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F, .. PICKENS SEN INEL Eutered April 23,'1908 at Pickens, S. C., as second olass znattcr, under act of Congres of March 8, 1879. VOL XXXIV PICKENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1905. N039 Z'KE ON DISPENSARY He Gives Plain Facts on tile Subject. THE DRINKER HAS -HIS SYMPATHY But He Jumps On Our "Educational Promoter" With Both Feet---Has Good Reasons, Too. By the time this gats into prir.t we suppose the Pickens branch o South Carolina's jag proIotor will -again be in full blast, and fiends of the dispensary say that busint.ss will "pick up." Probably it will in police circles, but wo doubt if any fair minded person will seriously claim that it is of any benefit to the 5'nITo s i nterests of the town. A; 'her tte of South Carolina may feel p of the monopoly it has on the wiskey business, and now if it.would monopolize the ferti;izer interests, it might make it a big paying concern, for one is rotten enough to furnish material for the other, and taken together it would be a sweet scented affair. The way the press df the State is pitching into the thing there must be something "dead tip the branch" and no one can doubt it, for it is a "stench in the nostrils of docen cy, and smells to Heaven." Some one has said that whiskey is all right in its place, bit, its place is in hell. That is prett.y tough on the devil, for if all reports are true, he has plenty of trouble now, but if a dis pensary was started in the infernal regions, and.all the imps of satan should get a jag ov at the same time, it would sure be a bell of a place. Oh, but this dispensary business is a great scheme. A regular old conscience greaser. To fill a man up on liquid dam nation and . (hen case t he con science, by devoting a portion oi Vie profits to pay the school master. Educate the boy at the expense of his father's manhood, and when S the boy arrives at the age of ina turity, ha will respect his State for it, maybe. Now, citizens of Pickens county, aint you proud of it? You can't have compulsory education, but your State allows you to run a whis key dive to help educate the young. 4. Aint that pretty near ''whipping the devil around the stump?" There ho gos-a tattered old soak-walking on his uppers, ai rum blossom onm hiis-.-note, he stag. gers up to tho hole in the wall and calls for a pintI of. the liquid educa tor. It's a pretty spectac!e, iiii't it? No thing wrong about it, good1 Christian people, ho is only paving his prop~ortion of the tax to edui cate your ch ildren, and you have no right Ao leick if some night your boy combss homrne "three sheots in theo windk' with a pint bottle in his pocket. You favored the thing. But foi~ God's sake don't be a hypoorht, and go down on your knees a n&ray that a safeguardl he thrown am and your son, whuile you are u p11olding the cause oi his rui'n. - We are noi kicking against the1 man addicted to the use of lhquor. He has out sympathies and we are sorry for fuim, and wish it were in 'A our powir to help him break amvway from phe habit, and in the majoriy of cades fully believe that ho is Imore to be pitied than blamed. But h w a professed Christian can ease h' s conlscience on the subject and s .ill claim to be consistent kido' gets away with us. Don't try to;1greaise your conscience by clalimtg it is the bettor way to control\ it. You have to ad mit th atI the trg9lic is right, or it is wi'ong. Thier# is no0 half way ground. Now, if It /is right, why not allow the ciiens to engage in it' the 5a me as oth<G business? If it is wrong, why. does (he State engage in it? Why does 1 cesengage in it? Bless us! P1gking pockets 1s wrong, and i no doub; profitable to the crook, if .he don't get caught at it, but the . S tate det 't engage in it, neither does Pickens. Why not have a monopol[..of all these things that ' TI About the train of do Bargain It public. N All $2.51 to go at 48( All 10.00 : 8.50 ar BLANKE A wave < bargains e( each day NN KADESH .ARNEA. hall We, Too, Hesitate?