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CHRISTENSEN NOT DISPENSARYTTE Opposed to the Whiskey Traffic, but Favors Local Option, as Against State- Wide Prohibition. To the Editor of the News and Courier: Kindly grant me space in your columns to correct a statement made in your correspondence from Gaffney. dated the 14th. Therein it is reported that I am a county dispensary advocate, and am rounding up the dispensary forces for a legislative contest against the pro hibitionists. I am not a dispensary man. In an article published last month in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social 'Science of Philadelphia,. I wrote: "The State did not suceed as bar 'keeper. Will the counties do better? That is a question South Carolina is solving. It is too early yet to say what the outcome of this decentrali zation will be. Delentralization has killed the lioness, and her dwaft cubs are comparatively easy to han dIe. However, they are not lambs. Whether the present system will long remain clean is a hard matter for con jecture. In putting into the hands of public officials the power to purchase liquor the door for graft is thrown wide open, and through it at any inoment may enter corruption that will render the system as evil as the worst." Those are hardly the expressions of an advocate of the county dispensary. In an interview published in the News and Courier and other dailies and weeklies a few days ago I stated that I am a local option prohibition ist. I take the liberty of again tres passing upon the attention of your readers. not for personal reasons, but to emphasize a most important point in this discussion between the State wide prohibitionists or anti-option ists, and the local optionists. They would -establish prohibition in non-prohibition counti,s by decree of the legislature. We would educate the non-prohib'tion counties to the point where each would for itself de eree prohibition. Between these two ways to a common end is a great dif ference. all the difference, we local optionists maintain, between ultimate success and fa-ilure. -Says Senator Otts, for whom I have respect and liking: "The way to stop the liquor evil is to stop and. not to temporise or compromise with it." He wishes to carry the citadel by. one grand picturesque assault. We point to the experience of generations that proves sapping and mining to be more effective against tiiis parti caliar enemy. If the State proaibi tion law is passed it will be a hollow' lctory in many of the present dis pensary counties. On bhe other hand, wherever a county adopts proflibition the gain is .real,' genuine and lasting. We loeal opinion prohibitionists adrocate the samt. course of action Senator Otto and his friends have been following up to this timte. They are brancdii1g ofI, hand in hand, with old State dis-. pensary leaders, and anti-op)tionists. W.- .ant to be a?lov~- .', tr.nel the same road, his county of Cherokee took in getting a prohibiton that pro hibits. He says that kind of prohi bition is fine. Then why does he in sist in forcing another kind on other counties? I tell him, and nine out of every ten thinking, sober men in this lower section of the State will tell him, that. a State prohibiton law cannot be en forced here with any success at this time. It is folly for Senator Otts to assert, as he does, that "tw.o or three determined men can enforce the law in any county." There are many more than that number of men in this county who would do all they can to enforce prohibition here if it becomes a law, and we know before hand that our efforts will be futile. Face conditions. Come down here and help us educate our people as you did in Laurens and we will do for ourselves what you cannot force as into. Senator Otts says again: "I have seen the results of prohibition, I have seen the law enforced, I have helped to enforce it." He refers to his county, that was first educated up to the law, and was then allowed to en act in. He would have had different experiences in an anti-prohibition county upon which prohibition had been enforced. It is characteristic of certain prohibitionists to charge all who may differ with them as being allies of the liquor interests. Sena tor O.tts refers to the local option ar g-uments -as "this song of the Whis ]key Siren." Yet the National Li quor League, which has just closed its annual convention in Washington. in one Af its resolution wrote: "'Local option is but another name for prohi bition." Local optionists were not whiskey Sirens when Senator Otts wa leading their chorus in Cherokee. So far as I know there is no effort to organize the loal optionists in or out of the legislacure, and I have not planned or attempted such an organ ization. newspaper reports to the contrary notwithstanding. But I have become interested in