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t \s^ " ISSUED SEMI-WEEKLY. ? ^ ^ ^ l. m GRIST S SONS. Publishers, j * Ja?"ls Hm'spapcr: Jor the promotion of the political. Social. Agricultural and Commercial interests of (he people. j te"^;o!"?,>;v,"i"vei"ce""."CE ESTABLISHED 1855. " "" YORKVLLLE. S. O. TUESDAY. SEPTE.AtltKH <i. li)1.0. NO. 71. *< *?+ T ***** i(-> THE NE % _ * % $ X ^ ? By Guy De * * s ? A 4-A A She was one of those pretty ami charming girls who, as if by a mistake of destiny, are born in a family of clerks She had no dowry, no expectations, no means of becoming known, understood, loved, wedded by any rich and distinguished man; and so she let herself be married to a petty clerk in the Bureau of Public Instruction. She was simple in her dress because she could not be elaborate, but she was as unhappy as if she had fallen from a higher rank, for with women there is no distinction of higher and lower; their beauty, their grace, and their natural charm til! the place of i !...u ?1W| fQ,v?iiv Natural delicacy, instinctive elegance, a lively wit, are the ruling forces in the social realm, ami make daughters of the common people the equals of their finest ladies. She suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself horn for all the refinements and luxuries of life. She suffered front the poverty of her home as she looked at the dirty walls, the worn-out chairs, the ugly curtains. All those things of which another woman of her station would have been quite unconscious ^ tortured her and made her indignant. The sight of the country girl who was maid-of-all-work in her humble household filled her almost with desperation. She dreamed of echoing halls hung with Oriental draperies and lighted by tall bronze candelabra, while two tall footmen in knee-breeches drowsed in great armchairs by reason of the heating stove's oppressive warmth. She dreamed of splendid parlors furnished in rare old silks, of carved cabinets loaded with priceless curiosities, and of entrancing little boudoirs just right for afternoon chats with bosom friends ?men famous and sought after, the envy and the desire of all the other When she sat down to dinner at a little table covered with a cloth three days old, and looked across at her hushand as he uncovered the soup and exclaimed with an air of rapture, "Oh, the delicious stew! I know nothing better than that," she dreamed of dainty dinners, of shining silverware, of tapestries which peopled the walls with antique figures and strange birds in fairy forests; she dreamed of delicious viands served in wonderful dishes, of whispered gallantries heard with a sphinx-like smile as you eat the pink llesh of a trout or the wing of a bird. She had no dresses, no jewels, nothing; and she loved only that, she felt made for that. She was filled with a desire to please, to be envied, to be bewitching and sought after. She had a rich friend, a former schoolmate at the convent, whom she no longer wished to visit because she suffered so much when she came nome. rm whole days at a time she \ve|?t without ceasing in bitterness and hopeless misery. ?? ???*? Now, one evening her husband came home with a triumphant air, holding; in his hand a large envelope. "There," said he, "there is something for you." She quickly tore open the paper and ?dre\v out a printed card, bearing these words: ? "The Minister of Public Instruction and Mine. Georges Rampoimeau request the honor of M. and Mine. Reisers company at the palace of the Ministry, Monday evening, January lsth." " * -i.. Instead of hemg ovfrcitint' umi u>light. as her husband expected, she threw the invitation on the table with disdain, murmuring: "What do you wish me to do with that?" "Why. my dear. I thought you would be pleased. You never go out, and it is such a tine opportunity, this! I had awful trouble in getting it. Kvery one wants to go; it is very select, and they are not giving many invitations to clerks. You will see the whole official world." She looked at him with irritation, and said, impatiently: "What do you wish me to put on my back if I go?" lie had not thought of that, lb1 stammered: "Why. the dress you go to the theatre in. it seems all right to me." II stopped, stupefied, distracted, nil seeing that his wife was crying. Two great tears descending slowly from tin- corners of her eyes toward the corners of her mouth, lie stuttered: "What's the matter? What's tin matter?" ISy a violent effort she subdued hel feelings and replied in a calm voice, as she wiped her wet cheeks: "Nothing, only I have no dress ami consequently I cannot go to this ball Hive your invitation to smite frieiui whose wife is l?'tt?T mi|?