-An Appea to Christian. People. This name marksea sad and memo. able event in the history of the Jeople of God and-, we may properly ay, in the history of civilization. Ia he midst of groat signs and wonders he children of Israel had boon led ut of Egypt by the hand of Moses he man called of God unto this groat . vorkc. T1he overwhelming evidence f Jehovah's presenco and fav->r was onst antly seen mn "the pillar of cloud iy day" and "the pillar of fire ,by Light". The evident purpose of God was to lead his chosen people as dir. oily an.i speedly as possible into the und of promise ty Abraham an d his tescen dants. When this great multitude of God avoredi people reached Kadlesh Bar ea, 12 reprosentative men-one from mlac tribe-were sent to "Search the and of Cane an and make report to Ioses and the people." They travers. id the land throughout and returnod ;o their brethren at the encampment. L'en of those men-the majority-re. 3orted in substance as follows: The and wvhither we went is indeed a and tyhich "floweth with amilk and loney." Grapes of Eschool and >Omlogranates and flg8 we have yrought to show you the "fruit of the and." Nevertheless the people be trong that dwell in the land, Lild the cities are wailed and very treat." All the people that we saw 'are men of a great stature." Trhen to saw "the giants," the "souns of knaik," and "we wvere in our own Ight (as grasshoppers, and so we vore in their sight." Two of these men, Caleb and Jos ua, men of faith and courage, made bo following minority report: "The 1nd which we passed through to enrch it is an exceeding good land. aet us go up at once and poseess It, or we are well able to overcome it. f the Lord delight in us, then be ,ill bring us into this land and give us." The majority report was adopted; he children of Israel rebelled against lod and against Moses; the anger of eliovah was kindled against the re el4 and they wvere sentenced to 40 enrs of wvanderin~g in the wilderness. lhe ten cowardly men who made heir report wore summarily ain ofs "terrible price wr partments caught ems is raked up, - Dw is the time for 3 men's Sweater . One small lot < C and $12.00 Overcc Ld $9.00 " One lot Ove] TS---All blankets )f cut prices is sw tually as good, bu 'ith values that ca YOU HAD 13 [eath=Bj the Lord, and 703, 548 murmuring, relbellious people were doomed never to enter the land of Canaan. Of all the men of Israel above 20 years of age at the time of this shameful re bellion, only two, Caleb and JosLua, who bravely stood for God and the right, were permitted to enter the promise land. If any would read a fuller account of this reni ark. able occurance in the history of Is rael. let them turn to the 13th and 14th chapters of the book of Num bers. Kadesh Barnea was on the border of the land of Canaan. A few days only would have been reqired for entruce into the goodly land: but cowardice and unbefief, the greatest animies of mankind, kept the Isr ael ites out of their inheritance for 40 years. The manifest purpose of God con Corning every man and every 'peop~le is that they should move forward. Unbelief and disobedience and rebel. lion lead inevitably to tihe destruction of the individual and the nation. So universally true is this that we may reduce the law of (0 -1 to this single form: "Go forward, or (lie." It seems to me that God's people. in all the various branches of the church of Christ, are nIow encamnped at, Kadeshi Barnen. A goodly land and a rich and enduring inharitance are in easy ranch of them. The a. cumulated evidence of the blessing.s of Jehovah is securely preserved in the archives of the church, and the signs of his preance are unmisetak able. Under the influence of ease living, coward'y, skeptical cau er the people are doomed to miuffer' aiid] die. Thbe faithful, courageous 3mn whlo, like Caleb and Joshua, plead( with the peoplo to obey God and live are powerless to accomplish t he salvation of their brothern. Deliver ance will come after a while; but not until the ungodly, wicked, rebellious counsellors and the hundreds of thousands of their ready followers have perished through their a.nbelief. rule is of world wide application, All tribes and nations come under this law. No individual or Slate is exempt. Obedience to God means lie and growth; disobedience man death anmd destruction. L'olitically, the COuirl anid the Slate are separated, bnr this they can never ho dinassoniine . Here in eck" that has just in the smashup. v-hich will be of 's] quick action for t weaters Caugi to go at 1.50, A >f ladies coat suits lothrng Caugl >atto go at - $7.85 "" " - 6.00 ,coats to close at $ caught iri the wr eeping all over th t what's the use, t: nnot pe matched, TTER KEEP IN ilways glad to ser ise=Mm South Carolina vo Lave the 1ugly spectacle GucI a spectacle as would make saints and angels weep, of hundreds of thousands of people, and church people, too who allov their ungodly, wicked, skeptical rep. resentative to lead them to certain ruin. The Came old cry is heard to day from these ungodly skeptics The sons of Anak are in the land. VO cannot overcomo them. Fo r. getting the w onderful ma nfestions of the almighty power of Jehovah, they still cry out, "We have bieen the giants and we are in our own sight~ as grasshoppers," and so are we "ini their sight." And, verily' grasshop~pers belter servo the pur p)ose of God than (10 such nien! The0 God of our Fathers save us from our1 counsellors in this day of glorioius opp~ort unit3 I What are the sons of Anak, "the giants" - Intemnpernance, Dispensaries, Illiteracy, G reed, Lust, Liawlossness and1 Infidelity -in the presence of God's obedient servants. A sling with a stone ini the hanids of a David is sufficient to overcome anly of these giants. Men and women of God in Sout Ii Carolina, will you allow the Dispon-. sary and Gri eed and Illiteracy and Lawlossness-liko so manny 0Goliaitho to defy the church of God? Theliso mnonsters of iniquity may bo destroy ed at once, and they should be utt er Jlauso of our shame remioved. Ii be lieve the curso of God rests not only a pon~ those mionsters ot' evil, but upon overy man and woman who aiids and aibets them in) their iniqluitous works. 'ho ideca of getting "good men" to manage the diopensary is~ simply preposterous. W~Vhen the partn~er ship) is formed all goodnU'ss depa rts in) .ut ter' disgusAt. Budt deliveranlce wvill" surely como, f ar "'qightl~ is right, since Glod is God, k4nd iight the dayl) must winl. TIo-doubt woul ho disloyalty, Tpo fatter would bo slin." ~: -Philomon in the State. ~~onnd a Cure for indilgestilon. i a Chamberlamin's Stomaohi and Liver TaIMIM for indigestion ando find that they su case better than any odyspepsia ronp~l 1 have ever tried anid I have ,uqed many differont remedhims. I ami rnearly fifty-one yearsi of age and 'Ihave suiffered a great deal from indigestioni. I cani eat almost anything I want niow. -Geo. W.,.Emory, Rock Mills, Ala. For sale by Piokons D)rng 0 >Earlo's Drug Storo. occurred at "TH] From. the debris :>ecial interest to o hey woi.t last. it in the Wreci 11 $1.25 sweaters t< worth from' $10 t( it in the Wre< All (1.00 and 87.5 $t..00 1.98, worth .Iromi $: eck and they mus1 e big store, and we Lie people know th anb they all como TOUCL WITH rT re you, yours triill frOW WORMY CHESTNUTS I Gathered By Clement Correspondent -Some News. The health of this conununiry is very good tit this writing. Tho farmers have dor.e nothing toward farming yet. Mairried, on the evening of the 8th inst. by the Rev. Thomas Looper, Mr. Forest Pondor to Nsiss Laura Holcombe all of Pickens, county, Tho bridge across the creek at Farr's mill is in a very bad condi.. The man who has the most to say always nires the fewest words. Life Ii moistly malde uip oft pray. ing for ratin and then w ish intg it would clear otY. About the best plani to stop the sale of liquor is to give it away. WVheni liquor goes to al man11's headl it usually finds itself in a lonesaoio laIc). When yu got the best of a bar gain itL's cu nninog, whien theof bohr fellowA gets the best oif it it's cheat ing. A p ditician~ will ushako your hand one) intot andl pull youri log Whna muan isn't willing to prac. tice what lhe proachos it is~ time for bilui to so p preaching. Las night yesterdIay morning abou:tlt (one o'clock iln tihe afterno~\p a hungry boy boughlt, a pie for i\ steamboat aniti throw it through a brick~ wall nino feet thick andi jumnpintg over it broke his right an klo oil just ablovo hk is t kneie toil inito ai (try mfill piond and~ w'.as dod aboutcl l11)1 foirty years afterr on the same (lay tan old cat, raisedi nine11 t urkey gobblers and1( a high i indi blew Yank'e Doodle o a frying pan andl killed a sow anld two (lead pigs over' inl I)ston1 whore a dleaf andl dumb manii was talking to his Aunt Polly S ti. Good Boy. Supervisor's Notice. I will be in my oIlc Tuosdayi and Friday of each wveek to- fi!e claims, pay out money when we have it, and (do anything else I canl to aceolmodata) those having busi-. ness in the oflico.