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THAT CLEMSON TRUSTEESHIP. How About Members of General As sembly Who Are Also Clemson Trustees? Following is an editorial from the Columbia State of January 1: That Clemson Trusteeship. Here is the view of the Manning Times rezarding Senator Tillman's Cl:mson college trusteeship: "The Kingstree Record is after Senator Tillman for violting the State constitution by holding more than one office, but notwithstanding the argument the Columbia State makes on the question in its issue Monday, we do not believe Tillman's trustee ship of Clemson college is in violation of the law. Mr. Clemson, before the constitution of 1895, named Tillman as a life trustee, his acceptance of the trust completed the transaction, and no law the State can make will break the trust reposed by the will. Tillman is a lawful trustee of Clem son, but in our opinion he is violat ing the law as trustee of Winthrop." The inevitable logic of that posi tion as to Clemson college is that the fundamental law of South Carolini is subordinate to the personal wishes of Mr. Clemson at th;e time of his be quest; it is, in practical effect, ad mission that because Mr. Clemson spoke first, his voice must prevail against the letter and spirit of the law of the land. Let us further illustrate, by an analogous ease, where the reasoning of Mr. Tillman and the Times will carry them. Suppose that "before the constitution of 1895" was adopt ed, it had been proposed to organize at Pendleton a bank with a half million dollars capital, and that Mr. Clemson had agreed to subscribe fifty thous and dollars to the capital stock on condition that Mr. Tillman be chosen president for life; suppose the con dition was accepted, Mr. Tillman elected and, previous to the adoption I of the constitution of 1895, had ac cepted the trust? Has the constitu tion, which declares that no one shall hold two offices of honor or profit simultaneously, no power to make Mr. Tillman decide between his trust bank-presidency or his senatorship? I It is preposterous to conceive of such- impotency upon the part of thre State. It is not assumed that the common-I wealth can enact a law cmeln any citizen to abandon an office of trust bestowed' by some power other than the commonwealth, but to such an office-holder the State can and does say: ''You hold an office not given you by the State; here is one! given you by the State; you are for bidden by the constitution to holfl but one office at a time. So choose between them? If you accept this one, -the other is, by that act, vacat But, as we have before suggested,, it is the supreme court's decree up on this question which is of real im * portance. MEN ARE HELPLESS AS CHIL DREN. When Taken Suddenly Ill-Here is a Common-Sense Safeguard. Big, strong man is as a helpless inl fant when he is suddenly ill. The sturdiest chap in town usual-! yv loses his self control, and is uttera -ly upable to regard his condition with the common sense that charac terizes his every-day actions. For example: He comes home tir ed, eats a heavy dinner and sits down to read and smoke away a quiet even mg. Suddenly he notices a weight on his stomaeh; then sharp pains around his heart, and a feeling of suffoca -tion. Thoughts of ''heart disease'' rush over him, and in his agony he fears the worst. His trouble was acute indigestion, brought on by overloading his tired stomach., A couple of Rexall Dyspepsia Tab lets would have given him instant re iief--would have saved him hours of suffering. Carry a package of Rexall Dyspep sia Tablets in your vest pocket or keep them in your room. Take one1 after each heavy meal, and indiges tion can never bother you. RexaIl Dyspepsia Tablets cure stomach troubles by sapplying the one element, the .abseenee of which in the gastric jucies, causes indigestion and dyspepsia. They enable the stomach to digest all kinds of food and to quickly convert it into rich red blood. We know what Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets are and what they will do. We guarantee them to cure indiges tion and dyspepsia. If they fail, we will refund your money. Price, 25 cents per full package. Sold only at our store or by mail. Gil der and Weeks, Druggists, Newber DRUGS INSTEAD OF WHISKEY.a Correspondent Calls Attention to Un- " restricted Sale of Opiates as 01 Result of Proidbitory Law. st sa Columbia State. - ra To the Editor of Tha State. d, We had an idea that all those