|?? ? 1 than 1." Ilo was iii despair. lit* replied: I.t-t ns si'i*, .Mathilde. How inuvti woiilil it cost, a suitable dross, tvhicf yon eoitld wear attain on futiirt* oecasioiis. sometltintt v?-ry simple?" Sin- reflected for soino seconds. ooniputiui; tin- lost, and also wondering what sum she could ask without brins;ini; down upon horsolf an immcdiat* rofusal and an astonishod cxclamatioi from thv ooonoinioal olork. At last sho nnswiTod hesitatingly: I don't know oxartl.v. but il sootiu to mo that with four hundrod francs ! ootthl matiattn." Ho turnod a trilh* pnlo. for ho hatl Io-f i savins; just that sum to htty i t'lin and tro.at hinisolf to a lit11* huntimr tho following suiiiiimt. in tin country noar Xnntcrre, with a IVw frionds who wont thoro to shoot larks of a Sunday. Howovor, ho said: "W'oll. 1 think I ran sri\o you font hundrod francs. I!ut soo that you hav? a pretty dross." The day of tho hall drew near, am Madame l.oisol seemed sad. unhappy 4"5iiK'+ T T +fcI,H < CKLACE 11 < * * II Ma upassant * * f + @ & * k k *&?$+ k +***+ k ***** a *** I anxious. Her dress was ready, how ever. Her husband said to her one , evening: < "What is the matter? Come, you've been looking queer these last three days?" And she replied: I "It worries me that I have no jew- I els, not a single stone, nothing to put on. I shall look wretched enough. I would almost rather not go to this party." He answered: "You might wear natural flowers. They are very fashionable this season. For ten francs you can get two or three magnificent roses." She was not convinced. "No; there is nothing more humiliating than to look poor among women who are rich." But her husband cried: "How stupid of you: Co and find your friend Madame Forestier and ask her to lend you some jewels. You are intimate enough with her for that." She uttered a cry of joy. ooiieao I had not thoiiirht of that." The next day she went to her friend's house and told her distress. Madame Forestior went to her handsome wardrobe, took out a large casket. brought it back, opened it. and said to Madame Loisel: "Choose, my dear." She saw first of all some bracelets, then a pearl necklace, then a Venetian cross, gold and precious stones of wonderful workmanship. She tried on the ornaments before the glass, hesitated, could not make up her mind to part with them, to give them back. She kept asking: "You have nothing else?" "Why, yes. See I do not know what will please you." All at once she discovered, in a black satin box, a splendid diamond necklace, and her heart began to beat with immoderate desire. Her hands trembled as she took it. She fastened it around her throat, over her highnecked dress, and stood lost in ecstasy as she looked at herself. Then she asked, hesitating, full of anxiety: "Would you lend me that?only that?" "Why, yes. certainly." She sprang upon the neck of her friend, embraced her rapturously, then fled with her treasure. The day of the ball arrived. Madame Ixisel was a success. She was prettier than all the others, elegant, gracious, smiling, and crazy with joy. All the men stared at her, asked her name, tried to be introduced. All the cabinet officials wished to waltz with her. The minister noticed her. She danced with intoxication, with passion, made drunk with pleasure. forgetting all in trie triunipii 01 mi beauty, in tbe glory of her success, in a .sort of mist of happiness, the result of all this homage, all this admiration. all these awakened desires, this victory so complete and so sweet to the heart of woman. She left about four o'clock in the morning. Her husband had been sleeping since midnight in a little deserted anteroom with three other gentlemen, whose wives were hav ing a good time. He threw about her shoulders the wraps which he had brought for her to go out in, the modest wraps of common life, whose poverty contrasted sharply with the elegance of the ballroom toilet. She felt this and wished to escape, that she might not be noticed by the other women who were enveloping