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AULL. Entered at the Postoffice at New lrry.'S. C., as and clast matter. Friday, January 25, 190 OOLUMBIA LETTER. Columbia, Jan. 24.-We are nearinj the third week of the legislature ses sion. There have been presented some thing near five hundred new lawf Many of them have been reporte infavorably an( many more Will b and of course very few of them wil ever become law and it is well fo the people that, they will not for w have entirely too much elChanging 0 our laws any way. Mr. Seruggs of Chesterfield had i measure to iake drunkenness a crimi punished by imprisonment but th house dicided to kill the measure When you conic to look at it seriousl; that might be the best. sort of liquo: aegislatinn. The use of whiskey i moderation can hurt no one and thei it. seems that it has uses for inedi cial pnd manufacturing purposes, an if you would punish the man who go drunk you ininghtl help solve th problem. My opinion, however, that the tendenicy of legislations i too much toward governing and regu lating the conduct of individuals. W can't make men good or moral b, legislation. * * * However, while nearly three week of the session have passed iiothin,, has been dole on the whiskey ques tion except to lay out tile skirinisl lines. The iew investigating comi mittee on the dispensary is to reporl by next. Tuesday. This committee is lielding its ses Sion inl private which sveis to ine t be deeidedly the best. plan and wha facts are gathered will he sunbiittel to the legislative in their report. T114 two dispensary me1casures have heel made special orders for next, Tluesdal at 12 o'cloek. One hill provides tl1 the abolition of the state dispenlsarl and for County man 1aemlliilt where thi people desire it. The other is soie thing on lie order of tlie Haysor Ma nning hiil and provides for a puri fied dispensary. The probability i tle house will pass the former bu just what Hle senate will do is no so clear. The debate in the lious will begini on Tuesday. It has airead; started in the senate over a resolu tion to abolish the state dispeiisary. * * * The bills Varryillg big and new al propriationis eontinule to Come inl hnl we are trying to hold themi dowl That is some of 11. With tle inereas in tle properfp inl the slate we shoul Ie ableIt ti re.dneea the levy at oin half~ mill but it the hills varlyinig ni apprh)opriatIions are i paSissed thle lev eanno10t lhe redneoed. It is ratheru'Ici ial *: * * Yes erdlay the elect ion for ae jnuda of thle thiord ci rcit was held to hil the vacanciiy eanise~d h>y the resigiia tioni of' the Hion. 1'. 0. Punrdy. Thler wVere? It wonames ilaced( ini inoination the lIon. T1. hI. Fraser of Sumiter am1 the l1(on. Juoi. S. Wilson ofI Mannming Mr. Fraser is ia mlembher of IAthle houus *and chairmami of th le jui cary1 coim mittee jand10 ai con of thle tle .1 ide I B. Fraseri and411 a111numi (A excel1len character aiid a goodt lawyver. Mi WVilsoin is solicitori of his cirenit. am w~onhll haive' lnde no4 miistaike ini th e.lectionl of1 either onec. Mr*. Wilsuon wa~ elcAte(d lby a mlajority oat 9 votes.(A C'ol. D). J1. (iriffith~ was reeleete sup)erintenidenit of the pentent iary an * .1J. G. Mobley, 0. K. SandersCV and .1 P. Smith1 were elected members o the board ofiirectors. Dr. White o Chester was elected trustee of thi colored college at. Orangeburg. * * * Mr. Johinstone has twvo bills in rc gard to road wvork. One permits thi to levy omie mill tax by a vote of thi people for road wvorking and also I vote it off at any time it is desirei ~& ,.,The other p)rovides for the wvorkini of the roads and affixes a penalt for any one liable to road duty refmi ,. lng to perform it and also penalt ' for overseers and county commissiom oe and supervisors for failing to 'po ,, form the duties requried of