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Ia grala and pm E. H. AULL, EDrrOS. The session of Conference yester day was taken up with the consid eration of the Columbia Female College question. The story of the debate is told in another column. The discussion was animated, but in the best of spirit and feeling throughout. Every speaker seemed to place the interests of the college above every other consideration. This is as it should have been. The vote on the question of removal was closer than we thought it would have been, but the friends of Lau rens and Greenwood, after the de cision went against them by the declaration to remain in Columbia, acted broadly and moved to make the vote unanimous, which was done. The Conference acted wisely in deciding to leave the college in Columbia. There are many advan tages in Columbia for a school of this kind which could not have been enjoyed at any other place in the South. In addition to this Columbia is growing very rapidly, and we be lieve there is no city in the South with as bright future before it as Columbia. We believe there is no other place where the college will do as well as in Columbia. That is the way it looks to us, and we have no personal interest in it one way or the other. The Methodists and the people of Columbia will have to show their appreciation of the act of Confer ence by rallying to the support of the institution as they have never done before, and then the rest of the State will fall in line and an era of prosperity will dawn upon the college such as it has never known. New and additional build ings are needed, and there should be more ground, and this we have no doubt can be easily obtained. MORB LIGHT. It is a great pity that when our electric light plant was put in we did not contemplate the growth and development of the town. -~/ The town has grown and now the -plant is overloaded, and yet there are sections of the town that have no lights at all. In West End there is urgent need of some lights and we hear complaints from Brooklyn in re gard to the poor lights in that part of the city. Something will have to be done. Either we will have to enlarge the -plant so as to-light the city as it should be, or we will have to put up some oil lamps. There should also be more light around both de pots. There are night trains com ing in now from which we get many passengers. - '- Then the incandescent plant is overloaded too. Something will have to be dome. We understand that about a year ago there was a proposition by which we could ex change our dynamos for larger ones without so great an outlay. Why not do it? We need more light in some sections of the city. The Newberry Herald and New is being issued daily during the sessions of the Methodist Confer ence this week. Newberry ougbt to have a daily paper all the time. -Spartanburg Journal. The Newberry Herald and News is issuing a daily edition during the session of the South Carolina Conference. The Daily Herald and News is so bright and reada ble that we wish it would become a permanent fixture -Anderson Daily Mail. These brethren are. very kind in their comments ann xt is some com pensation for the labor we are giv ing the Methodists. It is a pleas ure to us to 4o the work and we believe the effort is appreciated by the Conference. We would like to have a daily in Newberry and if the merchants would give us the advertising pat ronage we would have one. But do you know we have some large merchants in Newberry who never advertise and so far as they are concerned the town could go with out any paper at all. We have some live and progressivi mer chants. At a nominal rate we got the ad. which are in the Daily we are now issuing and yet some of the merchants even refused to give any business to this enterprise. The you know that we get the Columbia and Charleston papers at 8:4o in the morning and a daily here would have to be almost en tirely local. We admire the pluck and enter prise of the citizens of Greenwood and Laurens in their efforts to se cure the location of the Columbia Female College in their midst. They made a good fight and if the Conference had decided to move one or the other of these towns would have secured the prize. The effort will do these towns good It has brought the business men to gether with a single purpose and that purpose the good ofthe whole community without the direct ben efit to any individual.Efforts which do that cannot help but be bene ficial to the community. We wish we could get some enterprise up in New berry which had for its pur pose the general welfare and could then get our people aroused. We want to get rid of some of the business as well as the personal selfishness of the community. We wonder if any body in town is kicking about the carnival we are to have and throwing cold water on it. As we are to hive it every merchant and business man and every other citizen should put his shoulder to the wheel to make it a success. Will they do it? We hope so. The Newberry Herald and News is now getting out a daily edition during the meeting of the Metho dist Conference at Newberry, which compares favorably with any daily edition in the State. Why not con tinue it contemporary.-Woodruff News and Review. Thank you. We can't continue because the Conference doesn't con tinue and for the additional reason that it doesn't pay. Mr. D. H. Russell retires from the editorial management of the Daily Mail. This is a distinct loss to journalism. Mr. Russell is a strong and vigorous writer with the courage of his~ convictions. He is succeeded, by Mr. A. M. Carpen ter, who has had considerable newspaper experience. . MISSIONS. What the Conference Does for Foreign and Domestic Missions. The missionary work of the Con ferenice will be discussed tonight at which time addresses will be deliv ered by Rev. J. M. Lander, a mis sionary to Brazil, and Dr. C. L. Reid, a missionary to Corea. In this connection it will be inter esting to know what the Conference is doing for missions. The follow ing report of the treasurer, Rev. W. I. Herbert, shows what is contrib uted. FORZIGN MISSIONS. Rec'd on assessments .. .