themselves in costly furs. I.oisel held her back. "Wait here, you will catch cold outside. f will go and find a cab." Hut she would not listen to him. and rapidly descended the stairs. When they were at last ill the street, they could find no carriage, and began to look for one. crying after the cabmen i they saw passing at si distance. They walked down toward the Seine in despair, shivering with the cold. At last they found on the quay one of those ancient nocturnal coupes that one sees in Paris only after dark, as if they were ashamed to display their ' wretchedness during the day. They were put down at their door in - i ?n.. .......Hi_ Ihf Ifim iK's Martyrs, ami sum.* m"uini'il th<- stops to thi-ir apartments. It | ' was all over, for hi-r. Ami as for hint, 1 In* reflected that ho must la- at his 1 office at ton o'l'lork. Sin- took off till- wraps which envoi opoil hi-r sliotilih't's before tho tjlass. tu laki* a filial look at herself in till her ?|ory. itut s111111 11 \- sho utti-ri'il a cry. Sin- no |initfi-r hail tlm necklace ahoiit her neck! Ih r hnshanil. already half main ssml I i iiiI tii i*i-I I: "What is tin- matter?" I Sho ttirni'il inailly towarii him. "I havi*?I have?I no longer have Mailaiiu1 lu'ckljua1." 1 I ! stood ii|?. distracted. 1 They looked in tlm folds of her ilrt'ss. in tin* folds of Imr cloak. in tip* pooki'ts. everywhere. They rmihl not Iiml a trace of it. llo aski'il: "Yon ari- sure you still had it wlmn ' yon li ft tho hall?" 'I "Yes. I foil it in tlm vostihtilo at tin* I .. ilrioo " "lint if yiiii hail lust it in I hi* sir ' shmilil haw hoard it fall. Il must I ! in tin* rah." "Yrs. That's |ifnlialily it. I >iil ymi I takr tlir imiillirr?" ' "Nil. Ami ynii, vnii iliil iint iintiri* it ?" N.i." Thi*.v liMiknl at rarh ntlu-r llnuiilrr5 strurk. At last l^iisrl put mi hisrlnthrs a"ai'?. "1 am Kiiinr; hark," saiil hr. "nvrr r ?*wry I'niit nf thr way wr i-aim*. tn set* * if I shall lint fiml it." Su hi- staftnl. Shr fi inaim-il in hrr hall llfi-SS Witllnllt Stl'i-imtll tn f;n In I hi'il, sittiiii; mi a rhair, with im |jrr, , lu-r iii11tc a hla11J;. Hit husband returned about seve. ??*?. ! ..-l-c Hi* had found nothing. Hi v.*i nt to police headquarters. so tin* newspapers to offer a reward, to the call companies, everywhere, in short, where a suspicion of hope led him. She watched all day, in the same state of blank despair before this frightful disaster. I^oisel returned in the evening with cheeks hollow and pale; he had found nothing. "You must write to your friend," said ho, "that you have broken the clasp of her necklace and that you are having it repaired. It will give us time to turn around." She wrote at his dictation. At the end of a week they had lost till hope. And Ijoisel, looking five years older. declared: "We must consider how to replace the ornament." The next day they took the box which had contained it, and went to the place of the jeweler whose name they found inside. He consulted his books. "It was not I. madame, who sold the necklace; I must simply have furnished the casket." Then they went from jeweler to jeweler. looking for an ornament like the other, consulting their memories, both sick with chagrin and anguish. They found, in the shop at the Palais-Roval. a string of diamonds which seemed to them exactly what they were looking for. It was worth forty thousand francs. They could have it for thirty-six thousand. So they begged the jeweler not to sell it for three days. And they made an arrangement that he should take it back for thirty-four thousands francs if the other were found before the end of of February. Loisel had eighteen thousand francs five louis here, three louis there. He would borrow the rest. He did borrow, asking a thousand francs of out', five hundred of another, ,ve louis here, three louis there. He grave notes, made ruinous engagements, dealt with usurers, with all the trihe of money-lenders. He compromised the rest of his life, risked his signature without knowing if he might not he involving his honor, and, terri[ tied l?y the anguish yet to come, by the black misery about to fall upon him, by the prospect of every physical privation and every mental torture, he went to get the new necklace, and laid down on the dealer's counter thirtysix thousand francs. When Madame Loisel took the ornament back to Madame