The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-11-09

National Motto-"For God, Home and Ma
tive Land
State Motto-"Be Strong and Of Good cour-
age.''
Our Observation-Disclosures, Educate, Organize.
'God helping me-, promise not to buy,
drink. sell or give
Intoxicating liquors while i've;
From bad companions Ill refrain
And never take Gods name IN vain.
The W. C. T. u, at Batavia,
N. Y. recently dedicated a hand
some drinking fountain. Two
thousand people were IN attend
ance.
At the unveiling of the Frances
E. Willard memorial window in
the First NJ. E. Church of River
side, Col, the W. G. T. U. pre-
| sented the visitors with an at
tractively bound biographical
sketch of Mrs. Willard, prepared
by Mrs. Stella B. Irvine. Union
Signal.
Last Friday at the circus in
|, Columbia, there was the largest
crowd and greatest variety of
people I ever saw. I went into
the tent early and took my seat
on purpose to watch the people
as they thronged in. I enjoy
watching the different faces with
as many different expressions
T where characters more or less
are mirrored. Presently there
appeared couple conspicuous
among the large crowd, two
men, one supporting the other.
At first I thought they were both
drunk, but after looking more
closely I saw that I was mis-
taken. The face of one man was
that of an idiot and a sick person
combined. There was no sensl-
BILE expression there, not a trace
of manliness on his face. He
looked like some senseless per-
son delirious from a raging
fever. He was the drunk man.
The ohter man was apparently
hisfriend. His face was not that OF
dissipation, but of deep mortif-
cation. He held the drunk man
firmly. while he staggered and
/ tottered. It looked as though it
was all he could do to manage
him, and he was so ashamed.
Finally the drunk man got so
crazy and beside himself that his
friend could no longer walk with
him. He was compelled to stand
and cling to a post with one arm
land with the other support the
! man with drink made crazy. The
sober man being the smaller and
weaker Of the two, it looked like
lit would pull him to pieces when
the man wheeled and tumbled
!! }about while he tried his best to
keep him from falling.
A gentleman standing near saw
how the affair was progressing,
and out of pity for the sober man
or contempt for the drunk man,
or something, went and fetched
! a policeman. I looked at the
drunk man, while he was dis
gusting and horrid, I could not
help but feel sorry for him. One
could tell by his personal ap-
pearance thathe was apoor man,
and I thought he was probably
a mill operative, and they have
such a hard, hard time. He might
have worked hard and made
some great sacrifice to get the
money to come to the circus, and
what. a pity to make him go out
before he saw anything; that is
if he was capable of seeing. It
seemed to me that the police
man thought something of the
kind too, for he talked to him
and made him sit down, then
with a word Of warning, walked
away.
The drunk man sat quietly
awhile, and I firmly believe be
was trying his best to behave
himself, but he was no longer a
man made and fashioned in Gods
. own image, but a drunkened de-
mon in the shape of man. He
sat still only a few minutes, then
he began to rage worse than
!; ever. Women and children who
were sitting near became fright
ened and went running about
almost wild with terror. The
policeman returned. and the man
was carried out. A strong,
healthy man as helpless as a
baby. A furious maniac, not
made so by disease or affection,
but by the cursed alcohol.
My soul stirred with indigna-
ton and sorrow, and thought,
,'swhat can I do?" Then I said to
myself, sswe1l, do all we can in
our Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union, and though we are
condemned and ridiculed we will
work, work hard to rid our
country of the curse" B. G.
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