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STATE-WIDE PROHIBITION. Se.azor Otts and Rei r.-entaL.ves Richards and C. A. and M. L. Smith, Appointed to Draft Bill. News and Courier. Columbia. December 3.-The con ference of prohibitionists. held in the senate chamber this afternoon. decid ed to ask the general assembly to pass, -at the coming session, an iron-clad State prohibition law, and a commit tee consisting of Senator J. C. Otts, of Cherokee. and Represtntatives John G. Riehards. of Kershaw. iar les A. Smith. of Florenee. and Mendel L. Smith. of Kershaw, was appointed to draft the bill that will be submitted I to the legislature. The Rev. C. E. Burts, of Edgefield. president of the Anti-Saloon League, of South Carolina. presided. The con ference was held behind closed doors, -and the announcement of its action was made tonight by the Rev. J. E. Harley, secretary of the league. It was intended originally to hold also a mass meeting tonight in the hall of the house to be addressed by Dr. P. A. Baker, secretary of the na tional Anti-Saloon League, but Dr. Baker could not be here and the meet ing tonight was called off. The open convention, set for tomorrow, was al so abandoned. as several of those -present this evening desired to re turn home. There were about thirty five present this afternoon. Seeretary Harley stated tonight -that every county would be organiz ed for prohibition. "Is it intended. Mr. Harley," said tie reporter. "that the proposed bill shall be an iron-clad prohibition law without any options whatever!" "It will be a straight probihition bill," replied Mr. Harley. "with no county options or anything of that kind at all. The mentlemen named, as the committee will draw up the bill along the lines laid down by the conference. and submit it to others, so that all ob.jectionable features may be eliminated. Yes, the conference declared for State prohibition. and we will try to keep out the drug store bar rooms." The gentiemen named as the corn mittee to frame the prohibition jill were all present at the conference. and all four of them are members of the incoming legislature. There werei s'everal other members of the legisla ture here also. *The conference brought to Colum bhia a number of prominent men from ifferent sections of the Sta-te. The ident of the league in this State, Rev. C. E. Burts, is one of the ngest young Baptist ministers in< the State-strong in character, abil-1 ity and personality, as well as physi-] que. Mr. Burts is the son of a Bap tist minister and a graduate of Fur ma-n U3niversity. Prominent among the prohibition advocates is the Hon. C. C. Feather-1 stone, of Laurens, who was here today. . Mr. Fea-therstonie recently announced that he would be a candidate for gov- I ernor in 1910 on the platform of State prohibition, for which he has been contending for years. He made the - race on that platfrom in 1898 and: and came very near success.1 The two~ Smiths, who were appoint- . ed on t-he special coimittee, are bie < men in more ways than one and this seema to be a good State an-: a go lime for Smiths. Mr. C. A. Smith, of Florence,m niew to nolitics. but a veteran in zood -works. He is a merchant of Timnmons -ville and was recently electe-d to the 'house from Florence county. He has -served several terms as prei~dent of -the Sta.te Baptist convention, and is chairman of the board of trustees of: Tiirman university. Mr. Mendel L. Smith, of C:imaen.1 wa.; here in attendance on the su-1 preme conrt. n was also invited to1 the~ prohibition .con ference. Mr. Smith. while in the house. of which. he wa.s sneaker for two terms, stood io.r the State dispensary, hut now is a prohibition adrocate, and supnort ed nrahihition in the county contest. Xe has been sent hack to the house from Kershaw and is niedged to in tradutce a prohibition bill. He saysi t.he house has a majority for prohihi tion. Mr. Smith was asked today if he had any announcement to make* with rezard to t.he gubernatorialI rae,e in 1910, since two interesting state ments had recently been made with rezard to cnndidates in that year, but he only smiled his enca5ing smile. Another r-ubernatorial possibility arrived this afternoon to attend the prohibition conferene-the Hon. John G. Richiards. of Kershaw. Cant. Richards. for he is also an officer in the Na.tional Guhard, has been sent to the house from Kershaw for five or six terms, and in a leader in that boa-v. He is committed to the passage of a prohibition bill, having always ~ -rtedl the State dispensary as a step. if it can, State-wide prohibition. At a meeting of prohibitionists, held recently in Columbia, it was de termined to force a fight for a State wide prohibition law, and a commit tee was appointed to draw a bill and look after the matter of getting can didates in the field. d South Carolina now has twenty-one dry counties under local option, and twenty-one in which there are dispen saries under *State regulation, whieh would make it appear that public sen- i timent is about evenly divided. Under these general conditons it ( has been determined to make the fight and the battle is on. We shall not attempt to advise South Carolina as to what she ought or ought not to do in the matter of a changing her present 1 ws regulating the sale of liquor, but we may be par n doned, perhaps, for suggesting that it would be well for the people of that a State and their lawmakers to look about them, to familiarize themselves P with present conditions and to profit F by the lessons of experience before rushing headlong into an alleged rem edy which may prove worse than the evil. Before following Georgia too blind ly, it might be well, perhaps, for