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Friday. jar>0#r/ m j^ii. W. D. GK1ST REFUSES TO t Sl'PPOKT QtiA&T Oi PINT t Columbia. Jan. 6.?"I am not com- a promising with anybody or anything ^ on a basis 01 a quart a month, cr a;' pint a montn, or a ar.nk. a inonin, ana j 1 am not tying up with any pany-*-2 that tries to compiomise," says Mi.'j A W. D. Grist, editor of tne \orkvi4.oi * Enquirer, to Mr. J. K. Breedin, sup.x-,,' intendent of tne anti-saioon league, 1.1 j ~ repiy to a letter from Mr. Breedi-,!' urging Mr. Grist to "come out strong-1 * ly eaitonally" in favor or' "a redu*:-j J tion to a quait, wnn ^iie*ai tignt-j*' t^'ng of loose places." "1 hase not liked the way the anti- i - i e saloon league lias conducted lisen m j politics,' says Mr. Grist. "It has1' seemed to assume that fighting Bleaso a was fighting liquor." A striking sentence in Mr. Grisi'si letter is tnat "nght today Cole Biease is a better prohioitiomst than Richard j r I. Manning," and that "tne prolnbi- j ? tion laws w\re better enforced in J "ioik county daring nis administration u than during tne aiimmisiration of any j j1 previous governor within my recoi-j ] lection, which goes back to Daniel Chamberlain." I 1 | s Mr. Grist has occasionally supported i prohibition in the columns of his pa- j f per, the Yorkville Enquirer, one of tiie " leading newspapers not only of SoUin' 1 Carolina, but a nwspaper which at- J 0 tracts attention throughout the coun-! try on account ot us real merit, mo letter to Mr. Breedin, just-on the eve of the session of the general assembly in view of the liquor discussion which will engage a considerable part of the time of that body, will be read witn j gp>n?ral interest througout the State.' iue correspondence is as follows: I T. K. Breedin's Letter. ""Mr. ivY'. D. Grist, York, S. C. "My Dear Mr. Grist: "The flood of liquors of the Christ- j mas week has so disgusted every one * that we have our best opportunity j y to strike for either absolute prohibi-1 0 tion or a drastic reduction, l tnms a reduction to a quart, with general tightening of loose places, about as j far as may be expedient. oSme who ; are willing for that are willing to concede three gallons of beer. I think, that a dangerous concession. "This is not a beer drinking State, i and I think the result would be to I make beer popular and respectable' and to promote beer parties at every I crossroads. | "Please come out strongly editor-j ially in the next two issues and ttie j cumulative effect will accomplish much. "Cordiallv yours, "J. K. BREEDINV ? The Answer. Mr. Grist's reply is as follows: "Mr. J. K. Breedin, Superintendent Anti-Saloon League, Columbia, S. C. j "Dear Sir: "I have your letter of the 28th. "I am for prohibition first, last and all the time; but I am a fre? lance cn this subject as on most other ques-1 tions. ""I liave never been in touch with the 1 ^ anti-saloon league, or affiliated with v it in any way. i i "My reasons are like this: Whether 1 am a newspaper man or not, I have p no desire to be a-/*thing else, and the idea that any kind of an organization r or even individual should assume to i suggest my editorial conduct is posi- ^ tively unthinkable. My gospel is that p a newspaper should be the freest thing 2 on earth, and I try to live up to that gospel. "When Howard ^Carlisle introduced the gallon-a-month bill, something told me (editorial intuition,) that the v idea had its origin with the mail order t] liquo~ houses, and although I have no tl proof it would take popir ?tv0n^ 0 sworn testimony to prove otherwise. J b To me. any kind of a concession n to either liauor or the liquor inter- g est is unthinkable?worse than that it e is?