressed to a young lady of
this city, and disappointment in love
0 seems to have weighed too heavily
on his' mind.
There were three at the little table
in the cafe, a lady and two men,
says the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Suddenly the electric lights went out,
and the lady, quickly and noiselessly,
drew back. An instant later there
^ was the smack of a compound kiss.
As the electric lights went up each
man was seen to be smiling complaisantly.
"I thought I heard a
kiss," said the lady, "but nobody
kissed me." Then the men suddenly
glared at each other and flushed,
\ and looked painfully sheepish.
GIVES HIMSELF UP IN AIKEN
AD. BOYLSTON SURRENDERS TO
SHERIFF OF AIKEN COUNTY.
He Declares That He Fears That He
Would Not be Safe in Jail in
Barnwell.
Aiken, June 14.?Early this morning
Ad. Boylston came to Aiken and
surrendered to Sheriff Rabon. Boylston
is charged with the assassination
of Young Cleveland Fanning,
near Williston, some days ago. The
Barnwell authorities have been on
the lookout for him since the killing,
as he was suspected from the first,
but Boylston has been in hiding and
could not be found. At 5 o'clock
this morning Boylston came to the
borne of Deputy Sheriff W. W. Busbee
and said he wished to be placed
in jail in Aiken. He said he was
afraid to go to Barnwell to surrender,
as he feared injury at the hands
of his enemies.
The case has created a great deal
of excitement in this city. The toul
murder of Cleve Fanning occurred t.
few miles from Williston, in the
county of Barnwell. He was shot
from his buggy, as he was returning
to his home from Williston, two
loads entering his body. Bloodhounds
were secured and tracks oi
two persons were trailed to the Edis
to river, where the parties escaped
in a boat up the river. The tracks of
the parties were concealed in wraps
of old rags. Cotton is said to have
been bundled up around their feet,
presumably to prevent any dogs from
trailing their tracks. Bits of cotton
were found by their tracks, saturated
with kerosene.
At the time, strong suspicion was
evinced against Ad. Boylston. Ad.
Boylston is a brother-in-law of young
Fanning, having married Fanning's
3ister. Detectives were placed in
charge of the matter, and it is said
that they have been looking for Boylston
for some days, but could not
And him.
Boylston was seen in the Aiken
jail to-day by a correspondent and
he said that he was innocent of the
crime which he was suspected of
committing. He says he had nothing
whatever to do with it, and has no
knowledge whatever concerning it.
He said that he has no enemies in the
world, excepting the family of his
wife. It was through fear of them
Va aatma A iIrAn on/1 oiirrDn.
iered. He was afraid to go to Barnwell,
fearing injury from them.
He said, however, that there would
likely be some interesting developments
in the matter before many
flays, but he did not say what the nature
of them would be.
Boylston is a comparatively young
man, being about 30 years of age.
He was married to Miss Fanning
some time ago. After they dived together
some time, it is said, they
separated, and Mrs. Boylston went
back to the home of her people. One
story has it that Boylston tried to
force her to return to him and was
met with opposition from the family,
who, so the story goes, stood ready
to protect her. Another says that
they mutually agreed to again live
together, but that her people would
Dot allow her to return to Boylston.
Boylston lives in this county, just
a lew miles across ine line xroiu
Barnwell.
The Govan Correspondent and Theology..
Editor The Bamberg Herald: The
Govan correspondent of The Herald
has certainly forgotten the bounds ol
true propriety in corresponding foi
a country newspaper, in thrusting
into his correspondence, as he hag
done recently, discussion of a controverted
theological subject, the final
state of the wicked.
It was uncalled for and unfair tc
take the position of a minister in his
own pulpit on any subject, that had
not been printed, and criticize it in
a county newspaper.
