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THE DARLINGTON NEWS.
“POE US PRINCIPLE IS PRINCIPLE—RIGHT IS RIGHT—YESTERDAY, TO-DAY. TO MORROW, FOREVER.’
VOL. m NO 17.
DARLINGTON, S. 0.. THURSDAY, APRIL 29,1886.
WHOLE NO 590.
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April 8,1886. ly
Humble Heroes.
There are men of worth and bonpr.
Who are ever b> ave and true,
Who are strong to work and eulfer
In wbate’er they find to do ;
And although their lot be lowly.
Though they ne’er be known to fame,
Though the crowd ehould pass them cold
iy.
They are heroes, juit the eatne.
There are those who daily labor
Turning up the stubborn soil.
Winning horns and food for loved ones
By the bands’ aneeasing toil.
Though they never gain the friendship
Of ths rich and proud of earth,
’Mong the world's renowned and noble
There are none of greater worth.
He who does hie duty bravely,
Though it lead through bumble ways,
Who would scorn an evil action,
Heeding neither bWme nor praise.
Who weald net withhold hie helping
From a suffering brother’s needs.
Surely is as much a hero
As he who does greater deeds.
£ev. John C. Kilgo Honestly Kepre-
sented.
Editor Darlington Metes :
Yonr columns recently contained
a slanderous, vulgar and wicked
misrepresentation of an article by
Rev. John C. Kilgo to the Temper
anoe Worter, setting for;h the facts
regarding prohibition in Ibe town
of Timmonsville. Col. H. L. Morris
ieeliug the force of the truth of the
article, enters a tirade of slander
upon the author before a public who
knows nothing concerning the
origin Of his wrath, it was his
premeditated design to misrepre
sent. It it had not been, he would
have replied before the public ac
quainted with tbe nature and de
sign ot my communication. 1 give
tbe article to tbe columns of the
Nkws that its honest and intelli
gent readers may decide whether it
is an attack on ’.he virtue of Tim-
moosville or the liquor traffic which
has always been a curse to tbe town.
simply ask tbe Timmonsville
community to put the construction
ot an intelligent people on my com
munication and not leave it to the
iuterpietation of a malignant i-pirit
and weak mind. The Colonel will
please give attention to the laws
ot the language before be attempts
to interpret for an intelligent people
an article so clear and simple. I
have attacked the report to the
Mem and Courier, and to this con
fined my sell. Here is what I said:
1 clipped from tbelastissneof tbe
Worker the / bllowing report of pro
hibition in Timmonsville which ap
peared sometime since in the News
and Courier.
'Tne Officers are all good and
true men, property-owners in the
town, and Lave its best interests at
heart. Timmonsville baa tried ?ro-
hibition for two years, and daring
that time the town itself came near
' drying up.” Business fell off con
tinually and matters got from bad
to worse until tbe best citizens saw
that Prohibition was not on'y a
failure aud did not prohibit, but
that tbe town was becoming ruined
from a business standpoint.’
“It would have been becoming in
the News and Courier to have as
certained all the facts of the case,
aud not have suffered itself lead
away into error by an anxiety to
publish any report against prohibi
tion. I would not attempt a reply
to this notice if I were not in full
possession of all the tacts concern
ing pruhibition in that town. I am
therefore prepared to give to tbe
public a true aud full statement of
the situation.
“I qo not understand how tbe last
Municipal election could involve the
question of “license’’ or “no license.”
An election held in November,
1884, settled that question in favor
of prohibition for the two consecu
tive years. The prohibitory senti
ment must have great y decreased
siuct tbe election of ’84. Then the
vote, according to my recollection,
stood 49 for aud 32 against pro
hibition. Knowing the facts as 1
do, I can see tbe reason tor such a
falling away. I do not hesitate to
say that it was not a business
cause.
“The business was not hurt by
prohibition. It may be true that
less cotton was sold ami hence less
goods purchased, 'ibis may be a
tact, I cannot say, bat prohibition
was not tbe cause. Cotton went
to the town of Darlington which
might have been sold in Timmons-
ville. Tbe reason is this, Darling
ton paid very high prices lor cotton.
This Timmonsville did not and
could not do. For this reason cot
ton goes to Charleston, New York,
and Liverpool.
