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The Prohibitionists Issue an Address. Prepared by the Committee Elected at January Con? f?re DC 9. The prohibition conference held in Columbia on tbe 12th of Jan, 1900, adopted the following : Resolved, That Joel E Brons?n, J S Moffatt, E D Smith. J A Hoyt, F H Hyatt, W C Thomson and Jere? miah Smith be and hereby are ap? pointed to prepare an address to the people of Sooth Carolina, setting forth the work and issues before us, and to plan for and perfect an organi zation of the prohibitionists, fur the coming campaign. Io accordance with the above, we submit the following address : To the People of South Carolina : The probibitionits of the State are encouraged to make another appeal to the voters for a supreme effort aloug the line for the abolition of the manufacture and sale of liquor in South Carolina. For many years the men and women of our State bave toiled earnestly to effect legal pro hibition of the liquor traffic, and gratifying progress was* being made not only in banishing the incensed saloon from all territory without in? corporated towns and cities, but there was much being accomplished in the way of reducing the number of saloons here and there, and also in securing control of the smaller municipalities through the ballot box or restrictive legislation This prog ress in temperance reform induced an application to the regularly constitut ed authorities of the Democrat party io control of the election machinery of the State for a separate box in which to vote for or against prohib?" tion, and this privilege was granted in the primary election of 1892, resultiog in an overwhelming majori ty for the legal prohibition of the liquor traffic, and along with this result there was obtained a clear majority of members in the lower house, who passed a strict prohib? tory measure in accordance with the verdict of the people. This measure was defeated, however, and in its stead was substituted the dispensary law for the regulation and control of the traffic, an importation that was recognized as contrary to the wishes of the people and in direct conflict with their ascertained verdict. Thus the dispensary began its career as a supplanter, and it bas made seven years of uncanny record, marked by bloody and disgraceful steps from the beginning The present condition of tho liquor business can hardly be said to be satisfactory to a single intelligent person in the State. When the dis pensary law was first adopted, thou sands of our honest people boped for, aod expected much from it. They were told that the restrictive features of the law would be en? forced by sober*State officials, who. not having any financial interest at stake, would labor to reduce the cen? so option of liquor aod make the dis pensary system a stepping stone to prohibitition. The Dispensary bad been in operation but a short time before the greed of gold begun to manifest itself among high officials, and pressure was brought to bear upon dispensers to increase sales. The annual salary paid a common county dispenser would buy thirty bales of cotton, and b*e was given to understand that his dispensary most be profitable to the State or it would be closed and himself dismissed from the service. The sales increased at once and have increased month by month ever since ; so that today the State is selling nearly as much liquor as ever did the old barrooms in their palmiest days. And how could it be otherwise ? The appetite for drink is the same and every hindrance to the sale of liquor has been swept away. The door of the dispensary stands wide open to serve every one that will buy No knowledge of the purchaser neces 8ary, no inquiry as to the purpose for which the liquor is wanted, and no signature to any request ; simply pay your money and take your iiquor, as much as you can carry, if you like So indifferent and demoralized have become our State and county officials, that although these violations of law are known to all of them, they have neither manliness nor moral courage to try to bring the offenders to jus? tice. Tourists hotel privileges and beer shops have been, and are still, conduct? ed under the very nose of tbe governor of tbe State without a shadow of law, and no effort made to prevent it. Dispenser after dispenser bas stolen or lost tbe money of the State and not j one has ever been punished or even prosecuted, except ia one or two intaocee. Commissions and rebates and bribes and thefts and murders