old bi boys, of whom Caldwell wrote so " graphically in his McGowan's history it and those, whom Dickert speaks of t having such fun with in his Ker- st shaw 's, were all dead. But not so. zl One, at least, is left; that is, if his ol life was not frightened out of the old w; sinner by the town authorities of c Newberry on his recent Christmas a trip to the city. He lives away down m on Broad river, where he spends his N lonely life in fishing and other like w employment, and telling war jokes to the younger set. But he does not un- qi derstand their jargon, nor they his " talk; they are too wide apart in point sh of time. Having heard a good deal A in an indirect way about the new th $50,000 court house, he concludes he or would investigate and see for himself le (now in his old age) this new monn- or ment to his county's greatness. a Accepting the friendly lift of a neighboring farm wagon, he comes to gi town. Lukless Chinky John, you n< are not on the Sh-enandoah, nor the fc Rapidan, nor on the shore of the tur- at bid waters of the Broad, but on the to asphalt pavement of an up-to-date ar town. No, Chinky John should have T] thought better, and stilled his curious in feeling about his county's greatiess, TI for he was no taxpayer, and Satan p, has that same regard for idle hands, la even for Lee's old guard, as he has of for the rest of us mortals. Misfor- tj tune never comes single handed, the, ti world over, and what was more nat- m aral than the old sinner should meet to up with another old giard, on w like mission bent. Unfortunate Chin- tc ky! After viewing the monster pile tl of pressed brick, strolling through its of lofty corriddrs, and looking with awe upon the throne seat, they sat down 01 behind the stately structure, Chinky a John and his crony, to discuss some tb unfinished . business, left over at the ,t Wilderness, Antietam, Round Top al and other like places (with ever and tc anon, "you remember the time,'' re etc.) that had not been settled ac- Va cording to their ideas of the correct di fitness of things, the bottle of booze passing the while. After all these id matters were satisfactorily adjusted, v the old Rebels, after a mutual good- la bye to the bottle, parted, Chinky B John starting out on his tour of dis- t overy. He saw much that was new, A much that was wonderful--asphalt t pavement, vitrified -driveways, and T Chinky? should have been satisfied ti and turned back, but the blood being g up and hot in the veins of the old t follower of Lee, he went too far, far s beyond his depth, was caught in that t great wave of the city's progress, and a-i ~swept from his moorings. Chimnky e fell. He grew tired. His feet sore, i he sits and rests, the old vagabond oft a soldier is caught napping on his b post, red-handed, asleep. His slender g legs had~earried him far afield, over p mountain, rivers, and bloody battling t grounds, but you are not young as tI you were, Chinky. Old crafts should t stay near shore. You ventured too a far. were wrecked, with all on board, a not to rise again till in the morning' within the four walls of a prison cell. t But this mishap (lid not break the a dreams of the old reprobate; he aS fought his battles over with himself in his cell, laughed at the jokes of his comrades, and was having the time of his life when rudely awaken ed by one of the catchers of booze.. Let's take a stroll down to the court t chamber, and stake a peep at the trial f of this jolly old cuss, for jolly he di always was. "Next,'' calls out the ia young and handsome mayor, and' w Chiniky John was led forth to the b entre of the room, smiles still wreathing over his brow, remember- a ing the last joke of an imaginary old t comrade. Was that a cannon fired th Or, what brings the old boy up with such a jerk? He rubs his eyes, looks towards the paneled ceiling, then at the tessalated floor, upon which his tired old feet stood. He peeped out aross the street, for the dingy little corner groceries. where old Julius and i for the boys, but all gone. Great . storjed brick structures stood now, wreathed in great canvas coveringd front, with legends of ''Last Tenb Days' Sale.'' But Chinky took no heed of those now. He looks before him! Seated upon the throne seat T was the young mayor and his asso iates, clothed in their sable habili ments of office, cardinal caps and all. Chinky John was speechless with as- ti tonishment. Had he at last met his D Waterloo'? "Wake up. old