-well. I won't say. I ci "I have not liked the way the antl-; b saloon league has conducted itself In;^ r./iHtir-o | tl ""It has looked to me like It ha3;a stood more for the old so-called con-! servative crowd than it has for pro-, hibition. It has seemed to assume that fighting Blease was fighting liquor, g and it seems to try to line the prohi- tl bitionists up against Blease on that theory. ! o "I have made as much sacrifices for c prohibition as any man in South Car- n oline. The Enquirer once was des-, c troyed by an incendiary nre m lssy u because of our opposition to liquor. ; a "T have been thugged and almost c killed because of enemies crowing In- {ti directly out of the same thing j ? "I am everlastingly keeping my ryes t skinned, even now, on the lookout for <1 former tigers and prescription-selling c doctors who hate me because I will j not allow th m to become respectable, in the wealth they have acr^nulated. t through violation of the liquor laws, a "Right today. Cole Blease is a bet- ] 1 ter prohibitionist than Richard I. Man- t ning. Blease has never professed to c be a prohibitionist; but the prohibi-; t tion laws were better enforced in York t HnTMnor bie art ministration than 1 during the administration of any pre vious governor, within my recollec MBS, CUYTOH'S LETTER To Eun-Down, Nervous Women j Louisville, Ky.?"I was a nervoa* wreck, and in a weak, run-down con dition when a friend asked me to try t sn_ and as a result I have gained in health and strength. I think Vinol is the best medicine in the world for a nervous, weak, run-do'sysf->ir and for elderly people."?Mrs, W. C Clayton, Louisville, Kv. Vinol, which contains beef and cod liver peptones, iron and manganese peptonates, and glycerophosphates, is guaranteed to overcome all run down, weak, devitalized condition#. Gilder & Weeks, Druggists, New berry, S. C. ion. which goes back to Daniel Chain >erlain. "Yorkville ha? been prohibition nice ihsl, and the fight of th,.- hu fuller biiico i..at time, has been ^ .tcure eiiforceu-ent o* the laws. "Absolutely aaa uuiiestionably thi tro*.ge^t a.iu best frienu of in i. , , niiina. is tne To . islat . i i ciiiemuer full well u.cii it used 10 hgnt opeiily for u-s u..o'.', una wn:ie it now allows people u uua-j otnerwise, it is ai strong.v sji as it has i-ver been. .\<k lily tuat, through gallon-a-monch tiv.s anj tiie iiive, ;t is a.j?e to tlv> ruore or liquor it has ever done before. "The Columbia State and its crowd lecited jtileas- in 11)10. because they ^ould not support Feathersrone gainst McLeod, a liquor man. IJlease is Straight. "And since lyiu, 1 have learned to now Bieas^ better than 1 did before, ie's no saint; but he is as ? mo ?\ >->1 lrrir>Mr in Tivh^tP ife, and he is what he is in that te will not pretend to be one thing nd be something elbe. And whetlu;/ ie stands fcr prohibition or not, ;e will enforce the laws as In finds hem and as the people think tney hculd be enforced. "There are thousands of prohibi oinists in South Carolina who vote or Blease in preference to anybocty n the 'conservative side.' "The conservative liquor crowd lected Blease in 1910; but I am here r> sav that it was the reform prohi >ition crowd that elected Bleasj In 912, and against the conservative h uor crowd at that. "No, sir, I am not compromising i'ith anybody or anything on a basis f a quart a month, or a pint a month, r drink a month, and I am not tying p with any party that tries to got , compromise. "The man who talks 'quart-a-month' 3 just like the fellow who comes to rwii TT-Hor> Vi o I'nn'.ro vr?ir hflVP ?WOfM ff and tries to. tempt you with an ther drink on the ground that just ne drink will not hurt anybody. "And it is sorry prohibitionists ndeed who will allow themselves to e fooled by any such thin expedient. "I am very truly, W. D. GRIST." >'ew8 of Excelsior. (Written for last issue.) Excelsior, Jan. 8.?Mr. and Mrs. ames Seasp have been on a visit to /\l/% f /^nl HYViKl A v Mrs. J. M. Cook and little son, J. 1, of Birmingham, Ala., visited re atives in tiiis section during the holi ays. Mr. Dick Shealy had a good horse o get killed by the cannon ball train n Saturday night. Th? horse was etched, at Prosperity and got loose oing on the railroad track. We had fine rains Friday and the farm weather makes the grain look icely. Mr. Mike Kinard and brother. Rev. 