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: - ./ . ' "?v ^ ' ' v,i FAVORS THE DISPENSARY. * A Barnwell Man's Views on the Li>\ qnor Question. The following communication was published in a recent issue of the Barnwell People: Liquor is not the cause of insanity and crime as many believe. Fast living is the true cause, whiskey the excuse. Liquors?like fire, strychnine and pistols are dangerous in the hands of bad men. The improper uses of these things have caused a lot of trouble. All of the articles ^ mentioned Here are gooa in meir places and have been since the beginning of time. God made man and all things for the use of man. In his law he tells us how to use all things, he tells us that we should be temperate in all things. He warns us against using them improperly. Should the * prohibition party succeed in getting liquor out of the country men would substitute something more injurious to the mind. Taking all things in consideration I think that prohibition would be worse than a failure. We have had It in Barnwell county and liquor was so plentiful that you could not tell > any difference. Then why spend money and time trying to do a thing that we know will make no change for the better. The characters and habits of the present generation are already formed and if a man has not got the will power and moral courage to leave off drink it is bad policy to * mnVp ? law to force him to it. In nine cases out of ten it will make him worse. Better use some persuasion. Human nature is the same in all ages. When you make laws that ^ take away a man's privileges that he considers were handed down from his maker then he is sure to rebel against them. Pass a law to prohibit the sale of liquor and it is equal to saying a^man shall not drink. Then I think you are out of the bounds of reason. God made man a free agent. That being the case I think he ought ? to be allowed the privilege of eating or drinking if he pays for it whatever he likes. At the same time I don't believe in a man's making a hog of himself. Then again I don't believe that the prohibition party ought to want to take away the privi lege of all because tnere are a iew bogs among us. Pass a law to porbibit the sale of whiskey and a good many more men will violate the law. Then where comes the good in pro.<* bibition? We all know that prohibition does not take the whiskey out pf the country. It only makes it a little harder to get and the grade so bad that it will make a dozen fights and cause one or two funerals to every pint. It is an undoubted fact that the dispensary law is the best liquor law that we have ever had and it is only tne politicians anu uieu ? uu i think they have not got their share of . the profits that have raised the howl. Against the dispensary law such men say that the dispensary law is not and can not be enforced. I say that we come as near enforcing the dispensary law as any other law. It is a sad thing, but true ^nevertheless that men have come to believe that where * their interest lies the law does not touch them or if it does they know that with the use of a little money they can carry their point. I believe we ought to have reform in home government first; I believe prohibition is the wrong step. Reform should begin at home with the parents of babies teaching them the use of all things. Teach them to observe your laws and they will not violate the laws of the land. Teach them ?11 AAmo fo thnco la UlttL Oil 111111 ?,3 WUIC w mvwv .. ?? bor and wait. Teach them patience, brotherly love and kindness. The failure to teach these principles .has caused all the trouble of our land. The people of this country are living at the rate of 40 miles per minute, not willing to labor and wait for anything. They take short cuts to get V money. If they don't get it they take to drink, murder themselves or somebody else and wind up in the penitentiary or insane asylum. Then it can't be truthfully said that liquor is the cause of the trouble. The cause is in the man. Then I say you must begin at the cradle to get the defects out of the man and if you want to do > the present generation any good pass a law to punish all those caught under the influence of liquor and enforce the same. Do this and you take k a step in the right direction. One more word in advice to parents. Learn your children to work and ? keep them at it. There is a whole lot of truth in the old saying that the idle brain is the devil's work shop. If you keep them busy you will keep them out of trouble. Train them in the way they should go and when they get old they will not depart from the right. Keep them on the > farm and away from temptation as much as possible until their characters and habits are formed. Teach them that to be a farmer in the true sense of the word is the most honorable calling in reach of man and to i be a farmer's wife is nothing beneath a queen. If these principles had been taught to children there would not be so much dissatisfaction and so many drunkards and less emigration to the towns. There are other thoughts in connection with this liquor question. First the white man has said and done all he could to keep the negro laboring and