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; 'f "' ' ' ; "'" IMTRR ENTERPRISE. Published bvery Wednesday and Saturday BY Tto. Enterprise Publishing - Com par.) - A. J. CLARK Editor. One Year,.; $1.00 Six Months, ...4 50 cts Three Months 25 cts In Advance. "Wednesday, August 22, 1900. SIMPLE STORY. THE FORM OF A CHILD THE IIKART OF A HERO. How an Ambitious* Orpan Boy Boko from the Humblest Station in Lite to the Highest Position in the Councils of the State. Away back in the fifties a vessel puts into Charleston harbor, For d.-.ys it has wrestled with the waveB of the broad Atlantic, and its passongers are rejoiced to see the sunny and to which starry eyed Hope had pointed, lwo passengers, yes three, especially interest us. A young man in whose eyes burn truth and fidelity, and a young woman who holds by the hand a slender delicate boy about four years of age. It is easy to see that the three are father, mother, son. They have left their old home, hope whispering, ambition urging that in this the new world, they will hew out of life's rough circumstance's a shining future. The little boy is the ceutor, from and t ?ward which their every thought revolves. To educate this boy so that he may be a blessiug to them and his adopted country is their hourly prayer. Their little home is a happy one, for peace and lovo and plenty abound. But God knows best 'vHe doeth all things well." Suddenly the dark days come. The uoble young father is stricken down with pellow fever, and the widow and the fatherless commence the hard, cruel battle of life. Don't be impatient, my dear reader, I am not telling you an idle story, but a truly true cue, and 1 must needs begin at the beginning. ft v 1ucivic tunt ucnto 10 lit" tie boy has reached the tender age of ten, he is struggling for a livelihood. Out in the streets he sells newspapers?in the biting March winds, the sultry Agust days?this child, this little one, works for his daily bread! The form of a child?the heart of a hero! Now ye mothers who toil with your little boy's lessons every evening, how would it be if your little Jimmie, or Willie, or Arthur, or Johnie were thrown out upon the world at such a tender age! I see yonr faces pale as you instictively press your boy to your heart. Read this little story carefully, and your patriotism will have a frosb access of zeal. There is no other country upon the globe where your hoy has such a God-given ehauce to hew out in the temple of fame a name for himself. Something over a hundred yearR ago, Benjamin Franklin entered Boston with enough money to buy a breakfast of bread. Every school boy is familiar with his history. He was an humble printer, yet today the entire civilized world knows his name and flashes from pole messages hy that mighty power which he discoverd. THE NEWS BOY. But return to our little news-boy. The Charleston society people sweep by-perhaps buying a paper, perhaps not. What ;a. * ir - - r~ : i UUCH lb IIlclllUI, LI C BUCCH0N ui muure ot a newsboy ? But ah! some day, mayhap, those same fine people's grandsons may be sent to our capital city as pages in the Legislative halls of South Carolina, and lo ! when the Governor's Message is read, is writ' ten by that same little barefoot newsboy. Ah, little fellow, with the form a child and the heart of a hero, surely since those March wuids blew and those August subs heat upon your little head, yon have striven manfully. "Seest thou a man diligent in business, he shall stand before kings!" Ave, in South Carolina he shall be a king among his feUowa! L >1. THE NEWS BOY BECOMES GOVERNOR. Now that you have already guessed who this brave little newsboy ip, he shall be formally introduced to you?Miles B. Mc o *u /U uuvri uui in ouui u vttrolina, by the grace of God and true Democratic votes. There is many a clever boy whose manhood fails to come up to our expectations. Let us see about our Governor, let the "fierce white light" that ever beat6 about a public man, envelope him While selling papers our hero meets with a friend and commences to work as z printer in his office. All over the world the good God has scattered just such noble men and women whose mighty hearts and tender vision cause them to be stretching forth a helping hand to the struggling soul. Perhaps it