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'Entered at the Postoffice at New rry, S. C.. as 2nd class matter. Friday, September 2, 1910. MR. BLEASE FOR GOVERNOR. Mayor Blease's friends in Newberry, as elsewhere throughout the State, are delighted with the magnificent vote which he received in the first primary on Tuesday, and are confidently ex pecting him to win by a large majority in the second primary. With about 95 per cent. of the total vote of the State heard from, he is several thousand ahead of Mr. Feath erstone, his nearest opponent, and he and Mr. Featherstone will make the 'second race. The heavy vote received by Mr. Blease on Tuesday was not confined to any section, but was general through out the State. Starting out with a handsome majority In his home coun ty of Newberry, and leading in the surrounding counties of Laurens, La luda, Lexington, Union and Fairfield, he received the flattering endorse meit of his fellow-citizens of South Carolina without regard to geographi cal lines or to vocations in life. Mayor Bleass has been consistent in the positions which he has taken in politics. He is today a local op tionist on the whiskey question, and we believe the great majority of the people of South Carolina are today in favor of local option-letting the pres ent law alone-because we believe they are tired of the liquor agitation, and are convinced that the interests of temperance will best be subserved by local option. But It was DoL on the liquor question that the i_eop.: gave Mr. Blease the lead in the first race. They recognized his ability, and they want a good, economical, business ad ministration, without extravagance on the one hand or penury on the other. With his lead in the first race, Mr. Blease goes into the second race with every prospect of his being the next governor of South Carolina. He has made a clean campaign, and will con tinue to do so, and he will make a good governor. He has been signally honor ed.by his home people, and has served them with ability and credit to himself and to them in the numerous positions which he has filled. That he has the confidence of the people among whom he has spent his life is shown by his election as mayor of the city last fall, and by the vote which Newberry coun ty gave him on Tuesday. VOTE FOR HAMPTON. The race for railroad commissioner in the second primary is between Can sler, of Tirzah, and alcDuffie Hamp ton, of Columbia. If the people of South Carolina desire to put a man in this position who has some . of the qualifications at least to make an ef ficient officer and to discharge the du ties of the offSce, they should elect Hampton. If, on the other hand, they want to pension some one they should elect Cansler. The people of Newberry in several elections for this position have given the majority to Cansler. This no doubt was done as a compliment to Mr. Cansler, but in the second race the votes should go to McDuffie Hamp ton. We have no personal irgerest in this race and in fact never met Mr. Hampton until the campaign meeting in Newberry, but the office of railroad commissioner is an important one and should be filled by a man who has some fitness for the position. An examination of the election re turns for governor show that Mr. Blease, of Newberry, leads in Chero kee county. In Richland county, in which is lo cated Columbia, the capital of the State. Mr. Blease leads in the race for governor by 200 votes, his nearest competitor being Mr. McLeod. The Herald and News takes pleasure in commendinz the efficiency of the Newberry telephone exchange, as demonstrated by the speedy work in handlins the election returns on Ind 0.,-~iv 17~ :1s, L he handled th !volume of business in a most satisfactory manier, aid were always courteous and in a pleas lant frame of mind. SILTER STREET. We had the pleasure a few days ago of spending a couple of hours in Sil ver Street. We have passed through this town very frequently but have not had the pleasure of stopping there in, Hi several years. The town now has some five or six modern, up-to-date sa and progressive merchants and they G< are all doing good business. The Lu- th th therans have recently built a very neat church edifice. A good school is re maintained in the community and ev erything around the place bears the td ne evidence of prosperity. of WTe were told that this was now a O Ivery large distributing point not onlyT for the section immediately around to Silver Street in Newberry county, but se also for a large number of the people oi of Saluda county. pa The crops in that section of the ot county are loking well though we no were told that