them.I n prnovides for a not less than four day TY{ ior more than twelve (lays work ain e ommulative tax of six dollars. Mi o#hnstone also has a bill to requir b~J~at the health officer shall be eleete< S'ythe board of health and not b; e ~~ oity cowneil. OThe biR0 r. Blease to devolvi amMded in the houiiso a t"b vit the question to the vot0er.oth town at an election to -be ordered b the city council as 'provided in th< bill, said election to be held not lew * than forty nor-more that sixty dayi from the. approval of the nt. Thii gives the people an opportunity t say what they really want. Quite a number of Newberry peop< came down yesterday to attend th, opera house and to see and hoar Lil . li n Russell who gave a most delight fdl presentation of the ''Butterfly' a play especially written for her 0 Among those who wore hero wer< I Ion. Fred. H-. Dominick, I. W. Dom r inick, Tom Johnson, W. C. Tyree an 0 Jas. L. Aull The folloiwng made ul f a box party afso from Newberry: 1 11. Evans, J. K. Gilder, Mr. and Mrs E. H. Aull, Mrs. Jno. K. Aull, Mrs Al McClure, Miss 0enlevieve Evans, Mis: B Bessie Gilder, Miss Alice Aull. Tier u nay have been other Nowberrian hero also but if so I do not recal them just iow. r The legislature will leave here oi i Saturday morning for Clemson col i lege and therefore there will be no - session on Saturday. 1 .H. A. t THAW ON TRAIL. s Prisoner Much Interested in Selectior of Jurors.-Only Two So Far Accepted. New York, Jan. 23.-The curtaii was rung up today for another act it the tragedy of real life known as th( Thaw-White case. The setting wa, inot the gay all night restaurants of tie Tenderlin, where the principal ae tors in the tragedy once were familiai figures. It was not the roof garden crowded with (lhe suinmer revelers wlo on a fateful night clinked glasses inll 1y1111 to tihe music of the orches tra and listened laighingly to merry singers anlld then were hushed into a silence of horror as these' pistol slhotq otacked and a noted architeet, lay dead at the lit.tle round table where lie lad been chatting with friends. The story of the play was broulhi downil to (lie gril court rooll scene hiere 12 men are to sit and render a judgmniit whili may mean eitiher the Itaking of aiother life, this time by the state, or a deterllination that t Harry K. Thaw was justified in ic Claiml tht ie shot. the man who haJ "'rinied hiis wife.'' Thiere miay be r third decision, that Thaw was insani at lie tiie he committed the crime "iilotional illsality," it was enllet today-but there will be n1o opportlini ity to Say that Thaw is now insane. Opening of the Trial. ki 'The( longei awaited trial began ti , morning shortly before 10.30 o'cloel e nald ivilell all adljoulm'lilnl t for tIle da y were t wo jirors in) t he lbox. A thiri y juror had1( been accepted anid sw~orn but lhe was exeuse~d in tihe closing mo. 1ments1 of tile daiy's sessionl, tile reaso50 e for the act ion being of a private na, I turIe anid not miadle public. Nine'teei - of thec 200 t alesmenl who were sum. e mloned werle examnined before tile daa , ,closed. Nearly all of thlem' seeme( .1 anlxious to serve and a small perent .age was excused for cauIse. ThIe chal e lengers in nearly everv instance wert - of a peremptory characteCr imd abouli . ven ly divided b)1etee th 110roseen t tion and hue defense. .FThl examlinaton10 of tile i r.st tales. 