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SI "'.4. X -O LI (O2 E BII1S .PJlIA.M RH'0 9~.T IEAWE,S 0AfA WILL, MEET I PELZE&A. ''i6 'wenty-ninth Anual o vention of the South Carolina Sunday School Oonvention to be Hold April 10 to 12. Newberry, March 15.--The twenty -iinth anniial convention of the South Carolina Stinday-school -association will 'be held in the Presbyterian chud6h,, Pelzer, S. C., April 10 to 12. The d6legates *ill be entertained by the good ,peopl of Pelzer of all de nomitations. A large gathering of the Ahindiy-school *orkere is txpeet ed ii this cnveition, and I--hope that evety pastor and. supetintendent will at once present the matter to their respective schools,. in order that there may be proper, representation from every section of this Commonwealth. Mr..W. C. Pearce, of Chicago, who is the international teacher train ing secretary, will attend every ses sion of the convention and aid us by his larger experience in the solution of the problems that suggest them selves front time to time in every well regulated and progressive Sun day-school. ' He is an entertaining and helpful lecturer on practical Sunday-school topics. Ariangements have been perfected by Capt. J. Adger Smyth, Jr., with several of the - publishing houses for exhibits of books, appliances, maps, charts, etc., and this will prove a fea ture of great value and interest, and will doubtless be greatly appreciated. The Brotherhood of/Andrew and Philip, of the Pelzer Presbyterian church will, give a feception to the, delegates Wednesday afternoon, April 11. ..The iailrbads will grant A rate of pne and-third far& on the -eir4ificate plan. (Isi eure t4 secure the certifi eaite which will be vised by the see retary.) Everything points to a site eessful and joyous convention, good results from which will follow to the upbuilding of every Sunday school represented. The programme will be mailed to every one desiring it. Thankilig you for use of this space that this import ant announcement may be made. Wm. E. Pelham, Cbairman State Executive Commit tee. Dr. Divver a Candidate. Anderson, March 16.-Dr. [C F. Divver of this city has announced thit he will be a caiididate for secre tary pf state in. the campaign this summer. . He is a prominent Mason and is well known over the state. He has had the matter undqr advisement 'for some time and has finally decided to make the race. Very Desirable Appoitiiienta in the Navy. Admiral P. M. kixey, Surgeon Gen eral of the Navy, informs Me that there are more than fifty vacancies ipi the Medical Corps of the U. S. *.Navy. Candidates sliouldl be graduates in medicine and should have, had hos *pital experience, or at least a year's practice in .their profession. The age limit is between twenty-one and twen *ty-cight years. On entering the service, salary is $1,760 at sea or $1,496 on shore, with an allowance per annum of $288.. There are .other equally desirable appointments to bea made, as Assist-, ant 'Paymaster, Second Lieutenant of the .Marine .Corps, Civil' Engineer, Chaplain., ocigayo *For. infdi'mation tuhn'ayo the foregoing positions, address me at Washington, b. C. Wyatt Aiken, . - M. C. "Did the architect.carty out your plans?" "Guess he mus~ have. 'I haven't been able to find any of themn about the hoie Wnever see the target a man alms at in life, we see the tatgot he'hite, -ordon. fcourse friends are a ood' thhng, wbe miafounie poo to you du ou wish you had nxre Ot dellts ohing f e .THE SOIETY ANNIVERSARIV Annual Celebration on Friday Nig of Newberry 'College Societies. The following account of the A nual celebration of the literary soc ties of Newberry college held on F day night is taken from the Sund State under Newberry date of t 17th: A. large audience assembled at t opera house last night to participa in the event which from year to ye is looked forward to with great intc est by the students and fiiends Newberry college, the anniversary C ebration of the three literary societi4 Mr. E. B. Houseal, president of t Excelsior society presided. The ope ing prayer was offered by Rev. 1M Grier, of the Central Method church. Mr. D. W. Moore was t Phrenakosmian orator and his stibje was "The Hero of the Future," \ J. E. Long, the orator representi the Excelsior society, took As his st ject ' Coronation Without a Crown and the subject of the essay of M' Mary Lester, the Philomathean sayist was, "Southern