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3~s uooestt es4uio& in ~istory ? Grand Lodge losed-i.cers Greonville News. After a session unanimously de clared the largest and most success ful in the history of the order in this state, the Grand L9dge of -Odd Fel- I lows was formally adjourfied sine die here at 4:30 o'clook. The three hun- I dred or more'dele tes began leaving ( shortly afterwarit'i d by midday all 8 had gone. The a.nnual election of .officers, re- t sulted in the choice of Mr. C. R; D. o Burns, of Walhalla,' grand master; Mr. C. L. Kelly, of Columbia, deputy grand master; Dr. G. A. Neutfer, of t Abbeville, grand warden; Dr. S. F. a Killingsworth, of Colunibia, grand I secretary; the Rev. N. A. Hemrick, of : Columbia, grand chaplain. Mr. H. n Endel, of this city, who has been for b thirteen years gtaind treasurer,. was t unanimously reelectel. Mr. L. M. C. 1 Oliveros, of Aiken, was -reelected a r trustee of. the Odd Fellows' Orphan t Home here. He has been a trustee for t one year, and will now serve for six f years. Mr. J. J. McSwain, the retiring c grand master, was elected grand rep resentative; Mr. J. M. Davis, of New- g berry, the other representative elect ed last year, also'-olding over to the Sovereign Grand Lodge, which assei bles next. in Toronto, Canada.r The:.Gra4d Lodge will meet next i year in Charleston. A feature of the present, session was the presentation to the retiring grand t master, Mr. J. J.' MeSwain, of this s city, of a beautiful and elaborate sil- t vei loving cup. It is very handsome- i ly chased, and has three handles, syni bolical of the three links of the or- i der. The inscription is: t J-,fVxesenled to Past Grand Master. i John J. MSwainl as a testimony o i esteem by the members of the Grand t Lodge, 1I(hpendent Order of. Odd Fel- i lows, South Carolina, May.);i9Q6.'' t The presentation was muade by Past t Grand Master Cole. L. Blease, of New- 1 berry, in most beautiful language. Mr. ( McSwain was surprised and delight- a ed, but lie was equal to the occasion a and made a feeling reply. , The newly elected members were n f,ormally installed by Past Grand a Master Blease acting as installing s officer. a During 'this session of the Grand i Lodge, many measures have .been in- t troduced and passed looking 1 to in- Y creased interest. in the order's wel- k fare. In order to bring more enthus iasmn into its work the grand master v Was empl)owered to divide the state in to districts and appoint a deputy3 grand master, whose duty it will be e to visit his lodges, and to hold semi- ' annual district meetings at various a p)laces within his jurisdiction. To these meetings .membhers of the subor dlinate lodges and( those of adjoininig e districts will be invited, uinder thev same plan w.hich hiag been very sue cessfully used by the Knights of Py- 1 thias. Some of the offiers donated theirt mileage and p)er (iem to the orphan 1 home. Afterward( a popuilari suhbscirip- ~ tion was started and thie sum ofv $129.15 raised in a f.ew moments. One I very )ppular~ member of a city lodge in the tidlewater couintry donated $100 e in cash. Resolumt ions were passed, exteinding I tIhe thanks of thme order to the smem- a bers of the local lodges; -a,nd especial- ' ly to the ladies who pro.vided the ~ bountiful d inner served Wednesday; to the citizens of dei aty-.generally, for their courtesy and hospitality; to Mayor M~ahon for his eloquent ad.. a dress of welcome; to Dr. RI. S. Pres- i; on for the use of Chiicora'college's' p)lendid auditorium for the sessions I of the Grand fLodge; to the railroads e nmd newspapers for courtesies' ex- a enided, and to all others who have in- o erested themnselved in making this t he grandest and most successful f eating in tIhe history of the Grand odge. t Tom Watson on Socialism, atson 's Magazine for May. 1 ''The Jungle'' was written with a a efinite purpose--to show that there a no escap)e for a wage-slave under o present; system, save in Socialism. t i is certainly a curious thing that the f uin of thie.pebple in Mr'. Sinclair's m ook is not due to ~he wage-system, j ,ut to thoir own ustakes and mis.