1 man01 called fronm the1 large panel wa~ followed with tIle keenest interest a! v it wals thiioughlt the lin~e of quel(st ioninll I by~ the~O attorneys for' Thauw' wouild ide 0 vlopQ) 1 helcharacteri of the de fenso 1' they anre to set up. There was dlisapl a pointmlent inl this respect. Thle de fondanti 's connisel seemed perfectl., willing to nae.ept any proposed juro I who satisfactor'ily answer'ed thle quecs I lions put by District Attorney Jerom< r. who per'sonallly c'ondiucted the examinl f' ations. Thle defense peiremptor'il; f chlallenged two talesmen, hiowevei c who gav'e their business as archlitects Mr. JTerome asked each talesman ii turn if hle would be influenced by th so-called high or unwritten law to th e exclusion of thle actual laws of th p state as they would be laid down b; e Justice Fitzgerald. There was non o to say he would not accept the court' 1. ruling as to all questions of law. g y THE NEGRO AND) HIS FUTURE. y "Uncle Remus's" Optimistic Viel -of the Race. :t 5aturday Evening Post., s I believe that, at bottom, a majorit; II of the American people arc at on .with irespect to the negro and his fu 0 tuure, and( tile retason I hlave for mak I i the statement Is a sound one y nan ly, that a large majority of th pea e of this country are blcesse< with ommon sethse in a larger mea: :q tthe g blems, and elkied the gae. th ly through so '.any 4 boa o come to the froit h1 4 Omer- n gencies that it MIy i' tly be th depended on in the fu0re, W Nevertheless, there a'e f Soutbern people who stedily refuse 01 to believe that the negro;hhs any h wholesome future before.hi,1 and ar some of them even write u re cations to the papers In orde' to do- 0 mons;trate the shifless characteristies fo of the race; and there are. ien of the highest charaeter and intelligence J who clhimV that the two races'tan nev er live u1nder the same: goveriment 1o an(] it the same coimunities Without l( inviting a race war on the one hand se or amalgamation on the other, and kc that one or the other of these conl- th ingencies can only be averted by p deportation to sonme counttry or ter- \tuJ ritory where the negro ean alive ev- PaI crything his own way. Moreover, w1 there are to be found individual in- fe stances where the assertion is made s p that the negro is going bqekward in- ifr stead of forward; but indiv.idual in- ta stances of this kind are worth no to more than the individuals thensclves. ki In such eases you cannot nrgu'b from the particular to the general without cr doing wholesale injustice, for the facts are all the other way. so Tie negro is also acquiring all edi is true, and his mind may fail to re sp)olnd to the different, processe. of q civilizition and enligltenment; but this rellialins to be seen. It has nlot. ah failed to resVond,k thus fair. He seems to be getting along remarkably well, co1sidering all tile cirlnmstalcs by whiclh he has been sirrouided. He is acquiring property quite rapidly, an and in our modern civilization tihis faculty is regarded, whether rightly b or not, as the highest possible test ho of progress. bo The negro is also aequring an edli- lie Cation, slowly, as a matter of course, buit snrely; and by so mlicl as tile di( ilds of the present generationi are yo, prepared an11d equipped, by just so much will the minds of the genera- m 00 *VIN * This wonderfi e ful remedy is g * ailments such z Weak Lun e Constipati * Coughsar * Bronchitis + Ano~mia, * Loss ofA *t NervousnE e Stomach I. Calfor booki ing away, wVhic +* wonderful cure: *funded if not bi 0 W-This is ornly * who are exciusi SNewberry. * We prepare y + tions properly a O We warra t t a* wesellandvwllr *to any one i ss ReliableD Il .1+ ko e 0t by thee nwedtion :of 4la Io as the ost remarkable 9grel at the world has everaieard'oif; and en we discover that in ths naturo things this is Impo?ible we "hake r heade sadly, and.are ready to lose art and hope. '* I do not ask y one to share, my hopefulness with spect to tlhe negroi nor is it ieces ry that the views- I-. am putting rth should be adeePted. * Lnswering the Farmer's Question. By invitation I made a speech not aig ago at a farmer's barbeoue in a ighboring county, and , spread my. If in encouraging oiAr people to ep up with the age, and- pictured e innocence