“Timmons* ille has no capital to
bnild op a trade. There is not a
single enterprise going on in tbe
town to attract trade. Money
draws money. In the two past
years Darlington has waked from a
long business lethargy. Tbe reason
is this—mote than two hundred
thousand dollars have been invest
ed in enterprises in the town, tbe
greater amount in a large cotton
factory. This has drawn trade, a
thing Darlington’s nineteen bars
bad ao signally failed to do. Flor-
enoe, a railroad center, as wall aa a
bar room town, lost worse by tbe-«>
enterprises than Timmonsville. L-t
Timmonsville get up some enter
prise preater than egg buying and
tram building and business will in
crease, whiskey or no whiskey.
“The town improved as much dur
ing the years of prohibition as any
two preceediug years of late. As
many new buildings went ap, and
far superior to the old residences
bmlt in whisky days. Four new
stores were opened up, and a tailor
shop. One firm failed. Daring the
days of liqnor traffic more than half
of the business h ouses tailed aud
these men carry on their business
in the names of their wives. It is
worthy of note, that these men are
anti prohibitionists. They sold dry
goods, groceries, and whiskey all in
the names of their wives. Every
man according to bis own taste,
but I do not want a barrel of mean
corn whiskey rolled into any depot
with my wife’s name in big letters
on tbe bead. •
“Timmonsville never was a fully
dry town. It bad four bar-rooms
This every one knew. These bar
keepers did not hesitate to defy the
State and Municipal laws. Their
threats, characters, and boldness
became a terror to the citizens. The
Conuci) refused to make any arrests
for such violations. They openly
proclaimed fear of tbe material
damages which the town might
suffer from such legal action. This
tbe bar-keepers knew and it only
made them the bolder in their vio
lations.
“Prohibition was not entirely a
failure until the Fall of ’85. No
police force was necessary aud the
streets were free from rioting, Ac.
Bat so bold and defiant did tbe
liquor venders grow that daring
tbe past full they sold openly to any
one, aud the stree s of Shanghai
would have been a credit to tbe
Timmonsville streets on Saturday
afternoons:
“Tbe Gonncil could not plead ig
norance. One of that brave body,
elected to enforce the laws of the
town, kept one of these bars, where
he sold the meanest whiskey, judg
ing by tbe character he displayed
in discharging the honest duty of
his office. This man dare not deny
tbe charge. When called upon in
December, 1885 by the County
Treasurer for license fee, he re
luctantly paid it, but did this be
cause be did not want to involve
bis wife, in whose name be carried
on his business. This demonstrates
tbe above assertion. A part of
that Council was daily customers
at these bars, aud no doubt they all
had obtained it “/or sickness,” in
the town. •
•‘A notorious fact. Daring the
Sammer of ’85 a United States Con
stable visited Timmonsville and
bonght beer from one of these par
ties who had not paid for United
States license—the others had pur
chased them—and when he was ar
rested. a part of this Conncil ex
erted themselves to effect a com
promise which was easily done. 1
approached tbe Inteudant upon tbs
matter when he offered tbe excuse
for not enforcing tbe law. “It
would cause hard teeli ngs.” Great
Sympathy ! t
'These/acts show tbe strength of
the Mancipal law in this great
town whose name is to blaze in tbe
columns of the News and Courier as
a proof against prohibition. Dar
ing these two years not a single ef
fort was made to enforce tbe laws
and no task would have been easier.
“Yon struck tbe truth, Mr. Editor,
when yon said “it is bar rooms Tim
monsville wants.” No town in tbe
State has a blacker moral bistory
than Timmonsville. Profanity,
fighting, shooting, cutting and gam
bling were tbe characteristics of the
streets. Prohibition freed the town
from such scenes till the Fall of’85
when the days ot yore returned
bringing with them past scenes of
rioting. Tbe Council winked at all
this and tbe whiskey venders grew
more desperate. This disgusted tbe
good people of tbe town and in this
is found the reason for tbe decrease
in the prohibitory vote.
“Tbe inti prohibitionists had two
arguments which they use in the
report to tbe News and Courier.
First, there is as mneb whiskey sold
as ever. Second, prohibition hurts
trade. Such a contradiction I 1
guess it was the name that hart
and not the thing.
“Timmcnsville has sent as many
drunkards to its cemetery as any
town of its size in tbe State. She
is not satisfied. There is still drank-
ard room in the cemetery and it
mast be occupied. Five bars will
do tbe work well.
“We give tbe above to an honest
public. Let them decide whether
prohibition was aeursetotbattown.
