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TOLDIE L, NIBER 6. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, J.ANU.IRY 19. T19E1, ELECTION HELD BY LEGISLATURE SEVERAL VACANCIES FILLED IN JOINT SESSION. Several Officials. Reelected, Including Insurance Commissioner and Libra rian-Election College Trustees. State Librarian-Miss L. LaBorde, Columbia. Insurance Commissioner--F. H. Mc .Master, Columbia. Winthrop- Tr:stees-W. J Rodd?y, Rock Hill: T. A. Crawo ?rd, Rock HI]; Dr. E. S. Joyner, Columbia. University of .Soutl, :5.' ia Trus tees-August Kohn, Co.umbia; Dr. W. T. C. Bates, St. MattteW: J. Q. Davis, Winnsboro. Clemson Trustees-E. T. Hughes, Marion; S. T. McKeown, Yorkville; .R. H. Timmerman, Batesburg. TWENTY.SIX YEARS AGO. When Broad River Was a Solid Block of Ice From Bank to Bank. The Wilkinsville correspondent of the Gaffney Ledger, who is one of the best correspondents in the country, had the following interesting sketch in his last letter: "Bleak winter has set in in dead earnest and all we can do is to sit round the fire, roast our shins and .take part in the current gossip. "It's a poor time for getting news -to interest the readers of a popular newspaper and so we must cont ent -ourself with the dull monotony of country life, as we find and f-4 it. For several days the ther'nom_::t.:r hss ;stood considerably below the freezing point. As the prevailing b1Aiard struck our section last Saturda;, Jan uary 6, we recall that it was the 2th anniversary of the cold spell which terminated with the big ice in Broad river-the most notable incideiit i1n this respect that has occurred witzin the recollection of the oldest people now living. For several.days the river -was a solid mass of ice from bank to bank. But when the crash came it was like a tornado and was heard for miles on either side of the river as the great masses of ice took their course seaward tearing up and skin ning saplings and shrubbery along the .banks. "With the exception of the great sleet of February 13, 1858, it was the most memorable circumstance of a -weather condition within the recollec tion of the writer. The winter of 1855 and '56, was a remarkable ont, too, when snow was on the groundl from the 24th of December until the 10th of March. This was followed by a good crop that year of corn, wheat, oats and cotton. But the army worn:9 came in August that year and de stroyed most of the fodder and hay. They even invaded the fodder stacks and left scarcely anything but the stems. Mr. John Smith, of Smith's ford section, had ditches dug around his fodder stacks to protect the fod der. These ditches the worms literal lfilled up in their efforts to get to his fodder. Mr. Smith was one of the largest planters in western York and he had enough old fodder and corn, too, on hand to feed his stock for an other year." No Way Out of Court. There is a lawyer in Chicago, .for some years a police magistrate, who -was a natural peacemaker and al ways endeavored to smooth over any slight differences between the persons brought before him. Once, when the charge involved was for technical -assault, it came out in the course of evidence that the par - ties were neighbors and had formerly been the best of terms. "This is too bad, too bad!" com mented the judge. "And between such old friends! Is this not a case that might be settled out of court?" "I'm sorry to say that it can't be done, your honor," remarked the plain tiff, seriously. "I thought of that my 'self, but the coward won't fight." -Green Bag. Mr. J. W. Pitts has changed front Kinards to Whitmire, and Mr. R. A. n)ore. from Kinards to Columbia. COL. WATTERSON WRITES OF HARVEY-WILSON BREAK hentuck ian Calls Him ii_ailable and Fit But Doesn't Like His Dis position. Louisville, Ky., Jan. 17.