'iere<-> Kinard of near \Mn-etv Six have >een on a visit to Mr. John Kibler if Kibler's bridge. Sorry to learn rlr. Kibler is confined to his room ery sick. Rev. Kinard preached in he school house here Sunday after oon to a large congregation of peo le. The Rev. W. R. Anderson of Lau ens spent a few days in this sec ion last week and preached a few imes in the school house for us. Our; eople are always glad to see him nd hear him preach. rasket Ball. (Written for last issue.) Newberry college basket ball season rill open Friday, January 12, whrn he fast Newberry quin. t will meet :ie iWofford team. Wofford has four f 'her last year men and while New erry has only two old men. the new laterial is showing up well, and this ame promises to be one of the fast st and best of the season. On acr ount of the minstrel the game will e called at 7 o'clock. Admission 25c. l balcony has been extended around he building which will accomodate t least 200 more people. "The Heir to tlie Hoorah" No story of the west has had a reater success in its dramatized form ban "The Heir to the Hoorah." Three Western mining men, joint wn?rs of' a great mining property, onceive the curious idea that there lust be an heir to the mine which is ailed "The Hoorah.,r~ They are all aehe!ors and ?h<> idea of marriatrd ppeals to none of them. Lots are ast and the youngest one is chosen o marry. He is taken to many piaces diere choice could b> made of a wire, ?ut finds no one io s-uit his fancy, t so happen that an Eastern so ciety girl arrives in t?io mining town ust when the youn-r fellow has giv in up his search. He is attracted iv the young woman who in turn is Attracted by the jfrealih of the miner, rhey marry, Kat the differences in heir stations assert themselves very luickly, the union proves a failure and ;ue nuguanu leaves ine wue. al er lie leaves a chi'd is born. Whe.i ie learns of that t*3ct he hastens bark ind the child brings about a happy un ierstanding and lasting happiness. Exaggerated. (Tit-Bits.) Among the benevolent letters, re cently received at the office o? a Denevolent society was one reading :hus: "This unfortunate young man is Lne only son or a wiaow wi'o aiea childless, and his earnings maintain lis aged father and infant brothers, whose sole support he is." The secretary of the society wrote on the margin of the epistle the fol lowing note: "The circumstances of the case are evidently exaggerated.'' RUB-MY-TISM?Antiseptic. Relieve* Rheumatism. Sprains, K^uralgia ?tc ( AST SINE Y0TE8 ALL DEMOCHATU Hall of Gaffney Presides and Byrd o Kujffticiu Acis as Secretarj. ! t The State. 9th. , The South Carolina ijreeidentia electors met in tii^ office of the secre tary of Siate at noon yesterday ant ca.t the nine votes wl.l. h the Palmett-: 6 aie has in the electoral college fo] I'v-jilrcw Wilson, for president, ant Thomas Riley Marshall, for vice pres ident of the United State. S. C. Car ter of Chest, r was chosen as messen ger and !>V. S. Hall of Gaffney, alter nate messenger, to take the vote tc Washington and deliver it to fhe pres id, nt of the senate. A copy of the ,'c.ords of the meeting was sent bj registered mail to Secretary Lansinc at Washington and another copy was aK,- rr-p-ufprpfl mail to Fedora' Judge H. A. M. Smith at Charleston. ! W. S. Hall of Gaft'ney was elccted j president of the South Carolina elee i toral coll. ge and W. A. Byrd of Edge i field, secretary. All nine of the elec i tors were present, to-wit: J R. Din j s;le of Summertown, \V. A. Byrd, oi Edgefield. H. L. Parr of Newb?rry ! R. tvV. Hamilton