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THE MANNING TIMES. LOUIS APPELT, Editor. Wednesday, July 10, 1S95. AN ELOQUENT SERMON. Chaplain (jough Preached to The Manning Guards at The Bap tist Church Last Sunday. "The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God, to the pulling down of the strong holds."-I1. Corinthians, chapter 10, verse 4. Perchance as some of you hear the rattling of the sabre and the tramp of the soldier-boy, some half obliter ated memories flash through your minds. Perhaps some, with that patriotic spirit, touch once more the shoulder of their comrades upon a field of carnage. You hear the bugle call, the drum beats, and the great army moves on. The world has had its armies. its battles, its defeats, its victories. The world has had its Alexanders, its C sars, its Na polcons,4. and its Lees, who have swept like fierce tornadoes over the loviest realms, leaving be hind them wasted fields, plundered buildings, depopulated cities. But the weapons of their warfare were carnal. Paul here writing to the Christian soldier. says, "The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God, to the pulling down of the strongholds." Standing not long ago in an en closure at the capitol of this great nation with some half-dozen com rades, I saw two of America's great armies engaged in deadly combat. I saw the sabres flashing in the sun light. Yonder goes the gallant steed dashing across the plains; yonder falls the great captain; here lies the dead and dying. For a few moments I touched the hand of the old soldier, and beneaththe waiving banner we encountered the foe over the fields of Gettysburg. But ah ! so soon I longed for the "drum-beat to throb no longer, and the battle-flag to furl." And in my inmost soul - thanked G..d that tne dark, black cloud of war had forever passed, and the glorious sunlight of peace once more fills the universe. But I fear that I was crying "peace, peace, when there was no peace." To-day two of the mightiest armies that the world has ever felt have met on the battlefield of life. All along the line we hear the din and noise of preparation. The sentinels are mov ing to and fro on the watch towers with anxious dread. On yonder heights I see the bristling hosts of hell martialing for the dread hour, led on by the king of the bottomless pit. Who shall face the mighty hosts? Where is the great Captain that will lead his hosts on to victory? Ah ! there is one great Captain, Chieftain, Leader, around whom all the universe may gather. His name is "The Lord, strong and mighty, mighty in battle." Constantine, says the historian, was marching at the head of his great army from France to encounter hiis rival, Maxentius. in a conflict upon the issues of which his empire depended. Oppressed with anxiety, he prayed that some God might aid him, when in the heavens and higher than the sun a luminous cross ap peared emblazened with these words, "B~y this sign thou shalt conquer." He did conquer, and ever after that the cross was displayed as the ban ner of the Casars. So with the cross of Jesus going on before, the mighty hosts of God know no defeat. Victory is sure, be cause the Lord appointed the battle and prepared the weapons, and be hind all the din and noise of prepar ation, behind all the dread anxiety, chaos, and confusion, sits enthroned the God of battle, and "He goes forth conquering and to conquer" with the weapons of his own warfare. Paul in this writing speaks of "the weapons of our warfare being not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of the strongholds." Let us reverse the order of the text and enquire I.WHAT ARE THE STRONGHOLDS AGAINST WHICH GOD'S PEOPLE MOVEs TO-DAYZ 1. Unconverted men. I place my field glasses to my eyes and view the distant regiments, battalions, and armies, and I see a mighty host of unregenerate men, composing a mighty stronghold of. satan, march on under the banner of the pit. Some are in advance of the army and have mingled in hand to hand combat with God's people. And this great squadron overshadows the earth and holds untold millions in her grasps. Men whose character, lives and ef forts have been to crush and blot out of the universe the kingdom of righteousness, and to erect upon her demolished and ruined throne the universal kingdom of crime. This mighty stronghold of unregenerate men, led on by the powers of hell, are lifting the black flag of rebellion against the kingdom of God and His Christ. I view the field once more and I see over on the distant plains a mighty stronghold of satan which bears the name of 2.A CORRUPT FOEM or CHRISTIANITY. This upon the surface bears the sign of peace, but this signal of a treaty is but the spy sent forward to view the hosts of God. What is true relig ion ? What is Christianity ? Must there not lie, back of all organiza tion, back of all systems of religion, back of Christianity, all that uplifts the worlds, that lifts up and shapes and moulds -glorious man hood out of the crushed and broken wreck; must there not underlie all, systems of religion the bed-rock, the "pillar and