It is very much out of place in a
county newspaper, as such papers dc
not propose to discuss theological
questions about which there are differences
of opinion in the Christian
world. There are plenty of religious
newspapers which present a suitable
medium for discussing these things,
as they are in existence for that purpose;
but as a county newspaper is
not, such airing of religious views,
and especially criticizing of a minister's
discourse, no doubt from his
own pulpit, is a breach of common
propriety that the Govan correspondent
surely did not realize and whict
is not appreciated by many readers
of The Herald.
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Strike Arbitrators Can't Agree.
Washington, June 15.?A furthei
conference was held to-day in the offices
of the interstate commerce commission
by the arbitrators of the
Georgia railroad strike, Former Secretary
of the Navy Hilary A. Herberl
and Representative Hardwick, ol
Georgia. An effort was made tc
agree upon the appointment of the
third arbitrator, but it was unsuccessful.
Several names were suggested,
but none of them was satisfactory
to the two arbitrators.
It developed to-day that the arbitrators
were in communication with
the powers which appointed them
and that the probabilities are that nc
third arbitrator who is not satisfactory
to the parties in the controversj
will be appointed.
If this disposition be manifested
to the ultimate conclusion, the likelihood
is that the terms of the Erdman
act, the appointment of the
third arbitrator, will have to be made
by the board of mediation, Chairman
Knapp and Dr. Neill.
Mr. Herbert and Mr. Hardwich
will hold another conference in ae
effort to agree upon the third arbitrator.
Mr. Herbert said to-nigh1
that the names of the men considered
and rejected cannot be made public
at this time.
He declares that if the third arbitrator
is not agreed upon by Saturday
he will be selected by the mediation
board.
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BOGUS LORD ALMOST MUMMY.
Body of Sidney Lascelles in Asheville.
i Establishment.
Asheville, June 12.?Standing!
erect in a case in the rear room of
the undertaking establishment of i
Nolan, Brown & Co., of this city, is-'
the embalmed and now almost mummified
body of the man known as
Sidney Lascelles, the bogus Lord
Beresford.
The body was embalmed six years
ago and is now as stiff as a board
and when laid between two chairs,
with only the head and feet touching,
it will not bend. The undertaker
says that the man came here
from Norfolk, claiming to be Lord ,
Beresford and they embalmed the
h/-?Hv nn th? siirmnsitinn that, wealthV
relatives would care for it. Cablegrams
were sent to Lord Beresford in
England, but no response was received.
The undertakers now admit the
man was an imposter and are keep1
ing the body as a proof of their skill
in embalming. They have refused
; to sell the body to shows, being offered
$2,000 for it.
MADE NARROW ESCAPE.
Young Child Conies Near Being Killed
by a Cow.
; On Thursday afternoon Mr. Perry
turned his cow into his front yard to
eat grass. While the cow was graz- ;
ing Mr. Perry's little girl Mildred,
aged three or iour years, was play1
ing in the yard. The cow being a
1 gentle one there was no thought of
danger. Suddenly the cow made A
dash at the little girl, caught her up
on its horns and threw her some distance;
then rushed at her again. Mr.
Perry, being nearby, rushed at the
1 cow and gave it a tremendous kickin
time to save the child. The child
was right badly bruised, the horns of
; the cow tearing her clothing entirely
off and making an ugly mark nearly
the length of her body. But for
tne iaci mat, me nuru ui me ww uau
: been broken off and was consequent- ,
ly blunt, the child would likely have
1 been gored to death before the father
could have interfered.
; Mr. Perry in kicking the cow severely
sprained his hip, and was
laid up a day or two at home, and is
1 still quite lame.?Newberry Observer.
FAMILY LIVED IN STUMP.
They Build a Cosy Home in a Gigantic
Cedar.
A dispatch from Seattle, Wash., |
says with seven children and a fat
wife, John Seivert, lately from Iowa,
. is living in a stump in the northern
' part of that city.