o? Jonesville, W. S 1 Hall of Gaffney, W. L. Kinney o! Blenheim, W. F. Caldwell of Colum bia. S. R. Mellichamp of Orangeburj and S. C. Carter of Chester. NEWBERRY AT THE TOP. i N Frsm State Superintendent Swearin gen's Keport. The need of industrial training ii ; brought o"t nnd a review is made 01 the agricultural teaching in the publi( j ?rhools, with th? ecommendatior ! that this should be done in consoiidat J ed rural schools.' "A growing niim i bfr of city and town schools and CUIISU1 JUaiCU i Ultll Otnuuia a.i e i i. u <r 1 - J taking industrial work for gir!?,' | says the report. Perhaps the beflt re sults have been secured in I^aurens ! Dillon, Newberry and Hampton conn ' ties. VISIT tFTHERiX WOMAN'S SECRETARY TO UNTIED SY\OE Condensed From Report in I utherai Chnrch Visitor. One of tlie richest treats of the con ference was meeting and hearing Mr Hajime Inadomi, of Japan, a student at Roanoke college, himself a result ol Lutheran mission work. Mr. Inadom: is a powerful speaker with a message of ringing challenge to Americar Christianity. Hp states the greai problem of the church is the awak ening of the religious nature in the youth of this country. "Do not for get Christ in life." Mr. Inadoni is s conclusive argument for foreign work and his plea for men and women and m-ans to bring not only Japan, but even America, "through. darkness tc light" is most telling. If .Japan can give us just one such reflex of powei and personal devotion, we can predicl with certainty the blessing she wi{; be to the world when evangelized. As in many of our forward move ments, the women of the United synod have taken tin- lead on Saturday, No vember 11, 1916. the first Lutheran Women's Students' conference was held in connection with the mission ary conference. It was an event ot great significance to have gathered delegates from four of the five Lu theran schools for women in the South, to discuss student opportuni ties and obligations. The meeting in charge of Miss Rosalyn Summer, ol Mont Amo;na seminary, opened witli a devotional period emphasizing the necessity of Divine guidance in the time of enthusiasm and youth. S:-v en-minute talks were given as fol lows: "Students in Missionary His tory." Miss Florence Strickler, Eliza beth college; "When the World Out look Op:ns Before the Student Eyes,' T r>,i ITormn 11Pcc* L duia UUlinaiu, .tiui ivii "Missionary Possibilities in Our Col leges," Ethel Setzer, Lenior college; "Making Mission Study Count in Col lege Life," and "Training for Ser vice." Rosalyn Summer, Mont Amoena seminary. "Goodnight Coras! We Use 'Bets-it!'" 4 3 Drops in 2 Seconds. That's AIL "GETS-IT" Dees the Best. Never Pails. "Really, I never could see how some few people use the most diffi cult and painful way they can find to get rid of corns. They'll wrap their toes up with bandages into a package that fills their shoes full of feet and makes corns so painful they've got to walk sideways and wrinkle tip their faces. Or they use sulves that, eat right into the toe and make it law and sore, or they'll use plasters that make the corns bulge, or pick and gouge at their corns and make i thetoesbleed. "FSinny.isn't it? "OETS IT" i.* the simple, modern wonder for corns. Just put 3 drops on. It dries instanMy. No pain, fuss or trouble. The ccn, cnllng or wnrt loosens and comesoiT. Millions use nothing elso." "GET.^-TT" is sold r'.nd recommend ed by druggists everywhere. 