corner-stone ' God's everlasting truth must underlie and permeate all systems of Christianity that honors God and blesses the world. I fail to see in Roman Catho licism anything of the Divine Christ. But on every side I see her huge col umns drawn up for attack, and if possible she wvould blot out of the world God's everlasting truth, and with one mighty stroke snatch God from off the power of his throne and turn the fairest heaven into a dark, cheerless dungeon of despair. But I see once more a mignty stronghold of toiling with untiring zeal to overturn the Christian's faith and brand the author as a cheat and to enchain the wild passions of men and blot hope from the horizon of the soul and sink the doctrine of im mortality into the deep gulf of noth ingess. But some one says, "These strongholds are foreign; they do not confront us." My dear brother, they do confront you in your own State and in your own community. But let us come a step nearer home: . 5ALOON AND DISPENSARY is one of if not the greatest strongholds of hell. And this, my brother, is not confined to any one place, but they dot almost every hill-top and valley. And wherever a saloon or dispensary is found there is a mighty stronghold for satan. And wherever they are tolerated there is found a great draw back to the onward march of the civilization of any State or nation, and a dark blot upon the Christiani every bottle that adorns the shelves of yonder dispensary there blazes the Nlames of hell. And when poured within man it sets his soul on fire and carries him down to the filth and slums, and at last to a drunkard's grave and a drunkard's hell. And from behind these strongholds go forth the mighty phalanx of drunk ards sweeping before them the sweet est joy of the human heart, blasting many a happy home and turning them into a hell on earth, crushing the fairest hopes of a loving wife. himself a blighted, bloated, ruined wreck. But a step still nearer: 5. IN EACU HUVAN HEART is found a great stronghold of the wicked one. Satan has encamped around about our hearts, and there is where the battle must be fought and the victo ry won. There is sometimes a strong hold for satan in our homes where the card table is erected and the dance is maintained. But beyond our hearts, beyond our homes, our country, our State, lies 6. THE GREAT HEATBE wORLD composing a terrible stronghold of s.L tan, where the bright rays of the sun of righteousness are just beginning to gild the morning dawn. Against all these strongholds. The Christian soldier is represented as going forth. This leads us to notice II. THE WEAPONS. Paul says they are not carnal, but are mighty through God to the pulling down of the stronghold. God's word is rep resented as being sharp, even sharper than any two-edged sword. It is "the sword of the spirit." This, young comrades, I would place in your hands. God's word is God's thought. It is the revelation of God's will to us. When God lived in human flesh and moved in human society He spoke and multitudes were silent before Him, the madden ing waves lay at his feet. God's word is truth and truth is always in vincible. All truth is from God. no matter where you find it. Whether in the great book of nature, or in some dead, lifeless system of philoso phy, or in each human heart. Truth is from God. "Thy word, oh God, is truth." You see the bright rays of the sun lighting up the beautiful landscape. Take the smallest ray that trembles between the shade and shadow, and follow it up step by step, and soon you are at the sun, the hIing of Day. Take the tiniest dewdrop that twinkles to the morning sun. Take up the scientific research back through the great world of thought you go, on through the different stages of scientific knowledge. and when you have finished you land at God, its author. So the smallest thread of truth leads up to God. And between God and truth there is no war, for truth takes her stand on the side of God and calls him Father. The writer says: "Put on the whole armor of God." This is but the prep aration for the battle. He likewise tells us to -wield the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God." With the whole armor of God around your manly forms and with drawn sword in hand, I would hasten you on to the battle. You need no other weapon than the one ordained by God. There is enough power in that one weapon to conquer the world. It has been tried sufficiently by the great Captain of our salva tion. When He was attacked by the Devil along the wilderness of Judea with these words: "If Thou be the Son of God command that these stones be made bread," the great Leader drew his sword and drove the enemy from the field by a single stroke. "Man shall not live by bread alone." The great champion of the bottom less pit once more gathered his shat tered and defeated forces, and on the pinnacle of the temple he made the second attack, when once more the sword of the Spirit flashed from its scabbard and fell with crushing effect upon the arch enemy of souls. "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord Thy God." I stand for a few mo