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VOL. XL. NO. 91. NEWBERRY. S. 0.. FRIDAY. APRIL 22. 1904 TWICE A WEEK $1. 50 A YEAR IINY OF THE CLUBS TO IEET TOIORROW. SEVERAL MEETINGS HAVE AL READY BEEN HELD. Many Candidates Now Actively In The Race-An Interesting Cam paign Predicted. The call issued by the state execu e committee of the democratic paty makes tomorrow the day for the meeting of the various clubs. It ", :nexpedient, however, for a number of the clubs in this county to hold their meeting on Saturday and for this reason the county executive com mittee, at its recent meeting. issued a call fixing as a time for the meeting of the clubs in this county any day this week which the various clubs night choose. Under this call several of the clubs in Township No. i have already held their meetings, which are reported in another column. Sev eral of the clubs will meet today also. but by far the greater number of ch-bs will hold their meetings tomor row. With the meeting of the clubs the political gamehaF opened in dead earnest. Not that the fate of any can didate depends on the delegates ch:,sen to the county convention. but at the club meeting the candidates are di,sussed. and those candidates who have announced and have been dis cussed at the club meetings will have an opportunity when the delegates c.:-me to the county convention to find out how their names have been taking gnd where their weak points and their strong points are. For this reason most of those who will be in the county campaign this year have already announced themselves in the public prints before the meeting of the various clubs. There will be others later on. how ever. Several who will in all proba bilitv be in the campaign have not yet made up their minds. Mr. Cole L. Blease is the only can didate announced so far for the state senate. Messrs. W. H. Sanders. F. H. Dominick. and Elbert H. Aull a": an nounced for the house of representa uives, Messrs. M. M. Buford and W. A. Hill are announced for sheriff. Nlr. John C. Goggans is announced for clerk of court and has no opposi tion so far. Mr. F. Marion Lindsay is the only candidate announced to succeed him self as coroner. Mr. H. H. Rikard is yet7ilone in his race for re-election as master. For county supervisor Messrs. An drew J. Livingstone,-. G. Sam Moore, J. Monroe Wicker. and J. Y. Floyd are announced. For county auditkor Mr. W. W.. Cro mer is opposed by Mr.3'L. L. Epting. For county treasurer Mr. Eugene p.Werts, the present county super inendent of education, and Mr. John L Epps, the present encumbent, are in the race. For county superintendent of edu cation two candidates anounce them se4'ves in this issue,--Messrs. G. H. Ligon and S. J. Wheeler. For magistrate Mr. J. H. Chappell is announced for Townships Nos. 1, 2 and 8; Mr. P. B. Ellesor for No. 1o: and Mr. W. F. Suber for No. xx. -As stated, the club meetings have started the -discussion of candidates and the discussion brings out the fact that many of the races are going to be close and that the whole cam paign is going to be interesting fromr start to finish However, there is no indication so far of any bitterness and it is hoped that good-will 'will characterize the campaign throughout. The county .convention meets next Monday a week. There will be very little to do. It is not likely there will be 'any discussions or fights. The State executive committeeman, the county chairman. and the delegates t the stat conentin -eight dele gates,-wil be chosen. Then comes the state convention. Political talk is tilling the air and the campaign is on in earnest. just as it was two years ago and just as it will be two years hence. STATEHOOD BILL PASSED. The Repul licans Forced the Meas ure Through the House Strict Party Vote. Washington. April i.-Aft'er a de bate, extended through the entire ses sion. the house today passed the Statehood bill, providing for the joint Statehood of Oklahoma and Indian Territory under the name Oklahoma. and of Arizona and New Mexico un der the name Arizona. In discussing the rule which had been reported by the committee on rules, providing for the immediate consideration of the bill, Mr. Williams. the minority leader, said that no republican had any idea that the bill would become a law at this session. The bill was finally passed by a strict'party vote. 150 to iii. A NATIONAL AIR. Secretary Moody Has Fixed Upon "The Star Spangled Banner" For the Navy. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. It has been. more than once. suggest ed that of all nations the United States alone-had no national air or hymn. but the real difficulty was not so much in the not having, but in the having an embarrassment of - riches in the way of national psalmody or hymniol ogy. "Yankee Doodle" is by no means bad. but. on the contrary, de cidedly good, and as -for "Hail Co lumbia" it is a hymn to conjure by. But Secretary Moody has.settled the question. and settled it right, as Mr. Bryan himself might say, by adoptink the "Star Spangled Banner" as the official national air. It will now be so recognized by the bands of for eign ships. which. so it is said. have too often been in serious doubt what tune to strike up when an American vessel sailed into port and prepared to entertain and be entertained. No better selection could have been made. and such will be .the general verdict. At home the embarrassment will lin ger. Shortly after the war, and when the white-winged dove of peace was getting comfortably settled again, it was