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'???- I Opposed to Dispensary. , The following clipping from the 1 Southern Christian Advocate has been handed us with the request that it be published: 1 will not undertake in this article 4l-? .noonne Kilt nnlv a tc giv 6 ail lllC iccuuiig, ww j _ , few: 1. Because the evils of the liquor traffic and of liquor drinking are not dependent on the method of sale, I but grow out of the nature of liquor. Whisky will have the same effect,no matter how or by whom sold. It will produce drunkenness, incite to crime,break up homes,entail poverty and destroy character as quicker if sold by a preacher as dispenser it will if sold bv an outlaw. So long; as the nature of alcohol is what it is, j aiH so long as it affects for evil the physical,mental, moral and spiritual nature of man, if angels sold it the results would be just what they are. The courts of the land have spoken in condemnation of the traffic. The highest scientific medical authority has pronounced alcohol a poison to ^ the human system. The large business interests of the country have condemned it. The moral forces and church of God have made an uncompromising war on it. Experience -* Urturt* traffic is inca snows mat tuc H4v*v? fable of purification and is beyond redemption. No method of regulation has ever destroyed the evils of it. Therefore, I cannot accept any legal sale of it and cannot refrain from opposing the illegal sale. 2. Because the liquor traffic has been a corrupting power in politics since it has legal standing. It is today the greatest and most unprincipled trust in existence. All are familiar with the black record of shame,bribery and corruption of the eld State dispensary. 3. Because by compromising the j right we always lose. The only thing we gain is to derive revenue, and we gain this at a moral loss. No 41 ' fho Hlc. man can trutniuuy w^'umv ??. ?.w pensary destroys blind timers; they are too plentiful in dispensary counties. The dispensary is a convenient source of supply for retail and Sunday selling for the country tigers. Is ot the revenue the bottom reason? We do not take this position on carrying concealed weapons, steali. g and murder, all of which prevail. 4. Because I cannot reconcile to my moral nature to try to make a moral wrong right by getting a rev nee from it. A government may = *? fV,0 rommittinfir of npuse a uuc ivi ?>v v?? ? a crime without being a partner in the crime,for the fine is punishment. # But when it sells the right to commit a moral wrong no logic can save it from being an accessory before Ike fact to the crime. I am addressing those who believe it to be morally wrong to sell liquor. When I vote for the legal sale of liquor I aoii mv rio-ht. dutv and opportunity to fight this great evil. J can fight the blind tiger with law and public sentiment. I may even convert him from the error of his way by the gospel. But I cannot convert or fight the dispensary for four long years. During that time it may in the name I law and respectability make a drunkard of my boy and I have no power to remove the temptation from him. It is a weighty reason with me that I have a boy. With my vote 1 will not give a business a chance to ruin his character, even if -* - * "> nanfo in his tt oners w pui a icn wuw kead. 5. Because of my individual responsibility as a church member. If I endorse the dispensary, whatever my motives may be, I have in fact endorsed all the results of its work. Am I obeying Jesus when He said, "Let your light, so shine, etc;" if I * mo mi __ vote to legalize this evn: mere is but one question for me, that of my individual duty. 6. Lastly, because I believe that I follow the teaching of God's word when 1' oppose this evil. It says, "Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil." Moral questions are * not settied by majorities. All the voters in the world can't make right what is inherently wrong. The word of God says, "Woe unto him that fiveth his neighbor drink, that putteth thy bottle to him and maketh him dnmk also." (Habakkuk 2:15). It would be an awful crime for me, a total abstainer, to put in the name of law the bottle to the lips of my weak brother. It may be my liberty in one sense of the word to so vote, but