Forestior, the latter said coldly: "You should have returned it sooner, for I might have needed it." She did not open the case, to the relief of her friend. If she had detected the substitution, what Would | she have thought? What would she | have said? Would she have taken her friend for a thief? Madame I.oisel now knew the horrible life of the needy, moreover, all at once she took her part heroically. They must pay this frightful debt. She would pay it. They dismissed their maid, they gave up their apartment, they rented another under the roof. She came to know the drudgery of housework, the odious cares of the kitchen. She washed the dishes, usin>" h..r rosv nails on the greasy pots and the bottoms of the saucepans. She , washed the dirty linen, the shirts and the dishcloths, which she hung to dry on a line, she carried the garbage to the street every morning, and carried up the water, stopping at each landing to rest. And, dressed like a woman of the people, she went to the fruiterer's, the grocer's, the butcher's, her basket on her arm, bargaining, abusing, defending sou by sou her miserable money. Kach month they had to pay some notes, renew others, obtain more time. The husband worked evenings neatly footing up the account books of some tradesman, and often far into the night he sat copying manuscript at live sous a page. And this lasted ten years. At the end of ten years they had paid everything?everything, with the exactions of usury and the accumulations of compound interest. Madame l.oiscl seemed old now. Sinhad become the woman of an impoverished household- strong and hard and rough. Willi hair half combed, with skirts awry, and reddened hands, she talked loud as she washed the lloor with great swishes of water. Hut sometimes, when In r husband was at tin- otTice, she sat down near tin- window and thought of that evening at the ball so long ago. wln-n sin- had lu-i'ii si> lmautiful and so fotod. What would haVI' happonotl if sinhad not lost that nooklaoo. Wlu? knows, who knows? How stran^o lif'* is. how chaiifn-ful! How liitl?- a ihinu is iii'i'di'd for us to In- lost or to ho savotl! I'ut oii<- Sunday, as sin- was muni; for a walk in tin- Champs Klysoos to rofri'sli InwsoH' aftt-r tin- labors of tinwi'fk, all at onto slu- saw a woman walking with a ohild. It was Mailanul-'orostior, still youim. still hoautiful. still oharniinK. Madaim- ljiijsi-1 was aitilatod. Should sho spoak to hor? Why, of ooiirso. And now that slio had paid, sho would toll lu-r all. Why not? Sin- wont up. "Conjoin*, .loanno." Tin- othor. asloiiislu-d to ho addivssod so familiarly hy this woman of tinpooplo. diil not rooi.^uizo In-r. Sinstaiiiinorod: "Hut -madam I do not know yon. Von must havo mailt* a mistako." "N<>. I :iin M; 1111 i 1?I l.oi.?i-l." Il<r I'rifiul illIfiiiI m <-ry. "iili! my poor Miilliilili*, Imw i-hniiKi-il you an !" "Vi-s, I hsivi* hail days hard t'tioiitih siiH-i- I saw von, days wn irhi-d I'liniiuh and all hi'i-ansi- of yuii!" "Mi ? Mow so?" "Von ri-iiu-mlii-r that in-rkla diamonds that >mi lent an- to wi-ar to iIn ininisti-rial I ail ?" "Vi-s. Will?" "Wi ll. I lost it." "Ilow? Mill yon n-tiiriii-d it to im\" "I n-tiirin-il to yon .-inothi-r i-xarll.v liki- it. Tln-si- tt'ii yi-ars wt-'vi* Ihm-ii paying for it. Von know it was not asy for ns. who had nothing. At last Camera Proves \ Ii 4ig? w *5 I WW I*'. 1. \ ' ^ witM ^Wm Colonel Roosevelt's journey tbroug teresting subjeets. iind probably serer he visits, but none' of them is more in reached the middle west Cartoonist M toon depicting the anxiety of the peo resented a typical town of the Hawk telegraph poles and from the tops of traveler's train. When the special tr American I'ress Association with the e welcome. Notice how like the cartoo graph pole and the box ears. It is over, and I am very glad." Madame Forestier stood staring at her. "You say that you bought a necklace of diamonds to replace mine?" "Yes; you did not notice it, then? They were very like." And she smiled with a projid and naive pleasure. Madame Forestier, deeply moved, took both her hands. "<)h, my poor Mathilde! Why, my necklace was paste. It was worth five hundred francs at most." THE ISLAND OF BATANES. Customs In Northernmost Province of the Philippines. "Tho capital of our northernmost province. Santo Domingo de Hasoo, 011 I In- Island of