-That he hoped to find in Woodrow Wilson an other Tilden "but had found rather a schoolmaster than a statesman" was the declaration of Henry Watterson, the veteran Kentucky :ditor and 1 South-ern Democrat, in a statement made here tonight to the Associated Press in connection with the break between Gov. Wilson and Col. George Harvey. "Regretting that I must appear either as a witness or a party to the misunderstanding which has arisen between Col. George Harvey and Gov. Woodrow Wilson," reads the state ment, "I shall have to speak with some particularity in order to be just. alike to th;e public and the principals. The Conference. "The conference between us in my apartment at the Manhattan club was i held to consider certain practical measures rielating to Gov. Wilson's candidacy. Col. Harvey stood toward I Gov. Wilson much as I had stood 35 years ago toward Mr. Tilden. This appealed to me. Col. Harvey had brought the governor and myself to gether in his New Jersey home 18 months ago, and as time- passed, had interested me in his ambitions. I was hoping I might find in Gov. Wilson another Tilden. In point of intellect and availability, I yet think Col. Har vey made no mistake in his choice of candidate; but the circumstances lead ing to the unfortunate parting of the ways between them lead me to doubt whether in character and tempera ment-it may be merely in the habits of a lifetime-Gov. Wilson is not rath er a schoolmaster than a statesman. "Nothing Unfriendly." "I have from Col. Harvey and Gov. Wilson statements, according to the memory of each, touching what did actually happen and was spoken on the occasion named. These- do not materially differ. They coincide with my own recollection. Nothing of a discourteous kind-even of an un-. friendly kind--passed during an in terview of more than- an hour. From the first, howevE r, there was a certain* constraint in Gov. Wilson's manner, the absence of the cord'iality and can dor which should mark hearty, confi dential intercouse, in demonstrating* the existence of some adverse influ ence. His manner was. autocratic if not tyrannous. I did not ta.ke this to myself, but thought it related to 0o1.: Harve y, and when Col. Harvey, ap-. parently overcome by Gov. Wilson's austerity, put the direct question to Gov-. Wilson whether the support of; Harper's Weekly was doing him an injury, and received fronm Gov-. Wil son the cold rejoinder that it was, I was both surpriserd and shocked. Watterson Doubtful. "I had myself, as far back as lasf October, suggested to Gov. Wilson that, in view of his supposed environ ment. it might be well for Col. Har Ivey to moderate somewhat the rather Iaggressive character of Harper's, Weekly in the Wilson leadership. I am not sure that I had not said as much to Col. Harvey himself; but that Gov. Wilson, without the least show of compunction, should express or yield to such an opinion, and permit Col. Harvey to consider himself dis charged from the position of trusted intimacy he had up to this moment! held, left me little room to doubt tht. Gov. Wilson is not a marn who makes common cause with his political as sociates or is deeply senible of his political obligations; becao'se it is be' true and fair to say that, except for Col. Harvey, he would not be in the' running at all. Harvey Wounded. "Col. Harvey wa.s grievously wound ed. He had been fighting Gov. Wil son's battle for many years and had idealized his chief. Although I was given no reason to suppose myself in cluded in the disfavior which had fall en upon Col. Harvey, I experienced a: sensation of something very much like indignation, but on reflection I could not rid myself of the impression that Gov. Wilson had been receiving i+ae.ersrnt Trentucky written by en (n.jes of mine who s^e?k to use his .i:ne and lame to gin some eids of their own, warning him against m<, and that, to all intents, I sat in the same boat with Col. Harvey. "I am in receipt of uGv'. Wilson's averment to the contrary. I wish this had reached me earlier. I have dur ing three we.eks of newspaper im portunity refused to print a word on the subject in the hope that no pub icity might be required and that some understanding could be reached. I have reason to believe that Col. Har vey withheld his statement for the same cause and 'with the same hope. It being no longer possible to suppress the matters at issue, this full state ment, which I make most reluctantly, seems needful to a full and impartial I knowledge by the general public, but o of Democrats, who are so earnestly, especially by the mass of Democrats, I: who are so earnestly seeking a leader in the coming contest. -(Signed) "Henry Watterson." ALL IS NOT GOLD THAT GLITTERS. For Instance, Rhymers Are Not Al ways Poets, And So Forth. The exchange editor was glancing through