- Do niot come any other day. G. M, Lynich, j 31G STORE." An entire. the following partial list of ur patrons and the shopping > go at 85c. All 75c and 85c $1-2 will go at -4.50. 0 Overcoats to go at - $4.50 - 3.85 3.50 t o $5.00. be sold reg'ardless of price. coul.d mention hundreds oI at our counters are lactened to headquarters. H-1 E 11-1G STO.-L j Tribute to W. T. McFall. What The Girls Will Wear. ivery harL inl Pi~cen n a According t) Marian Kent, who 1"2! Sad last Sunday aftern oo ' WitEs3 on fashions hl; young girls, in when Iho news floated out at 5:0 the March New Iden Magazine, the Ihat W. '. McI. 1I was dead ; we daity drst-is for this spring and all flt a lonelins 4 that is beyond summer are to be made of silk-fin. oxprossion. Our b.st man had left ishedt moblalir, laidown)e, batisto and us, and none (-I iis could realize colienno, besides the soft silks am. tho enormity (if < mr loss; to thmk the slicer fabrics. Hand-work in its that we wou ld no iore soe him on charming simplicity still suporsedes our stroot, in his place oif business, elaborate trimmings, and "very zmiany' andl~ mora than all, wo woutld no dainty frocks are mado entirely of mnoro hear his8 welcomIo voice, fall of the mnaterial, utterly devoid of trim symupathy for the helpless and those ming and dlepen~ding soioly for decor that were in grief and1( trouble, his attion on the exqfuisito workmnhhjp ever ready hand al ways reatdy to in the form of hand-run tucks, shir. give anad comilfort them. Wluhle we ring fatgotting, piping, etc." Yokes, ( his ft ieu'Is and associates) w ill cuit round or square, are to be used mnis'i him, (hero ai othbers that will' a greait deal, and the ''drop yoke," as moun his os. H wa neerwell asberthas e paulets wilkee'p known to turn a deaf ear to the the brondshouldiered1 oflect still pro plea of thei. p~oor and heolpless, amli miinrat. Tho skirts are to bo still no one will ever kntow what a great full, occordinig with the p~revalent benfato hewas, only those by "1830" ideas in clothes. Everything wh lomt ho has st ood in the do rlcta a e oet lov il huofruboaddsrs. in fashijon, andt puffs, shir rings and1 ho w weaOioedhm how r ules with hinder the very rapid rlear did bw lloed ij we owre arrival of the logo mutton, which is di to~ hisA list restinig place. A again comning to view. goat m-11 lhas lait i:s, gre'at li (ca1.s" Murray's Hiorehound, Mul >f hiis hone10t simipl ici ty. l110 was - rulv' a "'liamnond in th luh,, in and Tar will cure your l)iid they sa he wa dead? The cough. Large bottle for 25c. viritor of this article desires to say AMle lmt Wlaillits od0ha been, Wad aay In Arkansas, Louisiana and 1ut h still liv s ei our~ hetrs Toxasstoo k ranges ten to twelvo uha lhfo will livye on throughont luonths in the year, twvo and threo the ceaseless ages of eternity ; its cosgo nasao.Nwi LiiJs 05will be fl on thruhthe time to look up a location time; he was a God-fearing andl whlhoan is cheap. God-lovingi (mnan. May Ueaven's On IFebruary 7th and1 21st andl rihs besnsrs pnhsMarch 7th and 21st, the Cotton rihs bcsnsus pnhsBolt Route will sell round trip grief-stric ken family, and may theyho -eer'tiks fom t. now, in thoir darkest hour of' gloom Luu,'hbs ar n epi andi~ tonol infoss, lean heavily on the "e~e ant Wi'allto p)ointe in the above named states "vrlasting arum,' n may weall a rute of $15 or one fare plus :rnm the leisson wiellI, that aill mostit 2, where it makes less less than go, and standit before tihe Juid go of $5 atll the earth, cons(t1equetly, let IIs One way colonmst tickets Febru get closer to the Master and Ike ary 21st March 21. at half fare for his glory wile ho lots us ro0 plus $2. main upon this earth.Wrtfomaiotblanak One Who Loved Ilim. bu aest n on D~omestic Troubles. .Pfmib'rPA It isl exceptional to fid a family otn ellou Ala where thore isi no dlomeistio rup1turl'esOc casionally buit theso can be lessoned( by Mk ordugs v o having Dr. inig's Now Life Pihlls around. Much tron 1o they save b~v Mra' oeon, uli their gront work in stomach and Liveran I'r Cue tronbles. They not only relieve you abol. but cure. 2L. P. Smith, T.rugP..A.,. .CtonBl7RutAtaa