Untunes, is an interesting place. The route of our transports lies a few hours steaming west of the group, passing between them and the Island of Fomosa 011 their way to Nagasaki, yet comparatively few Americans have visited this group of islands," said Dr. Louis Ottofy, who has recently returned from this part of this archipelago. "Santo Domingo has a population of about L'.ftOO and is entirely different from any other town in the Philippines. In the first place all the buildings are of stone and whitewashed. The roofs are made of cogon grass, closely trimmed so as to afford no purchase to the severe typhoons which sweep over the islands. "The streets are about twelve feet wide, many of them paved with stones. Some walls extend along both sides of the streets their full length, giving them the appearance of lanes. The walls are about three to live feet in height, broken at intervals for entrance to the yards, which in turn are separated from each Ml IHT l>y Stone XX'illlS. ixiosi III I in yards were clean and exceptionally ileal and attractive. "The provincial building, presideneia, schiMil house, ciiureh and the parochial school are all huilt of stone, neatly whitewashed, and the grass covered plaza, fenced h.V a low Stone wall, was the acme of neatness. "t'lilike most Kilipino towns there were no pigs or goals at large; they ai" ?<?11 li 11? ? 1 in w a) l?'?l - in siM'tions !?? low the level of the streets. I noticed lull few dogs and they seemed to he Well fed. There is Hot a single t'llillMmiln in the town; in fact for that matter not one <>n any of the islands among a population of about S.ilOft. There were Itllt live white ineti there, the priest, who had been there for twenty-seven years, the governor, who, I was told, is a Spaniard; two Spaniards who are entile buyers, and one American connected with the bureau of public works. "There is not st single store in the town. The side industry is the raising of cattle which are called for by iv..... x.... M .i.il.. \vli.->i <>l' ill'- sIen111 ers anchors I here tin* <;itll>- ;ir>' |>;ii?1 I'nr in rush ranging from $l"i in $40 a head. Some of ihr residents tli<-it lake the steamer for llii- lirsl |ii11'I mi lliv Islaml nf l/iiznii. Iiriim some onions ami garlic with them ami i|n lli" purrnhsinu for Ihemselves ami I lu'ir friends. "Tin* wonii'ii wear a peetiliar head iln-ss inaili- of i'ojioii kiiiss to protect ilu'iii from sun and rain ami wilhniit one i'Xi'i'1 ?iion each one lifted it in saliitntiiui. I'nr three imniths of ilu* year iln* islands are typhoon swept and no steamer can approaeh them and other times, thoiiuli a regular mail service is imw estsildished, I hey are shut off from outside contact."?Manila Times. Welcome of Colonel i West as Anticipai V*i .in * n ' ilMi t? l &F~4)<; - KHD |t?1ipw# rV I 1-iH ( ^,jft H ipl J*yi!m U' v 1^^ I) fourteen states bus furnished photogn; al tlioiisaud pictures have been taken ol teresting than the reproductions ubov< cCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune otTei pie of Iowa for the coming of their dis eye State with its population about ti freight cars other hundreds scanned tl nin bearing the visitors arrived In one olonel's party was one of s'ie first to alii n of McCutcbeon are the characters in t THE EARTH CAVING IN. Great "Sinks" In Florida Caused By Subterranean River. Another "sink" on Alachua lake, just across from the chain of "sinks" south of the city, developed some time during Wednesday night, and as a result the trains over the Atlantic Coast Line were annulled after the Leesburg-Jacksonville train, which reached here Thursday morning at 8 o'clock. The first report that reached the city was brought by Conductor Frederick, who was advised of the trouble by Section Foreman Thigpen, who made the discovery early in tin- morning on his way to the south end of his section. When Mr. Thigpen first discovered the new sink it was not more than ten or fifteen feet in diameter, but it spread very rapidly during the morning hours, and by the arrival of the Ixesburg passenger train it had grown to about forty feet, one large chunk of earth following after another in rapid succession and tlie ground cracking for a space of several feet around the entire hole. At about noon the place presented a rather interesting scene, for at this times the great chunks of