Seivert went to Seattle several
; months ago. He had but little mon'
ey and a large family. Because of
the great boom there he was unable
; to find an empty house and resolved
| to build one of his own. He bought
, an unimproved lot in the north part
of the city, in a district where log- ,
! ging operations ceased but a year
ago, and on going out to plan his
house he found half tfce lot occu;
pied by a gigantic cedar stump thirty
feet high and eighteen feet in di:
ameter ten feet above ground.
' With an auger and saw Seivert
1 cut out a seven-foot section from the
south end, and walked into his
stump. The walls were found to be
' fifteen inches thick and the whole
stump was a hollow shell. He cut
, out windows, laid a tight floor and
[ made a ceiling of planking and floor?
ing.
; Twelve feet above ground Seivert
. made the windows for the second
| story. The third story was constructed
and a tight roof of shiplap and
I shingles was made over the top.
Seivert peeled oft the bark and
t painted the stump a light green and
. the window and door frames pure
| white. The whole makes a very pretl
ty home at a cost of only $40, and
the owner has refused $2,500 for his
, unique abode.
[ SNAKES HID IN BELLOWS.
1 Lancaster Blacksmith Has Novel Exj
perience.
| Mr. W. V. Hegler, of the Primus
' section, had a unique experience last
Wednesday. He went to his black'
smith shop to do some work, and on
' undertaking to operate the bellows
he found that it wouldn't work.
While trying to ascertain the cause
of the trouble a snake stuck its head
out of the hole. Mr. Heeler secured
a pair of tongs and withdrew the reptile
and killed it. It was a large
chicken snake, about six feet long.
Returning to his bellows, Mr. Hegler
found that it still wouldn't work,
and while examining it, another
snake's head was thrust out of the
hole. The astonished farmer pulled
> it out also with his tongs and kill
ed it. The snakes were both of the
t same kind and size. There is now
! a very offensive odor about the bel?
lows, and Mr. Hegler thinks that
. there is one or more dead snakes in
it.?Lancaster special to News and
Courier.
MEAT CAR LEAVES TRACK.
| Breaks Away From Train and Rolls
' Down Embankment.
r Rock Hill, June 12.?Passengers
on the east-bound train on the Charl
leston division Thursday night were
considerably shaken up and excited
over the occurrence at Fishing creek
t trestle, between here and Yorkville.
) A car of meat consigned to a mer
chant at Rock Hill had been attached
to the train at some point up the
: road in order to get it here quickly
i and this car jumped the track at the
point named. After bumping along
t on the ties for some distance the
I car turned over and rolled down the
; embankment. Very fortunately it
broke loose from the rest of the
. train. It was just at this point that
a very serious wreck occurred three
. years or more ago in which a number
of people were injured.
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HOGS A]
(By Rev. C.
Gadara was a country east of the
&ea of Galilee, where lived a mixture
of Jews and other people, raising
nogs as a source of revenue. The
question at once arises, "If you Jews
are going to keep the laws of God,1
which forbid the use of hogs as food,
how can you consistently engage in
raising them?" The answer would
be "\ve are living here with these
Gadarene gentlemen; we are not
raising hogs tor ourselves to use, but
for the Romans in the cities, who are;
fond of roast pork at their feasts." j
Then one says to them, "O I see! ;
You've set up a business for other i
folks, and you get a revenue from;
it." This is the argument of many j
sober men who vote for the dispen-!
sary. They do not advocate the dispensary
because they want the li-1
quor, but because others want it,
nnH hv thpir usinc it. the town and
county?and so themselves?get a
revenue from it. And so a business
is maintained which flies in the face
of all civic righteousness and cleanness.
There are people?good people too
?who say we must not discuss questions
like this in the pulpit, nor yet
too much in the religious press. They
are quick to tell me I am defiling my
pulpit with politics. This is a fearful
admission?that whiskey and politics
are so mixed as to make it impossible
to talk against whiskey without
discussing politics. If this be true,
surely politics has gotten itself into
very bad company .
The New Testament religion does
not ignore our civil government. It
says we must be obedient to those in
authority, must pay taxes, and pray
for those set over us. But if we pray
for them, we are wasting our breath
unless we first vote for the right
men. There is no use to vote for a
whiskey advocate, and then pray for
temperance.