the red spider had done af considerable damage to the cotton. ne The following are the merchants th OD who are now doing business at Silver ai Street: B. M. Havird, W. V. Bledsoe,a Lake & Swindler, Jno. P. Long, the Saluda Supply Co., managed by J. T. th, Coleman and Sheppard and Perry. mi There is a movement on foot to es ex tablish a bank. W4 Several of the merchants will buy se ob cotton during the fall, so that a regu lar cotton market will be established hu by The State campaign which closed re at Newberry last Saturday was one of ge the cleanest that has been held in lei South Carolina in a good many years. There was, comparatively speaking, t no mud slinging, and -particularly in se the race for governor was the cam- be se paign pitched on a high plane. We it trust that the same policy will be pur- hy sued during the second part of the ' campaign and that the people will cast y their ballots according to the dictates us of their besta judgment and that noneG th of the newspapers nor the friends of ot any of the candidates will indulge in any personal attacks nor endeavor to arouse any prejudices. Mr. Blease, who leads in the first w Iprimary, is a local optionist on the li Iquor question, while Mr. Featherstone is an advocate for State-wide prohibi- to tion. Both of these are able men, suc- of cessful lawyers and have built them- to selves up by virtue of their own la- hi bors and own ability. ILet us have a clean campaign so that when it is over there may be no ugly th wounds to be healed. - He Found Out. "Do you sell a book of games in which bridge whist is described ?" ask- of ed the serious-looking man of the d stationer. ei "Yes, sir. but I happen to be out of. them just now." b "Can you tell me how the game is s played?" ko. "It's a wom'an's game, youknw" "Ah."so I"You wouldn't care for it, but your rid ~ife would be terribly interested." difl "That's ,what I want. She doesn't tal care for aniy game." ter "I see. Well, she will for this. How lyi much cash can you allow her per wa week?" "Um. Five dollars, perhaps." 'the "You must make it $25. Does shein run the house now?" at "Oh, yes."a "Well, the cook will be running it sm jsoon. Any small children?" his "Two."wl "You must arrange to send them all to some foundlin's home. Want to .he see your wife once a day?" Tb "Of course." .sai "Well, you'll see her about once in "B three after she gets started at bridge s Anything in the house that can be pawned ?" . 'A "Scores of them." I"C "Well, she'll pawn them. And cash in bank?" thE "A few hundred dollars." t "She'll manage to get hold of it, ha: and then she'll borrow money of the thi cook. the grocer, the butcher and her th~ dressmaker. Bridge-whist, ' sir-. di~ bridge-w hist it-'- he But the other man was on the run.-- sig St. Louis Times.m roa Indian Smoke Signals. thE The traveller on the plains in the ba: early days soon learned the signifi- of 3ISIMPROVED OPPORTUNITIES TAKT AWAY. Matthew 21:23-4&-Septermber 4. "Therefore I t4to you, The Kigdom of God sMU be taken from you." L N this Study the Great Teacher In two parables portrays the mistake made by the religionists of his day. The understanding of these para-. bles glves a clearer insight into the cause which led to the rejection of Israel for a time from Divine favor. Incidentally, too, we are to remem r that nominal fleshly Israel was a prototype of nominal Christendom. hce we may look for somewhat similar conditions and dealings now In the arvest" time of this Christian Age. To get the force of the Lord's teachings here and everywhere it is neces ry to remember that the Jewish people had been promised the Kingdom of d, of wbch David's Kingdom was a type on a small scale. For centuries ay had been expecting a great King, Messiah, whose coming would exalt am and bring them into prominence as God's Kingdom. John the Baptist, en he came to introduce Messiah, told the Jews that unless they would >ent and come back, to the extent of their ability, into harmony with God d the Law they need not expect to share In the Messianic Kingdom. Jesus d the people that unless their righteousness should exceed the righteous ss of the scribes and Pharisees, they should in no wise enter into or become mbers of the long-waited-for Kingdom. (Matthew 5:20.) The two parables this Study illustrate what stood in the way of the majority. The Jewish people professed to be God's people, willing to do him service. iey were treated, not as mere slaves, but, rather, like sons. All were told go and work In God's vineyard; but they divided into two classes, repre cted by the two sons, in our first.parable. One of these sons