Christian charity says, "Destroy not thy weak brother for whom Christ died." If it is a crime to put the bottle to the lips of the drunkard,how much more so to the lips of boys and young men who have not formed the habit. It says, "For it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh!" (Matthew 18:7). Some say, "Liquor will be sold, and we had just as well keep the money at home and have the profit," So we might say ef stealing and murder. That is not the logic of Christ. I must have my hands and conscience clean, regardless of what others do. "No drunkards shall inherit the kingdom of God." (1 Cor 6:10). Then what about the drunkard maker? If I vote for the / dispensary I will make drunkards. I submit the above reasons to men of reason who really are opposed to the liquor business and yet may contemplate voting for the dispensary as the best solution. Weigh them and see if I am not right in the position I take. It has been assumed by some that the preachers are trying to coerce people on this question before us, so I have heard. Let me once for all say this is not true, and the preachers are not the issue, but a moral question is. The preachers are willing for every man to exercise the right to think and act. They are trying to do just what they try to do in every moral issue to persuade their hearers and readers. Could they do less? Are not those who are working for the dispensary trying to persuade their fellowmen to adopt their views on the question in the lay sermons they preach so of-, ten? Would we not have better con- J sciences; would we not have better1 morals; would we not do more for the real interests of our country, if we organized to put down the illegal sale of liquor and refuse to sanction its legal sale? Has prohibition had a fair showing in Calhoun county? Have you, reader, done your duty to make it succeed? Let us keep this issue straight. We don't have to have "blind tigers." The issue is not dispensary or blind tiger, but whiskey or no whiskey. J M Steadman. i St Matthews, May 24. COLUMBIAN SHOOTS HIMSELF. Frank L Holland. Jr, Attempts to Commit Snlclde. Columbia, June 5:?Frank L Holland, Jr, a prominent young business man of Ridgewood, a suburb of Columbia, shot himself several times to-night, it is claimed, with the declared intention of committing suicide. At a late hour the young man, although said to be badly wounded, was still alive. No cause is assigned for the alleged attempt at selfdestruction. It is said that Mr Holland, just before the Ridgewood car reached Price avenue to-night, where he was waiting to board it, turned an automatic pistol Which he was holding in his hands on himself and inflicted a wound in the neighborhood of his heart. Then,according to the report, he boarded the car and fired another shot from the automatic, which penetrated the seat of the car and glanc ing tore a hole through the rim of a hat on a passenger's head, but fortunately hit none of the occupants of the car. It is said that the conductor immediately brought the car to a stop near the residence of a physician and requested Mr Holland to go to the doctor, which he refused to do, saying, so it is stated, that he wanted to go home and die there. * ? --i? r X1 Alter descending irom me car near his home and after having gone a short distance, another shot was fired. Neighbors went to Mr Holland's assistance. At a late hour he was reported as still alive, but desperately wounded. Coroner Scott on being asked about Mr Holland's condition by The News and Courier representative,said that while he had heard of the shooting, no official report had been made to him, but on hearing the rumor he made an in HUSBAND RESCUED DESPAIRING WIFE After Four Tears of Discouraging Conditions, Mrs. Bollock Gave Up in Despair. Husband Came to Rescue. Catron, Ky.?In an interesting letter from this place, Mrs. Bettie Bullock writes as follows: "1 suffered for four years, with womanly troubles, and during this time, 1 could only sit up for a little while, and could not walk anywhere at all. At times, 1 would have severe pains in my left side. The doctor was called in, and his treatment relieved me for a while, but I was soon confined to my bed again. After that, nothing seemed to do me any good. 1 had