Ideals." The chief interest centered in t debate. The question argued w "Resolved, That Intercollegiate At leties Should be Abolished." The E celsiors, represented by Messrs. G. ' Harmon and W. H. Cabaniss, mai tained the affirmative, and the Phre akosmians, represented by Messrs. A. Schumpert and W. F. Hipp, t negative. The occasion was doubly interesti by reason of the fact that both su porters of the affirmAtive are enthu astic in athletic matters. Mr. Cat niss is the well kno*n catchet ,Newberry's b4seball teqm, yho jeq tribuied so much to its winning t championship last season." He 'i a] Newberry's star on the gridiron. N( withstanding this fact they' won t debate. The judges making the awai which seems to meet with -general si isf action, were lHon. George S. Mowf Dr. W. E. Pelham, Rev. G. A. Wrig) Prof. B. Jones and Hon. A. C. Jone: English Towns. London Chronicle. That there are many instances England of two or more towns enjc ing the same name is a fact that n body can well help knowing, but pro ably few peopleare awtre of tl?e ve wide extent to which this duplicati( of names prevails. Newton seems held the same rank among places Smith among individuals, . few than seventy-two towns and villag in England alone bearing this nan By in6fuding the Newtowns, obviou ly the same name with a slight diffe ence in spelling, the total is raisel little short of ninety. As every tov must have been a '1ne* town" some time or other it shows a gre lack of inventive genius among o' ancestors who had the naming of t towns. There are sixty-eight plac named Sutton. Our ancestors see to have found the four points of ti compass of great service in the n menelature of their towns, for besid the Suttons there are fifty-one Wes ons, forty-nine Nortons and seventei Eastons., To these last should be ad, ed thirty-eight Astons, another for of the name very common in the *e of 'England. There is one straight path loadir heavenward, but a thousand crooks paths lead in the opposite direction When a man is in love he can think of anything else, bmt when womian is in love she always remes hers to see that her hat is on straigh The man 'who,loves his 'joke is ua Uilly unpopular.. Put, yourself "in the other man place and y.ou may stop' abusing his It is commendable .to save yoi money, but is not commendable I look it. The .cares and worries of life lee pretty good, a.fter all, to those returr ing to tbwn through the' cemeter gate. omne pe0pl1 ave ssiply acting nal uriawhen they are kicking. LOVO 55 ogponsible ter two-third of the happhess uA the world-alsofto nine dhies fhti e . SENATOR IrI.AiN TALIO OIC DISPEtSARY FIGHT. ht - He is Too Busy in Washington 'at This Time To Attend a Convention, n- But Has His Eyes Open. .0 . Senator Tillinan says that he kioivs nothing of any plans to hold a con-l he Volition ,f the friend of the dispen . sary- writes the Washington corres, oe lndolt of the State. to "'I have scarcely had time to give ar such a thing a Ihought,'' he ,aidt to. r of "bitt,'' he added. ''you can say j this, that when the time eomes and )8. the fight is. on, I expect to be in it, lie whether it begins before the opeting n- (f the campaign or after.' [r. "Do you expect anything to be st done before the opening of the riegu. le lar campaign?' et "Well, [ say, L don't know. 'To r. hold a convention or to organize, ai ig they call it, would take a -lot of coni b. ferring and a lot of correspondence and so fati as I am concerned, T h0. r not the time to do it. I wouldn't eyei s have time to attend that convention or conference, or anything else,. so lie long as I am swamped this way." as - Then he turned to a pile of papers h- on his desk, called a clerk, and adddd: x- "Why, man, I feel like a fellow down V. in a deep well. I can't begin to see n- daylight. All I can see is a little n- gleam of light which will get bigger p. and bigger as I climb out of this well. lie But you know. when a fellow!s down in such a hole as this, the. sky. tooks g about the size of a dollar and.he'aan?t p- see even the sides of the hle he is iii. A. JIow, in the name of sense can E -Ae ,a. outside to organize dispensary forces Dn or anything: else at home?f 2- "h, efl)I ivitchin,g.it,' ha i0lp so Sign Was Not Needed, he Harper's Weekly. - Id, "The one thing most. reseted by a.. Americans," observed Sexator Bdver r, idge recently, "is the dig.atbrikl at Lt, titude which some men attempt to i. assume. Much of the .biting satire which we bear is the result of such arrogant presumption. ''A congregation in , eastern Illi nois had decided to orect a new church edifice, and temporary accom modations were obtained in ain aband oned theatre. "The clergyman, with folded arms and pompous bearing, "directed the y, eorts of his sexton,: who ws busily ) engaged -in cleaning up the accumula ted' rubbish. Pieces of scenery: . wrecked stage furniture, programs, lithographs, and musty draperies were thrust into the flames. " 'Let nothing be wasted, William' warned .the. preaoher,. imperiously. 