represented the twardly religious, pious, who said, Yes, we will serve God. However, they I not really seek the Divine service, but rather the service of their sects and rties and their own personal aims, honor, influence and preferment. The 2er class of Israelites, represented by the other son of the parable, made pretense of serving God, and were branded as publicans, sinners, harlots. ,vertheless, when Jesus appeared, when John's message went forth, and :erwards the teachings of Jesus and the Apostles, these same publicans, sin :s, harlots. were the ones ready to receive him, while the religious, finding qt his message was In conflict with their teachings, repudiated him. Thus e of the charges against Jesus was. "He receiveth publicans and sinners d eateth with them." The second parable represents God as the owner of a great Vineyard, In respects well appointed and furnished for his purpose. This Vineyard >resents the Jewish nation and the Divine promises made to that people e Law and all the arrangements of the Law Covenant, for their develop nt. This Vineyard the owner let out to husbandmen, whose duty it was to re for the vines and the fruitage and to render to the owner the results, cept a portion which they might keep for themselves. These husbandmen -re the prominent rellgionists, of whom Jesus said, "The scribes and Phari s sit in Moses' seat. All, therefore, whatsoever they bid you observe, that serve and do." (Matt. 23:2, 3.) The owner properly required returns on property and sent servants to receive his share of the fruitage. But the sbandmen, instead of giving them what was due their Master, abused them beating, killing and stoning them. These servants were the prophets of old, sent to Israel. They should have .elved the kindest treatment and an abundance of fruits of meekness, atieness, patience, etc.. but, instead, they were treated as Intruders by the Lders of Israel. Some of them were stoned, some beaten, some murdered, e sawn asunder. Some wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins and elt in dens and caves of the earth, because not appreciated. They were not ated as representatives of the owner of the- vineyard. Finally the owner at his Son, saying, "They will re.verence my Son." But these same hus ndmen, the relgionists of our Lord's day, took counsel to kill him and to Ize his inheritance. They somehow got the Impression that they could lord over God's heritage and that anybody reproving them or showing up their! pocrisles or liberating the people from subservience to them, whoever he ght be-een the heir--they were at liberty to kilL. They crucinied him. What may we presume the owner of that vineyard would do to those ked husbandmnen who,- forgetting the ownership of the vineyard, were ug it as their own, mistreating his servants and crucifying his Son? The 'eat Teacher put' the question to his hearers, and the answer promptly camne t the owner would destroy those wicked men and let out his Vineyard to iers who would render him Its fruitage. This Is just what happened. The scribes and Pharisees and Doctors of the w who were using God's promises and blessings and their opportunities self ly and In disregard of the Almighty-these were dispossessed. Their govern et was destroyed and Divine favor and privileges as God's mouthpieces, aich they once enjoyed, were taken from them and given to othersto the stles and their associates, during this Gospel Age. However, as fleshly Israel was a type or picture of nominal Spiritual -el, we may not have to look far to find a very similar condition of things: iay. Today also we see same high In offcial position as representatives God and his Word using their positions to entrench themselves, to hold wer over the people, to carry out their own schemes. These are inclined speak harshly, yea, to "murder" any who come amongst them meekly, mbly, in the name of the Lord. They do not literally kill them nor "shoot m full of arrows," but they do behead them in the sense of ostracism. d they do shoot out at them the arrows of bitter words, slanders, etc. What will the Husbandman do with such servants? The answer Is again at the opportunities which they have enjoyed will be.taken awa.y from them. ank God that the next step In the programme will be that the King's Son d all of the misused servants associated with him will constitute the new angdom of God's dear Son" "under the whole heavens." Matters will be longer entrusted to any but the tried, proven, faithful. Jesus, the rejected, "Is become the chief corner-sone" of the great Temple God, which is the Church. As~ the privilege of being God's embryotic Kmng-, m was taken from the Jews and given to Christ and the Church, so pres tly his embryotic Kingdom will be taken from earth entirely-his faithful 1 be received to the heavenly plane and power and great glory. Whoever stumbled over Jesus suffered loss in the sense of being broken, Lt not beyond possibility of repair. "But upon whomsoever this stone (Mes-; l) shall fall, it will grind him to powder" in the Second Death.