One thing is obvious from these
facts. Tbe law is a failure and not
pn.hibition. Not nntil we can get
a council with a back bone to en
force law, and laws of weight will
oar town be worthy of oar respect
As a people we mast qait voting for
legislation for no legislation pro
hibits. Let the oorraspondent to
the News mnd Courier abase tbe
Goauoil and tbe laws of his town,
and not tbe aims and possibilities
of prohibition. If thi Council bad
shown any dsstto to enforce 4e
*
laws, Timmonsville would always
b.ive remained dry. Tbe bars have
already developed a class of men
which ‘ Timmonsville cannot
control as she admits. She is not
satisfied. She must have more.
Give them to her by the thousands
it she wants them, In her frenzy
some day she will commit sui
cide. This is what whiskey is do
ing for the world—mannfacturiug
outlaws. Deliver ns, oh deliver
us!”
Let yonr readers decide whether
I have been truthful in my state
ments. Tbe Colonel has refused to
reply to my article and his malig
nant spirit gushes forth in a vile
personal slander. He should have
remembered that your readers are
not to be swept away by such gush.
An intelligent mind demands a
sound logic. Troth is not to be
overthrown by personal slander. I
have received many communica
tions from your county thanking
me for publishing what has long
since been a knewn truth. M.tny
men howl under tbe lash of stern
facts Ibave no regard for their bowl
ings. If tbe Colonel has been hit,
the best policy is to keep quiet.
I am too much of a Christian man
to notice bis personalities. My
character can take rare of itseif,
and if not it ought to go. Col. H.
L. Morris forgets that I am known
among tbe best people of Darling
ton County. I can assure him that
he is fully known. He has tried his
hand on my character before and
has signally tailed. It is bis old
game. He never fails to attack tbe
pulpit utterances of the Tiuimous-
vill« clergy. Not a man in Dar
lington County can find one single
thing against me. I used my time
and i-trength to elevate society and
advance my Redeemer’s Kingdom
during my two years pastorate on
that circuit. Timmonsville has
seme as grand citizens as I have
ever met. I feel interested in the
eternal welfare of their sons. I am
sure those bar-rooms will damn
some of • those precious bojs
yet. It Colonel Morris intends to
aid in keeping np a set of bar-keep
ers who have no respect for human
salvation I simply say the town
would be better off without him.
Some father who voted for license
in tbe last election, is going to pay
for it in tbe destruction of a son.
John C. Kilgo.
Boys Getting Acquainted.
When two strange boys come to
getber they proceed to get acquaint
ed something after this fashion :
“What’s yer name I”
“Tommy Cropper. What’s
yourn t”
“Dickey Tabbits. Wot’s yonr
dad’s name 1”
“Ole Dan Crupper, an’ the dog’s
name’s Sniff. Is yer dog jallerf”
“Nope ; lie’s spotted an’ wears a
collar. Got a knife’ to trade T”
“Yep; but I lost it. When I find
it I’ll swop yon. Watchy read inf”
“Third Reader. Lus trade hats.”
“I dassent: my pop won’t ’low
me. My feet’s the biggest.”
“Wei 1 .1 chawed terbucker onest.”
“That’s nothin’. I saw three
dogs fighting at one time.”
“I was in swimmin’ six times in
one day a’ready.”
“I had two teeth palled las’
week.”
“That’s nothin’. I cat my finger
most every day, an’ our hired girl
’most burnt her head off las’ night
“That’s no great sight. A rob
ber broke into our house one time,
an’ my pap’s got a brother in jail.”
“Well, that ain’t mneb. My ma’s
got a sister with a glass eye, an’
our baby’s got four teeth an’a lamp
on its head what makes it cry all
the time Can yonr father play
the fiddlef”
“Maybe I aint got a brother who
can turn a ban’ spring an’ walk on
stilts. Why don’t you brag t”
“Who’s a braggin’t I wouldn’t
be a blowbard ”
! *Don’t yon call me that, or I’ll—”
“Yon will, will yon t”
“Yes, I will P
“No, you won’t P’
“I will P
“Yon won’t P
“Will—will—will P
“Won’t—won’t—won’t P
“Touch me if yon dare.”
4 Don’t yon packer yonr mouth
at me, or I’ll smash yer noss.”
“If I was a girl I’d wear a dress.”
“Wait till I ketch yon some time,
an’ I’ll lick yon till you can’t walk.”
“Pat a chip on yonr shoulder
aud I’ll knock it off.”
“No, you won’t”
“Yes, I will.”
“You won’t, eather 1”
“I will it yoa dare me to.”
“Well, I dare you, an’ anybody
won’t take a dare ’ll steal sheep.
There it is, smsrty, an* now let’s see
what yon’ll do.”