'Whate,er may.be ut.ilized, - lay it aside, and I will .cispose of it later.' t A few moments later the clergy int man saw the se;ton draw near the fire with a massive,, easellike arrange ment.. "0 'William,' he called, .don't do-. stroy that; it may be of service.' e" ' Hardly,' grunted the -pers.piring esexton, as he tossed the affair into the: flames; .'it's an.old sign,-"Standing Room 0ny . A Domestic -Treasure. m [London Mail. at Sir Squire Biareroft in proposing the health of tlie bishop of London told a story n? his inimitable way. A charming young damsel cam to Lon g don to visit an aunt, who probably ,j came originally 'frbrm'Scotland, for when the yoing lady was leaving in a 't cab for an eveuiing party' she said: a "Now, inind;- don't you pay him more . than I shilling. It's his legal fare." t. Arrived at her destinatiorn, the young .. lady sprang' out, handed cabby a shil ling and bounded up the steps of the s~ house. ." 'Ere, I say miss!" called cabby. r "Kin I ask you a question ?" ."Tyes, you may." . "Well, are you married ?" k "No," -she cried, indignant, "I'm y ."Well w'ell, somebody's a-goin' to git a treasuire, for I never seen a gal Sas could make a bob go further or do more 'ard work'nor you, miss!" I Many a ma~n who seeks fame finds' nothing but infamiy.4 A GOLDFISH FARM. A New Industry Which Aims to Pro- I duco Freaks. NatuIrday b"vening Post. The first goldfish farim to be estab- r lished on an important scale in this e country has recently been started in i the ieighborhood of Washington, Dis- a trict of Columbia. It comprises 27 e acres of water space, divided into 44 e large shallow ponds. Ditches are iug C in the bottom of the ponds so that V when the latter are drained the fish- e es 11md their way into the trenches and are easily- scooped out by means of neots. The SIcale on which the industry is con1ducted may be judged from the C fact. that 3,600 pounds of cornmeal itie fed every months to the fishes. 1 Think what a large number of gold- I lish must be roquired to consume in t 30 days nearly two tons of corn meal I f This seems, indeed, to b(t the kind of ( food they like best, and they thrive on it amazingly. Half a century ago goldfish in this , country were worth 50 cents apiece, ( and sometimes more. At the present I tine t he ordinary ones are sold by the I producer to dealers at from $2 to $6 t a 100, accordiiig to size. These quo. t tations, however, apply only to the I common, everyday article, much high- I er prices being obtained for the freaks t with fan-tails, fancy lins and other 9 eccentricities. At tie farm above mentioned, at- C teupts-the first up to date in this I country-are now being made to pro- t pagate such fancy goldfish, the re- a (juisite stock being obtained from Japan. But the experiment is beset t with not a few- difficulties, inasmuch n as the progeny of the. freaka have al ways a tendency to revert to the nor- E ial and less valuable form, so that I only 15 per cent of a brood, perhaps, will turn out satisfactory, inheriting the eceentricitieq of the selected par-. C ents. Furthermore, the fancy fish, be ing impeded in their movements by their' clumsy lis and tails. are li able to destruction by birds-and water a snakes.