man, are t' you lost ? This isn't 4old Jacoby 's p tinshop any more: this is a $30.00 a opera house, with apartments below. j Who are you, your name. and wherc sj is y.our home?'' quieriad the young n id handsome mayor. "Under my it," answered the old guard. Don't be fresh with me. You are arged with being asleep on these reets of ours. What have you to yV' The old sinner started a long mbling story about wanting to see e sights, Christmas, old crony, not -unk, only tired, etc., but was .ought up short by the mayor: I've heard that story before; write on a piece of paper. Answer me is: Did you expectorate on the reet?" The old guard cast a puz ed lock of his leader, then "spitt, , yes, I spit, of coursd." "What, here," yelled the mayor, hard knots ursing through his handsome face, dark shadow spreading over the assive brow of the old wardsman of o. 2., the others making as if they ould rend their garments. The old stager caught his cue icklv and took his bearings afresh. Why, why, out fernant Spell's .op,'" and order once more reigned. long lecture followed, regarding te curse of drink and expectorating i the streets, the old derelict was d out on Boundary street and sent L his journey, if not a younger man wiser one. This litle fall out, with the old tard, is nevt intended to be funny, r a fling at the old soldier's mis rtune, but to "point a moral and iorn a tale." Moreover, as a text preach a "short patent sermon,'1 id to ask a few pertinent questions. bere was nothing wrong in arrest g the old soldier, if he was asleep. e guard house was a good place to it him, if he was a violator of the w, which no doubt he was. But all fenders should he treated alike. Are .y? Let's see. Be it understood at what I shall say is not in any anner personal and with no ill will any; all are my fraiend and I hope ill always remain so. To the edi rs there is no personality, it is at th tone of their papers as moulders thought and action. Is drinking and selling booze the ily.stench in. the r>strils of the la id the rabid prohibition press? Is ,e handling a'nd drinking of the vile uff so offensive that it overshadows 1 others, and the police are required i lend all their energies to the fer ting out its whereabouts to the to I disregard of other more important ities. Do the itaxpayers employ tem (the police), hire outside tramp tetives to help in running down igabond negroes suspected as vio ,tors, for this one service alone? ut how can they help it, if they wish te endorsement of thre local papers? .new council is elected. A violau ir of the booze law is before them. hey are afraid of the strictures of te paper, the priesthoord and goody >ody people generally, and give te culprit the limit. So the pace is t and hounded on by the prohibi on press to still greater sternness d vigilance. The council, and more pecially the police force, soon lose terest in all save booze, booze. Now do not single out one paper alone, it I most firmly declare, without ar of contradiction, that all these cohibition papers 'and venomous an -liquor men care not so much for te morals of thre men as to be with ie party they think is in the lead 2d to bolster the interest of the outs'' as against the ''in.'' Ini her words, the whole tone and sen ment spells p-o-l-i-t-i-e-s. It has ways been so and always will, be One of the most outsopken and in uential of this class of journals is de Observer of this city and the nderson Mail. They fill their col nis with statistics and figures from ec revenue department, showing om these the decrease in liquor *inking. They publish lorg editor Is and sound philosophy about the isdom of "keeping it away from the >ys'' and quote scripture about lead not into temptation'' and save the boys.'' In the abstract at sounds good and reads well in e Sunday schools. So much for promises; now for cts: Some time ago we find the 'llowing bit of wisdom from old Ru 1 Delivery of Anderson, copied, and >doubt endorsed, b)y The Observer: "We have declared opium in all forms, cocaine, etc., to be poison id have prohibited its sale except iensed pharmacists upon the or er of reputable physicians, . . t their open and indiscriminate Ie is prohibited. The same rule ould be applied to whiskey. . . he law should be so that the man ho needs whiskey could get it on te order of a physician.'' Now if by any stretch of imagina on one could believe the old R. F. so verdant as to really think this addle, the correct idea. "'reputable