various newspapers the other day and came across an alleged poem, of which the following is the first verse: f "As I sat by the window musing, And thinking of the past I know, I glanced out suddenly to see, The beautiful, fast falling snow." It set the exchange editor to think ing. The newspapers, from time to time, have lots of that same sort of abominable stuff in them, from people who imagine themselves poets because they can make words rhyme, when there is absolutely no reason what ever in the socalled rhyme. Because a person can jingle words out of tune is no sign that he or she is a poet.: Poets are born, not made. Like a doc tor, if it was not born in him to be a doctor he will be a miserable fail ure in that line. So with a preacher, and a lawyer, etc. They may practice and preach and speak, but they are no doctors or preachers or lawyers. All the great, real poets were born poets, natural barn poets, poetry flow-1 ing from their pens as easily and elo quently as periods from the mouths of gifted orators. It is in them, a part of their very being. The doggerel above quoted is very far from being poetry, It wasn't born in the author to -be a poet. The exchange editor of The Herald and News could spin out. columns of stuff like this, for instance The night was dark when the clouds came out And so cold that ice formed in the spout, but 'he wouldn't take it to be poetry,! not more than the "I glanced out suddenly to see The b.eautiful, fast falling snow.'' The sentiment is all right. Tiere was nothing wrong V sitting by the window musing and thinking of the past. And it was natural to glance out suddenly to see the beautiful, fast falling snow. Lots of us did that same thing and enjoyed the sight, but no matter how high our thoughts or lofty our aspirations were, or how we would like to express the enchantment of the scene made by the beautViul, fast falling snow, if poetry was tw~ born in any of us there was no use i trying to manufacture it, becaus it can not bec manufactured. The wo man who wrote, "Once I was pure as the snow, but I fell," had poety in her heart and soul; not withstanding the sin that blacker'ed her life. Library Association. The Library association will meet in the library rooms Monday after noon at 4.30. A full attendance is de sired as business of importance will be tidnsacted. A hearty invitation is extended to all who are interested 10 NEWS OF PROSPERITY. Iee in- of Literary Sorosis-Death of 3lrs. Marv F. Griffin-Personal Mention. Prosperity, Jan. 1S.-Miss Nannie S) 3impson has returned to Greenwood, Lfter spending several days with Mrs. Eno. Crosson. Miss Annie Mae Bedenbaugh, of Kiblers Bridge, is the guest of the Visses Werts. Mr. Jno. Pat Wise has returned to To 3idgeland, after spending a short vhile with the home folks. t Misses Addie and Ellen Werts spent as *he week-end at Ninety Six, the gue3 ed >f Miss Julia Matthews. thi Mr. Ira Nates, of Columbia, is visit- yo ng his father, Mr. A. A. Nates. inc Mrs. W. A. Moseley has returned of rom Jacksonville, Fla. ' ho Miss Julia Schumpert spent Wed- ho iesday"in Columbia. .ux Mrs. G. B. Maffett is visiting in de Leesville. tio Mrs. W. P. Blanton, of Orangeburg, co s visiting her sister, Mrs. J. P. Bow- a lai ;rs. Mrs. Nannie Wheeler has returned ate rom Newberry, where she has been n visiting her daughter, Mrs. H. H. Rik- br rd. fo Dr. Willie Crosson has returned to en [eesville, after a visit to his brother, ch qr. Jno. Crosson. of The annual congregational meeting th Af Grace church will be held next an sunday. th The following program will be ren- su lered Friday afternoon at which time ar the Literary Sorosis will meet with bu liss Hattie Groseclose. m( History of Early Arts-Miss Bessie be Bowers. Ch Legend, St. Chrepastom-Mrs. pr Wheeler. ha Interpretation, Gui do Rein's "Aur.. go )ra"-Mrs. Leslie. ha Legend-St. Michael-Miss Thomp- y on. Lesson-"Antiquify" Club - Miss I - Langford. Current Events-Mrs. Harmon. Miss Rona E. Shauer, of Missouri, the National organizer and lectirer, will lecture in the city hall at 7.30 H fonday, January 22, under the auspic ss of W. C. T. U. Mrs. Mary E. Griffin died SaturdayM at eleven o'clock a. in. at her home inm Brown street. For one year the de ,eased 'has been -in ill health, but OC luring all of