ments in almost death-like stillness as I see a little band of Christian soldiers marching almost silently around the massive walls of Jericho. I see no burnished muskets ; no gleaming swords. Doubtless the thought flashed through the minds of the hosts of Jericho: "What means all this noise of horns and tramp of soldiery ? Do they think to overturn our city, plunder our buildings and conquer our long-established soldiery by such methods? Let them move on. Let the old ram's horn ring ; we trouble not ourselves." On they go. Early and late the sound of the old ram's horn rang over the plains of Jericho. On goes the heroic band. March, march, march around the huge massive walls of the doomed city until the seventh had been reached, and with the seventh went forth the first peal of victory. The command to "shout" rang out, and, as the shout went heavenward, the old walls began to totter and fall, and in a few moments that great city was but a heap of crushed and broken architecture. The weapon of God had become through Him mighty to the pulling dow.n of the1 stronghold. I suppose had the hosts of Midian seen Gideon's little band of three hundred marching on through the dense darkness to attack them with no weapons save lamps, pitchers and trumpets they would have laughed them to scorn. But on they go-each man intent on victory, and under the command of their leader the three hundred burst their pitchers and flashed their lantrns in the midnight darkness, while hill-top and valley rang with the mighty shout : "The sword of the Lord and of Gideon." At once the great army of Midian fled-not only defeated, but panic striken. Once again the weapon of God had become mighty through Him to the pulling down of the stronghold. So it is. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is a gospel of power. It is the power of God. It is the great central force that will one day drive sin from the face of the earth and from the heart of man. The Gospel of Christ is the great weapon that will one day re store a "Paradise Lost" and draw an orphan world back to its Father. The gospel of Christianity is the hope of the world. It is the only power that can overturn the stronghold of sin, vice and corruption that exist in the business, social, political, as well as the religious world. Every patriot and hero in the past ages of this great nation was a man who believed in a Gospel of Power. George Washington and his men at Valley Forge, when the blood drops fell upon the rugged ice, mark ing their foot-prints from hut to hut. Half starved, half clothed, they shiver through the freezing winter, bearing aloft the burnished musket and gleaming bayonet. Through long years of bloody conflict they earried the ark of the world's liber ty. These were men in whose head and hearts dwelt the gospel of power. And the heroes who p laced the dome1 upon the capitol at Washington Cityf and crowned it with the statue of Liberty and flung out the Stars and Stripes to the breezes and invited the world to freedom were men in whose hearts dwelt the spirit of Now, since we have seen the strong holds and that the sword of God, wielded inl the hands of Christian soldiers, is the great weapon of our wafaet.ssadaie n ehs two mighty armies come together and see what will be the result. The Bible says in the text that the strong holds must be pulled down. This means III. CHRISTIANITY TRIV31PIIANT. The history of the world is the history of a war: the history of a struggle. The history of Christianity is the history of a victory. But be fore her triuiphant march to-day I see no swords to destroy, no tires to ravage, no engines of wrath. Along the path of God's heroes no charg ing squadrons whirl, no murderous cannon roar. Instead of war's stern excitement, the wild fury, the clash of arms, the death grapple, and gar ments rolled in blood, we see heralds of uercy bearing aloft the name of Jesus. There is a power in that name. "All hail the power of Jesus' namne." "Thou shalt call his name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins." From the battlefield of the Cruci fixion, where right niet wrong, where Christ met the devil in de ly com bat and threw him back kto the dungeon of despair, down along the track of epochs and ages the march of christianity is the march of vic tory. And to-dav rings out this glad hallelujah: "The Lord is come. Let earth receive her king." It rings from hill-top to hill-top ; from nation to nation. It rings across the deep. It circles the globe and I see in it the radiant dawn of victory enthroned. From the four hundred and fifty millions of hearts that make up the Christian world comes the thunder peal of victory. From every conti nent of the earth, from every island of the sea, from every kindred race and tongue comes the shout of tri umph. "In the cross of Christ I glory : Towering over the wrecks of time." Soldiers of the victorious captain, hear the call that comes to you to day. Gird on the whole armor of God and hasten to the combat. As the standard-bearer of my Great Leader I unfurl his banner in your midst, and ask you to