- There is no enemy so dread- r ed by the goldfish breeder as the wa- i ter snake, which devours the scaly live stock in great numbers. Not only the fins, but also the bod- t ies of the fancy goldfish are modifle.1 t by the breeder, so that the freaks I are made to assume all sorts of queer shapes. The newest variety has eyes I that stick far but of its head and v look -straight up at the sky. Pointed Paragraphs Chicago News.., 9 There is something amiss with the song that fails' to make a hit. 12 A week woman can easily conquer 0 a strong man by catching -to his van ity. - c Many- a man who eanh't trust-him- o self expects the grocer and butcher to trust him. n - Only the man ivho holds the key to p the situation is in a- position to open a deadlock. alt~ hurts the'- average .man lce to hi tie- abot him than it does to tell the: truth about him. - As a rule, the man who is always hi in a hurry -has but little to do, with little capacity for doing it. h here was bloo'd in the eyes of the tI two suburban housewives as they g< glared daggers at one another over the whitewashed fence. j ''As for you,'' hissed the one -in h< the red knit jacket; ''I do' know what. I could say that would be suffi- ci riently severe. I hate you.'' b; "'And you,'' retorted the one in the f< blue, shawl, ''are really not. worth wasting breath over. So there l'''" There was a painful pause, and then t,he one in the knit jacket continued: "'1 would say a great deal more w were it not for yourr sweet little ha- ft by." ''Do--do you really think he is w iwet" 01o "I do,-and I am not backward about si layitig itr-although I despise his moth- fi inr. He . is the prettiest little boy in ti1 hwenty bloeks."' - i 2 Then-then le t's make up. Neigh- ui b0o' shoulddi 't be enemies. I 'il hand ti ~adishi of stewed prunes over the .at EARLY OREEK HISTORY. a The Time of Oortes the Tribe Lif Was Idyllic. The Creeks are an entirely differen nee of people from the Cherokees an ther northern Indians. They are o Lztee, or, rather, Toltec, orgin, and it teocallis, or pyramidal, temple, lk ated in,a secluded wild of the Creel ountry, the same religious rites ano orenonies are preformed today tha -ere performed in the imposing tec allis located on the bank of the beau iful Lake Tezeuco, in the days of th I starred Montezuma 11. The archi es of the nation are here preserve ii hieroglyphics, beautifully painte i shells, strung together on deer te ons. Here are also preserved thei iost cherished relies, their green jas er altar and a life sized image o heir great war god, both brough rom their former home near Ver ,ruz, Mexico. At the time Cortes made his appeai nee in that neighborhood, bent upo career of conquest and plunder, th reeks.'as they are now called, wer iving a peaceful, idilie life in a lan mde sacred to them by having bee lie home of their ancestors for untol housands of moons and containin Ih. aslies and hones of their wise am Aed old mien through many genera ions. (lathering their warriors t< ether, they gave battle to the invad rs, but weapons of stone and flin ould make but little impression upo: he steel clad warriors of Spain, an< hey were defeated . with terribl laughter. Gathering wives and littl nies together and taking with ther heir most cherished possessions mong which were the records of thei ace, the.jasper altar and their wa od, holding in his extended rigl: and the sacrifieal knife of f1in hey made their weary way to th apital of Montezuma, the sacred cit 1, Mexico, where they were warml 'elconed by that unfortunate moi reh and where they fought bravel a defense of the devoted city. The ssisted Gautomazin, the chivalri opliew of Montezuma, in his gloriou 1 ill fated, attempt to regain tht brone of his ancestors, and upon it ailure and the attendant death o lint young chieftain by torture, afte he manner of the ancient Israelite hey determined to seek a land the man knew not of, where they migli rovide homes for their families an -or.ship the gods of their ancestors. Reflections Of A Bachelor. Why do so many men take onl a ool f sorrow as soon as they become ci aged? A bacheldr girl usually is she wh nds. sufficient time to eultivate he wn society. Each woman has an- idea that sh Duld tertinate a widowhood at he wn sweet will. A girl likes to think that she wil ake 'the ideal wife. and the most ca able mother. Most .wonen are dreadful flirts,i Ii they say about. lo.ve affairs is evem The talkative man always feels tha e co'uld say something interestingi a were given a chance. While a man may have a tende: eart, it 'is not seriously affecte< urough a broken love affair. WVhenm a woman reaches 310 she minks she has all the qualities whiel > toward making her chummy. The man of visionary schemes en ys the satisfaction of feeling thal knows more than some one else. meion may assist a man to over metroule, but it must be baekeL Ssomiething like energy to be ef. etive. ra. Longworth's Dog A Featu,re o1 .This Show. -'Fashion,'' the Boston terrier hich the Millionaire Stillman bought r $1,500 and presented to Miss Alic< nosevelt, now Mrs. Nicholas Long. arth, as a wedding present, will b( me of the attraction~s at the dog ow whieh opened Tuesday at Buf. tlo at City Convention Hall, undei o auspices of thie -Buftalo Kennel ub. The ntamber of erntries is un mally large' this year and some ol e' finest dogs, that have won. prizes the exhibitiotis in New York and aston will be shown here e MR. AN8L'S POSITION ON DISPENSARY khSUN, Grcenville,.Mareh 17.