earth were Pennsylvania Rai I MaMHr? jg^^EKSKt^PKV^jtK^KSk The liirp'st building In the world been completed and declared officially railroad company that train service w largo structures in the world, accord! the Vatican. the Tuilerles and the St, erect them and they were finished or extending half a mile. The time for signed to smrgest tlie Imposing chara made upon the layman approaching t semicircular windows is that of one o Roosevelt ted by Cartoonist. % xJBl &9 WV 5*; , n| iphers and curtoonists with mauy In f the former president or places that 5. Some days before Mr. Roosevelt ed the subscribers of his (taper a curtinguished visitor. The cnrtoon rep le railway depot watching, while on le distant horizon for a sight of the of these towns : photographer of the ght for n snapshot of the crowd of he real photograph, even to the telerolling in at Intervals, and with them the water would boil and sizzle as though it was hot iron being struck in place. The great pool also resembled the waves of the seas, for during the day it was in motion, sometimes being greater than at others, and up to last night the earth was still falling. Reports from the place last night were to the effect that the hole had covered a distance of 125 feet running north and south, while from the east to west bank the distance is fully 100 feet. This sink developed some 200 yards this side of the one that occurred there a few years ago when a local freight train with many cars, fell to the bottom of the place, but fortunately there was no water in this one, and it was easily tilled in, and is used today the same as the old roadbed. Just how deep the water in this new place is cannot be estimated with any degree of accuracy, for during the forenoon a large tree that was fully thirty or more feet tall was in the middle of the place, and in the afternoon it had disappeared as though nothing but a bottomless hole was there to receive anything that came it's way. There are a number of old sinks in the vicinity, but the new one is larger than any of the others.?OaincsvilL1 (Fla.) Sun. lroad Opens Its Great 5tition to jijjs H t#Hfc JSf SiBBP^ ever built at one tune, the IVnnsylvauia r open. It has also been announced In an ill be Inaugurated on Sept. 8. A couipai ng to ine company. gives :i nrsr piace in u , Petersburg Winter palace are larger la ily after years of labor. The station cover the building was only six years. While eter of the ancient Roman temples and lie station In full view of the exterior of tl f the leading railway stations In the wort iHiscdlanrous &ratlu>c|. BLEASE AND FEATHERSTONE. Some Press Comments on the Two Leading Candidates. A Remarkable Result. Columbia Record. Official returns will put the vote for Mr. Rlcase up to 30,000. It was expected that Mr. Rlease would poll in the first primary very nearly his full strength. Two years ago in the race for governor Mr. Rlease received 42,000 votes. lit1 Will nave li? K?im vmra 111 the second primary to equal his vote of two years ago. To lie elected governor, Mr. Hlease wil have to receive the votes of 2t>,000 men who did not vote for him in the first primary. It will he the most remarkable results in the history of South Carolina politics if Mr, Hlease Is elected. For Featherstone. Florence Times. It is not often that the Times feels that its duty to its constituency demands that it take a stand in the primary election between men, but we do think that it is our duty to say as emphatically as possible that every citizen, regardless of his views on the liquor question or on any other question, should get out at once and work as hard as he can and as effectively as he can for C. C. Featherstone for governor. The returns were in the nature of a surprise to many people who thought that they had their flu gcr on the "pulse of the public. Waive everything to work for the election of Featherstone. We do not deny Mr. Blease's ability or his strength with the people; he is a most fascinating man, but in our cool, deliberate judgment, backed by our varied experience, we feel that it would be a serirtus mistake to make Mr. Blease governor of the state, and that the voter would not, and could not, be aware of the mistake until after he had made it: so that the safest thing to do is to take the advice of those in whose sincerity and disinterestedness