rally around it and go forth to the battle of the ages-the conflict of right against wrong. I cone to you to-day with the words that once thrilled the heart of many a hero: "Go where glory awaits you." Not the glory of earth's battlefields, but the glory of rescu ing the lost ; the glory of striking off the fetters of the enslaved, of lead ing the captives out of prison, of throwing around the lost the safe guards of liberty, wherewith Christ had made them free. Toward sunset of a long, bloody day of Waterloo, when the surviving remnants of the Old Imperial Guards were commanded to throw down their arms, the scarred ;veterans of fifty victories cried out : "The Old Guard dies, but she never surren dered." May that be the victorious shout of the Manning Guards when the last gun has been fired on the battle-field of life and the smoke of battle clears away. She never sur rendered in the battle of right against wrong. NOT HING STtANGE. Intelligent people, who realize the ima portart part the blood holds in keeping the body in a normal condition, find noth ing strange in the number of diseases that Hood's Sarsaparilla is able to cure. So many troubles result from impure blood that the best way to treat them. is through the blood, and it is far better to use only harmless vegetable com pounds than to dose to excess with quinine, e.domel and other drugs. By treating the blood with Hood's Sarsa parilla. scrofu hi, salt rheumii and what are commonly cailledl "humors." dyspepsia, catarrh. rheonmatismi. nenralgia, consumption, and other tronbles that origi nate in impnrities of the blood or impaired circulation, can all be curedl. STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCES. It seems strange to us that that portion of the Democratic party of the cities who are too pure and holy to associate with the hon est, hard-working. law-abiding coun try people should seek to be thc champions and defenders of the lawless element of the State. It seems strange that the city people who are too pure to associate politically with their white country brethren should he so solitous about seeking the friendship and aood-will of the country corntieldl negroes. We can understand why a lawyer who js out of a job should propose to go to conit for them, if somebody wilt haud r.und the hat and take up a collection. Another strange thing is the wholesale and viotent denunciation ol the good peo ple of Edgefield, from various quarters, be cause they invited the H~on. J. J. I'argan not to speak. The people were incensed at him, and simply gave him orders to get out of town. They treated him very' oneh as they and the people of Abbeville treated Chamberlain in 1876. It wa; all right then. But Chamiberain preferred white supremacy. Dargan wants to incite the' negroes to dissatisfaetion with the laws. Another strange thing is, that the negroes are so easily gulled. There is not an lion est white man on the faice of the earth that really wants the government tnrned over to the negroes-and, when there are no plums or offices in sight, one white wan is about as good a friend to him as any other. All intelligent white men want to see the negro get his exact rights in his personal business transactions as well ats in the courts of justice. But we believ-e no white man, who is true to himself or his race, is the negroes' friend, politically. It seems strange, too, that the fornmer office-holding class shoubi die so hard, and show so little common sense in the hour of their defeat. Eleg'tnt city gentlemen and little cuckoo country editors have nothina to gain by insulting the voteis. There is only two ways of gaining ofiee in Soumth Carolina. namely: 1. By an honest vote of the people in the primary. 2. By manipulating a convention. The people having had a ta-te of per'onal liberty in voting for -uen of their own choice, will hardly ever consent to have cut and dried tickets placed in their hainds by anybody. Even the country people of' Edgefield who do not want to hear Dargan speak nmay b2 considered by somea people as good as Dargan's apologsts. It is strange that the city liquorite and the mountain moonshiner should be prompted by a like disposition to resist the same laws. ~Although the city liquorite and the moonshiner may he as fair apart as the poles, yet each would sink the State or die for his lhquor. It is strange that so many newspapers hould seek to assail the good name of the State, simply because they do not like the men who hold the offices, or because of op position to the laws. It is strange that so many men who are ambitious of political power should seek to strengthen their party in weakening their own ranks by the alienation of friends, and by insulting the ranks of the opposition, from whom alone strength can be gained, or accessions received.