is only a cheerful word, but that glad word is a golden bridge over raging waters. He completes his apprenticeship as a job printer, and a scolarship for merit is offerd him in Washing ton and Lee University, but owing to lack of means, he was able to attend only part of one ses sion. So young McSweeney came back to South Carolina and began printing in Columbia. He served Columbia Typographical Union as corresponding secretary and afterwards as president. He served as secretary of the Phoenix Hook and Ladder Com panv for a number of years. In ijmo ne was an active uemocrat and did faithful work for the party in that ncvor to be forgoten time of peril and strife. About this time Mr. MeSweeney moved to Ninety Six in our county then. lie belongs to old Abbeville county after. lie came to Ninety Six with a capital of sixty five doiiars, and purchased a second hand press and out fit for $500 paying $55 cash as first payment. FRANKLIN AND M'fiWEKNRV: Like Fraklin he worked early and late. Unlike Franklin, who ato his bread on the streets, McSweeney went to bed supperless, because, when he went to NineSix, he was unable to buy three ineals a day. Like Franklin, sue cess came to him, and now the boy who once was able to buy only two meals a day is well provided for, and be hasnofear of becoming a charge upon his country. The people of the State of his nativity give him their heart's affection, while they bestow upon him the highest honor whic~i any people can con fer upon any man. Ambitious i. iu. - t ..r i r..Il tu win mci i cnprj' i ??i inn i?iiuw citizens, honest in the perform ar.ce of every duty, courageous to defend the humbles, while able to resist the design* and the power of the great and influential, he has given to every South Carolinian a good governor who administered the affairs of the office without fear or favor. Without yielding to the mob or clinging to the social power of any set of men, he has nobly done his duty. He is a man of the people, and however much he may have been elevated, his heart is true to all. He loves the honest laborer and his hand iw ever stretched out to help the struggling brother to higher and better things. August, 1879, the first issue of Hampton Guardian appeared and it has been published ever siuce by Mr. McSweeney. He has taken a deep and abiding interest in the development of his town and county. He is regarded as a fine business man of wide public spirit in regard to building churches and school The Appetite of a Goat* Is envied by all poor dyspeptics whose Stomach and Liver are out of order. All such should know that Dr. King's New Life Pi 1 If, the wondeful Stomach and Liver Remedy, gives a splendid appetite, sound digestion and a regular bodily habit that insures perfect health and great energy. Only 2fllr,at Crawford Bros. Drugstore, i houses. He has served as mayor t of Hamptou for five term*, and MB National Delegate of Demo- t cratic Convention three times. ^ Mr. McSweeny takes a deep j interest in military matters and aft? r his election to the legis'a- *! tore in 1894 he was chairman of the committee on military. He ) has also been a trustee of tl e ^ South Carolina College and a " member of the board of visitors { of the Citad 1, and by virtue of t bis ( ffice is chairman of both ^ b)a ds at present. } Hh is a member of the Order of Knights of Honor and the v Knights of Pythias and has been honored bv both organizations. ^ In 1896 he was elected lieutenant governor by a thousand ma 1 jority and re elected in 1898 ' without opposition, and on the 8 death of Cov. VV. H. Ellerbe iu t June, 1899, he took the oath of a office as governor, and has since v aisvhargea the amies or theoince c with dignity and fine business v ability. j, FAITHFUL STEWARDSHIP. h Hih administration of the State's affairs been so successful " that even his political enemies cannot pick a flaw in hie record. a lie now, a6 an endorsement of t his faithful stewardship, asks an a election to a full term at the s hands of his fellow-citizens. In 0 a manner Governor McSweeney 8 belongs to Abbeville Lounty. j She made a man of him in that g Ninety-Six put him on his financial feet. Abbeville must stand by him in the coming election. She cannot afford to turn her a back on her adopted son even if