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THE OIL.TRUST'S C %REER HAS CLOSED OFFICIALLA Control of Business Passes Fron Hands of Standard Company of New Jersey. New York, Nov. 30.-The career o, the "oil trust" officially came to ai end today. The Standard Oil com pany of New Jersey, sometimes calle the father of trusts, and perhaps th( most celebrated corporation in the world, will no longer control the af fairs of the oil company of more thar 30 corporations in various branches 0 the oil business. Beginning tomorroN these subsidiaries, .whch under decret of the United States supreme court must conduct ind-ependentlv the va rious enterprises, will a-sume entire management of their own affairs. Ther oil trust theoretically passed out of existence on August 31, wher the books containing the records el the company's stockholders werE closed for distribution of the stocl of the sudsidiaries, but during the in tervwening period of readjustment i1 was necessary to preserve the ol form to- a large extent. Now thE work of disintergration has been com pleted. The stock issues reDresenting the- subsidiaries will pass into th( bands of owniers of old Standard Oi stock tomorrow and the threads which ,,-long have bound the old companies to gether will be severed. BLEASE PAROLES THRAILKILI. .After Serving Seven Tears of Lif Term, Leaves Penitentiary-De. fendant Over 50 Years Old. Columbia, Nov. 29 --When Governoi Blease today paroled M. W. Thrailkill convicted of murder at Saluda county in August, 1904, and sentenced tc serve a life term in the penitentiary following the recommendation tc mercy by the jury which tried him, an other link was added to the chain ol interest in the famous Saluda murdei case, which stirred the whole. StatE seven years ago, and Thrailkill sees the light of freedom for the first timE in a little over seven years. It was in April, 1904, at Monetta, in Saluda county, that Morgan W. Thrail kill shot and killed Benjamin B. Bur ton, for which he was later tried, con 'victed a'nd sentenced to hard labor for life in the ,penitentiary. ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * WHY AN EDITOR IS THANKFUL.*~ * - * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Fountain Inn Tribune. I am thankful because I live in South Carolina, and not in Tripoli, China or Charleston. I am thankful because the Tribune has more country readers than any other paper in the county. I am thankful because I owe but $891, whereas I might owe $8,910 the ,difference of a cipher, which isn't much. I am 'thankful, also, becaus'e my credit is no better, else I might be tempted to buy an automobile. I am thankful because I have a few friend.s worthy of being loved who are able to love me in return. I am thankful beowuse I have a few enemies. They keep me interested and spur me on to do my best work. I am thankful because some people slo not like me. If I pleased every body, Barnum & Bailey would cap ture pie to exhibit- s th.e onlN e" of the species--or else I would be called into Abraham's bosom as too good for this vain world. I am thankful for the liberal pat ronage Fotuntain Inn, Greenville and Laurens merchants have given the -Tribune during the past year. With -out their help the Tribune would lona since have perished.' I am thankful because I have been able to. advertise my home town throughout this State and in. others. .I am thankful because I have my *ife fooled into believing that I am of some importance. I am thankful because cotton is selling for 9 cents instead~.of 4. I am thankful because the world is -fdled .with good-looking women. Only *ne of them belongs to me, but no law larevents looking at the others. I am thankful beewuse my subecrip iien list is on a cash basis and every -paler mailed ila paid for in advance. I am thankful be"ause I haTe often made a fool of myself, and later had sense enough to acknowledge it. I am thankful because I make mis takes. If I did not, I couldn't sym pathize with other people. And last, and greatest of all these, T am thankful becauce I am alive, be eause I enjoy perfect health, because 1 am not yet bald-headed, and be .ause I am not yet sweli headed. Now is the time to cuibscribe to The Ine 1I Begin your buying today~in Toy When you buy Toys and Holida and prettiest patterns and the ai iil --I Games - . - - Blocks- - - Ppus- -I- 5 Air Riles - - So Bring the Chi movngpicur shv *' andmae yor sle NDE ,~ y Store of ierson' 10 I s and Holiday Goods, the brightest, newest and 1 y Goods you naturally want a variety to select tj ost serviceable line ever shown under one roof i '44 - r v r -4. I -s4 o'I . to Soc. ..s md to.oo 'Sopud hpe u vr e as to 'ooCIN! CHN! . to 5c. he mst bautifl lig intownever none.mrked.u.for.Crista.~r . Jon/h ha~pyhudrdsth ions early RSON' 1 Open Every N.ght Until C1 Newberry Ic. Store )est creations from the leading manufacturers. rom. We have the greatest variety,' brightest n Newberry. : :n .n - ll Clmes- - 25.t-1o Toy ~. Stvs- . o.t 35 Bils - - oc o 1 same* ~(?~ ______ *c S ORE 4it ..