dependent on him for a living; second, the legislature has repealed the lien law; third, to vote out the liquor, force the negro to economize and in a few years he will own the land that he is renting. He is educating his children and in time to come he will be eligible to vote. Then you will do the very thing you have been trying hard to keep Vote Out the Dispensary. The Bamberg Herald, one of the) counties which still has the dispensary, in its recent issue contained the following: The Barnwell people say there is now twelve prisoners in jail in Barnwell and two to be brought down from the penitentiary. All are to he tried at this term of court, and five of them will face the charge of murder. The murder record in this section is getting awful. Now, Barnwell county has ten dispensaries. Almost every little cross roads town boasts of a rum shop and it is not surprising that the murder record of that county is so black. In Barnwell county during the past year there have been several shocking murders. Men shot down by the hands of assassins, citizens slaying one another, and a very deplorable state of affairs. At the bottom of it all is the liquor which the people of Barnwell county permit to be sold in the name of the county. In Bamberg county the dispensary is also thriving and we understand that the murder record there is considerable also. . It, too, can be traced to whiskey. Friends, vote out the dispensary. It is a curse to any place. We in Chester voted it out last fall and we never want it again. Lawlessness has decreased and everything is better than it was in the days of the dispensary. Even on no other ground than a pure business proposition the dispensary should be voted out. Notice the records of the courts and the improvements in many ways after the dispensary is out. We are told that Bamberg will vote out the dispensary and we believe that almost every county in the State, possibly with the exception of Charleston and Richland, will be found in the dry column after the election in August.?Chester Lantern. Shall the Negro Run Our Trains? It is to be hoped the firemen*. in Georgia will finally win in their fight. This question at present, involves a great deal more than what is shown on the face, and, sifted down to a fine point, the fate of the nation is at stake. If the number of negro firemen continue to increase it is a matter of only a few years until our freight trains will be pulled by negro engineers, and when they begin to [run freight trains with negro engi ? ? ? iA i/V WAAOAM fhflf 14" Will JUCeiB, 11 DiailUQ IU icaavsu vum ib Htti only be a short time before negroes will be driving the engines of passenger trains, which ultimately means negro conductors, and as conductors on passenger trains, we are told, have police powers, it can easily be seen what we are drifting into. We do not intend to convey the idea that the negro must not be allowed to make an honest living by the "sweat of his face," but we do contend that white men should be given preference in all lines of work, and especially professional work and skilled labor. We hope and believe that we will see the day when the negro will be eliminated from the railroad, except as porters, etc. Not only are negroes given precedence on railroads as far as the authorities dare go, but right here in our midst the negro is given preference over white men. It is nothing unusual to walk [down the streets of Anderson where a fine building is being erected, and see a majority of the men on the building are negroes, while plenty of white men, good mechanics, are begging for work. At the same time the men who are having these buildings erected are raving over negro appointments to federal positions and condemning the authorities who make the appointments. Where is the difference between a private citizen giving a job to a negro and an officer of the government giving it to him? We think the dfference is in favor of the officer, especially when the negro's vote helped to elect him, and the private citizen is nnder no obligation to the negro. We fail to conceive of how a true Southern white man cah work negroes in good paying jobs when | white men are begging, and sometimes go so far as to work white labor under a negro foreman. Yet it [is being done in nearly every Southern city. The negro is here and must be allowed to make his living, but the sooner we learn to recognize that he is our enemv. the better it will be for us as a race of people who expect to dominate this country to ,the end. The negro is our enemy socially and I commercially, and he is our worst j enemy politically. In many instances he actually elects the president of the United States. It is the inegro vote in many of the doubtful States and in some of the sure Republican States that keeps that party in power.?Anderson Intelligencer. A Miracle. John J. McGraw, the base ball expert, denied at a banquet in New ottrihntoH tn tVlP j X U1 iV lllC JULICZ1 um *UU wv? WW ?? ^ spitball. "It's a good ball," he said. "It fools the best of them. But when I hear some of the miracles put to its credit?well, then I think of Harriet Hare of 'Frisco. "I once read in a 'Frisco paper: 'Harriet Hare, of Nob Hill, got a needle in her waist two years ago, and only last week this needle worked its way out of the arm of a young Los Angeles rose farmer.'"