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■(much needless pain when they delay using Carduipi Bfor their female troubles. Cardui has been found to |j headache, backache, pain in the side and diz ziness, arising from deranged organs. It does more ||s H than relieve, —if used persistently,—many have writ-g| H ten to say that it cured them. 'CARDUI I It Wm Help You ’"I j Mrs. Maxwell Johnson, Tamps. Fl*., writes: “Cardui cured I*l me after doctors and everything else had failed. I had been suffer- |n ing with numb spells ever sixes I was 16 years old. Ono day I E/h Mg decided to take Cardui. I hive now taken 5 bottles and I can say eM k? that it has cured me. I advise all suffering women to give Cardui rS Eg a long and fair trial.” Es Mrs. Johnson suffered years. Have you? Do you wish to? Ell H But why suffer at all? Tak« Cardui. Give it a fair trial. 1 AT ALL DRUG- STORES Don’t give beyond your means Don’t give because you think you arc expected to give. Don’t give with the hope that those to whom you give will return you something oi equal value. That isn’t the Christ mas spirit. And the Christmas spir it is the only spirit that’s worth while at Christmas. To remember the orphan or the pauper is worth a wagon-load of silks and precious stones left at the mansions of those who are, able to gratify every wish," remarks the Albany Herald. The symptoms of kidney trouble are urinary disorders, weak back and backache, rheumatism and rheumatic pains and twinges, pains in the groin, etc. There is nothing as good for kidney and bladder trouble as De- Witt’s Kidney and Bladder Pills. You may depend upon them to give entire satisfaction. They are antiseptic, act promptly and soothe pain. Sold by all druggists. The oaks upon which the mistletoe grew were sacred to the Druids in days of old, and they used to worship under them in the most solemn and devout way. When hung up in a room or hall the beautiful pearly ber ries were thought to possess the pow er of keeping away evil spirits and influences. The person who shall do the most to cheer the hearts of the needy poor will have the merriest Christmas and the happiest New Year. Try 1 and see. The first American book printed it the colonies was the Bay Psaln Book. It was printed at Cambridge Mass., in 1640. LUjjjj|__U«_iLL_Mlil JI jf 1 I W~|TII UTT *_L -- - - . , <■■ i l«1 >rf«« ■ Weak Throat—Weak Lungs Cold after cold; cough after cough! Troubled with this' taking-cold habit? Better break it up. We have great j confidence in Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral for this work. No » I medicine like it for weak throats and weak lungs. Ask m syour doctor for his opinion. He knows all about it 3 |His approval is valuable. Follow his advice at all times. * aNo alcohol in this cough medicine. Jc. c o., Lowell, Mass. > Always keep a food laxative in Uiehuute. Uei dose when your cold tot comes>on. Wnat is th* best laxative for this? Ayer's PIIU. Ask your doctor hfeoyutom. Let him decide. HIDES BLII IfiNkT bi&kest maiket pbicu S B, J W VaJCoeimlaaion. Write lor Ea& price-U*t mentioning tma ad ESTABLISHED 1837 WHITE A 00* Lquwvwl®. Kt. Colds are quickly cured by Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. It acts on nature’s plan, ens the cough, relieves the lungs and opens the secretions, effecting a permanent cure. It coun teracts any tendency of a cold to result in pneu monia. It is pleasant to take, both adults and children like it Price aje.; large size 50c. ♦ . . OAKLAND PIANOS vi m ivfcMyw * • fore not found in WSIWRI I ‘(-Lrif a the careful . b P s ~.. ft ax and one grade 0< piano, '*■ r-' •■- •'»« tnl'.mo ■ “n'l >■' ’•‘■a.o an v> : way. ; -?8 Il r-.--.Ly J | '‘j;: - ~~~ .. ' 1 F JL 7 ; u r<^^and«^tatn«lucv.r7 ; ..-. OAKLAND PIANO CO AIS Steinway Hall^_- s. Work of the Orphans’ Homes during e 1309. h u Most of the Homes have had a ,f very busy year. The Decatur Home t- is putting up a new building for 30 more children. The Hapeville, Ga., h Industrial and other Homes need r more room. . The Work Pay gifts, a from the Homes observing it in the s Southern States, amounted to near e ly 150,000,00. This is a wonderful " growth from $8,000,00 ten year ago. , If any children are found needy any where, will not friends write to the e Orphans’ Homes at once so they may d hsl P- c Xmas is upon us. Let every one e divide his Xmas joys with - the or phans. a IN MEMORY. Q i t Miss Alice Reed was born in the year 1880, and on the Ist of Septem ber, 1909 she was taken sick on j Wednesday night at 1 o’clock and i Thui-sday at 3 o’clock she lay a 3 i corpes. n ■ She was a member of the Baptist p church at Subligna and Mr. Ben 1 ' Hunt was her pastor at that time, i I I A precious one from us has gone | A voice we loved is stilled j A place is vacant in our home Which can never be filled. God in his wisdom has recalled t The boon his love lias given, And though the body slumbers here The soul is safe in heaven. S Written by a friend, R. E. Wesbrooks. in “Time is money.’’ This ought to tn ' be cheering news to the man of leis e, ' ure who has Christmas presents to I buy and no ready cash. THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1909. “PROHIBITION THE REAL I OBSTACLE TO REFORM.” I i (From Southern Fruit Grower.) I Under the above heading in Pear son’s Magazine for August appeared an article by Rev. Wm. A. Wasson, 1 whom, the publishers state, is a cler gyman of the Episcopal church. I have long felt that there were many’ people opposed to the enectment of temperance laws who are honest in their convictions, and for this reas on, I was indeed glad to be afforded , the opportunity of reading an article I which I hoped would be free from prejudice, assaults tnd the other dis agreable elements that are usually characteristic of artclies dealing with this subject. To begin aright, it was my aim, as far as possible, to put i myself in the author’s place of view point and study it with much sym | pathy. But scarcely does the reader ; launch before he is beset with sen | tences and paragraphs which is at ' once convincing that the author has I not only fired his gun at the objects of prohibition, but has taken a wild shot at the advocates of prohibition. In fact they receive as many raps, if not more than the “whys prohibi- . tion fails to prohibit.” He says almost at the beginning, “But sober-minded people have no faith in the professions and promises of prohibitionists.” In this great i United States, and particularly in this beloved Southland, we wish to say (for the benefit of Mr Wasson) . that the element of population that ! advocate prohibition laws includes i our college presidents, ministers . teachers, business men, professional I men, and the better element of the , | laymen. While arrayed against pro ' | hibition includes the saloon bum, all ■ I the bad classes and those directly or I j indirectly interested financially in the sale of liquor, or property leased to i I whiskey men. Asew —very few — ■ j are found, independently against pro i hibition laws whom we regard as sub ! stantial business men, but for the - lack of information, and the proper conception of the gravity of the evils arising from the open saloons, have without much consideration, taken sides with the whiskey element. So when the writer referred to so ' | ber minded people having no faith in ’ i the professions and claims of prohi i bitionists, he reflects on the charac -1 I ters of the best, the brainiest and 1 most substantial citizenship that ever existed in the United States of - Americo, or elesewhere. 1 Again, he says, “In undertaking • temperance reform work along any line we must learn to be patient, and to be modest in our expectations. We must bear in mind that temper ance reform is very largely a matter of moral and social evolution.” This is the broadest view, and the most reasonable statement made by the writer, what a pity that he cannot stick to his belief as he proceeds with his lengthy discussion For while he says that we must learn to } be patient, and also be modest in our I expectations, just listen to what he 3 i says in reference to prohibition in i the state of Georgid. down to date: “Conditions kept going from bad Ito w'orse, and before the laws had i been on the statute books a year it | was clearly evident to everybody | that had even a half an eye, that ] prohibition in Georgia had broken down.” Remember, we “should be patient and modest in our expecta tions.” O, thou fickle author, indeed thou art fickle, for even if that statement had been true thou should have been ’ “patient and modest in thy expecta tions.” It is sadly perplexing how i “the breaking down of prohibition laws in the state of Georgia” (?) ' should grieve a citizen, a minister of the gospel, and he so remotely situ ated. Because in some of the larg- 'er cities, there exists some locker ’ clubs, and an occasional “blind ti ger” where alcoholic drinks can be procured, this minister of the gospel says “prohibition has broken down in Georgia.” We will not worry over the exist ence of a few blind tigers. It is a poor law affecting an unimportant matter that is not violated, hence the infringement of the prohibition laws are contemplated when enacted. Who says prohibition fails to pro hibit? Thousands of lovers of their bottle; those who dislike to be cut off therefrom and this minister of the gospel joins in the chorus, “pro ! hibition fails to prohibit." Os course it fails to prohibit abso lutely the use of intoxicants but . then the fact that you eradicate or I wrest your laws and your politics from the clutches of the whiskey men is in itself alone enough to commend the adoption of statuary prohibition laws in any and every state. The common knowledge that in these prohibition towns many sa loon loafers who have heretofore spent years in drinking, carousing, while their families