gotten so weak I could not stand, and I gave up in despair. At last, my husband got me a bottle of Cardui, the woman's tonic, and I commenced taking it. From the very first dose, I could tell it was helping me. I can now walk two miles without its tiring me, and am doing my work." If you are all run down from womanly troubles, don't give up in despair. Try Cardui, the woman's tonic. It nas helped more than a million women, in its 50 years of wonderful success, and should surely help you, too. Your druggist has sold Cardui for years. He knows what it will do. Ask him. He will recommend it Begin taking Cardui today. Write to: Cluttanooca Medicln? Co.. Ladles' Advisory Dept.. Cbattanooca. Tenn.. (or Special ftatructione on pour case and 64-pape book,' Hone Treatment (or Women," seat la plain wrapper. E66-B vestigation and was keeping in close touch through the neighbors with the situation. Mr Holland was removed to the Columbia hospital. It is thought that he may have a fighting chance for recovery. Two bullets are said to have taken effect in his body. He is a prominent young man and well known. Ulcers and Skin Troubles. i If you are suffering with any old, running or fever sores, ulcers, boils, eczema or other skin troubles, get i box of Bucklen's Arnica Salve anc you will get relief promptly. Mri Bruce Jones, of Birmingham, Ala suffered from an ugly ulcer for nin< months and Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured her in two weeks. Will heli you. Only 25c. Recommended bj Kingstree Drug Co and M L Allen. adv A large per cent of the expectec profits from commercial fertilizer! I J? 1?^ maam vwAnovflfmn of 19 IU3L Uy [A/UI pi C|/oiavivu v* v**> soil. Fertilizers will, in some in stances, Rive double the profit or well prepared soils.?L C, Newman in The Progressive Farmer. lost Children Have forms. Many mothers think their childrei are suffering from indiRestion, head ache, nervousness, weakness, costive ness, when they are victims of thai most common of all children's ail ments?worms. Peevish, ill-temper ed, fretful children, who toss anc Rrind their teeth, with bad breatl and colicky pains, have all the symp toms of havinR worms and should be Riven Kickapoo Worm Killer,a pleasant candy lozenRe, which expelf worms, regulates the bowels, tones up the system, and makes childrer well and happy. Kickapoo Worm Killer is guaranteed. All druggist* or by mail. Price 25c. Kickapoc Indian Medicine Co, Philadelphia and " ? - j.. dt JUOU1S. au? The two points at which most Southern stockmen fail in efforts to sell their livestock are lack of proper feeding and advertising. We are notoriously bad feeders and have never learned 10 advertise. You may have something to sell which your nearest neighbor wants to buy, but unless you tell him in some way that you have such an article and want to sell it, he may never know it, no matter how close he lives to you. Advertising is a regular and legitimate charge to be counted in the selling charges of any business.?The Progresfiive Farmer. Take Plenty of Time to Eat. mi ~ ? iLA4 inere la it atiyiug uiau tapiu eating is slow suicide." If you have formed the habit of eating too rapidly you are most likely suffering from indigestion or constipation, which will result eventually in serious illness unless corrected. Digestion begins in the mouth. Food should be thoroughly masticated and insalivated. Then when you have a fullness of the stomach or feel dull and efnni/1 offor oofinrr folrn Ann r\f berlain's Tab!- s. Many severe cases of stomach trouble and constipation have been cured by the use of these tablets. They are easy to take and most agreeable in effect. Sold by all dealers. adv Piles Cored in 6 to 14 Days Your druggist will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT faili to cure any caae of I telling. Blind. Bleeding or Protruding Pilee in S to 14 dura. The firat application girea Emc and Reat SOc. Store of 1 The place to b J -i. ! neeu at prices yuu teresting. When get my prices. I line of Summer Go I am still at the H. D. R Kingstree, i .. . THE PEOPLI Hides, Furs u A Mil I PR | ?! ru iw wi ilT WILL BE THEEXGI The Best of All Thoras H Knight, -he m excusions.will run an excurs F ast ^ Famous A to Charles thursda; Here are pleasures to suit t] tne keynote to the characte tanism. A trip to this delig or/ to brighten the stressful It is a center that attracts tl 1 ter once experiencing its gei 1 ally, year after year. No ? 