--Ab~beville Press and Banner (Conservative.) There is more catarrh in this section of' the country than a:l other diseases put to gether, and until the last few years was supposed to 1be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment pronounced it incurable. Science has roven catarrh to be a constitutional disease and therefore requires constitution al treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, mamnu tactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts di rectly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the svstem. They offr one hundred dol lars "for any case it fails to enre. Send for cirenlars andl testimonials. Address. F. .J. CumN~v & Co, Tole do, 0. Sold by druggists, 75c. You run no risk. All druggists guaran tee Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic to do all that the manufacturers claim for it. Warranted no eure, no pay'. There are many imitations. To get the genuine ask or. Gri''s For sale by Loryea. the Drug Nervous People ahould relize that the only true arid yermi-ent cure for thei condition to be found in having Pure Blood Because the health of every organ and tissue of the body depends upon the purity of the blood. The whole world knows the standard blood purifier is Hood's Sarsaparilla And therefore it is the only true and reliable medicine for nervous people. It makes the blood pure and healthy, and thus cures nervousness, makes the nerves firm and strong, gives sweet sleep, mental vigor, a good appetite, perfect digestion., It does all this, and cures Scrofula, Eczema, or Salt Rheum and all other blood diseases, because it Makes Pure Blood Results prove every word we bave said. Thousands of voluntary testi monials fully establish the fact that Hood'S "a pariiMQ Be Sure ures to Get Hood's AkH, "I have used Hood's Sarsaparilla for nervousness and I am in better health than for years." MRs. SARAH E. LYLES, White Bluff, South Carolina. Hood's Pills cure all liver ills. constipa tion. biliousness, sick headache, indigestion. 25c. THE OMNIPRESENT HAIRPIN. Man Looks at It Askance, While Woman Applies It to Many Uses. A hairpin is an object which pos sesses a strange interest for the mas culine mind. A woman regards a hairpin with as little respect ordi narily as a common pin. Indeed she is even less careful of its acquisition, for there is no adage offering a day's good luck as a reward for picking up a hairpin. But a man who comes across a stray hairpin on a street car seat, for in stance, regards it with an air of tim id triumph, and perhaps offers it to the nearest woman from whose back hair it could possibly have fallen. And he is generally snubbed for his pains. But it is when he beholds a woman putting a hairpin to other than what he regards as its legiti mate purpose that he is most im pressed. The woman who reaches around to her back hair, deftly ex tracts a hairpin, bites it togethe- and then buttons her gloves as noncha lantly as if she were using simply the fingers with which nature pro vided her is an object of respectful but intense admiration to every man in sight. But if a woman wants to rivet all masculine eyes she has only to buy a new magazine and cut the leaves with a hairpin. Whole carloads of stea'ly business men, not easily impressed by the frivolities of women, have been held spellbound by this little act. Passengers on the elevated tramns have been unable to tear themselves from the contemplation *of the process and have sat still with troubled but watchful eyes as they heard their station called. 'The other day the writer saw at least 20 men watching with breathless interest the bali-pin method of magazine cut ting, as practiced by a very swell young woman, who was apparently unconscious of the scrutiny which followed her every movement. When she finally replaced the hair pin in her fluffy locks, every man of the 20 gave a sigh and then looked sheepishly at his neighbor. As for the young woman she turned to look out of the window, but there was a covert look of amused satisfaction in her eye wvhich intimated that her un consciousness of observation had been in appearance only.-New York Sun. _______ whats the Color of That Blood? Whenever I see a New York man who should know better doing some thing that is radically rude it makes my blood boil. I cannot help but feel that it must be intentional. I saw this only yesterday when a fel low, who belongs to two of the smart est clubs in this city and bears an honored and historic name, slam a storm door in a woman's face at Del monico's. It gave me pleasure to see him afterward, somewhat under the weather, at the same place, dozing at his table. The woman came from the west, and I have no doubt she goes to her home on the prairies with a poor opinion of New York men. There are times when we are rude, but there is a refinement even in rudeness, and whatever we may be obliged to do we should never de scend to the level of the masses. We should remember that we have an example to maintain and that we should show them the way in which they should go. The man who fails in this is not one of us, and he is not worth picking up even with a pair of tongs.