the fight against the liquor evil, and as one put in a little brief authority am earnest to exert it for tried and rational measures. So I address myself to the keen witted, sober-minded, frank and God-fearing people, who are the great majority of the people of this State, confident that th-ey will stick to the guns with which liquor has been effectually driven out of half her tetrritory. Neils Christensen, Jr. Beaufort, S. C., December 15, 1908. AN INCIDENT IN WILLIAM Mc KINLEY'S LIFE. The Rev. Dr. James Chalmers, of Elgin, Ill., tells the following story of President McKinley's boyhood days, which will illustrate his characteris tie honesty: John Robinson's circus -as coming to town, and William wanted to go, but the money was not forthcom ing to pay his admission. The Me Kinleys kept hens; so did their neigh bors. The hens were hiding their nests. William's mother told him by finding a hen's nest and bringing her the eggs day by day he could get.to geth-er enough money to pay his own way into the circus. And the boy did find a hidden nest just inside the line fence. Day by day he gathered the eggs. But the day before tha cireus'was to come, being overanxious and going to collect his treasures too early in the morning, he startled and drove from the nest the hen that was laying for him the golden -eggs, when, lo and behold! she crossed the line fence and rejoined the neghbor's flock of hens where she belonged. Poor William, downcast and crest fallen, hastened to his mother and without a moment's hesitation, but with tears in his eyes, said, "Mother, I cannot go to the circus.'" And then he told her of his discovery that the eggs were not their own, but must be returned to their neghbors. But when the boy came back after delivering to the neighbor the eggs he had collected, his mother, with a swelling .pride which she had never before experienced, quietly said to him: "You have proved once more, my son,,that honesty is the 'best po licy, and you shall go to the circus, William, besides.'' This incident, related 'by his moth er, I repeated to Mr. McKinley one day at my own dinner-table in my Columbus home when he was governor' of Ohio, and asked him if it was au thentic. "Yes,'' he said, "and it was the lesson of my life. From that day I made it the motto of my life never to appropriate my neighbor's eggs, and' '-he added, with a twinkle in his eve-'-"it has never kept me from going to the circus, either." A-styp-to-dynl. The best known remedy for burns, cuts, bruises or sores of any kind on man or beast. For sale at Mayes' Drug Store. 12-1-08-taw-tf. F, R, HUNTER & W,K.SLIGH, Real Estate, Stocks and Mortgages Bought and Sold For Rent, Store Room on Main treet, now occupied by R. J. Watts. Seven Room Cottage on Main street. Six Room Cottage on Mayer Avenue. Seven Room R es i dnceon Johnstone street. Desirable Off ice Rooms in Herald and News Building. DELINQUENT TAXES. n All delinquent taxes may be paid I up to 21st December with the penalty of ten per cent. After that exect- p tions will be placed in the hands of the sheriff for collection. V, J. J. Langford. e Attest: Mayor. N Eug. S. Werts, Clerk and Treasurer. a DELINQUENT TAXES. u All delinquent taxes may be paid P up to 21st December with the penalty P of ten per cent. After that execu- a tions will be placed in the hands of g the sheriff for collection. J. J. Langford, Attest: Mayor. Eug. S. Werts, Clerk and Treasurer. S Bids Invited. We will receive bids for the build ing of a Lutheran church at Silver Street up to January 1st, 1909. We to furnish all material necessary fort d the construction of same. Will also O furnish, window frames, door frames, 9 folding doors, already made. We would ask that eaeh one making a bid h specify how soon he could commence work provided h-e was awarded con tract.. Plans and specifications will be found at 0. W. Long's shop. We S1 reserve the right to reject any and all c ibids. Send bids to H. 0. Long. a H. 0. Long, o K. S. Stillwell, B H. T. Fellers, Building Committee. tc NOTICE. All parties holding demands against the estate of James F. Todd, deceas ed, will please present the same to the undersigned on or before the first day of March, 1909. Minnie Todd, I Executor of the Will of James F. Todd, deceased. Dec. 14, 1908. 