3 . Charleston. It needs the ir i quately sing its mighty praii civic pride, energy and intel 1 11 and homes bespeak not only ? 1 * but a degree of taste not of ! nities. J j Train Will Leave I j 1' and will leave Charleston foi Round-Trip Fare f " f with correspondingly low : roate. Get in line and be knowing ones. Make no mi j | > No postponement ! | W. i. CRAIG, T. C. WHf -1 Pas Traf Hirr. 6.1 ^ 1 HV> "Q? w. 5 a Vlr* * W" "VI>M w 1 fffTfffITff.fffltfWff'??tf? i|| GROW 1 . I DY means of a mutua \ and a thorough t needs, coupled with a des on the part of those int E cerns in this immediate the extensive service offe P hnildinfr for themselves a ?=> ? ? for the larger business of BANK OF W1 ; Kingst I C W Stoll, President ? F Rhem, Vice-President Wedding Presents From a $1.50 Sterling Silver Sugi Don't forget the ever so popuh EICH CT3 Our stock of Glass has never bt t present Also a large line of f J I in Sterling. Pearl, Hue I CLOCKS AN ? A visit to our store will pay y< | S. THOM | QUALITY, J 257 King St-, - - watch! <? For Southern Railway. George \ J Charleston Consolic l ,ow Prices ; uy the things you 11 n 1 11 it nna unusuany iuJ in town call in and have a nice, new iods, just arrived. a > old stand. I EDDICK ; s t South Carolina ii ~ K Fs MARKET I " " i DEALER IN Kinds of Fresh 1 eats and Fish. hest Cash Price Paid for < 1 and Poultry. , PROPRIETOR JRSION OF THE YEAR. ? i the Good Ones. i anager of real. big. first-class . ion via the I ] tlantic Coast Line S ] iton, S. C., V, JUNE 12. he taste of every comer, for i r of Charleston is cosmopoli- < , htful city lingers in the mem- y days of a less happy season, lousands of visitors, who, af- 4 serous hospitality, return loy- j i jnher nross can do justice to T ispired pen of the poet to adese. No city can outrival it in , ligent enterprise. Its streets the wealth of the community, ten found in similar comniu- ! ? < 1 ? lingstree lOtOS a. m. i . r return at 8:00 p. m. J rom Here Only $1.00 I rates, from other points en S < counted with the wise and I stake.. Date definitely fixed. [ 6-5-2t i i IE, THOS. H. KNIGHT, }! P. A. Excursion Mgr. |! -aA -A ?r ** * *? ? -toll HITTHffTTTTTTITTfTTTfWI 4 WITH US |i lly profitable co-operation ? understanding of business J >ire to "live and let live" < erested, many young con- \ - - * ^ 1 vicinity are making use 01 3 ired by this bank and are < l solid financial foundation ? the future. 1 LLIAMSBURG, j pee, S. C. 1 E C Epps, Cashier. ^ C W Boswell, Asst. Cashier. 3 ^ AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA to Suit Everybody, f ar Spoon to a $600 Chest of Silver. x ir Z T G-Li-A.SS. I ?fore been so large and varied as at ^ rtTO-SZETS I J :khorn and Ivory Handles. X \ D BRONZES. * >u before purchasing elsewhere. T J&.S dZ CO., 2 JEWELERS, | C harleston, S. C. | , NSPECTORS I ' ttown and Western Railroad and lated Street Railroad. x BURNED OUT Jjmi md nearly a total loss, but the w( ' ill is, they carried no insurance. * M ould not happen to you if you were |fl Insured against Fi. I n one of our reliable companies. Whe-t * '' > 'ou learn how small a sum is required o pay the premium on a policy for one ear,you surely ought never to take the hance of the troubles of this poor famiy. lingstree Insurance, Real Estate & loan Co R. N. Speigner. Manager. A FIRE! 1866 1913. f I am pleased to ? ? i> A ?AA /\1 /3 iimuuiict; tuiiiy uiu patrons and th e public at large that After the lOth inst. 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WKvXSrratrK ? jES-91 "Hunt'sCure"isguardX~Jk\ antee<^' t0 st?P an(* | permanentlycurethat J [7terrible itching. It is dk compounded for that ^9 frWr //fan PurP?9e and your money (r ^ ///Mil will be promptly refunded %Jmj mm WITHOUT QUESTION* l/mj #H| if Hunt's Cure fails tocure^ H dnkXnMmlm Itch, Eczema, Tetter, RingV 4BH vCVIl Worm or any other Skin Disease. 50c at your druggist's, or by mail lirect tf be hasn't it. Manufactured only by I. 6 RICHARDS MEDICINE CO., SlmM.Tliu Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Cares Colds, Croup and Whooping Cough, flfl