that State to send 'a conservative commis sion here to study the operations of and the actual conditions under the Georgia prohibition law. It may be safely assumed that the - prohibitionists of South Carolina do not want a legal travesty on their sta tute books. It stands to reason that the conser vative prohibitionists of no State want to retain liquor without taxation and without regulation. Before acting, then, it might be well for South Carolina to look into the operations of the Georgia law parti cularly in the cities, in the inoonshin ing districts and, in fact, some of the country counties which are legally dry but actually wet. It might be well, too, for South Carolina to consider her own experi ences under the dispensary law and the manner in which it was viewed and violated in Charleston and other ities and sections of the State. We are presenting these facts not or the purpose of discouraging but rather. if we may be permitted, of di reting the movement, in the hope that it will steer clear of the shoals on which similar energies have too often lone to wreck. The law-abiding element every where, and of almost every shade of opinion upon this suoj~ect, will wel eome the~ elimination of the barroom; it has gone from Georgia and it has oeto st.ay.I -South Carolina has not had a legal barroom ~in years and probably will * never have another. But law and order advocates can not sanction a travesty t'hat is weak both in term and in enforcement. If South Carolina, therefore, is de termined to change her present sta tute on the subject-and it may be that it is far from satisfactory--she 1: hold be careful not to swap the de vil for a witch.r There are ways of getting at things "I and there are other ways. And South Carolina has abundant example, both at home and right tipon C her borders, to urge her to proceed cautiously and not to make a fool of erself by passing laws that cannot be c enforced. If she is sa.tisfied that her people will stand for State prohibition a -all right, but if she is in doubt, it would be the part of sense for her to give them just that for which they 1) will stand. AN ORDINANCE Regulating thle Transportation ofr Fresh Meats. C Be it ordained by the Mayor ana Aldermen of the Town of Newberry, S. C.. in Council assembled and by au- I thority of the same: Section 1. That from and after the. publication of this Ordinance all I meats en route from slaughter-house to market must be completely covered S underneath and above with clean white cloths and must be carried in vehicles and mea,ts shall at all times i be subject to inspection by the police men and members of the Board ot f Health.I Sec. 2. Any person or persons vio- b] lating the provision of this Ordinance It: Thall for each offense be punished by b a fine not exceeding fifty dollars o1 Tj by imprisonment not exceeding thirty n days. p Done and ratified under the corpor- A ate seal of the Town of New- h berry. S. C.. this the seventh g (Seal) day of Oct ober. 1908. p J. J. Langford, h Attest: Mayor of Newberry. Eue. S. Werts. Clerk and Treasurer. A) pruilitlofl. a 114 lCiHg im'sil- al avavz a total abstainer. 1ARNEGIE AND HILL AT CONSERVATION CONFERENCE Washington. December 5.-Andrew 'arnegie and James J. Hill will both :ake part in the joint conservation onference which opens here on the 8th vhen the National Conservation Corn nission with the assistance of the rovernors of the States and its oth r cooperators will get under way the nost important part of its work so ar, the report to the president, due he first of the year. These two eaders in the industrial world were ,rorinent figures in the conference )f governors at the White House last Qay, which was the immediate cause )f the creation of the National con ervation commission. The iron mas er's speech at that time on the min ral resources of the country was the irst on the three days' program af er President Roosevelt's opening peech and the railroad organizer be a.n the second day's session with a liscussion of the land resources of he United States, which has been nore quoted than perhaps any other inngle address at that conference. iVhen the national conservation con nission was formed both were made nembers. The participation of these two hard ieaded and practical men in the com ng conference will be of even greater ,alue than it was at the White House ession because the time has come low for the preparation of a definite nd workable program of action to neet .the situation that was partially lislosed at the White House meet ng and has been made more clear by he researches of the national conser ation commission since then. The attendance of the joint conser ation conference will be composed of nen who have beet, active partici >ants in the work for conservation inee the White House conference. .1bout. half the governors have defi itelv said that they will be present ind the others will send representa iv( of their States. These gover wr.S or their representatives will be ecompanied by the members of the state conservation commissions whic.h iare been named during the summer mid fall. In addition to these there vill be present the special conserva ion committees which have been ormed by twenty-five or more na onal organizations. The session on the morning of the ~ighth will be a more or less informal at.hering in the red room of the Wi ard Hotel for the purpose of organ zing. At 4.15 o'clock that afternoon ~omes the big general meeting at the elasco Theatre at which President loosevelt and Presidenit-elect Taft vill be among the speakers who will ddress the members of the joint con ;ervation conference, the rivers and arbors congress, the Southern corn nerial congress and other organiza 'ions with allied objects whose ses ~ions in Washington at that t.ime will ielp to make up what has been call d "Conservaition Week.'' After that :he joint conference.Pwill take up its >usiness in earnest at the Hubbard Vemorial Hall. The plan is to take 1one after another the main sub ects which t.he national conservation ~ommsson has been studying.