were miserable, are now engaged in some legitimate occupation, giving their attention and their earnings to the support of their families—l’ll tell you prohibition is ,a wonderful success. You can’t deny it. It makes little t difference tvhat sort of law's you > I have, stamping out or regulating the I ] sale of spirituous drinks, the “blind [ tiger” is going to exist. I have nev- , .i er know’n one temperance advocate I ] who really claimed that prohibition ; would rid the country of “blind ti . gers.” A great many people, driven r by thirst since the enactment of pro .; hibition laws, to seek the “blind . j tigers” and discovered them, have | erroneously' supposed that they sprang up as a result of the enact ment of such laws. It is true that , we have a law against crime, and among the many offences treated covers a certain punishment for mur . der. We have a law against murder. , “But let me tell you, it fails to pro hibit.” Yes, it does, for murders are committed every day. Why not re peal this law because it fails to pro , hibit? It covers exactly the same points, and there is as much reason in repealing it as there is in repeal .: ing a prohibition law, because it fails , to prohibit. No, no, Mr. Minister, the people in the state of Georgia are so pleased with prohibition laws that they are going to keep them intact. So don’t sit up nights worrying over this “horrifying condition” that exists in ’! Georgia (’) , The minister .uvees some ridicu lous statements, and here is a good sample: “Nowhere and at no time , in all its history has prohibition ac complished a single one of its avow objects.” Speaking of some of the states that , have recinded their prohibition law's Ij in the past he becomes very kind- hearted and says: "The people of j these states adopted prohibition in II good faith. They honestly and earn . j estly desired to wipe out intemper ance.” Now, be fair, why don’t you say the same thing, this nice thing, about ] ] the people of Georgia, Tennessee and j Jof the other states? You will, won’t] you, if they ever recind these laws | . i they have placed upon their statua , tory books? Then you will march bravely up to the casket and instead ] ( of calling them an unfaithful people and infidels, you will lay the follow- | ing words upon the casket: “The | people of these states adopted prohi- i bition in good faith. They honestly and earnestly desired to wipe out intemperance.” He speaks of prohibition in your , own town. Did he lend you support to enforcement of these laws, or did . he use your pulpit or your letters in . the press to arouse the people to in surrection against them? He says that “the saloon fills a legitimate so cial need, and it is useless to make I . an effort to abolish it without some I , suitable institution be established as j a substitute. That whatever will , lighten and brighten and cheer the lives of men will not be surrender ed ” The revised version of your last ( sentence, repeated is, “That what . ever burdens and blights and damns the lives of men should be abolish- L cd.” You speak of the decent sa loons! Wouldn’t it have been a treat I if you had devoted enough space to J have defined “the decent saloon!” t : Whatever breeds crime, robs a man of , his senses, which causes him to com , mit things unbecoming and makes his t life a Gehenna on earth, is impossi , ble of decency. Lo, now for a de scription, a definition of the decent saloon. This minister speaks of 1 “prohibition being the greatest ob , stacle to true temperance reform. 1 You can’t believe it.; your constitu ents nod their heads in loving ap , I proval when you make this remark, ( but they don’t believe it down deep , in their hearts. If this is true why f i don’t you level your gun and go as- ] ter game in the states where prohi . ] bition does not exist? It certainly . ] is not an obstacle in those states. j The minister doesn’t stop here, but , prescribes a remedy—the excise law. j This limits the number of saloons in , a town, and places the absolute au- ] thority in a governing board. But - here, if this saloon business is legal, t ] you have no right to say who shall t I not engage in it, or limit the num , ber. That is unfair, for if it is legit x imate it should be classed and put on the same basis as other business enterprises. If it is right to put 11- , quor in reach of the rich it is all t wrong to put it out of reach of the t poor. This you do by high license. Many readers of this article will wonder how much time and effort the author of this article appearing in , Pearson’s Magazine has given to hav- • . ing excise laws enacted in the states. 5 This article weakens the strength . o' the saloon element in every local , ity where it is read. For we deal . today with an intelligent, independ . ent and fearless people, who are not t influenced by unreasonable state ments and arguments. 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