-The follow. ing letter has been given out for pub. t lication by Mr. M. F. Ansel, candidate f for the omflee of governor. of South e Carolina: "Having already announced my. . candidney for the office of governor, of the state of South Carolina, many I of my friends throughout the state t desire that I give my views upon the dispensary question. . "I, therefore, take this opportunity a of again stating my position and . shall hope to satisfy a majority of - the voters of th6 state that my sol. tioni of that subject is correct. - "In a letter published by me in r August, 1905, I stated my position in . substance, as follows: " 'In the first place I am opposed t to the system of a state dispensary. I 1 once thought, it the best solution of the liquor question, because I thought it would minimize and decrease t4e sale of liquor in this state, but when a we consider the great amount of 16 1 quor that has been sold by tle various I dispensaries the past year, my hopes A have been disappointed and it ap I pears to ine that some other method should be adopted. * " 'In the second place, I am in fmi . V01 of local eounty option, as he . t ween prohibition and county dispen . saries-that is, I am in favor of any t county in the state voting upon the I question as to whether they wish pro I hibition for that county or whether 3 they wish county dispensaries. If. a 3 majority of the qualitled voters of the I county desire prohibition for that par. , tieular county, then I am one who be. r lieves that they should have it, and r I further believe that the good. people t of such county will see to it that the , prohibition law is enforced.' "I also stated in that letter as y illows: I 'ersinally T would like to sei no liquor sold in this state as a - beverage, but it is a condition which v confronts us, and the question is how y best to deal with that condition. There e is no law that can be passed that will s keep some people from drinking li. e quor, still I believe it to be the duty s of the state to pass such laws as will f minimize the use of liquor as much as r possible. s " I stated also in that letter, as t fulluws: 'I 1im Opposed to the high t license system, as it is too near the J barreo") system. and would not de crease the sales of liquor, whatever the restrictions might be.' "I have no cause to change my c opinion since the publication of said . letter, but the more I consider it, the st-onger is my conviction that this y position is correct. r "County prohibition has be6n a success in many counties in the states a of Georgia and North Carolina, and r in those counties in the' two states named where county dispensaries have heard of no complaints. "Why should we not adopt the same system in our state that has been' tested in those states? We should at least be willing to give it a trial. " The 'Morgan bill' as it passed the house of representatives at the last session of the legislature had many good features in it, was on the line of the laws of the states named, and hiad it passed, I believe it would have given more satisfaction to the people of the state than the present law. "In the several counties in this state where elections have been held under the 'Blriee law' and prohibi tion has been adopted, so far as my information goes, it has proved a sue eess, and the longer the law is ini force, the stronger will be the senti ment in its favor in the minds of the people. "In short, I am oyposed to the sys. (em of a state dispensary. I am fa favor of local county option as . e tween p)rohibition and county dis-. n'onsaIries. .I am opposed to high li conse and am ,in favor of sueh laws as will decrease the sale of liquors in thuis state." We worry as if we had to go through S a whole year tomorrow instead of just one day. *Do the right. thing by all of your frienids, and ydu haven't anything but the core of the apple lnft