have j been the natural products of this system j of State liquor selling, and after years ! of such work, its managers still plead with us to "give it a iair trial " These who manage it say the dispensary paid last year ?130.000 to the education of the children of the State, but they did not tell the startling fact that the dispensary bad drawn from the people of the State at least twenty times as much and spect it io fat salaries aod other expenses, pur? chases, Ac. of the liquor system. It may be said that io addition to the $130,000, tbe ooan'ieB aod u recetved a small som eaeb. and to we reply : The expenses incurred the couDties aod ;owo9 in the t j Duoishmeot aod support of crimti wno have been made such by the lit ! sold them by ?he State, will far t \ tban balance the tn OD ey received I tbe dispensary We state it mode when we say tbe present systec liquor selling is robbiog the peoph j the State of tweoty do'lars for e1 dollar paid to the Sfate treasurer j edooational purpose? The State b< ? of control is sending out of our S each year a: least ooe million dol aod io exchange for it bring.og the State aod distributing to our pe? five times tbe amount io pove wretchedness, disease aod death, j We appeal to every newspaper io State that has a sense of honesty fairness to lose fright of the few dol that may come to ir through those \ love liquor ; to forego the imagio pleasure of holding up the bauds those who ory, ''personal libere when tbat persona! liberty is violai of the rights of others, and to j with us in the effort to remove aecrused Pqaor traffic from our State We appeal to the good women of State, aod when have tb? women South Carolina ever failed io a gi cause? You cannot vote, it is tr but y?u can give expression to y opposition to the traffic by wearing badge and by a thousand ac's of y? life, and it may be your hand that sc drive the "tent nail" through the tu of the mooster tbat-rs now a^.'ua eating your offspring. We appeal to tbe Christian minist of the State. Shall those who prei the gospel enter the field and spe against liquor seliing ? See the Mas with a scourge driving out tbe moo ohaogers from. toe temple, overtbro iog tbe tables aod pouring out tb mooey ; and hear him cry. "Woe ut scribes and Pharisees, bopocrites ; serpents, ye generation of vipers, b cao ye esos ie the damoation of bell and you will see that He did not set to have a sort of namby pamby citize ship, Dor to have been afraid of offen iog against tbe proprieties of li! Remember that this liquor selling ai liquor drinking is the one great batte of hell, manned chiefly by the De* himself, aod is shelling the church Christ, slaying your brothers all aroui you, aod you stand as watchmen on t walls of Zion aod must cry out wi warning to those around you. Ari as soldiers of tbe cross aod sileooe io ever this destructive agency of tl Devil. Light the fires of prohibilioo < every hilltop io the State ; let the ra; go glidiog dowo the valleys aod fioa iog oo the bosom of every stream not the beaiiog beams shall penetrate evei oook aod oorner, every crack acd ore ice io the homes and hearts of our pei pie "Then shall the earth yield inorease ; and God, even our own Ooc shalt bless us 11 Joel E. Bruosoo, Chm'o, . J. S. Moffatt, E. D Smith, Jaa A. Hoyt, F. H Hyatt, W. C Thomson, Jeremiah Smith. FROM fHE^W?R?S. Frankfort, Feb 20.-The bouse ha adopted the resolution passed by th senate yesterday, ratifyiog the forme Droceediogs by which Goebe! aod Beck barn were declared io effice. Th? republicans refuged to vote on the orig ioal cali, hoping to break the quorum but, seeing that it bad been carried they weot on record. Jackson, Miss. Feb 19.-A concur rent resolution has passed boll hcuse3 of the Legislature inviting home^ and foreign capital to invest it manufacturing enterprises, especial!