you can have no doubt and vote for the election of Featherstone. Don't run tne risk r?r a misiaite. Featherstone In Laurens. Columbia Record. Mr. Rlease, with characteristic political shrewdness, is quick to direct attention to the fact that In the first primary he received more votes in Mr. Featherstone's own county than Mr. Featherstone did. It is a legitimate political maneuver. The circumstance is not difficult to understand. Mr. Rlca.se has made several campaigns for state office. He has built up throughout the state a following that is remarkably loyal, a tribute to the strength of his personality. Nowhere is this Rlease following more loyal than in the county of Laurens. As a candidate for governor Mr. Rlease could probably poll a plurality in Laurens against any oppoI nent. His ability to do so would be | no reflection on his opponent. The Rlease vote in Laurens is a Rlease vote. It is not anti-Featherstone. Out of 3,200 votes cast in that county all but 220 went to Rlease and Featherstone, and while Rlease received 120 votes more than Featherstone, Rlease did not get a majority, according to the returns at this writing. In Newberry, the home of Mr. Rlease, he being mayor of the city of that name, Mr. Rlease received barely 100 votes in excess >f a majority, and Featherstone was the second candidate in that county. The vote a man receives in his own county in a race such as that of last Tuesday does not necessarily indicate the respect in which he is held by his neighbors; it may indicate his popularity but under conditions prevailing in this campaign it more probably indicates the popularity of the issue he represents. There are few business ? !" cini.imiiia f.ir instance, who stand higher than Mr. Hyatt, yet in the recent election he received only about 300 votes in this county, running next to the last man on the ticket in Richland. F*'or ten years Mr. Richards has been sent to the legislature from Kershaw by a vote that has been marvelous; he has never been in a second race even, having been elected each time Traveling Public. nilruud station in .New \ ork, lias Just official pamphlet distributed by the ison of the new station with other lagnltude. It is explained that, while hidings, It took very much longer to s eight acres, with the exterior walls the facades of the station were debaths, the impression Intended to be lie general waiting room wltn its huge d. on the first ballot. Yet in the election of Tuesday, Mr. Richards, so present reports indicate, lacked 100 votes of a majority in Kershaw. Candidate Blease. Columbia State. Few men are devoid of traits of character that are commendable. For example, Candidate Blease "sticks to * his friends through thick and thin." He has said so. Broadly speaking, loyalty to one's friends is a characteristic that the world deems admirable, and the world is right. The man who will make sacrifices for a friend, who will suffer for him, who will defend him against a maioritv?all for unselfish friendshin? can not be wholly bad, however bad he may be. But there are occasions when the man who "sticks to his freinds through thick and thin" may use that disposition to outrage justice and to bring widespread reproach upon his state. If such a man is governor and if he does not possess a high conception of his obligation to law and justice and good government, his personall friends?the men who have done him service in the past or from whom he expects service in the future?stand first, they are put before the people, before every other consideration. Such a governor shields his friends from justice; such a governor pardons his friends when convicted of high crime; such a governor is a menace to peace, and a disintegrator of his party. An example in point is Malcolm R. Patterson of Tennessee. He pardoned his friend. Cooper, convicted of assassination. "Almost to a Man." Sumter Herald. The best people of this state will support C. C. Featherstone almost to a man. They are not all state-wide Prohibitionists, either. For the Young Men and Boys. Sumter Herald. Previous to the first election the Herald espoused the cause of no spec ial candidate for the office of governor, for the simple reason that there were several candidates for this high office, any one of which would have been acceptable to this editor, hut the conditions are no longer thus. So far as we were able to Judge from their platform.'