*V1Iera .,VOL~~~~~~~~~ XLI.INWER. .0 FIA.DEEB"R71M WHE E THE METHODIST P ACHERS ARE SEN1 ONLY 0 CHANGE IN NEWBER RY. The Shaking lp This Year Appear to Have Bee . Pretty Thorough One, Columbia, December 5.-The alp pointments for 1907' were read inl th South Carolina Conference this morn ing as soon as the report of the con, imittee in the Creighton case was dih posed of. This is an anxious momen in Conference. No preacher outsif humor anid good wholesonte fuin as shad is of bones, and1 local adlmirers >f this popular tecam enn confidentlyI ook f~orward to an evenling (if genni me merriment. Theiy promise many 1 lew things this season in the way of nnaica1 numbersannd specinlties. FILL MEET NEXT AT GAFFNEY. 'T4 [ethodist Conference Votes To Con- T( vene There Next Year-Temper ance Committee Asks, in its Report, why the Loquor Traffic Should not Blotted Out. se -- in Columbia, December 1.-The ven rable Rev. William C. Power, D. D., V naducted the devotional exercises at w ic opening of the Methodist. Confer- s nce this morning. The first business o fken up was the selection of the n lace of meeting for next year. Two s laces asked to entertain the Con- al erence, Laurens and Gaffney. The !onference accepted the Gaffney in- s itation. The Conference has never, iet in this town and the fact that the ext session will go there is an evi- ) ence of the town's rapid growth, for . has never before felt equal to the ndertaking. e. The report of the committee O1in 'onference relations was made. The . ims of the ininlisters place don he u1pernmneraenry and( sulpertannu11ated sis hav,e already bei given in The Zews and(I Courier, 'I ti Mr. W. IT. Wallace, of Newherry, ead lihe report of the conimmitte ( ot eniperance. The following extraci rom that report will give an idea or ts nature: ''The Church has spoken U n1 no uncertain tones on this subject. 'here is no middle ground. There is lo place for consistency. Others may rgue as to the best method of con rolling the liquor traffle. With us It s not a (uestion of control, but of !omplete prohibition. If it be true, is some assert, that as long as there s liquor men will get it and driink it, f it least let us not help men to get. .t, or encourage them to drink it. lather let us use every possible effort o remove tihe temptation from them, vhiether tlat temptlation is offered by le State or by individuals. There s no moral difference between the sale of liquor by the State and the ;ale of one citizen to another, but the mflleial sanetion given to liquor deal ill by tle State is moIre potent for 'vil inl perverting." tile moral sense of hev people and in lowering 1 te moral tandardI. We desire to give ou Ieardy edor ( I IeIt t to every effort Wmaking or may be made for rid lhin- the State of' the nefarious traf ie in every from. Dr. Thomas Law, of file American lible Society, spoke to the Conference ii the interest of that Society. The name of the Rev. George 1-1. 1 '_ooser was referred to the committee m Coniference relations for superan.. mation. Mr. Pooser is one of the old st ministers in the Conference and N mlls dlone many year Is' hard work. a Petition to the Legislature. The Rev. A. 11. Best introduced a 0 'S011tioln regnllesting tle legislature o pass a lIaw making it a mnisolem, - -an1or I 05(l1 cigarectte s or cigarette miper in South Carolina. The resolu- ~ ion was adopted unanimously. C The Rlevs. R. E. Sharpe, C. C. D)er 'iek, L. D). Oillespie having st(ood ap )ro)vedl examinat ions, were admit ted iuto full connection in the Confer mec. Theiy have been elected deaconsb mdi the bishop wiill ordaiin them tomor 'ow. Thie usual (juestions were asked hem, as diirected b)y the Book of Dis ililne, and1( in the course of asking he(se Oiuest ions IBishiop Wilsoni deliver d( a stirong lectuire. He decclar'ed thata lie most implhortan it thing to be 'onisid' hi ried by precacher's was pei'sonal ex, >erience. Theiy should give olue ('0n iderat ion to inite(lleetnl perfect ion, mi morei('li hani ~i everythlingi' el se they hould have'CUl 'n lxpien'ice of thle onfastidfins t hese days and arec tr'ea chi ng. tru'ithi ofher iihan thle Giospe'l. \K, are inc(lined'( to' place everythiung a m ain intllee tna( mil baiisW. This is not v'hat thle world w'ants. It wiants the A ipile (Gosp el pr'eae'd bys onie wvho C inls ain e'xperimeintal kno(wledge (if hIs b i(ospe(l. The Con ference authorized the tr'u ces of' thle Columbia College to ex 'ha nge stme lots withI thle Nor'thi o nmubia Land 'Company, in ordei' that lie streets in that neighborhood might t ie straightened. The College receiveui nor'e land1 thian it loses by the trans i ) PURGE ARMY OF NEGROES. Ixas Congressman Introduces Bill Providing for the Discharge of all Black Men. Washington, December 4.-Repres litative Slayden, of Texas, to-day troduced a bill which li-provides that an or before the 30th day of June, 07, all enlisted mien of the army, ho are negroes, or of negro descent, all be discharged fronm the service the United Sta(es, and thereafter i negro, or personl of nlegrot descent, ill be enlisted 01 appoillted in the my of (le United States.'' In explaining his bill Mr. Slayden id: "The bill speaks for itself. It wat >t introduced for buincombe. My irpose is to give the Congress of the nited States an opportunity to purge ie army of an admittedly dangerous ement. To say that the negroes are 'aVe is not. an argument against this easuire. Miay menii have been brave; facet most mlenl are inl thle mat111er of ghting. Tle Connehe and Sioux idialis were as brave as mni emi be. it no one would seriously suggest at we IlitimatINely recruit regilents ol tiem, pi t guls ill illieir IIds I'l station them nIeari colpalies of hite troopls, tilward whoml thley ('nter illi illliertii rave Ilost ilit . TIhe 25tl Ifanitry is mlanlifestly imlbuled with I(e same riave hostility and events live showm it to he (jlite as danger is ats the Sioux to( Con hie would .,, Presideiit Roosevelt inade it appar nit to his Senatorial eallers to-day Ia( lie is anxiouis for speedy action it a Congressional resolution calling Mr informiation regarding ie dis liarge of negro soldiers of the 25th ifaintry Cr participation in the riot I. Brownsville. As soon as a resoln ion is passed, lie told themll, he will end the iiformation to the Seniiatc. :i he' (he INiiPose or lit I"oraker mres lution, initrodueed ini the Senate yes mrday, will be acceptable to him. The Bee Hive. The lee Ilive will inangIurate a wciall s.lte next u'lesdaY. They will e closed( on Molday, making ari'ange ielnts preparator.*y to) Ihe sale, an