} cotton factories, and setting forth th< advantages of Mississippi as a manu facturing State Bills to exempt new established factories from taxation for the period of ten years are pending and will be passed puring the present week. Wasbicgcoo. Feb 22-The nest oatiooal democratic convention will be heia at Kansas City. Mo, July 4 This was the decision cf the democratic national committee which met at the Hotel Raleigh today to Sx tbe time and place of boldiog tho convention. Mil? waukee was the only other city which oompeted for the honor of entertaining the cocventioo, aod the poor sbowiog she made wheo the vote was taken (the result beiog Kaosas City, 40 ; Milwau? kee, 9) caused general surprise. The claims of the tival cities as to hotel accommodations, railroad aod telegraph? ic facilities were prcseoted io opeo session by representative of each ?ity and subsequently in executive session. Ex Gov Stone, on behalf of Kaosas City, and National Committeeman E. C. Wall, OD behalf of Milwaukee, explained the financial inducements which the cities they represented were wi ??og to make Each offered the committee ?50.000, but io addition Kaosas City was willing to furnish hotel accommodations Tor the members of the committee aod the hall with decorations and music free of expense to the oonfmittee -m\m - ? ? . -mmmm. He Fooled the Surgeon?. All doctors told Kenick Hamilton, of Wts Jefferson,. O . after suffering IS months from Rectal Fistula, ho would die unless a costly oporation was performe-l ; but Occured himself with five hoxes of Bucklen's Arnica Suive, the surest Pi c cure on eartb, and the best Salve in the world. 25 cents a box Sold by J. *. W DeLorme, Druggist 4 PRICES DECLINE. DUNN'S WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW. New York. Feb 23.-R G. Daoo ? Co's Weekly Review of Trade tomor? row will say : Prices of materials are yieidiog. If not the best oews possible tor some speculators, it is tbe best that could coo>.e for the couotry, 6ince industries could not loog prosper with out reaction from the extreme prices oaused by actual or supposed scarcity of materials last year. Some help comes from Dew iron furnaces that have opened or approach completion. Some from tbe famioe in India, which sends hither shiploads of bides, home from tbe much increased flocks of sheep which have weathered the winter, and some from the opening of new iron, zinc or copper mines The causes are maoy, but the revision of quota? tion gives promis? af greater activity in all the chief industries The great iron industry bas been i embarrassed by prioes for pig and billets, wbich were no longer sustained by tbe gradually yieidiog prices of product. Coosiderabie traosactioos are now reported at Philadelphia ?1 to ?1 50 per ton below recent quotations. At Pittsburg 200.000 toes Bessemer have been sold and 75,000 tons biller", ! both iron aod steel being reported ?1 per ton iower. The new turnaces i-up plying foundry iron have beeo com? peting sharply at the east, and ?mail saies of Bessemer have bern made for Pittsburg delivery at 50 to 65 ceots below previous quotations. Sheets are strengthen there by the new combina tions, though it does not embrace some large works, bat with this addition of 500.000 tons yearly and its sales to the hoop and tin plate companies, the National Steel bas secured large and r*cb mines in Minnesota. Piates are still weak, as most con? sumers are provided far ahead, but a Pacific order covers 2 000 tons and the Chicago and Northwestern has placed orders at the eat-t for 5,600 tons bridge work, and better business enables tin plate works which have been idle to resume. Cheaper bides and leather enable boot aod shoe makea? to take contraots for split goods at 2-J-J less'thao prioes recently asked, ana some large eales have resal ted, giving part of the shops work fer some time. Others are get ting very few orders and some are stopping or expeoted to stop in two weeks. The yielding in split leather bt'gao early this month, and in hemlock sole a week earlier and bas reached 1 cent per pound, while this week union b&?ks and kid and glove grain upper lej ber are cheaper. Hides at Chicago have again yielded, making 3 per cent fall in a montb and 7.3 per cent since Deo 13 Supplies accumulate and oo wharves at Jersey City 250,000 hides were landed from India Shipments of boots and shoes from the easr. nave been in three weeks 28.193 oases against 243.379 in 1898, the largest previous year At last it is admitted that wool quo tattoos so long held are fully 3 cents per scoured pouna higher than prices in large actual sales last week and sinoe, the decline ooveriog grades be? tween one quarter blood and lower, which is in demand and scarce, end fine fleece graded XX or above. The explanations are many ; the fact is that when mills made enormous sale of heavyweight goods and then bought no wool, the fable that their stocks were exhausted ceased to have force In fine medium territory, selling at 58 cents ?coured and other wool down to tbe low graces, tbe fill is general, and English markets are also weaker Goods of fine grades have been oponed witb much iess adsaoce io price