But let us get on with our story.
Jesus crossed the sea, and came
into . that Gadarene country, and
there met a man possessed with
devils. These devil-possessed people
always provoke our sympathy, just
as they did that of our Lord. We
still have many of them all about us
?the poor fiends whose systems cry
for cocaine, morphine and whiskey.
In my younger days, my doctrine
was to show no mercy, but forthwith
to kick these people out of the
social and religious world. I think I
cave uvea iu acquire ucuci ocuDt,
The habit of taking these drugs be.omes
a disease. Men drink whiskey
and eat morphine who yet curse the
things they use. They have become
r.tterly helpless, devil-possessed.
These are they who commit murder
and suicide, or destroy home and
happiness. They sorely need the
tender help and sympathy of all loving
hearts.
. - Jesus healed the man who had the
devils, or whom the devils had.
After all, grace is the best remedy
for bad habits?much better than a
Keeley Institute. The devils Jrom
the man, having entered into the
swine, the whole herd rushed down
a steep place into the sea, and perished.
This created consternation.
The men who were watching the
herds went rushing back to the village
where the owners lived, and
told the story?that they had seen
Jesus do this thing. As the news
spread, the honorable Gadarene citizens
came together, saying, "Our
hogs have perished! let us go down,
and look into this matter. This Jesus
must surely be a bad man, to com
mit so great a aepreaauon.
Two of the men?I imagine?who
are walking in the rear of the others,
are holding their heads down. The
time had come for them to think. A
man engaged in a bad business is always
superstitious and apprehensive
of evil. One says, "I guess this is a
judgment, I've always been doubtful
about this hog raising business here
among us Jews. If hog meat is not
good for us, how can it be good for
the Romans, to whom we sell it?"
That was a sensible argument. A
business not good for the average
man can't well be good for any man.
But the Gadaren? owners of the
hogs came on down?down the sides
of the high chalk cliffs to the seaside.
They had not been in the
habit of going down that way. The
raging demoniac had been making
that whole section disagreeable, running
around naked, cutting himself
with stones until he dripped with
blood, and filling the air with his
screams, day and night.
When they got down to the sea,
the first thing they saw was the great
Teacher standing on the shore, and
at His feet, the man once possessed
was sitting ciotnea, sane ana altogether
himself. To explain the thing
or deny it was a problem. There sat
the healed demoniac to npset every
argument they could adduce. I imagine
they withdrew to one side, and
held a brief consultation. The presence
of the healed man non-plussed
them. While they were talking, one
wise man reminded them of the fact
that the work wrought on the
demoniac was a marvel indeed; that
no such thing had ever happened in
that country before, and may be this
man Jesus was not so wicked, after
all. Just then another one exclaimed,
"Fellow citizens, look yonder!"
They raised their eyes, and lo, the
carcasses of the drowned hogs had,
floated to the surface of the water,
and the west wind was driving them
ashore. What about the healed man
now? Nay, what about the hogs?
"They are our money; they constitute
our soufce of revenue! It is not
our duty to run around after every
devil-possessed fool; but it is our
duty to make money if we can.
What shall we dor" a great pauncny
old chap whose legs supported him
with difficulty, said, "I move, sirs,
that we appoint a committee to ask
this Jesus to depart from our
coasts." And that was how Jesus
got away from that country; he went
in answer to the requests of the people
who said he was interfering with
their lawful business of hog raising.
But how . about the man who was
healed? Well, just this?a man
with no money value about him, out
ND MEN
C. Browne.)
I
of whom no money can be made, is i
not to be set up along side of a hog (
that produces a revenue. If the poor
fool wants to dash around among
the rocks let him do so; but we ;
don't want a man among us who
kills our hogs and cuts off our revenue.