- 1 eelife 'he Jungle'' (lees prove that elieof a wage-earner is hard, thata e emp)loyer's are unsympathetic, arsh, exacting, dishmonest; but 'The h unde'" doe iot'yi' tit. the ai age-earner is erigsheod to death. r *While extravagance is absolutely s cked, to be miserly is worse, for en your money does actual harm. o t awvay a little ''roll'' as a safety e bro1la fo a rain ay LQ4se of "Asking' th"idrir bo4ies to a Party, and rorget. ti g 1(oU 1r x 8t.D oor i igh . bor"'-A .Splendid Trib ute to the Immortal of South's Gre*t Statesman, Jouisville Courier-Journal, May 4th. Our esteemed contemporary, the aily Observer, of the good city of ,hdrlotte, in the renowned Old Tar tate, -calls our attention-the Ob erver leaves nothing unnoticedl o a case of oversight, not of neglect, n the part of the Courier-Journal. The Courier-Jotirnal was in a rem niscent mood. The past put its Duch upon it-the tragic past-and, , little tearfully, let us confess, -it was aoki;g backward ,over the darkling assageway of the years that will ever come again, piled up with the 'eloved and mighty dead. It had aken. a flock of its younger readers tpon its lap in a caressing, grand aotherly .way and was telling them lie story, the melancholy 'story, of lie grand ''old ship o' Zion,'' their athers' flagship, "Democracy.'' (Brother Caldwell, after our Broth r Tompkins has led in prayer, will rou please join us in singing that ood old song ''Slie has carried 11any .thousands, And shall carry 'hany m.ore ''-) Well, as 'we were saying, the Cou ier-Journal was telling how, once pon a time, a wicked old witch, [aied F16res1Silver had stolen aboard n the deadof night and had drugged lie drink of the cre.w whilst they lept, so that when they awoke and ook their morning draught they fell nto a stafe of frenzy; and knowing ot what they did, they rose in mut ny and rage against their faithful, rained, and courageous officers, send g tiemdrift in a leaky boat. to the nhMpitable shores of a desert island . be heard of nevermore, and ptutting ai their places a number of new, un ried, andi unskillful helmsmen. And hen how, though all of thifi had cen riding triumphant the safe eptlis of mid-ocean, the winds came nd howled, and the waters hissed nd roared, and the waves leaped iountain-high, until *the ship, having o pilot, floundered hither and thither t the mercy of the elements, the poor ailors, quite at their wits' end, ran tlast iito the breakers and upon the ocks. ' 'Protection,'' which people hought had been sent to the bottom ears before, but which somehow,was ept afloat and refitted and ordered to en again, came sailing along that ,ay. And, how she was well fixed to o the free-booting of her owners, lessrs. High Tariff, High Finance ompany ! How she was iron-clad be w time water-line, and steel-plated bove it; how she carried tons of sto mi money for ballast.; how her o ces vere not naval heroes, but super argoes carefully selected from a f'a -ored class and richly p)aid1; how she cas manned not by sailor-men, but y poor work-peCople, some of themi [uped into the service, but most of hem imp)ressed ; amnd how she had ceen turned loose to drive off the high eas the very emblem of America, to arni the 'olmmnerce of the world aw"av rom our coasts, and to dlefenil the 3hinese wall erected at the plell's xpense, for' the sole benefit of the lose-corporation of speculators and 'illijona ires whlmichi had chartered her, nd was running hpr for .al- she .was r'o'r:th,. tIhe black flag of piracy flying t her masthead ! This wretehea hullk, ''Protection,'' oir nderneath the, iron clothing and he steel plating, all w~as worn out nmd rott'enm, eame full of conceit sail ing that way, and spied our poor old 'Ship o' Zion '' in her most awful 'light, water-logged and unprovision d, unarmed except for the bows-and rrows which had been improvised uit of timbers yet sound, through and birough; but still brave and full of glht! These things, the Old Lady at the forner--as heire in Louisville the Cou icr-Journal is sometimes called-wes elling the nice little Democratic boys nd girls, who had gathered about her mnee and climbed into her ever-op~en rms, crying, ''GIran'ama,' tell us a toy, '' and ''Gran 'ma, tell us some ore.'' And she was already ''get in' powerful choked and mighty dis orgitful,'' as Uncle Remus - wohd ay. It had been particularly hard or her' to talk about tIhe dead, about kseek and( *Welhs and IHurd anid ''the ear old parseO Meeiat' Moore, nmd thme rest. If she liad-got to Vance, 'superb 01(d Zeb Vance,'' that would ave done her up ''fo' slio'.'' ' Yet ;d,' after this long p)relude, h'e wve each thme matter at issue-the Char )tte Observer rises up in meeting and nys: 'lIn this enumeration of 'the giants f the old debate' Senator Vance hould certainly have been ineln4ded. Vhen L4nnator Benk died his tn. fll'xupou: Senator Vance, who, by hit Oral ability and close study of 41io subject made himself the mastdr of it and th moat fQrmidable speakr and, debater in the. senate on the side of thorevonie tariff men." Hark'e, friend and fellow-student, did'st never .as* a hundred nobodieA to a party, and forget your next-door neighbor? Well,* that was it-oply that and nothing more; for, to omit from the list of the Giants'of those Days, the name of Vance, were to leave out Sidney from the age of Elizabeth, Rupert from the Cavaliers, who fought Cromwell, and Nathaniel Green, from the Field Marshals, that surroun'ded Washington