her pains :she was hap-hi py, bearing her pains in silence. ~l Mrs. Griffin was seventy-six years H >f age. For over fifty years she has ne been connected with the church: Her pastor, Dr. Kinard, at Colony at 2.30 er a Sunday amid the beautiful scene Ti >f snow and ice paid the last respects Gi : his beloradc member. The words of th the preacher were very comforting, S nany comparisons of the life of Mrs. Ti riffin being made to the pure white w snow then upon the ground. su Mrs. Griffin was the wife of Mr. to eo. P. Griffin, and is survived by her, di: .usband, one daughter, Mrs. Jno. mi Crosson and many friends. ha For Attorney General. Gi F~ort Mill Times. G Attorney G.eneral J. Fraser Lyon1to will not, it now appears, have as easY;s sailing in his campaign for re-election g next fall as he had two. years ago, a when he was without opposition. Al- Es ready two -candidates to oppose Mr. Lyon have b,een announced. Thesse' are H. H. Evans, of Newberry, whoth announced some days ago that he would s-tand for the office, and now d comes Thos. H. Peoples, of Bar.nwell, in who has also given out the informa- .O tion that he will stand for attorney in general. WOUldl He Blow it Up .sa affney Ledger. co Hub Evans has announced that he tea will be a candidate this year for the clh position of attorney general'. Hub is Co >ne of the biggest, hearted fellows in sa the world but has no more business pr in the attorney general':; office than nil a monkey has inl a powder house with e.r a red hot poker.bl Pension Notice. Itei I will be in the auditor's office each an aturday in January to prepare pen- no sion, applica.tionls. - yvs:nn Cco:iss;inr 'lili 4anagergof Ladi Appeals to Cou te Asks That Outside Do Be Provided With L( Closed and I Board of County Commissioner: ewberry, S. C. .entlemen: By virtue of your offic county officials and authority ves1 in you by the voice of the people c s county, to have and to hold i ar keeping, their right in safeguarc and special care of all propert: a public character, viz: new coul use, jail, county home, old coul use, or other property. under you isdiction, in town or county, ,m it necessary to call your atter n to existing conditions in the of irt house. For years it has bee place of "noxious dessuetude," tb r of tigers and den of vile degenei s, who seek within its corridors a ,ht what they wish to destroy, an ng their liquors through open dool midnight orgies, leaving man Lpty bottles. As evidence of the' iracter, this crew evade the eyE decent people and police by wa3 Lt are dark and tricks that are mea d contemptible, and if caught i ,ir dirty work should be made i Eer the full penalty of law. As yc a aware, I have established in th ilding a ladies' rest room for w< m and children. Hundreds ha en visitors and from Atlanta i arleston appreciation is felt and ei essed by voice and pen to all w1 ye so generously responded to th od cause and your honorabl"a bod s received a full share of praise f: ur aid in this work for the woie HY LEE WENT TO WHITE HOUS Interesting Reminiscence Fro Editor lcKelway. Lrford Courant. Porty-three years ago Dr. St. Cla Kelway was watching eventsi shington, D C., for the New Yor rld and Brookiyr. Eagle. An evei urred which he did ny report dispatches, and wnich has not g' o the histor: books or biographie now tells of 2 n. his Brookly wspaper. Virginia was about to eleeit a gc* aor under the Reconstruction a2 .e conservative candidate was Cc lbert C. Walker, a Union s)ieC] Republican candidate was ti ate's military governor, H. H. Well t conservatives feared that Wel >uld use the troops "in a way to a: re his own election.'' It occurrE Mfs. Myra Gaines, widow of tU stinguished major general, that ght be a great thing for Virginiai e the situation explained acros bable by Robert E. Lee to Ulysses ant. She gave McKelway a letter 1 n. Lee, and he set out for Georg< sn (where the general was the journing) on his errand. It was nday, he remembers, and-an uncon )ly stormy .one. He says in h .gle story: 'The general had the correspon<( tis orse and carriage takent a stable and himself spent the who: y with the correspondent, questiol ;him closely about Northern Opil i and answering the correspondent luiries with fullness and cando er a period of time so long as the tich