:
The healed man went home. To :
those who loved him, his coming was 1
better than the coming of a dozen i
droves or grunting hogs. It was the i
happiest day that home ever saw. j
The wife asked, "Is the great Teach- ;
er eoiner on with his healine andli
[helping?" "No," the healed man re- :
plied. "The masters cared more for
the hogs than for the men in dis- ;
tress; so they asked him to go
away." i
i So some say in this day that the j
| preachers and the churches are ven- '
turing too far; we are asked to stand
a3ide and let the politicians look
after the liquor business; if we get i
into the discussion, we are apt to :
interfere with the business, and cut
off revenue. The result is as we see ;
it. Every man in the State of South
Carolina has been compelled to become
a partner in the whiskey selling
business by the men known as <
politicians. Now they tell us we
must depart out of their coasts; they ;
don't want us to get mixed up in
politics; that politics is a bad business
anyhow, and if the churches get
into it, they will surely reap corrup- i
tion. For a long time, we kept silent.
We have been living under the
burden of. a legalized sale of whiskey
through the dispensary. With a
majority of senators and representatives
voting for it, we were helpless.
But, after long years, help has come.
The great commercial world has
been aroused to recognize the fact
that the use of whiskey paralyzes
trade, unfits men for business, and
entails a curse and only a curse. The
railroads shut out the drinker, he
finds no place in the marts of commerce,
and all the great corporations
have voted for soberness. But men
cannot be sober if whiskey is made
too easy to get and the sale of it legalized
and given a semi-respectability.
Hence the commercial world,
at this late day, has taken up the
ancient cry of the churches, and the
combination is playing havoc with
whiskey as a source of revenue. We
are going around with a little warm
water and soap trying if perchance
we can wash out the eyes of our
great senators and representatives so;
that they may be enabled to see the j
condition of things. They must con-'
sent to be washed out or be washed
away. Almost half of the States in!
the Union have voted whiskey out, J
and very nearly half of the counties j
in the State. In the other half, it is
kept m place by men who seem to
think we are such fools we don't
know what is best for us, and hence
they feel it their high duty to administer
to our needs by voting to
maintain whiskey sinks all over the
country.
There is hut a single argument for
the maintenance of the dispensary.
The use of whiskey is denounced by
everybody. Even those curse it who
use it. The poor fellow who is a
slave to it, prays to God against it,
and wishes there was not a drop in
the whole world. Then why maintain
it? Why do men who profess
to be wise and righteous vote for the
sale of whiskey? Simply because out
of the sale of it there comes a revenue,
and money is placed into the
treasuries of our towns and counties.
And a double revenue at that. We
get a part of the money the drinker
pays for the liquor, and when he gets
drunk on liquor legally bought, we
get another revenue out of the fine
he has to pay for getting drunk. This
is our law in the glowing light of
this twentieth century?our schools
must be helped and our streets paved
with the income from the sorest vice
the age has to contend against. If
the revenue from whiskey were cut
off, and it were made impossible for
a man to get an income from handling
it, we could not find men who
would keep it in their stores to be
given away. The fact that it breeds
vice and filth and death is condoned
by the other fact that there is money
in it
But some say, "it will be drunk,
and therefore it will be sold. Prohibition
will not prohibit." This is
true. There is no law which totally
prohibits the evil at which it is
aimed. If we can respect only a law
which prohibits, the Ten Commandments
are the greatest farce of the
world. If we propose to abolish
every law which is a failure, we must
wipe the statute books clean. Murder,
theft and arson are all unlawful;
but the law against them does
not prohibit them. Suppose a man
should arise and say, "Since the law
against murder does not prevent
murder, I move that we abolsih it!"
How would it do to set up a law like
this; Chicken stealing shall be
legalized, provided a man is willing
to pay for the privilege of indulging
in the fine art and will pay a good
fee in case lie is overtaken in the
theft. This is the dispensary law in
a nut-shell. You are allowed to buy liquor?hence
you are allowed to drink
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LEWIS BLOUNT
DENMARK MAi
DENMAR
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iiquor; bu* if you drink too much,
you must pay for the added privilege
of being made a fool by it. So the *.
taw catches a man on going in and
on coming out, and then the State
and county and the town chuckle
over the fact that the revenue is
coming in all right.