Tbe next instant beth boys are
rolling in the dost polling bair,
and trying to chew each other’s
ears From this time oa they oon
eider themselves well aoqnsieted,
end take a friendly interest in each
other.— Washington RepubUo.
An old gentleman end hie wife
are living in Laurens County who
have now living sixty-four grand-
ebildren and fifteen great-graud-
The English Liturgy.
The English liturgy, next to the
English Bible, is the most wonder
ful product of tbe Reformation.
The very fortunes of the book aie
the romance of history. As we
trace its development, its rubrics
seem dyed in the blood of martyrs;
its offices echo with polemic phra
ses; its canticles mingle with the
battle cries of armed sects and fac
tions ; aud its successive revisions
mark the career of dynasties. States,
and Churches. Cavalier, Covenan
ter and Puritan have Crossed tbeii
swords over it; scholars and sol
diers, statesmen and churchmen,
kings and commoners, have united
in defending it. England, Germa
ny, Geneva, Scotland, America,
have by turns been the scene of its
conflicts. Far beyond the little is
land which was its birth place, its
influence has been silently spread
ing its connection with great polit
ical and religions changes, genera
tion after generation, from land to
land, even where its name was nev
er beard.
At first sight, indeed, tbe impor
tance which this book has acquired
may seem quite beyond its merits,
as the Bible itself might appear to
a superficial observer a mere idol of
bigotry and prejudice. But tbs ex
planation in both cases is some
what tbe same. It is to he found
in tbe fact that the Prayer-book,
like the sacred canon, is no merely
mdividoqj production, nor even
purely hitman work, bat un accu
mulation of choice writings, partly
divine, partly human, expressing
the religious mind of the whole an
cient and modern world, as enun
ciated by prophets and apostles
saints and martyrs, aud formnla
ted by councils, synods, and confer
ences, all seeking heavenly light
and gnidance. Judaism bus given
to it its lessons and psalter; Chris
tiauity has added its episUe« and
uospels; Catholicism has follower!
with its canticles, creeds and col
lects; and Protestantism has com
pleted it with its exhortations, con
fessions aud thanksgivings. At
tbe same time each leading phase
of the Reformation has b< en im
pressed upon its composite mate
rials. Latberanism has molded its
ritual; Calvinism has framed its
doctrine; Episcop diauism has dom
inated both ritnal aud doctrine;
while Presbyterianism has subject
ed each to thorough revision. And
tbe whole has been rendered into
tbe pare English and with the sa
cred fervor peculiar to the earnest
age in which it arose; has been
wrought into a system adapted to
all classes of men through all the
vicissitudes of life; and has been
tested aud hallowed by three ceu
tnriesof trial in every quarter of
tbe globe.
It would be strange if a work
which thus bus its roots in tbe whole
church of tbe past should not be
sending forth its branches into the
whole church of the fatnre; and any
one who will take the pains to stu
dy its present adaptations, what
ever may have been his prejudices,
must admit that there is no other
extant formulary which is so well
fitted to become the rallying point
and standard of modern Christen
dom. In it are to be found tbe
means, possibly the germs, of a just
reorganization of Protestantism as
well as an nltimate reconciliation
with true Catnolicism, such a Cath
olicism as shall have shed every
thing sectarian and national, and
retained only what is common to
tbe whole obnroh of Christ in all
ages aud countries. Whilst to tbe
true Protestant it offers evangelical
doctrine, worship, and unity on the
terms of tbe Reformation, it still
preserves for the true Catholic the
cboicess formulas of antiquity, and
to all Christians of every name
opens a liturgical system at once
scriptural and reasonable, doctrinal
and devotional, learned and vernac-
nlar, artistic and spiritnal. It is
not too mneb to say that were the
problem given, to frame out of the
imperfectly organized aud secta
rian Obriatianity of oar times, a
liturgical model for the communion
of saints in tbe one universal church
the result might be .expressed in
some such compilation aa the Eng
lish Book of Common Prayer.—
Southern Churchman
A Walking Skeleton.
Mr. E. Springer, of Mecbanios-
burg, Pa., writes: “I was afflicted
with long fever and abscess on
lungs, and reduced to a walking
skeleton. Got a free trial bottle of
Dr. King’s New Discovery for Oou-
sumpaoo, which did mo so ranch
good that I bought a dollar bottle.
After using three bottles, found
myself once more a man, complete
ly restored to health* with a hearty
appetite, and a gain in flesh of 48
lbs.” Call at Wiiloox 4 Go’s., Drag
Store and got a free trial bottle of
this certain core for all Lang Dis
eases- Large bottles $1,000.