hsians,'' "'prescriptions,'' etc., d all such rot wouldn 't he get a lt if the dear old1 Observer would iow him the trick? Gracious! But e,.her arevrat Now that is, THIS WANTS YOUI We confess it. hand, we knov fied in asking yi We offer you found in a mod( Open an accou THE EXCHA . ON JANUi We Pay 4 Per I Our Sayings J. D. DAVENPORT, President. M. L. SPEARIN The Mo, IS STILL C A Splen 530 Fine I AT VERY L $12.00 to $15 duced to $103 $10300 Coat $7.50. : $9.00 Coats $6.75. To get ACQUAINTED with y ~ HYTONE The Whiskey thai SWe will give absolutely FR] A $1.00 Safe A i..00 Safety Razor B] S with every case containin HYTONE FOR $3.20 EJ Guaranteed to please or money NATIONAL DIS' BANK I BUSINESS. On the other v we are justi :ur patronage. every facility )rn institution, nt with N G E B A NIK kRY IST. lent. Interest in Department. E. R. HIPP, V. Prdsident. AN, Cashier. wer Co. )FFERING did Line F .. ~oats/ low PRICES! 00 Coats re s reduced.to reduced to ou and to INTRODUCE our WHISKEY stands all Tests y our choice of either ty Razor or ade Strop and Stropper g 4 full quart bottles of WHISKEY CPRESS PREPAID refunded. DER NOW for the Holidays. L'RIBUTING CO. BALTIMORE, MD. What is Home Without Music? Don't say, "can't afford an ORGAN or PIANO. We will make ywu able, granting from one to three years to pay for one. We supply the Sweet Toned, Durable Organs and Pianos, at the lowest prices consistent with quality. Write at once for Catalogues, Prices and Terms, to the old -stablshed Malone's Music House, COLUMBIA, S. C. rop. SALE. 1 15 horse power International Gas oline engine almost new. 1 12 horse power Steam engine, the Tozer make on scidds. 1 Flouring Mill with all fixtures. 1 good brood family mare, 10 years old, in fold from Caughman Bros. blooded Kentucky horse. Will sell any or all of the above. property down at unheard of prices. Call and see me at Little Mountain, S.C. A. N. Bland. CHARLESTON & WESTERN CAR OLINA BY. Schedule in effect May 31, 1908. Lv. Newbarry (C N & L) 12:56 p.m. Ar. Laurens 2:02 p.m. Lv. Laurens (C & W C) 2:35 p.m. Ar. Greenville 4:00 p.m. Lv. Laurens 2:32 p.m. Ar. Spartanburg 4:05 p.m. Lv. Spartanburg (So. Ry.) 5:00 p.m. Ar. Hendersonville 7:45 p.m. Ar. Asheville 8:50 p.m. Lv. Laurens (C & W *C) 2:32 p.m. Ar. Greenwood 3:32 p.m. Ar. McCormick 4:33 p.m. Ar. Augusta 6:15 p.m. Tri-Weekly Parlar Car line be tween Augusta .and Asheville. Trains Nos. 1 and 2, leave Augusta Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, leave Asheville Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. 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, Gen. Pass. Agt., Augusta, Ga. Geo. T. Bryan, Greenville, S. C., SHERIFF-'S DELINQUENT TAX SALE. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Newberry. *By virtue of an execution to me directed by Jno. L. Epps, Treasurer of Newberry county, I will sell on Monday, the 4th day of January, 1909 (Salesday),' within the legal hours of sale, at Newberry Court House, the following property for de linquent taxes for the year 1907, viz: A tract of land in Reeder Town ship No. 5, assessed to L. C. Sheeley, containing one hundred- and thirty acres more or less, bounded by lands of Dorothy Davis, W. F. Kelly and Henry Kinard. Terms of Sale-Gash. Purchaser to pay for papers. M. M. Buford, Sheriff N. C. Sheriff's- Office, Dec. 12, 1908. 12-15-08-t-taw. NEWBERRY UWION STATION. Arrival and Departure of Passenger Traips-Effective 12.01 A. MI. Sunday, June 7th, 1908. Southern Railway: No. 15 for Gre'enville .. . .8.57a.mn. No. 18 for Columbia .. ..l1.40 p.m. No. 11 for Greenville .. . .3.20 p.m. No. 16 for Columbia .. . ..8.47 p.m. C., N. & Li. E'z. No. 22 for Columbia .. . .8.47 a.m. No. 52 for Greenville .. 12.56 p.m. No. os for Columbia .....3.20 p.m. *No. 21 for Laurens .....7.25 p.m. *Does not run on Sunday This time table~ shows the times at which trains may be expected to d'e part from this station, but their de parture is not guaranteed and the time shown is subject to change with out notie. Station Master. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. All persons having claims against the Electric Laundry Company of Newberrv will render in their claims on or before the 18th day of January, 1909. cn which date, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon. a reference will be held in the officees of Blease & Dominick for the purpose of winding up) the af f irs of the said corporation. Fred. H. Dominick, Receiver.