25c 3 bottle, or s*nt on re^oint of price, by I "R T^-nrr?nfp fr C.n.. f!h;ca?ro. 111. Sold in Newberry a.ud recommend? $ as the world's be6t <vvrn remedy b ' P. 12. Wju and W. G. X'ayes. .tILL >0T BUS FOR THE GOVERNORSHIP HcJLendon Will Accept no Political uiiice, Although Temptation i? fftr KIphkp and Against Wickedness. -! Bennettsville, Jan. 4.?The Amen SI can correspondent, having heard that > i quite a number of iniiuential gentle r I men in this State, leaders in the re I! form faction, as \\\ 11 as men of other j . aflijiations, for some time "had been, .; endeavoring to induce Evangelist B. F. .! McLendon to maKe liie race ior gov_ . j ernor next year, Mr. McLendon v/as j >!s.en yesteruay and interviewed re . | garding the rumors. i j it is known taat Mr. Mc-Lendon is a r! self-made man, that he was born and : i reared a poor Scotch boy, his father ;! for years was a tenant, and "Mack' is [ familiar with the "ups and downs" of { life, liard places, and is a sincere and I; profound sympathizer with the poor, | j i unforunate and destitute. Since his ' j 1 boyhood he has always taken a lively j j interest in politics, and before his cun- j i version his aid and influence was a 1 sought in this county by candidates } I and politicians. "Mack" could go out * n I into the country districts and round j c \ up more votes for his favorites than; p ' any other worker in this section. He f. r has always loved his friends and open-J e ' ly worked for them without fear or j { favor, but after his conversion and; B I call to the ministry he has not taken j an active part in politics. During the s past several years of bitter factional j . political controversies, when good " men lost their heads and their en-, ' thuiasm ran away with their judg s men, "Mack" remained conservative, f j but always openly voted for the men 5 of his choice. Since 1912 "Mack*' ha9 1 quietly but earnestly supported Hon. -; Cole L. Blease, which fact has brought him in disrepute with a certain ""high I er' element in his church?this and - nothing else. "Mack" says "that had *,he been an anti-Bleasite, fought -; Blease in the pulpit and out of it, and ,; been extreme and bitter against the -' ex-governair, that these same men, J wh?~ are endeavoring to injure his j influence, in this State, as an evan | gelist, would "pat him on the back > and endorse such a hypocritical atti | tudo." In reference to the runior . "that certain influences were being Drougnt to Dear, to induce mm to en-1 ter politics"?he answered, "Yes, that good men, strong men, from the IJied 'jinont, low country, in Columbia and ! elsewhere, for some time, have been j working hard on me to indudp me to [; make the race for either governor or li lieutenant governor in 1918." 'j He was asked if he had carefully J | considered the proposition and had he 'i determined upon his course of action. He replied: "Yes, I want you to say !ito the people of South Carolina, for Vme, through The Charleston Amer 1 ican, that the proposition eoming from so many and from such an influential i source. at nrst ticKiea my vanity, that , the prospect of becoming a great man i in .civil life, when I might, perhaps, i he of service to the poor people and i the State I love so well, was truly a i temptation. But God has called me i to preach his eternal word to a dy j ing and sin-cursed world, and that I i will not be a candidate for any poli-( i tical office, but will in the future do' | my utmost to storm the citadels of I sin and wickedness, and glorify my I Heavenly Father.*' : "Mack" is unalterably onnosed to :! the liquor traffic, and never loses an lj opportunity to do effective work in ^ j b: lia 1 f of temperance and prohibition. j . CHARLESTON LIJUOR BILL . [ \ Will Ask High License for Wines and [ j Beer. J Columbia, Jan. 9.?A constitutional . | r.m^ndment will be introduced in the .'House by Mr. Frombere to allow .