--Matt. 21:44. aetimes saw rising from a distant arrows, "The danger is great." Several e or hill and answered from a arrows indicated "The enemy is too erent direction. It was the signal 'powerful for us."-Harper's Weekly. E of the Indians across miles of in vening ground, a signal used in ral- The New One. ag the warriors for an attack, or The gentleman cautiously opens his rning them for retreat. front door at 2 a. in., but nevertheless 'he ndia ha a wy o seningthe wife of his bosom hears him. smoke up in rings or puffs, know- "What in the world kept you out so that such a smoke column would late?" she demands. once he noticed and understood as "Well, my dear," he explains labor signal and not mistaken for the edly, "Flitterson took me for a flight oke of some camp fire. He madeinhsewbpaendteterg ringis byankeringrthe little fir gear got out of order, and we had to h hi blnketfora moentandcome down eight miles from town and* owing the smoke to ascend, when it~ for a trolley to bring us in." instantly covered the fire again. Chicago Post. column of ascending smoke rings _______________ E to every Indian within 30 miles,TE HRWA ED eware! An enemy is near!" Three okes built close together meant T ec oksho,N.5.Tr, anger." One smoke merely meant sxmnh.Slr,$00 e ot. tention." Two smokes meantAplcnswladrseihroef mp at this place." teudrindo rbfr etm requently at night the settler orbe17190 traveller saw fiery lines crossingJ.BLingt, sky shooting up and falling, per- S .Mts s taking a direction diagonal to Sils .C lines of vision. He might guessDato nrd Lt these were the signals of the In ns but unless he were an old-timer Pmra .C sixlsonths.oldltimer40a00 thr mqnah Applicantsbwillredress eithereoneoo shat ithgupowerandfie undesigin and urefoSptm smokepuff. "Anenem is iear. Ove B.sma Drvigstore. ;o arow ment "angr,"thre Ho Sping PomarasasC S.R)Mts SlgsI.C A $55.00 Perfect Sewing Machine Given Away Also 30 Beautiful 42-Piece, Dinner Sets and Other Valuable Presents Given Away Saturday, Sept. 10 AT 5 O'CLOCK P. din. And for THIRTY WEEKS we will give away dinner sets and on the thirty-first week we will give away a beautiful $55.00 sewing machine to the person holding the card showing the largest amount purchased during the week. These dinner sets and the sewing machine are now on exhibition at our store. Each time you make a purchase at this store amounting to over $1.00, the total amount of sale will be punched out of your contest Card. Each week on the day ad hour specifed above you will present your cards . in person at this store On the day and the hour specified the person present holding the card which shows the largest amount of pur chases punched out, will receive absolutely FREE of all charges, a beautiful hand decorated 42-piece dinner set. If your card does not entitle you to the set of dishes 'at the first awarding, hold your cards for subsequent distribu tion as we will continue giving away a set of dishes each ~ week for thirty weeks, so even if some one else does get the. set of dishes one week, your card may be highest card some later week, so save every card. As previously stated you are entitled to a new card every time you make purchases at this store amounting to $i.oo or more. For example suppose you purchase at one time goods amounting to $2.75, we will then punch that amount ($2. 75) out of your card, so that unless you purchase more than that amount at another time, that card ($2.75) is your high card. When your card secures you a dinner set it will be marked "cancelled" by us and returned to you. You must save this card along with any others that you may have as we have another big "prize" for you. We will be pleased to have you call and examine these handsome presents. Here is your opportunity to secure a set of dishes or a high grade sewing machine FREE. Shelley-Wheeler Co. Newberry, South Carolina. JOHN P. LONG Takes great pleasure to announne to the people of Silver Street and vicinity that *he is prepared as never before to serve them with the most up-to-date stock of GENRAL ERCHANDISE WAGONS AND BUGGIES BUYS COHON AND COTTON SEED COFFINS AND CASKETS A full line of Coffins and Caskets are always kept on hand. SILVER STREET, S. C.