. both Featherstone and Mel-cod were in favor of prohibition. Their only difference was simply a difference of methods. Featherstone advocated prohibition by a state-wide process, while McLeod felt that better results could be obtained by allowing each county to vote out the dispensary. Since the elimination of McLeod the only course open to his supporters who really want wh'sky reduced to a minimum, is to vote for Featherstone. Featherstone is a Christian gentleman of the highest type. He is, also, a man of statesman-like ability and proportions, and would make a governor of whom the Palmetto state would feel Justly proud. The editor of the Herald would not hurt a hair on the head of Mr. Blease?even if he is as bad as his worst enemy thinks he is, but the good of humanity is of more importance than any individual, so in behalf of civic righteousness and in behalf of the young men and boys and helpless women, who have suffered by the demon rum, we beg the voters of the state to go to the polls on September 13th and cast their ballots for C. C. Featherstone. Will Be True to Herself. Spartanburg Herald. As between Mr. Featherstone and Mr. Blease Spartanburg county will be true to herself and to the state. The county gave Mr. Featherstone a plurality in the first primary and will give him a majority in the next. The intelligent voters of Spartanburg realize that now is the time for all good men to eome to the aid of the state and they will be present on election day. Unquestionable Character. Dorchester Eagle. If you are inclined to vote for a good man and a man of unquestionable character, cast your ballot for C. C. Featherstone. He is the winning candidate now, and if you value your vote you will be on the safe side by voting for Featherstone. Featherstone Will Win. Charleston News and Courier. This, then, is the political situation as it now presents itself. Summed up In a few words, the probabilities are that in the second primary Mr. Featherstone will win. If so. he will be elected on account of his personality and in spite of his prohibition views. If so, it will be because of the material assistance rendered him by the men who have been the supporters of Mcl^eod. the local optionist. Mr. Featherstone cannot afford to forget it altogether if his ambition shall be realized and he comes next January to occupy the office of the chief executive in the state house at Columbia. Two Kinds. Spartanburg Journal. Mr. Rlease is a local optionist. Rut there are two kinds of local optionist. One kind is opposed to the sale of liquor. The other is in favor of the sale of liquor. Mr. Rlease is the kind of I I ....?!.. r.>v,.ra lh.. anli. I.f liquor. Art' you that kiiul of a local optionist? Liquor Question Disposed Of. Charleston post. Now, it is perfectly clear that the people do not favor the enactment of a statewide prohibition law, and the general assembly will be influenced it. its treatment of the question to the extent that it should be influenced by such an expression. Even those who believed that statewide prohibition should prevail, will ami should give due heed to the determination of the question by the people at the primary. That the people should have determined this issue as they have determined it. is in no way surprising. All but six of the forty-two counties of the state have prohibition laws in effect, so, in a practical consideration, the vast majority of Prohibitionists have been satisfied with having their will as far as their own interests are concerned, and a very large proportion of them, as reasonable men, are not disposed, so long as they are not thwarted in their desire, to interfere with others who may take a different view of the question involved. The pressure for state wick' prohibition is not anil cannot, in the nature of things, be so heavy with the great majority of the counties already given over to the proscription of liquor, as it was when there was a militant group in each county figh'ing to banish liquor from that county and half believing that this could be accomplished only by a general prohibition act. The liquor question has been disposed of at the first primary. The personality of the next governor remains to be determined. Vote for Featherstone. I Continued on Fourth I'age.]