in the War of the Revolution. Vance stood all by himself, a char acter, a personality, an intellect, an influetice quite his own. He had in deed studied the question, and haA studied it like the thinker and the scholar that he was. When Beck fell, and his mantle, rough when it was new, but old and ragged and worn fell with him. Vance gently picked it up and laid it sadly away. He did not put it on. It would not have fit him and he did not need it. He wore already a mantle of his own; a man tie made of splendid stuff and richly lined; beneath whose'folds he carried for. ready use, wit and philospohy, poetry and eloquence and learning to which the great, rugged, tireless, pulsant matodon Beck made small pretelnsion--and along with these, a heart as big as a-meeting-house. Gods, with what strokes he smote the Money Devil; with what satire and invective; with what kilowledge of the old beast's peculiar curives; with what proplietic instinct and reach of arm; and, lord, lord, how he did knock them out with that won drious disl)lay of power and pathos when he once recited them ''The Song of the Shirt.O'' Who that heard it will ever forget those tones as, stand ig in the senate, surrounded by the afftorneys of Mammon, in the very teeth of the Gray Wolves, lie began slowly, almost solemnly: .''With lingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.'' And this, with its wailing note ''For its oh, to be a slave, Along with the barbarous Turk,'' And this 'It is not linen you'r. wearing out, But human creatures lives.'' And this 'Oh. rod, that bread should be so dear, And, flesh and blood so cheap.'' Forget him ? Leave him out H ilim, who fought with both Beck and Car lisle, smiting the mailed legions of the Yellow Rich, hip and thigh-who, with Tom Corwin aiuK our own Proe tor Knott )oured a flood of sunshine as well as wisdom an(d learning into the p)ublic life of their t ime-making for the genius of American statesman ship a gentler sidle and leaving to all time a b)lessed and immortal Trinity --leave him out? And at the p)recise miomenit when Democracy, which he served so valiantly and loved so well, seems to be regaining its anagosity, recove rinig its pirestige and return ing to thle one muodern issue on wvhich it has carriedl the countrmy; the key to the t-rend of' the times; the cue to the political future; to wit: that internal taxation must be laid equally on and for'all p)eople, and( that the ~impos)0t dluties, collected at the Custom House shall be ''for revenue only?'' Forget him-? Not on your life I K(enitucky hails the Old1 North state. Ken tueky. cherishes the memory of her -great and loe'ed ones; but among thiem,'the name that, like Abou Ben Adhiem 's, "'leads all therest,'' is not that of Vance, t,he senator, ofi Vance, the -ge)vernor, nor y'et of Vance, thme p)aladin, but -'"jess 'plain -old Zeb Vance.' Have we succeeded in squaring the oversight and of making it clear to you, Brother Caldwvell? The p)eople who win their way into the inmost .recesses of other's hearts are not, you will. find, usually the most brilliant and gifted, but those who have sympathy, p)atience, self forget fulness and that indefinable fac ulty of eliciting the better nature of others. It is to the girl who laughs that. a man is drawn at all times. Be she his friend, sweetheart, or wife, lhe finds her company acting as a tonic on his state of mind aind constituttion. She seems to haMe- a fund of mer*ri ment and humor. which drives awvay all cares pnd liphitens, the heaviest burdens. Don 't find too much faiult with this world. If you.go, you may be sure that heaven won'tVexactly. suit you. It is alleged th pt pretty wvomen are becoming scarce in New York. - The average family does not need a coat of arms, but it needs a motto: "United we~ stand; divided we fall." GREAT REGATTAS. Wil Be 11d on Hampton Roa4s Dur ing Jamestown Exposition 1907. Clharles Frederick Stansbuty. Not-folk, Va., l:Ay I I, '06. Yaclitgniei all over th .vorld are turning their eyes toward Homliton lloads, where in 1907, during the pe riod of the Jamestown Exposition there will be the largest and most beautiful assemblage of everything that floats or sails, from a warship to a catboat, that has ever been dreamed of by the most imaginative sailor man. Every Amerian knows that Hamp ton Itoads is an estuary of th'e Chesa peake Bay, reaching from a point within Capes Charles and Henry to the mouth of the James River, where it widens into a beautiful land-lock ed hay, forming a safe harbor capa ble of comfortal1ly accommodating the navies of the world with the mner chant marine thrown in. Schoolboys recall with glowing eyes that here the celebrated flght took place between the Arerrimae and the Monitor within sight of the green parapets of Fort ress Monroe. Upon this