-Vogue. Queer Pets. An animal which makes a most agreeable pet, but is rarely tamed on account of its fur value, is the North American beaver. A well known [ndian trader some years ago tamed several of these hard working fellows so that they answered to their names and followed like dogs. In cold weather they were kept in the sit ting room and were constant com panions of the women and children. When the Indians were absent for any great tinme, the beavers showved reat uneasiness, and on their return iscovered equal signs of pleasure by fondling them, crawling into their aps, lying on their backs like squirrels and behaving like children in the presence of parents who they seldom see. In their wild state beavers feed on bark and herbage hiefly, but in their case they were fed for the most part on rice, plum pud ing, partridge and venison, and they liked all of them extremely. Detroit Free Press. Lockhart, Tex., Oct. 15, 1889. Jessrs. Paris Medicine Co., Paris, Ten.: Dear Sirs: Ship us as soon as possible 2 ross Grove's Tasteless Chill Tronie. My ustomers want G~rove's Tasteless Chill ['onic anrd will not have any other. In our xperience ot over twenty years in the drng usiness we never sold any medicine which ave sueh universal satisfaction. Yours rc pectfully, J. S. BnowNE~ & Co No care, no pay. Sol by Loryea, the COL. HOY T'S POSITION. Greenville Montaineer. oue of the brightest yongts menoll our aeljultintance is Mr. .1. Conway G(trlingt)n. editor of the spaitanhnrg hlerall. who is much concerned at this titne in regard to the editor of the .Iountaineer, fearing thti le is inl danger of beConting a political onteitst. Ia rnonlcsCript and a n1jitwn, and all bleanse we do not nuee.t the plaens and purposes of the Iwen ty-(Ont. ' Mr. G:irlington is one of th :eknowl edged leaders of the inove::n nt. In fact, he is one of the great t rinovirati. Take away the editors of the three. dailie.s whie espouse is nitovelnt an-t th toVernlent itselif wonld vanish into tine air. It is es sentialily at cr~eatuire of their owni makling. and they tle re(s5or1ib'. feor' its injection; into our polities at this timie. Our frienl Very r:atura~l 1.i .olicWtris as to this tIr.uVtnlit n:di \'.l' lik.- :l the assistance witit:n :Tacih ti inake it at sne cess, lat weI t: -t tell Lim frankly that it is doomed to an :rly death, as t:ere Is no41 vitality in its comp liositioln. Political movenli nts cannot meet with ti approval 'I ti ptople uithss they are fondel tp' tio: teds and ailpiatiotis Of the Teople This is the: tinitaieit wi\,eb lm1:1, 610 iua lI in verty instance rliere :n org..anizati- n has beeu at iny.- < .lnitsid. If t!h" 1,.:n racy, and it wilt cIon- " . a maisah -, no iittterl bV wh:: i ;f is clattinp(ion.-d. Far tL;.i reastt we ht .e nietrt itke nly tc in the s.everll lIns of .ni mIlS iitled Ire th!o'X, wlo hira. 1 thins tl..ns. 1 if tthe ),u-i :ate rtnltiz tlion. :, 1 thm: render.d theint-eh V powerb- t. a( -.n: pii.h any Bert ie.ti i t in .t! i::-. :h *ia fortuit.- str f" o- the !:tst Ii":. \-a , tioni that the wh'it-- i p h-;,. oft aht! Carn't lina~ w-ere w:llit,, :" dI. ju;stice in, the ten.1 to eas , th .-. ;1 th:t thov w.ebi rc: ft!i - low t xtreine- h-::.t- r, ttineh long'!'er jn " i.e a 1 niting .lisetitl in "tne ranks. I".v aI 1h. idnititical piole i with whoiti we .rv iledl i1 'tl atnd '7t, ir:i (it clr fidene1 in t!hei bas been unbroken itp to this tinf. :tlhilmlgh we hsave disagreed1 e ith :1n-411y things. d,,ni by their leaders. The don,;nanut f.:etion is c(io .1 of the men w-t'1 whomi, We h:ve beit assccciat.d and identified illh'vays, irln we knox. thititi to I e true. patriotie citizens of Smth atrolina, who cannot it.jire or hinder their bire-thir.nU wVithouit sht::ring ini th.: e..ns. que.- W'_ are not go i. to qunit it as'ieatiin wieth tbemi in political tiatter. until they b 1cIn:e ; corrnpit ao.l degr.ud -d, andl whatever in, tinence we lave with th.' wi: u",:1 b-- , eted for the trnest atnl tiable.t inLtees:s i the State. Witlont exclelion we have eve1n iil tis position since 189t, and in spi:e o the leaders on both sides. This mch by way of intttl.itionilil to sotneC gI0 tions prop onn.ied by\ el yoiirng friend of the Spartaberg lie:a'd. w.ieh are as follows 1. D., yon believe" that th1 Dis.wn 1r:ll law ,.s a '71ta iistr".1 in) fhis State is run11 forl nioner' Or moral;s ? 2. 1)o you favor a coutinuati:i of the present adniinisttation in ofiro-e ititroilit\.l" V' heit(aii itse' if ntot, whliin wroni- youn h~avi it ebaice Iits policy arl what titntuis, if anly, woul-l iyo eiploy to carry ant your pirrp'ose ? :1. F1bne' tt ure as we, " dc4. absl I .ly cct: viner-d, that bhv.\ ani.!1: i r"\wd inte"In to pr jcett-it in lth intr as l-y ha ve in the(. patit, d--eet .htire. '!slin:.:,le fro: i - fraud agai b ~ ite m'n1in --d 'no. :5 ,. Ch~ristianl get h-t":!n and pfl o1r: (ti .z , tidt 'is. ubn i to hi. dirtat:on ? Now, as5 w,-g :tnt ant'.w r t"' .sil- qj 14 5 tins aske. the it-rahl n",: 1-m;.; ago, anl bt-lt-%ing- in tht. dot in. f n' eip~:rc:y, wer will 1:nke al frank andl pro't:jpt rep~y to its inte1ro.ttorits, with tiht , Xp ectationi that th.- II--r~d.1 wt'll ;,iv h.:I r'eseb-r. u: op' p.ort floity of gee:.',; whid We jave to ::. 