?St. Louis Globe Democrat. * V - . - - mhhbmbmmbmhmbmhmmhhbb tULF STORM DOES DAMAGE! t SEVERE HURRICANE SWEPT ENTIRE COAST OF TEXAS. Raged Through Sea-shore Districts, Killing, Maiming, and Destroying r Hundreds of Houses. s f New Orleans, La., July 22.?Eigh- \ teen persons dead and 16 seriously r hurt and property damage exceeding e $1,000,000 as far as can be ascertained at a late hour to-night is the grim c record resulting from the destructive sweep of yesterday's hurricane along t the Louisiana and Texas coasts. I Meagre reports from the following Texas points, with many other towns t in the devastated district not heard i from give but a faint idea of the *m- r mensity of the storm in property damage: s Bay City, loss $150,000; Galveston, loss $175,000; Bay Shore, con- l siderable property damage; Velosco, l only three stores left standing and g many homes blown down; Iago, g syrup mills wrecked; Austin, ?many 1 buildings unroofed, telephone and \ telegraph wires leveled, damage g about $100,000; Brazoria, many c buildings destroyed and loss of life feared; Pledger, heavy property, damage, syrup mills wrecked; Allenhurst, many structures wrecked, rumors of loss of life as yet without 1 confirmation; Richmond, 50 resi- J dences and stores partially demol- * ished; Palaciosko, a number of y houses blown down; Angleton, every t house in the town badly damaged; 6 Blessing, several lives reported lost T and considerable property damage; 2 Eagle Lake, many houses unroofed J and two large sugar and rice plants 1 partially wrecked. 1 In Louisiana, points in Cameron parish are reported to have suffered j severely from the hurricane. Much t property is reported as having been j damaged in the settlements at Cre- J ole, Berry, Grand Chenier and John- 1 sous oit)uu. ? I Houston, Tex., July 22.?The West Indian hurricane, which swept from one end of the Texas gulf coast to the other yesterday, claimed a toll of 12 hum^n lives, fatally injuring four others and seriously wounding 16, according to the details of the storm which began to arrive here late today and to-night. Whole towns were devastated and the wreck and ruin to property will amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Trains from 12 to 15 hours late crept into Houston to-day and freight trains are lost throughout the stricken district. The details of the distaster on the southwest coast of Texas are meagre, as wires were stripped from the poles and railway communication is impossible. Bay City Storm Centre. The territory around Bay City seems to have been the centre of the storm, which moved southwest from Galveston. For four hours there a. 70-mile wind swept across the country, carrying everything before it. Velasco, a small town near Bay City, is reported demolished, but witb no loss of life and none injured. Every building was unroofed or partly de- ! ' ?-i -? it. A it, In T monsnea ctiiu. tut? iuwu ivuigut ?o m t four feet of water. People are escap- 1 ing in boats from the Colorado river, a mile away. S Reports from the special train on t which General Manager W. G. Van- e vleck, of the Southern Pacific rail- ( road, left Houston this morning in- ] dicate that the lower coast country ; suffered greatly. The loss will total thousands of dollars and in some districts reports state that the storm was worse than the disaster of 1900, which devastated Galveston. Eagle Lake seems to have suffered on a parity with Bay City, very few houses escaping the fury of the storm. The same situation is reported from Lissie, Nowatta and East Berbard, though there no fatalities are reDorted. At Glidden. a round house is entirely demolished and a well derrick is scattered over the town. *At Willinger part of the railroad station and office was unroofed, as were the Allenton depot and East Bernard station. Damage Inestimable. It is impossible to estimate the total damage. Along the Brownsville road from Kingsville in parts the desolation was nearly complete., Corn fields were swept to the ground and harvesting will have to be done by a hay rake. The cotton, however, withstood the storm well. At El Campo the electric light plant is wrecked, all elevators are badly damaged and almost every church in town is either demolished or wrecked. In the oil field around Markham, derricks were blown down and wells were stripped of their machinery. The iron warehouse of the Markham Mercantile Company, the Brown Grain Company warehouse and the Enterprise restaurant were entirely demolished. The new building of the Coast Telephone Company was lifted " from its foundation and probably will be a total wreck. At Bay City about 50 per cent, of the business section was damaged, including the opera house, one bank, the court house, the new high school building and the city jail. In the Jail, the cages were left standing and the prisoners were exposed to view but were safe. Prisoners Escape in Storm. Six prisoners escaped from the jail at Richmond when the windows had been blown in and while the guards were