has elapsed since the convel Lon between the general and tt rrespondent, the memory of the la -concernilg impressions is moi ar than concerning details. Th r'respondent can say that he neve wv a man m're cornmanding and in assive in appearance or more dig ied yet natural in mann'er than Rol ;E. Lee. Nor did he ever see a ma Lose bodily and intellectual resen tnce to Gen. Washington, as the la h as been suggested by historiar d artists, was more striking. N tes, of course, were taken of whi n. Lee said at the time, but the e it of the personality of the generi -sel h.s ue--' ian lost, andi es' Rest Room nty Commissioners Drs to the Old Court House )cks and That They be ocked at Night. of your county. The manager is pain ed beyond expression to see the de e struction of gifts to the county, not to herself, torn and destroyed by van f dals of the night, who are not seen n during the day and have the picture .. show as excuse for their night escap r, ades. For this reason and others, we -t earnestly hope that public sentiment t may be aroused and civic pride in this r city assert its right that the old court I house shall no longer be a den for men who aid and abet lawlessness, inde d cency, and vice by bringing to this n place liquor under any circumstances. e And, gentlemen, in the name of in nocent children and pure women, and t last but not least, common sense, let d this petition for good locks and keys s on outside doors be granted at once. y If this is done it will be easy for our .r new chief of police to stop this out s rageous conduct. Let your supervisor s require that all doors on outside en n trance be locked by his tenants, and n he or she held responsible for damage, .0 if not done. The gentlemen doing busi u ness are agents of 'real estate, life is insurance, and magistrate; all- legiti - mate callings that close with the day, ee and will certainly not 'object to a con ,o dition which is strictly business in - every civilized corner of the land and .o must be done if you expect law, or is der or decency in this building, and if ,y not, why not? Mrs. M. B. Evan, n Manager Ladies' Rest Rocm. E made only stronger by the flight. of years." n On his return McKelway was able to report that Gcn. Lee would be glad to go- to the White House on the mis sion suggested. President Grant saii he would be glad to see him; through the secretary of war, Gen. Hawlins, he invited him to the White House. Lee it asked and got leave to take Gen. Jubal E. Early and Ex-Senator R. M. T. t Hunter along, Grant and Lee had not seen each other since Appomattox. The three Virginians put the situa - tion in their State before the presi dent, and told him that all they ask ed for was a fair election. He said t they should have it. "He~ gave and -enforced that promise," says McKel way. "Wells was defeated and Walk eer was elected. Virginia's resumption s of elective government was prosper .ously and peacefully effected under Walker's four-year governorship. The dState escaped the worse conditions e that had befallen Florida, South Caro it lina, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, o Alabam and Texas, anid which a peace s peaceful revolution within the Union -was required to throw off." oThe fact that the three Virginians had called at the White House got to nthe papers, but no hint of what tooki athem there, or of the promise they took away with them. Both Grant sand Lee asked McKelway to keep mum, and, of course, he did so He - thinks that "the lapse of time and the 0 course of history" justify him in now .e tellingp the story. He feels sure that * t- it will be news :o Dr. ThomnaE Nelson SPage~, Lee's latet biographs. rWill be There~. t Editor Birchmore, of the Wateree ~ Messenger, seems to be something of e a farmer. We notice where he killed ~a porker weighing 413 pounds and we ee have .not .received any sausage and e pudding either.-Newberry Herald :rand News. Our brother will really have to ex cuse us this time. But.since we come 'to think of it he has a standing invita n tion to our home, and when he found Sout that we were luxuriat rag on sau - sage, backbone and spare ribs, Broth ser Aull should hav'e hit the first train 0 for Camden. We will expect you next I Now is the time to subscribe to s The Herald and News.