{ Charleston to. regulate the sale of j . I Wilies ixnu uc.'i uy uicaus ui iiigu . license. The proposed amendment m as drawn would anplv to cities having ; a population of 40.000 or over. W. F. C. RE . The Colu, tion repres( Rural Rout u For Men, Woi time. If inte ,^e!ow at once The Coiumb Columl I am intei to know the lunibia Recoi Name LIEGE ACREAGE HAS BEEJi SOWN IS WHEi Washington, Jan. 1.?Commentii )n the report of the United Stat igricultural department on the ar )f winter wheat sown this year lompariscn with last ^ear, Preside Harrison of the Soutnern Rail*; :ompany, said: "1 he figures show a eratifvine tp tency in the direction of crop dlvt itication. In every Southern Sta except Kentucky and Tennessee, t' except KeKntucky and Tennessee, t. creage reported this year shows substantial increase over last yet Kentucky shows a decrease .and ti creage in Tennessee is the same '< ast year. The largest increases ai hown in Georgia. Alabama and Mi iissippi?States into which the cc on boll weevil has spread. Georg ,nd Alabama show increases of ' ier cent over last year, while Mi issippi, which has heretofore gro^ mie w iieai, snuws an increase i 57 per cent. "These increases in wheat are 1 ine with increases in oth^r croj nd with increasing the number ar mproving the quality of farm an nals in the south and show that tl Southern farms are making re; rogress in the way of producing, \ ar as possible, everything consun d on the farm and of having oth< hings besides cotton and tobacco f< ale.*' Subscribe to The Herald and New FOR I have for sale several before buying elsewhere anc Wagon, one 2-Horse Riding Cotton seed Planters, Reaper Food Chopper, Pea Thrashei plements. Will be sold at sa EM] single Rayo Lamp gives ligl for the whole room. MaJe in various styles, it is ; for all household purposes. It can be lighted without rem lamp-shade or chimney Easy to re-wick?easy to fill clean. Use Aladdin Security Oil economical kerosene oil?foi suits. STANDARD OIL CO! (New Jersey) BALTIMORE, MD. Washington, D. C Chsrlotfc Norfolk, Va. ' Chariest Richmond, Va Chariest WANTED RELIABLE PRESENTATI /5/?/\l*/7 Tl'Onffi n 1 ruutu lictvi UL \7aiit0 a J jntative in every Town e in South Carolina. NUSUAL 0PP0RTUN1 men, Boys or Girls dur Tested fill out and mi id f\cLUiu, Ma, S. C. *ested in your proposition a terms upon which 1 may repr -d. idress 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 > 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 20 SI 22 3* PRICE AND BON'ELLIS T GEiMTElt MINSTRELS g I Mr. Wells, the manager of the New 'is berry Opera House, begs leave to aa a nounce that he has booked the Great n ?r New York Minstrels for his thea t tre, for the evening of Friday, Jaa UCLi V ii,, ? I | Conceded by press and public to bo p-" ! the most pretentious of all minetrel r" ; shows entour this season, this meri i torious company numbers thirty ar :G tists and includes the best talent avail 110 able in Europe and America, travel :t ing in their own special Pullman car. ir- "A Jockies Dream," a minstrel fan le , tassy in one act, and twelve scene3 ls has been chosen as the vehicle upon re j which to ride to popular favor in the s" : first part, and when -placed in the )l" i capable hands of such clever come ia H.anu Wldifi Fwnlrl Jim RonellL ^ ( A1 Russell, and Jim Duffy proved to s" i be a derby winner indeed. rn [ Eight up to the minute vaudeville ?' acts comprise the olio and include Rex and Renfrew, musicians of note. 'n | Keterson Brothers, a Terpschoristn >s i act, who are originators of the broad 'd ] wy ToDeLo, are a duo of high step ;l~i pers. Mr. Lefan and Mr. McGhee, the ie worlds greatest yodler, and tenor sin , ger, are a team of silver throated 13, 6ingers, second to none. i A parade will be in order at twelve 3r i noon, with a band concert at 7:3$ JL | p. m. on me auove ua.ie. music iui the show is furnished hy their owl I select orchestra. Seats on sale at * Gilder and Weeks. : SALE good Mules. Sec these Mules I save money. Also one 2-Horse Cultivator. Guano Distributors and Binder, Black Smith Outfit r, and many other Farming Im crificmg prices. See me at once. Evans. ?and a it enough adaptable VES live subscrip , v;n Q rr/3 o -r\ r} L) * mage ciiAia [TY ing your spare iil the Coupon nd would like esent The Co 19 20