Thunsauds Say So.
Mr. T. W Atkina, Girard, Kan.,
writes: “I never hesitate to re
commend your Electric Bitters to
my customers, they give entire
satisfaction snd are rapid sellers.”
Electric Bitters are tbe purest and
best medicine known and will posi
tively cure Kidney and Liver com
plaints. Purify tbe blood and re
gulate the bowels. No family can
afford to be without them. They
will save hundreds of dollars in
doctor’s bills every year. Sold at
fifty cents a bottle by WillcoxA
Co.
Harper’s Magazine for May is
in every way a strong number.
Tbe frontispiece is an engraving by
Closson from “Faith,” a painting
by E. Armitage, R. A., one of tbe
illustrations for an artiele by Wil
liam H. lugersoll, entitled “Por
traits of our Saviour”—a beauti
fully illustrated paper on a subject
especially interesting to the Chris
tian reader and to tbe art-stndent.
The Number opens wi'h “The Loo-
don Season”—illustrated by eleven
characteristic pictures drawn by
George da Manner. The aeoond
part of Mr. Charles Dndley Warn
er’s story, “Their Pilgrimage,” is
located in the Catskills. Passing
from this to Mr. Blackmore’s novel
VSpringbaveu,” the reader cannot
fail to be delighted with tbe author's
quaint and charming description of
English country life. Tbe story is
illustrated by Alfred Parsons and
Frederick Barnard. R. F. Zogbaum
contributes another of his interest
ing military papers. William Hamil
ton Gibson in “Sap Bewitched”
contributes an exquisite bit of fancy
blended with scientific suggestion,
aud illustrated in his happiest style.
The Number contains another in
stalment of “She Stoops to Con
quer,” with Mr. Abbey’s illostra-
tious. Miss Woolson’s novel, “East
Angels,” is concluded. Tbe second
part of Mrs. Craik’s “King Arthur.
Not a Love Story,” will bo read
with interest by every mother. In
tbe third part of Mr. E. P. Roe’s
interesting series, entitled “The
Home Acre,” the antbor gives some
very useful suggestions respecting
the treatment of various soils end
respecting tbe selection aud caltnre
of grapes. Tbe drawer is fall of in
teresting anecdotes.
“So far as we know Hughs’ Ton
ic has given more satisfaction than
any other chill medicine we have
•old. The increase in sales show
that it is gaining in popularity.”
J. H. Scull 4 Bro., Pins Bluff,
Ark.
pro-
bile
“Are yoa a member of the
Knights ot Labor !”
“No, bat I had oae last week.”
“Had one t What do yoa mean f
“Had a night of labor. Uy ‘
had the oolie from 9 v’olook on
daylight.
STATE ITEMS.
Tbe postoffice at Greenwood has
been fitted up with tbe latest stj le
of lock boxes.
A money order de;>artment is to
be established at tbe Manning post-
office.
There is some talk of establish
ing an ice factory in Anderson.
Tbe crop of peaches in Ander
son County has been badly injur
ed.
Commercial fertilizers have been
sold in Seneca this season to the
amount of $17,500.
The town council oi Seneca
pose to level the bluff in tbe pni
square.
Lots are being rapidly sold in tbe
new town of Elloree in Orangeburg
Oounty.
Tbe Lanrens Guards have been
armed with tbe latest improved
Springfield breechloading rifles.
Arrangements are being made to
bold a baby show in tbe Opera-
House at Winowboro.’
Tbe annnai meeting of the Sooth
Carolina Holioees Association will
be held in Anderson on May 11.
The Edgefield Agricultural So
ciety has procared a small bat well
selected library of books of prac
tical value to farmers for the oae of
its members.
The county commissioners of Ab
beville Goanty ere going to hare
the road laws printed in pamphlet
form, for tbe benefit of the super-
visors and overseers of publie
roads.
Mr. A. M. Hill has discovered ao
inexhaustible bed of kaolin on hit
lace a few miles from Abbeville,
e has sank a sbart and ia la cor
respondence with capitalists rela
tive to ita purchase.
The executive committee of the
Colleton County Agricultural As
sociation will meet on April 19 for
the purpose of deciding whether to
send delegates to the State Con
vention of Farmers.
Baekleu’a Arnka Salve,
The beat Salve in tbe world
Guta,Braises,Ulcers, Sett.
Fever Sores. Tetter,
Hands, Chilblains, Oort
Skin Bra(
cares Piles, or no pay
is guaranteed to give
faction, or
»pe
oox 4 Go.
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