repairing the damage. At Palacios the rain was not heavy, the damage resulting from the wind which preceded the rain, which afterwards fell in gusts. Mrs. Hogan and one daughter were injured under the falling brick walls . of their home and were later extri- i cated by workmen. Their injury may prove fatal. At Galveston bay the situation is 1 not as bad as at first reported. No J part of the railroad bridge which spans the arm of the bay between the island and Virginia Point was wash- * ed away, but some 50 feet of the ( structure was thrown badly out of ailment by a huge barge and other mall craft which were washed from heir moorings and pounded against he piling. Confesses to Killing. Denver, July 23.?James W. Robnson, who was arrested here yesteray on suspicion of being J. L. Byrd, wanted in Memphis, Tenn., for the nurder, in 1907, of Jos. Black, a hoe dealer, of that city, to-day conessed he was the murderer. Byrd vas married two weeks ago at Coloado Springs and with his bride was m joying his honeymoon at Denver. Robinson confessed at the behest >f his bride. After the chief of police had quesioned Robinson for some time, Mrs. iobinson exclaimed: "Jimmie, if you are the man, tell j hem. It will make no difference to ne, because I will stick by you no natter what the circustances." Robinson, white and shaking, then laid: "Chief, I am the man you want. I tilled Black because I thought my ife was in danger. We engaged in an irgument over a baseball bet and he itarted towards me with an open tnife in his hand. I seized the only weapon at hand, a shoe stretcher, and struck him over the head with it. I iid not mean to kill him." Shot by Her Own Daughter. Chicago, July 22.?Suffering from t bullet wound inflicted yesterday, it s said, by her own daughter, Mrs. Jertrude A. Hinkley, a wealthy vidow living here, tried for hours o-day to persuade the police that the ihooting was accidental. The police, nrho learned of the shooting to-day, ire seeking for Mrs. Hinkley's daugher, Mrs. Marie Mayfield, whose hus>and is said to be in Mexico in the nining business. According to the story finally told >y Mrs. Hinkley, she is interested to ;he extent of $3,500 in a Mexican nining project, having invested on he advice of her daughter. Her re'usal yesterday to purchase $5,500 idditional stock in the enterprise is taid to have led to a quarrel and the lltimate shooting. The shooting was at Mrs. Mayield's home. Mrs. Hinkley's chance >f recovery is said to be slender. Might Come to Columbia. Washington, July 25.?Mr. Taft, here is reason to believe, would be n a receptive mood with reference o stopping over in Columbia on his eturn from the Far West, whither le is to go if Congress ever adourns. Already he has agreed to stop over it Columbus, 6a., and Wilmington, C., between which points he will ikely pass through Columbia. A delegation from Columbus, Ga., vas here several days ago to invite he president and he accepted the invitation. Mr. T. B. Stackhouse, of Columbia, tassed through here yesterday en oute to Atlantic City, and conferred ?ith Representative Lever on the lubject of extending the invitation to he president, and was speculating ipon whether or not a special delegaion from Columbia might not be advisable. Tortured on a Horse. "For ten years I couldn't ride a lorse without being in torture from )iles," writes L. S. Napier, of Rugess, Ky., "when all doctors and othsr remedies failed, Bucklen's Arnica Jalve cured me." Infallible for piles, turns, scalds, cuts, boils, fever-sores, tczema, salt rheum, corns. 25c. Juaranteed by People's Drug Co., Daiuuerg, o. v_,. NEW ARRIVALS Curtis Brand Peas, per can 15c. Jumbo Tomatoes, 3 lb. can, 10c v Mackerel, fine, 2 for 25c. Misletoe Hams, per pound 16c. Good Old Country Syrup, in barrels, 50c. per gallon. In quart bottles, sealed, 15c, a quart. Just received fine line of 10c. packages Lowney's Chocolate Candies. The finest lot of Fresh Prunes that ever hit the town. Seeded Raisins on hand all the time. Have you ever tried our Batter? ' we oniy astc soc. the pound. Don't forget that we handle Snowflake Floor, the best that is pat up, in sacks. Don't forget to ask for anything in the grocery line. We come mighty near having it. E. BART PRICE BAMBERG, S. C. I {I -'- J A C. & K. HAT For $3.00 and $3.50 and a Florsheim Shoe For $4.00, $5.00 and $6.00 ;. 8. BRABHAM'S SONS BAMBERG, S. C. -.. ? - . -V'; ;.'v aSfei^ I j INSURANCE CASE DECIDED. Supreme Court Upholds Company on its "Limit" Clause. The supreme court has decided the case of J. A. spann, or ?