What does prohibition say? Does x
it offer to prevent the use of whiskey,
to change men's appetites and
make the world sober in a day? By
no means. It simply proposes to '
make the sale of whiskey a misdemeanor
and write it down among
the crimes which men commit. If
thereafter men sell it, they must do
so just as those who steal?secretly
and clandestinely, knowing that they
are violating a law of the State; and
if they are caught up with, they
must put a revenue into the treasury ^
?not however, as now, for keeping
a law; but for violating one. '\J
But the dispensary advocate says
to me and to every defender of the
people and of civic righteousness, - '-$f
"Go away! You are injuring our
business. You are in politics. You
want to cripple our schools and de- j
crease our means of paving our city 3
streets." The pious lawmaker says, ^
"Whiskey is a very bad thing; but 5I
men will drink it, and are willing to Wgj
allow them to do so if they
will put money into the public treas- ; J
ury." So barter in the worst vice
of the age goes on, approved by men- i&j
who declare they seek what is best
and most helpful to the masses of "'?m
Surely our civilization is defec- ;VJ|
tive, or our lawmakers must be actuated
by some other motive than the v*|?
public good. There was a day when
witches were hung or burned In s
these United States. A woman was .^p3|
burned in Massachusetts because it'
was said she had caused a child to
vomit pins. She was tried and con- 11
demned before a venerable and hewigged
judge, and the verdict doubt- ~#8|
less was rendered by a jury of her
peers. When we read of such an incident
connected with the history of /jg&m
our forefathers in America, we are^-^^S
not certain whether we should laugh jM
or be sorrowful. Rather are we
ashamed to think that such a thing
could be true among an enlightened
people. A hundred years hence, the
people will laugh at the civilization of
to-day, and wonder how it was
possible for men of wisdom and in
tegrity to legalize the sale of the -Msm
worst poison known to commerce. .
I hope the temperance people will <5?
hurry along with their warm water -|?B
and soap to bathe the eyes of the fm
solons who give us the laws, in order
that they may be opened to see the
situation as it really is. If while the '~;M
bathing is going on, that vision of a .
dollar in revenue can be washed .^faj
away, we shall need no further legs-- jWgt
lation. The whiskey traffic will die Visft:
of its own accord, denounced by the
sober man and cursed by the drinking
man.
The highest obligation now rest- ,1
ing upon us is to let the hogs and r
the revenue therefrom perish, while .;;JS
we make honest efTorts to take care
of and redeem the men who aro.?^JSj>
possessed of the drink devil. 3?
But let us not suppose the refoTv:ff|jH I
mation can be effected and complete ;
ed within a six month. That whlsIn
rfill noaj VkTT 1-nOnTr nAMAKS
RCJ IS Skill uocu uj rnauj yvtovuo
Clarendon county, and that whiskey ;?4gj
can be bought in many places la V
Georgia, is sometimes laughed at,
and the prohibitory law is made a ?j
butt of ridicule. Men forget that the ;
whiskey habit is of long standing ;'*J
and is deep seated. For many de- %
cades it has had the right of way. If;/<jgj||
then, we can root it out in fifty years, ^
or can raise up a set of sober chil- rM
dren through a hundred years,
shall accomplish a good work. We
cannot plant a seed to-day, and reay .'|? v
a harvest to-morrow. We must learn
to despise the evils of the day* while ^ - %
we continue our work of building . -if.f
for the future. If the sale of whinkey
is made a misdemeanor, the day ^
mill nnmo tttVion tKo n?A nf if will Ka -vtTM
" 1AA VVUiV TT UVU VUV UWV V* *V V* ?? - - "gum
universally discountenanced and
finally abolished.?C. C. Brown in fWm
Baptist Courier.
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