1. -lhe dispe "-:ary law i. one thi~n.: and its administration is anoither. It is well known that we favor the dispensary system inl yn-ferenc t. licensed s:talo;ns., and ix p'erienc- nhIws that there ar , :On+ l v'tatgls inl it. Lignuor drinking1 is anl evil, and whatever te'nds to its tti ition is a di'.tinct gaoin fot' inrails. 'Thei aidinn istration oIf the law has tot '1hWiys mti cur aIpprova!, but we lhave not hetstatfed to (con ienm when the :aithrtities exceed wb::t we believed to lbe right. W.- h::avi critteiserd the excentin:: of the law t'.r [.1w ar-al then, not for the puitrpoie if hinding fatult, butt to prevent abn-t-es :11nd ,at Iwini-tra t on. We w~uid tike iviy the pirotit feI tire etiirely, beectnst this wml iininish blind tiger's and do awaty with any induee menit for laroe sales. Wet -ie tnot in sym-I piathyt wit h liqulor seiling utnder an~y ci r ennif.stanies, biut it is iiunch better tot the traflic to be i uder colntrol oft the State tha:n in the hands of inent wtho care nothing whatever for thte tuiorails ind I n!v wor for the muon: v there is itn i'. 2 We hInve never. favorii t :e ilresent it] mit~istration or its ittuwdiate ir.'lie-swr, as a prinary qu-s:iitn, l-ut ben :h- ut jority of Dexinotera s sati-l ht th y w -t td any manl tior 1)1ic. wtei havie ~tatari jIp p irte I that ttuit withiout reg.tr.1 to onr per. sonatl preference. We ne.ver went it t ia prinIlatr' eleetton or 'l? couventinm if the paty with any mntal~c reservationf. b,t al. wyays with th e hone tit ppo of~ supiport ing the nontini s:tt.1 hence we havi- no Ccmiputionti s of coientitce ionf thact score. W1.enver the utjirity declares fori il change in adiiistration,. Ipoih-y or p.1tr pose, we' wilt inequfiesvle in their decidion, and do just as we did biefore 1890, when mien) were chosen, fit ilige aginrst onr :1.iW d not alvi-t s:nissionr ti thet dicttion tof Chaira tt rby l or any ot her mantt, lt-fomir or Cotnsetvative . We w':ll statv inside titiv 1)iemcriaie orjamti onl andu light atpo~trst fratn., it.ti.,pidation~ antd corruion wherover fontt,.iliani ito the tinlity oft thle wh~tite peCce uponait a hIis of bielieving~ tha.t t:n-y wtill ri-ct ' y al ita kes int hue tin-, andO unlt! the re1y1d.1'te 'Irhv and. Ihis crowdt." w willa onn to "bhea'r the ills we har-- rathier t an~ ite to those we know niot f1." Theiw bats are that we will exertise at fav.>rablc in Iltrae in seenring a1 litter state of ill ir . wnhin? the paty,3 w~hile' the tuin whoI io iutside wtill be' shornt ot all tiow.~ r in tha ci'trec tilO. 'iTes atre ecnudidl ansa.-s tI the I 1rahl, butt of course we do niot aniitie pat ta they will ha~vi ant weight w:th its e lltr, WiO hats "~i~renanneed the' waii., the' il -ii and the eti," Rand atl otar elemen ts e >tn-:e edi with the lt:-mioerney' of Niiach( Croiina, its v'oters.I le hats gonei after -tring Oi.1 I. atil !t will requnire a tti5'.ary It strongelr taith than we poi isess to) brinlg hi-nh ba in the bist wi tctmutny ii opurise, ad diititig away all thie ton fromi the ab' i o! his Iiatr O)nr e-tcemed frti-ndi iti- i u to tcImei tbaftcc, wh thei-,is I fit ii ha. t everC one ofthe bt weare inth iJotical- tacks tcie d sne.- tilrchits et.egn ie ti th nrunvi r h wii t ei d-r r ant. bn itai oust, ai:ty . i.1 hvin toqi Id intgriuponti e s cvt:tkis boe :te od roif-tr, iiosows sigs of peitencet, mnur decve thee betroe, writ jewei for hvis le fatigted. clill bent kile arl t tn tirefaily wuttitllein tobe rner. biliy, bitlisnIss, ls ofapptit, indi-1th geston li a nd coipaiition. t Groe's atilest tiuers thes troue. nTutrv .itcn yo it t tbe heligd.tv u Fift cnt T t h eninea for roe '. N1. enrotii,iopay dte byfory the too st. i oitIcn Pinewood. (.;C.. JulyN. Pre9::n. MUNICIPAL NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that, - virtue of an act of the General .\s sembly of this State. entitled .\n act to establish local I :4,. rdfs of Health in the cities and i::orp ated towns of the tate. tnd t'.d tine the powers thereo.~~ :>:rd of Health for il" totun t.f NI: ning ha- he a d:::ul elecu . :: - lows Dr. C. C. Geiger. Rt. !. Lorvea. W. C. Chandler. F. N. \\il-on. On the 3d of June. 1yz, ; aid Board of health was duly orgr ized by electing I)r. C. B. Geiger ch:rman and R. B. Lryet secre ta rv. , At a meeting of said Hoard after its organization the town was divided into four districts, and one member of the Board. charged specially with the s5upeintendence of t'e hieah It h departme:t oi such district, as follows: District No. i-iouinded n\ e:1 by Brooks street and north by the street leading from the front of the Setzer lot to the dept (somIlet imes called Depot street). District No. 2-B1oundd west by Brooks street and south by s:tid Depot street. District No. 3-Bounded east by Brooks street and soili by said Depot street. District No. 4-i lounded ea:-t by Brooks street and north 1'v said Depot street. The districts, in the order above named. are under the super .n of the following named 1:ne:i:he of said l'o.zrd of IIcalth: No. i-F. N. Wilson. No. 2-W. C. Chandler. No. 3-Joseph F. Rhane. No. 4-R. B. Loryea. a:d i r. C. B. Geiger will have gen:er::i supervision of :111 .'f said dis tricts. The fol lowing are :anong the more important