thao was marje io cheaper grades, but can? cellations continus numercu3 Prices of cottons are still a?vacciog, the Fall River committee having raised ail its goods an eighth, and in spite of heavy port receipts, spot cotton ad vaoced to 9 06 cents. Failurce in three weeks have been $7,241.230 against ?7.129,780 last year and $7.2^3 439 io 1898, but in the previous years they exceeded $10.600.000 Manufacturing were ?2 856 536 agaicst $3 643 864 last year, and trading were ?3,822 930 against ?3.237,472 last year. Failures fdr tbe week bave been in the United States 201 against 191 last year, and 33 in Canada against 40 last year. CUBAN RELIEF cures Colic, jJv Neuralgia and Toothache in five minutes. Sour Stomach and Summer Complaints. Price 25c. Sold bv HugbsonLigon Co. F'orence, Feb 20 -At Effingham Sunday night Charlotte Kirby was accidentally shot by Dft.vis King. Both parties are negroes Constable Dennis arrested Davis yesterday after noon while be was watching by tbe bedside of tbe woman he bad shot, and the negro is now in jail. Raleigh. N. C , Feb 19-Southern Pines, a winter resort forty miles from here, had a $20 000 fire esrly this morning, the Alfa Hotel, with all its contents, being destroyed The thirty guests escaped, but saved little of their property. A bank, the post office and public hall were located in the building The mail was saved, as was also the bank's books A-^???v* CUBAN 01L cures Cuts> wli5 Burns., Bruises, Kheuma tism and Sores. Price, 25 cts. Sold by Hugbson-Ligon Co. Darlington, Feb 22 -James Gard oer committed suicide at Mechanic* vilie last eight by taking strychnine Disappointment io love was the cause. Mr Gardner was from North Carolina aid was 55 years old He willed all bis property to the girl who rejected bim The secretary rf sta'e Thursday issued a oommiffsioo to J R. B*rroo, of Rock Bill, S W Heath, R h. Blackman and E D Biakeoey, of Kershaw, Laocaster County, as corpo rators of the Kershaw Cottoo MiH, which is to be located at or near Kershaw. The capital stock is to be ?125 OOO, divided into shares at ?100 each. "After doctora failed to cure me of poeu* monia I used One Mioote Ccu*b Cure, acd three bottles of it cured me. It is also the best remedy on earth for whooping cough It cured my grandchildren of the worst cases." writes JQO. Berry, Logantoo, Pa. It ia the only harmless remedy that gires im? mediate results Cures coughs, colds, croup and throat and lung trouble? It prevents consumption. Children always like it. Mothers endorse it J. S Hughson ? Co. A special from Orlanria, Fia, says : The thermou eter registered 25 degrees here Saturday night Practically all tender vegetables are destroyed The strawberry crop has suffered somewhat. The orange, peach and pineap?le output will be shortened, but tbe extent of the damage wiil not bc kco^n until warmer weather. New York Feb 22 -A special from Kong Kong, Britsn China, to Tbe Evening Woild, says : "United States Conbul Wildman bas information that three members of tbe Fiiinino junta, Lubao. Ponce and Agcnoillo, brother of tbe envoy, left recently for Japan to mepty Aguinaldo. This give? credence to tbe story that Aguinaldo escaped from tbe island of Luzon to Formosa wheo huoted by Gen Lawton's expe? dition through the northern part of island. ? Word to Doctors We have the highest regard for the medical profession. Our preparations are not sold for the purpose of antagon? izing them, but rather as an aid. We lay it down as an established truth that internal remedies are positively injuri? ous to expectant mothers. The distress and discomforts experienced during the months preceding childbirth can be al? leviated only by external treatment-by applying a liniment that softens and re? laxes the over-strained muscles. We make and sell such a liniment, com? bining the ingredients in a manner hitherto unknown, and call it Mother s Friend We l^now that in thousands of cases it has proved more than a blessing to expectant mothers. It overcomes morn? ing sickness. It relieves the sense of tightness. Headaches cease, and dan? ger from Swollen. Hard and Rising Breasts is avoided. Labor itself is shortened and shorn of most of the pain. We know that many doctors recom? mend it, and wc know that multitudes of women go to thc drug stores and buy it because they are sure their physicians have no objc ttons. We ask a trial just a fair test. There is no possible chance of injury being the result, be? ca :se Mother's Friend is scientific? ally com poi: nd cd. It is sold at $i a bot fie. and should be used during most of the period of gestation, although great relief is experienced if used only a short time before childbirth. Send for our il? lustrated book about Mother's Friend. TiiE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO. ATLANTA, GA. $\i> \>i\l*:b li\k iii \l \tt xbxUxl til XU XL xii -I xii iii ' ?. li. \b \\<\b(?. j Titree' Papers aWeek | 1 FORASOUTTHE I ? PRICE Or OAiZ. I 2 This paper and the Atienta ? a Twicjva'Weck Journal for c 9 cr a ?? 