-wat rs lands, forests, minerals. The much talked of "'invenstory of iatural resources" is completed now s far as present knowledge can go. [he national conservation commission as not made any of its findings pub i so far, but the member of the comn nission declare and the counitrv as a Thole is convinced that the state of iffairs is one that requires immediate md effective action. The p)roblent :hat t.he joint conference must help solve is what form this action must :ake and in what direction it must be used to be most effective. This is 1 task which demands thme shrewdest judgment which thme national conser ration commission can call to its aid andl is one for whic.h both Carnegie ad Hill are eminently fitted. The sommsson realizes that it has reach d the critical point in its work. All the information it has gathered in its months of study wvill result in noth1ine >f permanent value unless it can be ade the basis of a practical program of constructive act ivity. The advice f such men as Hill and Carnegie will be of the utmost value in selecting the points where immediate reform is most urgently needed and those whiich1 can be plo4ed later on the program. Should Paofit by Experience. Atlanta Constitution. South Carolina. some time since, reached the conclusion that it made a mistake when it adopted the dispen sary syste m patterned after the first Georgia institution of this kind. Now there is an element in t'hat State determined to follow again in' Irs. Alice Robertson TEACHER OF roice, Piano and iarmony Studio Over Mower's Store. Open Mondays, Tuesdays, Thurs ays and Fridays. Phone 263. 3uying a Piano >r an Organ s not hard when you come or write to us. Our Pianos and Organs are guaranteei rid up-to-date, ar ' at a reasonable price The cases are beautiful, the inside i iade by the best and most experiencei ien in their line, so it is no wonder ou ianos and Organs hold their sweet tou lifetime. Write us at once for catalog and specia rices and terms,' stating preferenc iano or Organ. falone's Music House, Columbia, S. C PI.NOS AND ORGANS Offic H C A!. G. R-osea, M.D Office u,tth Dr. Houseal. (8S to 9 a. m. Office Hours- 2 to 3p.m. O 6.30 to 7.30 p. m 3oozer Bros., CITY MARKET, 311 Main Street resh Meat. Quick Service. Phone 34 FANCY 6ROCERIES, he best the markets afford. We Ask a Trial Order. BOOZER BROS. Beginning December 5th anc isting for 15 days, we wil iake a sacrifice sale by giving !5 PER CENT. DISCOUNi n all Clothing, Shoes and lats, and special low price: n all Dry Goods, Notione nd Underwear. This sa'e s made for the purpose of clos. ig up the business of the S. S. BIRGE CO. s a corporation. The good ist be sold. Don't wait, bu ome ear.y. ALE OP PERSONAL PROPERTY By virtue of the power and author y to me given in an order of F. M1 ehumpert. Esq.. Judge of Probatt >r Newberry county, South Carolina will offer for sale to the highes idder, for cash, at the residence o de late John A. Atchinson, in New erry county. South Carolina. 01 hursday, December 17, 1908, begin ing at eleven o 'clock a. m. all of the ersonal property of the said John R tehinson, deceased. consisting o1 ores, mulee, eows. hogs. goat, bug ies, wagons, machinery, farming im lements, blacksmnit h-s tools, house old furniture, etc. John C. Hill. Qualified Administrator. Nombehr 28, 1908. td Itav What Go Does fo It helps you over the hills. It gives you the right start in tl It chases the blues, clears t] inspires impulse and appetite for It puts you in a cheerful and c( dertake that work, making a profi But, mark you, good Coffee is There is little enough of that k Robust, fuming, aromatic Coffi flavor, and harmless stimulation. Coffee that. as the French say, a cold man warm, a warm man g Such Coffee can be had, if you We have found it out and have learn of the merits of "Barrington Our Stock of Fancy and Sti Specialties for are arriving and we are in positiol most fastidious with table delicac Everything "gc JONES' YOUR BA THE NEWBERRY Capital $50,000 - - I No Matter How Small, The Newberry! - ili give it careful attel 1 pplies to the men and tU JAS. McINTOSH. President. SOME OF OUF To be conservative. To pay four per cent. To calculate interest semii-a To bond every employee. To be progressive and acco To lend our money to our< 5 To treat our patrons courte To be liberal and prompt. -i ~ To secure business fro.m all TO BE THE VERY BES'] TO DO BUSINESS \\ Our institution is under the su examined by the State Bank Exa2 HThe Bank of Pt osperit. DR. GEO. Y.HUNTER, [ President. J. F. BROWNE, d Coffee r You. e morning. ie fog, rouses mental activity, work. >nfident frame of mind to un table pleasure of it. necessary to do this. nd available. e, which is rich in fragrance, makes a sad man cheerful, owing, and an old man young. take the trouble to find it out. It in stock, call on us and Hall", "Vigoro" and "Siesta". ple Groceries is Complete Thanksgiving i to supply the demands of the es. od to eat" at ROCERY, LNKING! ~AVINGS DANK, -Surplus $30,000 No Matter How Large, savings Bank ition. This message e women alike. &.E NOR WOOD, Cashier. t POLICIES: anually. nodating. ustomers. ouSly. classes. BANK FOR YOU ~ITH. pervision of and regularly iner. Prosperitu, ,3 S. C. R. J. S. WHEELER, V. President. . A. COUNTS,