and honesty and inde ndecen of a marmer's life in multi dinous language. I wa's cheered Ad congratulated, of course, and ien I got through an old grizzly Ilow cane up, with brass-bound ectaclos, and says he to me, "My ieid, you talk mighty well; yon Ik like a lawyer; but I would like know if you can tell me what id a calf makes the best milch cow? ''A heifer calf," said I and the >)wd just yelled. I got the grin on the old man, and says, "Let ie ask you a question, d you may ask me another, and 3 man who can't answer his own est4on must treat to cigars.'' ''All right,'' says he. ''Now go end.'' said I, ''How does a ground-squir dig his hole without leaving any -t around the top?' [Ie studied awhile and then gave up -, in a triumphant tone, called on to .answer. 'Why,'' said I, ''lie begins at the toml.'' 'Well, but how does he get. to tihe tom?'' said the pld man as though had .me. 'I don't know,'' said I; ''I never I know; and, as it is your question, I must. answer or pay.' Phe crowd yelled again. and the old n1 bought the eigars.-Bill Arp. 0 LI illy success-. *uaranteed in+ LS gs,+ on,+ idOColds, >petite, Froubles.+ et we are giv- + 0 h tells of its + 0 s. Money re-, 3nefitted. 0 done by us, e ve agents f,or* 0 our prescrip- * vith PURE DRUGS. 0 he medicines. 'efund money. atisfied. ruggists. .0 C.04+0 a ~A1~~iiskhow by I es6 1" I ithe Iwise gbrl) I' the 4Y4rage man were reallY known by" his cowpany she's sha e ,him right away. '---Catholic Stand ard and Times. NOTICE. It seems the: report has been circulated that we had gone out of business because we had to move, but this 16 a rmistake. We are still d6ing business in Newberry. Wearenow located in the W. T. Tarrant old stand op posite 1he Newberry Savings Bank, next door to G. D. Daven port's grocery store, and would be glad to have our friends and customers come in to see us. THE BEE HIVE, E. L. BAILES, Proprietor. ALL KINDSI Of Plumbing Done on Short Notice JnW. WHITE, JANUAR -0 White Goods, Lawns, Damask, Doilies, Rea U CreatIy Redi Come Now! City Ope EARHARDT & WELLS, LI SAT URDA3~ The Comedy Triumpi A MESSA( MA] 3 Years in London NOTABLE ACTING ELABORATE SCEl\ A PLAY THAT wAIN Pricest $1.50, $ dw' elike'6bd Skin Disases. instant Relief. Dot ouffer longer. Write F. W. WILLIAMS 400 Manhattan Avenue, New York. E, close Stamp. that will last a life tinoe is what you want.. Our O,gans have a pure tone and lovely cases. We can supply you' with an Organ that will plvase ih every particular for only $65 and $70 delivered. Write us for our special terms of payment, and for illustrations of the beautiful Organs referred to. If you prefer a Iano we have beau tiful and good new Uprights from $185 up on easy terms. Address Malone's Music House, OHARLESTON & WESTERN OAR OLINA RY. Schedule in effect June 3, 1906. Lv. Newberry(C. N. & L.) 12:36 p. m. Ar. Laurens 1:42 p. m. Lv. Laurens (C. &. W. C.) 2:09 p. m. 4r. Greenville 3:25 p. m. Lv. Laurens 2:07 p. m. Ar. Spartanburg 3:40 p.m. Lv. Spartanburg (So. Rry) 4:00 p.m. Ar. Hendersonville 6:35 p. m. Ar. Asheville 7:30 p. m. Lv. Laurens (C. & W. C.) 1:50 p. m. Ar. Greenwood 2:48 p.m. Ar. McCormick 3:40 p.m. Ar. Augusta 5:25 p. m. Pullman Chair Cars between Au gusta, Laurens and Asheville, tri weekly. Leave Augusta Tuesdays, Thursday and Saturdays ;leave Ashe. ville Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri days. Note: The above arrivals and de partures, as well as connections ,with other companies, are given as infor mation, and are not guaranteed. Ernest Williams, Can. Pass. Agt., Augusta, Ga. Geo. T. Bryan, Gen. Agt., - Greenville, S. C. V SALE F olderies, tdy-made nderwear, Etc., Etc. iced Prices. Come Often! m House ~SSEES AND MANAGERS. (, JAN. 26. of Two Continents. IE FRlOM RS. Two Years in New Yor COMPANY IC INVESTITURE. NB ALL' H-EiART 1.O0, 50c. 2ce.