v another of her sons is in the race, e Governor McSweeney believes that the dispensary system that has been placed on our statute books should stand. He respects e all men's opinions, but he en- ^ forces the laws of our State and * not even for the endorsement of 1 a second terra, will he cringe c either to true prohibitionists or t bow to sham ones. < NOTHING WRONG WITH GARY. 1 What's the matter with s Frank Gary? Nothing at all? f Ho is a good fellow, a jolly 1 good fellow, but we can't ex- j actly work him in as governor j this time. Nothing to hinder | us from doing so next time; t but we South Carolinians al- | ways did stand on our manners < etiquette Mr. Gar}" would say i Gubernatorial et'qucttc in ( South Carolina is venerable with age and respect. It is 1 this. Ever since the royal gov- | ernor ran away in a ship it has been the custom to give a gov- i ernor a second term as an en- < dorsement of his management i of the State's affairs. Some j peculiar people argue that when a man succeeds to this office j from that of Lientenant-Gov- f ernor this custom should not < be observed This shows simp- 1 ly n love of arguing about noth- ( ing, or to express it more ele- i gantly, it is tlie difference bo- j i ween tweedle-dee and tweedle- | < 111111 i i LIKI'T ?(iOVERNOHS NOT FIlil'RK I HEADS. Our Lieutenant-Governors ( are not mere figure beads. From the very nature of the office, only men of ability can fi 1 it. This officer must preside over the Senate, a body of able * and trained public men, gener- ' ally; many of whom are first- 1 class lawyers. (We Tillman- ' ites had a lot of the rust 1 rubbed off our political t spectacles when old Hen | was running for governor, i We are nearly as sharp, or to i use fine language, we are about t as good diplomats as the antis, < and there is no use whatever in < trying to get us to argue about < how many angels can dance < upon the point of a cambric 1 needle. We aro sawing wood < now and will vote for McSween- I ey at the first, and if necessary . at the second primary, as sure i as Hayseed livos.) i i THE GOOD OLD RULK SHOULD | HOLD GOOD TODAY. < It has been the invarible cus- , turn to give the governor a sec- , ond term as an endorsement of ( a good administration of the ( affairs of the State. This was so well understood that there . was nothing hut rotine work at the former nominating conven- \ tion for second term until Till- J man came in, then the hounds < of hate and fur}', malice and all < othter kinds of manners were \ i let loose and we were entreated ! * ** . ?. r' ' ' ' o relegate Tillman to obscurity ?send him back to his farm, lisgraced in the eyes of the vorld. Did we send old Ben lome? Did we do what Gonzalis and the gang desired us to lo? I think I hear the rebel rell,"No, 110; never, never." iVegave him a second term, md then sent him to the U SSenate, where he lias vindicaed our faith in his ability and von a national reputation for limself. VE OWE M'SWKKNKY ANOTHER TERM. lu simple justice and common lecency we owe Gov. MeSweeley another term. Our state can tot even then afford to lose the ervices of such an able man. Mr. iary also has ability, you will nswer. Granting this, but why, vhen it has been the custom of a entury to allow a second term; yhy should we remove the old andmarks now when our state ias been more prosperous than or many years past? The pbetomenal development of South Carolina in manufacturing marks 11 era in our industrial history hat astonishes the world. We re able to state that notwithtanding the ashes and desolation f war, South Carolina steps forth econd only to Massachusetts in he number of her spindles. This plendid fact alone proves that ho present governor has the con idence of business men at home nd abroad. We have tried this? rhy take one with less experimce. NICK M'CASLAN'S DILEMMA. Mr. Gary is all right lor anoth>r lime, but just now he is like he little Seceder boy down on jong Cane that "Nick" McCaslan ells about. Nick and a candidate lined with a friend and they had ried chicken. Nick declares he lid n't take a second piece, but hat just as the candidate helped lirmelf a second time there was i loud wail from behind the door, rhe gentleman of the house said: What's the the matter, buddie? Uuddie boohooed