2t STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. In the Probate Court. M. A. Carlisle and John C. Goggans, Executors of the la- -ill and testa ment of W. W. Spearman, deceased,. Plaintiffs, I v. Etta R. Spearman, et al., Defend ants. Complaint for Sale of Land. 1 IBy order of the Court herein, I will I sell at public auction, to the highest c bidder at Newbesrry Court House, during the legal hours of sale, on Mon day, th~e fourth day of January, 1909, C all that tract of land, lying and being i situate in the County and State afore said, containing three hundred and thirty seven, (337) acres, more or less, and bounded by lands of D. 3t. Ward, Sam Nanee, Walter S. Spear CHINA! WE HAVE TI AND FINEST ] I.MPOR T E Ever Brought 1 Chocolate Sets, Fruit Plates, tCake Plates, Sugar and Comports, Far AFULL L Hand Pain COME IN Als BEFORE YOL. NewberryHi Ian. Mrs. Maggi Longshore and Mr! L. Spearm0n. Terms of Sale: One-third of th urchae money to be paid in casl ie balance on a credit of one and tw ears. the credit rortion to be secut -1 by a mortgage Of the premises solc ith interest thereon from the date o Ale at the rate of eight per cent. pe anmni. the said mortgage to provid >r attorneys fees in case of foreclos re; with leave to purchaser to antic] ate payments either in whole or i: art, the purchaser to pay for paper nd the recording of the sAid mort age. F. M. Schumpert, Judge of Probate. Newberry, S. C., Dec. 14, 1908. HERIFF'S DELINQUENT TAI SALE. TATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Newberry. By virtue of an execution to m irected by Jno. L. Epps, Treasure E Newberry county, I will sell oi onday, the 4th day of Januar3 )09 (Salesday), within the lega 3urs of sale, at Newberry Cour louse, the following property for dE nquent taxes for the year 1907, viz A tract of land in Reeder Town lip No. 5, assessed to L. C. Sheele3 )ntaining one hundred and thirt: res more or less, bounded by land E Dorothy Davis, W. F. Kelly ani :enry Kinard. Terms of Sale-Cash. Purchase pay for papers. M. M. Buford, Sheriff N. C. Sheriff's Office, Dec. 12, 1908. 15-08-3t-Itaw. We Sell tool in the positive guarantee hat if it does not give sat sfaction we will return the intire amount of money paid sforit.P Ve ask all those who are un-down, nervous, debili ated, aged or weak, and very person suffering from tubborn colds, hanging-on oughs, bronchitis or incipi~ t consumption to try VInu ith this understanding./ iliam E.- Peiham & Son Newberry. S. C. CHINA! [E LARGEST' JINE OF...... ) CHINA o Newberry. Dinner Sets, Balad Plates, Salad Sets, Creams, ~cy Placques. .N E OF ted Ware ID SEE US SB UY.... . idare Co. HavE PITCHED Y In other words have you acquire city, and become a freeholding citi; s Boarding or living in a rented b merely preparatory to getting one's No matter how small and hunblI about ownership. That it is cheal admits of no dispute. And a mate( the seclusion of their own fireside a I can make it possible for you t monthly payments. For instance : 21. Two lots on Main street. 0 e for shade. Both lots are well drair r 24. One large and beautiful lot a 34. Three room house convenien 43. Ten room dwelling on Nance the very place for a private boardin 45, .46. Two lots on Nance Streel Sewer and waterworks convenient I 55. New four room cottage in H Sr. So acres of land in the Trinit i from Newberry. 87. Five room house with a larg< 88. Six room cottage on Calhou 91. 142 acres land near Maybin and stables. 92. Eight room house on Bound 96. Two lots on Nance street. 97. Three lots near Mr. J. L. B lots and are very convenient to the 98. New seven room residence or 99- Beautiful lots on the new str Church to the new Court House. ioo. Five room house on South s io6. 9 room residence, two acres stables, also good orchard, in the t( 107. Pretty neW seven room stuc on Caldwell street. This has all tl convenient to the Graded School, t tion of the city.. io8. Four room cottage with hal tric lights, on Caldwell street. Pri WOULDN'T YOU like to buy a pay you a dividend of 8 per cent. p~ J. A. I "The Mo IS STILL ( A Splen 'Fine I AT VERY I $12.00 to $W duced to $10. $10.00 Coat $7.50. : $9.00 Coats ~$6.75. . AI l You OUR TENT I a home of your own in this f :en? Louse is all right only when it own home. a the home, there is a fascinatio er than paying rent is a fact th I man and woman are happiest i nd their own home. o buy a home and pay for it i [ have for sale: ne of these has plenty of oak tr ied and at the right price. djoining Mr. W. F. Ewart. t to Mollohon Mfg. Co. street, in one block of public square g house. Price $2,500. , within one blo::k of public square. :o both. igh Point. Price $1,350. y neighborhood. About six miles ! lot on Johnstone street. L street, splendid location. ton. Has three tenant houses, barn try street. ?art of the Pope property. rns'. These are reasonable pric Newberry Cotton Mill. L Harrington Street. eet running from the Presbyterian treet, near the Farmers' Oil Mill. land, two tenant houses, barn and )wn of Prosperity, S. C. coed cottage, with a Reception Hall, ie modern conveniences and is ve he Churches and the business por 1 and front and back piazzas, elec ce $1,200. few shares of good stocks that will ~r annum without insurance or taxes? 3urton. wer Co. )FFERING did Line IF. .. Coats .OW PRICES! .00 Coats re 00. ::: : s reduced to reduced to