*amoerg, against the Phoenix Insurance Comjpany, of Hartford. The policy sued [on was for $2,000 and was one of several outstanding when Spann's [stock of goods was burned. The insurance company alleged that Spann had violated his contract in that he had procured additional insurance to the amount of $14,000 when the company had consented to insurance amounting to only $8,000. Spann denied this. But the court holds that the clause in the contract was perfectly fair and the judgment of the circuit court, which was in favor of the company, is affirmed.?The State. Officers Save Negro's Life. Atlanta, Ga., July 21.?The bravery of Sheriff McKinney and three lone deputies, who with drawn revolvers faced a mob of 1,000 angry men at Vinnings, Ga., to-day saved the life of Will Webb, a negro, charged with criminal assault. Webb had just beeh identified by his victim as the negro who assaulted her yesterday. He had not yet left her residence after the identification when the armed men and boys, many of whom for two days had been ranging through the woods in search of him, determined on a lynching, surrounded the house. They shouted that the negro's life was theirs, that the sheriff must hand him over. Out came the revolvers of the four officers and with a rush they charged through the mob and leaped into a big automobile which they had in waiting. Shouting: "Stand back" to the mob and leveling their revolvers upon its leaders they hurried out of danger and rushed the negro to Atlanta, where he was placed in the town prison for safe keeping. Moccasin on Hen's Nest, Mrs. Sallie Brown, of Indian Hill township, went out into her yard not long since to look after her hens. On a nest she saw what she took to he a strange looking hen?Mrs. Brown does not see well, without her glasses?and attempted to "shoo" the hen off. -The supposed hen did not like the "shooing" process and began to peck at Mrs. Brown. She went into the house and called her daughter out to run the strange hen off the nest and when the daughter arrived on the scene instead of a hen on'the nest she found an immense highland moccasin coiled and ready for business. The wonder is the snake di(l not strike Mrs. Brown when she was trying to make it get out of the nest. The snake was on the lookout for a young chick for dinner, but was despatched before he had made his meal.?Abbeville Press and Banner. J Looking Back Six Years 1 I We have seen the American public change its mind from the idea that AUTOMOBILES were a rich man's passing1 fad to the fact that they are a necessity of modem times. To-day, as the Americans look into the future they see the great, industrial developer^-the machine that makes time and cuts distance in half. It makes no difference what car you intend to buy, you should see \ The Delk Motor Co. I They Sell Automobiles. I II I I J. H. DIXON I Machinist and fagfoeer I General Repair Shop. I We repair all kinds of ma chinery and carry a full line of I Pipe, Pipe Fittings, Valves, In- I Jectors, Lubricators, Oilers, etc. I Bring your engine and have the I cylinder bored. Make it run like I new and give you more power. I Bring your cotton gins and I press parts and have them re- I paired before the busy season. I A stitch in time saves nine. We I repair saw mills, - grist mills, I cane mills; in fact we run a I hospital for sick and disorder- I a a machinery. Bring it in and | have it cured. Gas engines and automobile engine cylinders I bored, and new pistons and rings made that won't leak. Gives you more power and better efficiency. We repair and charge storage batteries. Call when in trouble and see what we can do. SHOP,AT COTTON MILL ;; DR. GEO. F. HAIR ;; < > Dental Surgeon...Bamberg, S. C. < > < o ! In office every day in the week. < I y Graduate of Baltimore College JI of Dental Surgery, class 1892. X Member S. C. Dental Associa- Z J tion. Office in old bank build- # | / * V-\v -.7 V ^v'-vT ' 1 ' - / . ' .,V '?. HHWHWWmHWHf Jjj| t J. F. CARTER :: t Attorney-at-Law o X BAMBERG, S. C. o Special attention given to set- < > a tlement of estates and investi- <> gation of land titles. o X LOANS NEGOTIATED. o x Office over Bamberg Banking Co. * > J. Aldrich Wyman E. H. Henderson Wyman & Henderson Attoraeys-at-Law BAMBERG, S. C. General Practice. Loans Negotiated f w7 p7 riley j: '? ? j| Fire, Life j; !! 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Bheamstism, Scrofula, OM gores. Materia, CLrocic famatei j? Complaints, toko ^^8 P. p. p. J-mm Prickly Ash, Poke Boot and Potassium. | Tbo best blood peirtAarlntbe worid. V. T. LIFTMAN. Serannab, . Georgia. If yqu need a safe that Is a -,-Jjj safe see me before baying ;v|??| J. D. FELDEE iti.inn Q DiLTLD?iI\Uf 4 bp* v? '* Agent Victor Safe & Lock Co. Anything in Safes Cincinnati, O. DE. 0. D. FAUST J DENTIST BAMBERG, S. C. g-|| Office in Telephone Building. MEAT MABKET. Same men at a different place. When you -vgp! want the best meats , obtainable call at our ^ market opposite The ^?>$1 Herald Building, Main -It street. Our prices are right. We also boy beef cattle, pork, hogs, hides, chickens and eggsBB0NS0N&GEANT ^ij BAMBERG, 8. C. " TOWN PROPERTIES f FOR SALE One two-story dwelling, with six ' vfe: rooms, on corner of New Bridge and - M Second street One two-story dwelling, with eight rooms, on corner of Calhoun street and Railroad avenue. One two-story dwelling, with six rooms, on Second street. One five-room cottage, on Main. One seven-room dwelling, on east wing of New Bridge street. i One block of five tenant houses, on south end of New Bridge street. Two open lots, on south end of & M New Bridge street. One open lot, on Church street Several building lots on Elmoor Heights for sale at reasonable prices. Description, with price and terms, on application. J. T. O'NEAL, J Real Estate Agent Bamberg, S. C.