the invariable custom for bands crossing the Ohio. southward, to strike up "Dixie," and to keep strik ing it up throughout the southern journey and until the home com ing from the land of cotton. On the other hand, the southern band, jour neying up to tire north, .invariably struck up ":Yankee Doodle" and kept everlastingly at it. Nowadays, how ever. "Dixie" and "Yankee Doodle" are at home so completely, north and south, that bands of both sec tions are appropriating the stirring tunes until it is difficult to distinguish between 'tother and which-between the band from Dixie and the band from the north, and long ,iay it con tinue so. Officially the national hymn is now the "Star Spangled Banner" for the navy, as it is practically for the army and for the whole people. But "Yan kee Doodle" and "Dixie," and "Hail Columbia" and "America" will con tinue to be struck up unofficially as the drum major or the leader may feel inclined, and either or all will be hailed with acclaim--with "The Girl I Left Behind Me"-the rule when the line of match is taken up and the barracks that knew the boys in blue will know them no more, until fate and the secretary of war decree a re turn. All honor to Secretary Moody! He has issued an admirable order and relieved the difficulties of the bands on the ships of our friends and ad mrers. INSTRUCTED FOR PARKER. Result of the New York State Dem ocratic Convention Held in Al bany, on Monday. As predicted in dispatches printed in the last issue of The Herald and News. the democratic state conven Ition of New York. held in Albatny on Monday. instructed the delegates chosen on Monday night to cast the vote of New York. in the national democratic convention at St. Louis. for the nomination of Judge Alton Brooks Parker. of New York. The following delegates at large were elected: David B. Hill. nf Albany: Edwari Murphy. jr. of Troy: George Ehret. of New York city. and James W. Ridgeway. of Brooklyn. As alter nates it selected C. N. Bulger. of Oskego: W. Caryl Ely. of Buffalo: C. H. Ackerman. of Brooklyn. and Francis Burton Harrison. of New York. The delegates were instructed, by a vote of 301 to 149, for Alton B. Parker. as the state's candidate foi president. Tammany was not treated as badly as had been'predicted, being allowed to name a delegate at large. Mr. Ehret. and an alternate. and one of the two electors at large. Harry Payne Whitney. the other being John T. Woodford. The platform adopted is brief, and. in addition to instructing for Parker. compels the delegation to vote as a unit CAME FROM THE HEART. Mr. Nelson, of Minnesota, Uses a Naughty Wordonihe Floor of the Senate. In the United States senate on Wednesday the conference report on the army appropriation bill 'was pre sented and its final consideration postponed until tomorrow. Mr. Nelson. of Minnesota. in dis cussing the bill, related many details of his observation in Alaska while visiting the cutintry as a member of a senate commitee and aroused much interest as he zold of its resources. He displayed much indignation as he depicted the niggardliness of the gov ernment in dealing wih the Alaskans. At last. completely forgetting himself. he exclaimed: "All this they have done. Mr. Pres dent. and in return we have not done a d-d thing for them." The statement was a surprise to all. apparently as much to -the speaker as to his audience. There has seldom been as spontaneous an outburst of laughter in the senate as the exclama tion provoked. And Mr. Nelson joined in the merriment, although with many evidences of embarrass ment. His only apology was the re mark that "sometimes adjectives came from the heart," -and with that he closed his speech. Anxious to Please. This talc was told by Governor Pennypacker, in beginning a - re sponse to a toast at a Pennsylvania German banquet in Philadelphia. The story. he said, showed the readiness of the Pennslyvania Dutchman' to obey those in authority. In 1864. Sheridan, under orders burned every farm from a valley above Staunton to a certain point be low Winchester. A band of angry rebels followed this raid. watching for a chance to pick up any stragglers. Among others who fell into their hands was a little Pennsylvania Dutchman, who quietly turned to his captors and inquired: "Vat you fellows going to do mit me?" The reply came short and sharp: "Hang you." "Vel." he said, meekly. "vatever is de rule." His good natured reply threw the Confederates into a roar of laughter ndaed his life. SAYINGS AND DOINGS OF PROSPERITY PEOPLE POMARIA PEOPLE "OIL MILL PROSPECTING." Mr. A. H. Kohn to Move Back to Prosperity-School Address Other Prosperity News. Prosperity. April 2.-Mr. A. H. Kohn has been in town this week. He is preparing to come back home with his family. They will be here next week. We shall be glad to see them and Prosperity will do what she ,n to make them feel at home again. The weather last Sunday night did not permit the meeting of the Wo man's Missionary society at the Ltth eran church. It is now scheduled for next Sunday evening. Some of Pomaria's business men were here a few days ago-oil mili prospectingf Oil mills are the "fad' and every commtinity wants one. Solicitor T. S. Sease has accepted an invitation to deliver the annual address. May 31. at the closing of the school here. The State man-McMaster-was here yesterday looking after the in terests of that paper. Messrs. Geo. Steele and S. C. Ly brand will vacate the Kohn house this week. The former goes into the Mor ris house, and the latter