noble sheet of water there will be held next -year a series of regattas, races and acquatic events oil a scale never before attempted and with a marine aggregation drawn from all parts of the earth. in the presence of the navies of the world a 1multiliude of white-winged yachts will ompeite for honors and trophies well worth the effort. C(ominanding a view of one huiindred and sixty square miles of protected water Way, the Jamestown Exposition possesses an area for a naval, marine and yachting exhibition such as has beenl enjoyed by 1no other exposition in the world's history. From the point of view of a marine spectacle, alone, it will be worth crossing oceans to Witness. MNily trophies and prizes will be offered and m11ally new boats built to conlthst for theilm. It seems probable that a new and better era for yacht ing, as a cleanl and noble sport will (late roi the events to occur during the Jamestown Expositiol. - Repre sentative yachtsmen from tle United States and Canada have joinedi hands widi the Hampton Roads Yacht club and the Exposition colpany to en sure clean sport, equitable rules, a fair field and no favor. "Old Kentucky Home," With Its Portals Ajar, Waiting For Wanderers. Frank fort, Ky., May 10.-11 sim Moling tlie 600,000 ex-Kenticlkian. now residing ill otliertstates to retlirn to Louisville for '' hoie-coinlg week,'' .1une 13 to 17, tiovernor litekhmiui iday istwd a prcho.iion in which he siays inl part: ''Werve vou hiavr 1- itlered, in to ihateven landls or .dlimies vou nlay have gonie to taike uip yoimr abolde, yoru are now by parenital a uth orit y sumi monied back to the proIil udlul state that gave birth to you ur to y-mrn forefathers. Thei old1 dinner horn thati in (lays of yore told you of the ap proachinmg meal has been taken downi troml the wall and thlere' issues from its soinorous andi( hospitable n.mouth a ntrumpet call reaching the remiotest coriniers of. thle earith and breathiung in to the ear oif eve'ry' home-sick Ken tick ian the mu isical and11 irresistile ap~peal that lie drop all eise anid forth with Iilegin his pilgrimage back to his nat.ive heath. A joyous welcome awaits you. As the genial sun of spring warms iinto life tihe beauties of natur'e, so will the kindly glances and- friendly grasp)s of your bId friends in Kentucky inspire in you, ifpossible, a greater andl tendlerer love for the state you once left. ''Now, therefore, as governor of thie commonwealth of Kentucky, 1, . C'. W. Bleckhuam, do by these presents, anad by the authority of. the parenOmt, wihiohi Kentucl-y claims over au' her oh ildren, even un to the~ third and. fourth generations, command each and every former Kentuckian, whethi er separated from us b)y imaginary state hines or broad seas, to come back home; if lie be at the plow, the forge, the counting romom, thle business offiee or in,*whatever employment, let him f'or the time cease his work, and re turn home. Meni, wvomen, and cliil drmen, who possess (lie priceless heri tage of having a drop of Kentucky blood in their veins must obey these commands and fail not to be with us duirinig this gala period'.'' Twisted. Philadelphia Press. Willie-Pa, message isn't good to eat, is it? Pa-No; what are you talking ab)out? Willie-Why, Mr. TIangleir,ou Suinday school superintendent, kept tellig us all the .time today that '.Esau sold his birthright for a p)ot of THE Slought SA IS STI AT Right Pi Every Artich Cut ir 10 yds. pretty Batiste tomer. 20 doz. Ladies' Blea 5c. while they last. Hair & The Right THE, NEWBERR'I Newbei Capital stock paid in Surplus . . Deposits . We do business on I We extend every c with safe and sound k Four per cent. paid Department. Burglar JAS;McINTOSH, President. STEEL I Better than Shingles, L-@sts longer Easier and quicker pu .It is.the coming roof. pr SUMME Frank R. Hunt Real Estate, Si .Bought IF IT IS REAL if we haven't got what you We have a most desirable I farming lands in various secti tracts, ranging in price from $ For particulars concerning charge phone, write or call or FRANK R. HU Office over Summer Bros. Special attention to collecti Fir Price LE [LLON THE -ice Store. 3 in the House i Price. 35c., one dress to cus ched Tape Neck Vests Hovird, Price Store. SAVINICM bANK. ry, S. C $ 50,000.00 .. 25,000.00 . . .235,000.00 >usiniess principles. onsideration consistent >anking. on deposits in Savings Fire Proof Vault. 3roof Safe. J. E. NORWOOD, Cashier. (OOFING! Oheaper than Shingles, than Shingles. t on than any other roof. Come look at it and get ces. R BROS. er & Company. :ocks and Bonds and Sold. ESTATE. SEE US. want we can get it for you. 1st of city property. Also good )fls of the State in large or small 5.00 to $75.00 per acre. any property that we have 'in NT ER, Manager. Phone 200 on of rents. e Insnrance. Security Bonds.i