some, but tin lally blurted out, "Them darned ools is er eating up all the fried :hicken!" Buddie's company manners did not sustain him long enough; in short, he was too previous?just so with the govern >rsnip. See? Now as to the other candidate. Wo don't moan to mince matters, t>ut call a spade a spade. Prohibition is the Jack-o'lanlern by whose dickering light }ol. Iloyt would lain walk into he governor's chair. Prohibition is a lovely subject on paper and would make an Eden of our earth if it would work. But when you }ee men wtio have been advocates ol the open bar and who fought the dispensary bitterly, coming out with a bugle and drum and tlags and cheers for Hoyt, the prohibition candidate, is not it time to stop and think and ask yourself why and wherefore this unholy alliance between dark uess and light, bet ween temperance and intemperance. ML AND WATKR DO NOT MIX BUI Til K WHISKEY ELEMENT AND TIIE COLI) WATKR CROWD HAVE COME TOO ETHER. I)olh oil and water mix? No, ?ir, but whiskey and water are rying to mix in the following of his ticket. Col. Moyt's friends ?nd his paper have advocated ligh license, and all signs noint 0 (he fact that if we should pet prohibition it would be such a dis nal failure that we would inevit ibly wind up with high license *nd open bars. All these sipnifi iant thinps make me think oi 3ol. Iloyt in eonneetion with one >f John Quincy Adam's anec lotes. unco upon a time there was a man who for some reason lid not wish his motherless son to ever see or love a woman, Hence he brought tho boy up on :i country estate, where all the servants even were men. Thuf surrounded by men the boy grew to manhood, his father hoping thus to render him utterly indifferent to womankind. One day 1 l\/\ t r\/?l/ I L/v 4 ?* ? I I I no iniuci luim I no mill UIH WttlHing beyond the paik gates of hif country seat. They had not gone far before they irtet two very (Continued on third page.) Alter many Intricate experiment*. scientjAit tare discovered methods for obtaining all th< natural diKestant*. Tbsse have been com bin ed In the proportion found In th* human body and united with substances that build up th? 11s*Httve orxans. maklnif a co-ti| otirid called itodol Dynpepela Cure. It digests what yot rat and allows all dvapepUcfl to eat plenty oi noortshliur food while the stomach trouble* ?r? betiiK radically cured by the medicine agents It contain* It Is pteasent to take and will fly* qulctf relief Crawford lir. d ? ? ?,? _ I . LET LOOSE YOU Oi r JOIN THE Till THRIFTS THERE IS MONEY jp Stock-1 ing ne; rid of There ewrytl handlii a few MONEY sold fc __ lously ?lere now b For the dif YOU I p"c#s other s of yarc nants 1 cYJ ...... <"lrPr THOSE VERY i PERC/ newest xnose must ? Verv our yours Sest ^jle ^ 12 l-2c so we Percales dr?p~ irercaies, Waist Newest waist s Styles, t?* ! Must Sll|t and gc Go at an(J y 8 Cents. d<? ? with u NOW I : CLOSE U i ?????????????????? to pro] - m* counte They ,nr Str JJave 6oo cll . Been .c f( ; yhoaur8ing ? l! . High 1 ney Prices -?" ' ; pQr ture 1 i Furniture, st?|> l' But we saIe,w Are going <.:ar lo: To stop- f!,rmtL That now. <luctl? Come and rooms . See. inS- ,a cut tn< ____ Come Heath Bkg. ^ tVSH! % 7 Buyers! HERE FOR YOU. * taking time is drawir, and we must be all broken lots and ling that shows ig. We mention ?what they have \?* ^ VI / 1 If rl-\ O f* Ji auu wimi^ iiui^ulow prices you can >uy them for. See ference between our and the prices of tores : 10,000 yards 1-wide Percale Remthat sold fast at 6c.; * ice now is 5c yard. VEST 12 l-2c : styles, fast colors J ro at 8c yard. All fancy Dimities are for 5 c. It is time lirt waist were gone, will give them a big -all.Qur fine $1 Shirt for 50c, and our 50c ilashed to 25 c. Our 4 id collection of La5kirts must follow ^ Compare our prices )ods with any store, 011 will see the wisf spending your cash s. I ;r eyes fit and throw on our :rs 1,000 men's dolaw Hats at 25c, and nth hats, bargains at 4 >r 5 cents. I GOOD NEWS FOR YOU. ^ have been charging ncy prices for furniately, but we will iat now. At a big e. bon <rht fh MAI ? ? " ^ W? ? w V/ ? rn V.? ids?1,100 pieces of ire?at a great ren. Our two store are filled to the ceilnd we are going to 2 life out of prices, and see. & Mer. Co. ? '."'JS ' v .j:j** vJ9I mm \ irKI' ~ B