into the Rid gel house. Thelogical studeunt Mr. Curr. of Due West. filled the appointment in the A. R. P. church here for the Rev. C. M. Boyd while he was away in Columbia by invitation to fill the Rev. Lr. Knox's pulpit. -. Judge Hair and Constable Beden baugh. of the Prosperity judiciary, are away this week attending court in Greenville in the case of the Slighs postoffice robbery. Dr. J. J. Dominick has gone to New York and will spend some time in the hospital of that city. Mr. J. WN. Kirkpatrick. of Gastonia, N. C.. was in town a little while this week. Mr. F. E. Schumpert spent Sunday in Columbia with Mrs. Schumpert. Mr. M. H. Boozer has just return ed from a trip to the capital city. Mr. Oscar Simpson. of the gradua ting class of Newberry college. is now at home revolving in mind "The Yellow Peril." Miss Julia Ann Sons has gone tc Leesville on a visit to relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bqwles. of Newberry. spent a day here recently on a visit to her mother, Mrs. L. M Counts. BACHMAN CHAPEL LETTER Large Quantity of Wo6d Destroyed by Fire-Personal and Otherwise. Slighs, April 21.-Mr. Editor, you said that it was very probable that Messrs. Epps, Cromer, and Goggans would not have oppaition in the pri mary this yea-r. 1 suppose you now begin to see where you were mis taken. It is not safe to bet on a pri. mary election. There is always some f9llow behind the door wvhom you are not thinking of: and still they come That's right, boys: come to the front. You will never succeed without an effort and jou will never know when your time comes unless you are in the race. There will be communion services at Bazch man Chapel on Sunday next, with preparatory services on Satur day afternoon at 4 o'clock. Some of our farmers will find out, i they live long enough, that there is a time for all things and that the time to plant cotton seed is not in March. At this writing it is cold enough to kill hogs. A considerable shower of sleet fell yesterdvy af-ernoon. Please bear in mind. that the club meeting at Union Academy next Saturday is at 2 p. in., sharp. It is hope that there will be a full meet ing. Cotton planting is on a boom this week. The land is in fine order and we are rolling the wheels. There is still some fruit on high lands. Mrs. . P. Rikard. who has been confined to her room with illness for the past eight or nine weeks, is not very much improved. The school at' Union Academy closed on Saturday. the 15th. A colored woman living on Mr. L. L. Moore's place let fire get out a few weeks ago and burned up eleven and a half cords of wood and three hundred rails for Mr. E. L. Strauss. I am glad to know that the Far mers' Oil mill enterprise means more than talk. The idea seems to possess some people that the farmers can't do anything but organize, lay plans, and finally put nothing in execution. But this shows that the farmers are begining to realize that they must do something more than talk; that they have an interest and that interest must be protected. Let us show the Standard Oil company that it is not the. ruling power in the cotton seed trade of the south. T. J. W. BAD EGGS HAVE GOOD USES. Several Methods by Which Decayed Hen Fruit May be Utilized. St. Paul Poineer Press. The career of the egg may not be romantic, but frequently it; is inter esting. The full and perfect career is without doubt to develop into a lusty young chick, a rolly-poly ball of yel [odwn with plaintive peek ai, toothpick legs. But the full and perfect career is as rare among eggs as among human beings, for many things intervene to cut it short, and its usefulness is di verted into channels of which few dream. Several fates lie in wait for the fresh, clean egg that reaches the mar ket, with dozens of its fellows, in its pasteboard compartment of the typi cal egg case. It may be sold for do Imestic uses and be fried with a pieco: of ham or bacon, or become an in gredient of the numerous products of the housewife's baking day. It may form a part of a most tempting drink or fall in the hands of a hairdresser for use on the raven locks of a debutante of the mane of a po liceman. 'It may be that the egg is broken on its way to market or its shell i; checked so that it will not sell. Then is broken with countless others into five gallon cans and frozen. The rumor is that these frozen eggs are sold to bankers in the larger cities to be used in winter. Should the egg survive until it passes the zenith of its-existence and enters into a decline, it may be sent to some of the large coffee roasters of the east and be used to glaze coffee. Even should the egg survive the frrst period of decline and enter into the last stage it is not without value. It is used commercially for tanning kid gloves and other leathers. The usefulness of the egg is not ex hausted when it has met with one of these several fates. The shells, where large quantities of eggs are used, are carefully gathered and the portion which is not used for hen food is ground and forms a common adulterant for spices. The shell can be roasted to the desired shade, is absolutely harmless and is very diffi cult for any but the chemist. to de. tect. The Virginia democratic state con vention was held on Wednesday. It is said that the opening was one of the stormiest ever held in Virginia but things quieted down and the con vention ended in harmony and enthu siasm. The four delegates at large and all the district delegates except two are for Gorman for president first and Parker second.