1 $2.00. ' I I Here you get the news of f a the world and all your local | a news while it is fresh, paying f I very little more than one ? a paper costs. Either paper is | ? well worth $i.00, but by spe- | I cial arrangement we are en- | I abled to put in both of thora, f a giving three papers a week if I for this low price. You can- | a not equal this anywhere else, f a and this combination is the e if best premium for those who ? g want a great paper and a | J home paper. Take these and f I you will keep up with the g ^ times. 5" S Beside? general news, the | I Twice-a-Week Journal has f a niHch agricultural mn ?ter ^ ?* and ether articles o? special sf J interest tc furmers. lt has | a regular contributions by Sam | I Jones, Mrs. W. Il. Felton, f % John Temple Graves, Hon. | a C. II. Jordan and other dis- f % tinguished writers. e % Call at this office and leave your % % subscriptions for both papers. You ? j| cati get a sample copy of either pa- ^ g per here on application. f a _ ? Number 327S5. Standard Bred Trotting Stallion, Registered in Volume 15, American Trotting Register. Will stand the season in Sumter at lot in rear of Osteen's Book Store. EDIGREE. ?IODOC MCEWEN, 3S7S5. s w ^? - 5-ci tc ec ; aa 3!** - ? ~ Z- o n o ~CJ > a " ^, to- 10 _ X 2 ir * ? = ? c*+- ? to - "": ?s 1 ^ Q? 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Engagements can be made at The Daily Item office, or address by mail. H. G. ?STEEN, Sumter, S. C. Waterman's [deal {fountain pen, vVhich i:' conoeeded to be the best Fouotcii) Pen made, was first sold is Sumter by us 6VH yes"9 S?0. V7o in? troduced ii '-icd at f?rst the saie ?S? slow-ihc positive guarantee given wit? rech psn and their superior licrit made thea go airer a short ticae. We have I t-cld bandrcds cf pens during (hs past five 5'CS:? arid are still selSicg th^m. Wc have a larger and cjoro complete assorroest cf rhese pec3 DOW tb'?n ever before a^d from the many eijles of nibs wc cac suit ell pen-users. TSTATEBMAITS WASES IT'S AHOUND THE "W^BLD E G. Osteel i Co., Liberty Street. Of TbeStnteof South Carolina-Sumter Ccuo tj-Office of Supervisors of Registrution, Sumter County, Sumter, S. C., February let, 1899. Notice is hereby given that in accordance with an Act of the lieoeral Assembly, ?nd in conformity with tbe requirements of the State Constitution, the bocks for tbe registration of sil legally qualified voters, and for tbe issuing of transrers, etc,, will br open at t?e office of Supervisors of Registration in the court house, between the hours of 9 o'clock a. m . and 3 o'clock p. m , on the first.\?on day of each mooth, until thirty days before the next general election. Minors who shali become ot age during tba; period of thirty dayp shall be entitled to registration r.rfore the booka are closed, if otherwise qua.i5ed. The requirements for a qualified voter are that the applicant for registrption shall be ubi? to read and write correctly, or possess in his own name property to tbe amcuot of toree nuodred dollars, upon which be pays taxes. K. F BURROWS, T. D. DuBOSK, , J. M. KNIGHT, Supervisors of Registration Sumter Co. Men 1 50 YEARS^ EXPERIENCE TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS AC. Anvone sendlne a sketch ard description may quickly crcertriin our opinion free whether an Invention is probably pntentable. Communica? tions strictly confidential. Handbook on Patenta aent free, oldest ncency for securing patent?. Patents taken thronen Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in tbs Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest cir. dilation of anv soient inc journal. Terms. $3 B vear : four ruontha, fl. Sold by all newsdealers. MUNN &Co.36,Broa<,M'-New York Branch Office. 625 F SU Washington. D. C. Estate ol'Joseph M. Cooper, Dec'd? IWILL APPLY 'o the Judge of Probate of Sumter County on M*rch Uth 1900, for a Final Dischargeas Administrator C. T. A. of tbe Estate of said deceased. GEORt?fi G. COOPER, Feb 14-41 Administrator C. T. A.