pon\ ers conf erred by law upon said Board : The Board is empowered to el e a Health Officer, who sllt e.ee the orders of the Boad l:....: that purpose shall I::a\e : e:e. cise the powers of a 1: l . n11 the town to mak dn c needful rules and re ga. I: m the prevention o0 the is" htin and spread of infecti;:-s o e tagious diseases: to \-i-' d : spect the court hot:s. ofices therein contained, ..a ! jail and other prison: located in tac town. in regard to the purity of the water supply. he lighting and heating o' t . offices of the court house. *:dx! and other rooms occupied by pri - oners in the jail. and ntule the general sanitary condition of the same. And said Board may re commend to) the county authori ties the removal of all nuisances oni the premises on wvhich said buLild ings are located, which might prove detrimental to public health. andI shall report the number of prisoners, their diet and treatment. the diseases and number of cases of sickness occurring among the prisoners. The following are thle provisions of sections 4 and 5 of said act: SECTION 4. Tie said Board of H-ealth shall have power, a; a body' or by conmnittee, as well as tihe Health Officer, together with his subordinates, assistants and wvork - men, uinder and by order of said Board, to enter at any time upon any premises in the town o)r city upon which there is suspected to be any contagious or infectious dig ease or nuisance detrimental to tihe public health, for the purpose of examining andl abating the samie: and all written orders for the re moval of nuisances issued to the said Health Officer by order of said Board, attested by the secretary. shall be executed by him and his subordinates and workmen: pro vided, the person or persoiis re fusing to remove stuch nuisance. and the cost and expenseC thereof. shall be recoverable from the owner or owners of the premises from which the nuisance shall be re moved or from any person causing or maintaining the same. in tihe same manner as debts of like amounts are now collected by lawv. SECTION ;. The said Board of Health shall have power to create and maintaiin a complete and ac curate system of the registration of birth.s and deaths wvhich may oc cur within the town or city-. and to compel the obedience to the same upon the part of all p)hysicia1ns and other medical pra.ctit:iners, clhergy men, magistrates, imidwives, un dertakers, sextons, and all other persons from whom in format ion for such purposes may' properly be re quired. It is also p)rovided byv said act that it shall be the duty of any phsicianu, who atteinds in sickn~ess ay prisonlers in jail, to report im mediately to tihe Secretary of theC Board of 1health thle namne. sex.I ge, race and disease oIf said uri ners. And by said act the Town Coun ii is charged with the duty of aving the rtuleS an~d regulations of said boardi of healhh, which may eet the approval of said Council. nforced. And tihe Town Council f the Town of Mainning wili! pro tect and enforce obedience to the . said board of health and its mnemn bers in the lawful discharg.e of their duties as enjoined by said act. .. B. LoiivE.\, President. Secretarv. WVashi and mash well twelve (m2) ounds of berries and add two ( 2) (uarts of water, hot, in which has been dissolved five (=;) ounces of tartaric acid; let stand twventyv-four (24) hours; then strain t hrotigh a flanel bag. and to each pint oft juice put onIe pountd (If white sugar; iet stand a fewv days until it eases to wvork and hottle for uise. Do not use a brass or copper kete use orcelatin or sonmeI Does the Question of Proper icycling Dress Sother You? E desire to help every American weinan to ride a bicycle. Therefore COLUMBIA BICY CLES are $100 this year, and are lighter and better adapted to women's needs than ever. There are also light and attractive patterns for women's use in Hartford Bicycles at $80 and $60. #{'#k* H eres r Bicycle > Here's aS a ihCostum Dolls To help solve the problem of proper cycling costume, we have had prepared a set of six handsomely lithographed pa per dolls, showing designs by some of the world's most noted makers of women's gowns. The set is beauti ful and instructive. *+'*++ Mailed to any address, with a dainty little book on BICYCLING FOR WOMFN, for five z-cent stamps. Address Publishing Department. 2 Pope 'Afg. Co., Hartford, Conn. Exhausted Soils are made to produce larger and better crops by the * use of Fertilizers rich in Potash. Write for our "Farmers' Guide," a 142-page illustrated book. It 1f is brim full of useful information for farmers. It will be sent free, and will make and save you money. Address, GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau Street, New York. SHEPHER SUPPLY CO. SUCCESSORS To WM. SHEPHERD & CO., 232s MEETING ST., CHIARLESTON, S. C. -- ; OLr. 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DAMON LODG(E No.13 -- c~$ meets eve-ry tirst and third . M.EI.VEN. (. Thursday nights. Every ('IV L E~; iN : ~ .>1; t* uc ,- ,s mimber re.questeud to at 01VL E mNEE!:m .INV Y~l, i: tenrd re.;uiarly anud promipt .551 ti e. . t i: '~' ly. Yh~iting brothers al