$i 1,439.42 Paid J. D. Hamilton, treasurer. ... .. . . . ,439.42 DOMESTIC MISSIONS. Rec'd on assessments ... .$13,924.94 Balance from last year. . 46.57 From Legal Conference. 200.00 $13,171-51 Paid office expenses . $2.20 Paid Domes tic m is sionaries. . r 3r I r75-$13, 1 r3-75 Balance........ .. --- $5776 The Wilson-Frye Co. This excellent attraction will ap pear at the opera honse next Wed nesday evening under the auspicies f the Bachelor Maids. In speak ing of the above attraction the management says: In Miss Wilson we secure not merely a remarkably successful and strikingly original artist, whio has ever traveled away from the beaten paths of entertainment, but a breezy little woman, full of sparkle, business, and ideas, as clever a writer as she is an artist, being au thor of almost all the material used n her programs, and an educated ittle woman as well,,being a Uni versity graduate and Master of. Arts, and thus bringing to her work a cultivated mentality and the highest moral purposes. In Mr. Frye we have an "artist born, not made," a keen and sym pathetic student of human nature, marvelous mimic, and a Master n Dialects. Before the public, as in private life, one of those quaint, odest, magnetic, charming per >onalities one always admires and ever forgets. Had his lines been an the stage instead of the Lyceum ie would today have been a second I 1l Smith Russell. t l - DR. DuBOSE ON THE EPWORTH LEAGUE. Concluded from first page. the Church, the result of the en largement of character and sympa thy, growing out of the fact that there has been greater training, and out of the further fact that this training begins at the cradle time, enabling men to give all the years of their life in intelligent service. It was out of this thought that the Epworth League grew. By some it was called a fad of the last cen tury. Some who thought that the plans of the fathers, preaching twice on the Sabbath and holding forth once upon the week in prayer meeting, and riding the Circuit, were good enough. But this was not enough. Nor was the Sunday School enough. Some means must be used that will be of effect every day of the week and every hour of the day. Man has a social side as well as a spiritual side, and an in tellectual side as well as a social and spiritual - side, and the Church must be projected upon life every hour of the day and every minute of the hour. The Epworth League was a device looking towards this end. Every day is heard some one say that man has a soul to save. It is not true. Man is a soul, a living soul, from his finger tips to the cuticles on the palms of his feet, and to the tip of each hair of his head. The problem confronting the Church today was the 3,000,000, tender children, boys and girls, who .are directly under the guid ance of the 6,ooo pastors of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. What have you done with them, you who do not use our League, you who listen not to our plan, you who take not our little paper? What are all of you going to do with them? Tihat is the problem, intensified by the fact that it must be met at once. Angels do not come any more out of Paradise to bring bread for those who are hun gry and water for those who are athirst, nor does the arch angel fly across the vaulted heavens to preach the gospel to the earth. No, the gospel goes two-foot d, tramp, tramp, tramp, with the visage of a Baptist or Methodist minister. We must care for these children. That is one phase of the problem. The other phase is that we must do it now, or the time will pass away forever. The average life of an Epworth League member is about three years, and during those three frightful years this work must be done. That is the problem, and when you solve that problem you have solved all the problems of the C'2rch. rhose brought in childhood never give us care or worry or woe. Those that have kissed and cussed and lied have wasted most of their gol den years and so have little when they come to lay down their lives at the feet of Christ. That is the law by which we must reach for eign missions and every other Church work. Our work is to get the children with the golden years of their lives still before them. He described the Epworth League life, the life that sanctifies and sweetens-fair blossoms of May among the almond blossoms of age, that give promise of only greater fruitfulness. If anybody tells you that the Epworth League is a place for courting, don't deny it. But if he says it is a bad thing, crucify him, kill him, bury him fourteen feet deep in the earth, put a stone weighing five tons upon his grave and leave him to his fate. The Ep worth League husband is a good thing, Epworth League wives are good for the young men, and Ep worth League courting is a good thing. He knew from experience A wise pastor will organize his congregation. He does not find time to reach each individual, and there is a little black book which says he must instruct the children. What ought *he to do? WVhy, or ganize the boys and girls into groups and -visit the groups, and these groups are Epworth Leagues, no matter what they are called. Soon the pastor will be called upon to marry a couple of these Marys and Joannas and Johns. And they will become teachers and after iwhile presidents and vice-presi lents of these Epworth Leagues. Life is made up of little things, ere a little, there a little. Some imes the Epworth Lagune may not last for more than a year, but in that time the destiny of an im mortal life may have been decided. The greatest difficulties the Board found in their work were the two classes of pastors, the one which considered the Epwot th League so trivial that it was not worth his time, and the other who considered it as complicated as the sphinx. No life is pure, brave or strong that does not pray. The Epworth League gathers the young people together for prayer. There are some who go into it because people die sometimes and when people die it is well to be religious, and they think this is an easy way of being religi ous. They find the old-fashioned method of prayer, and they soon drop off. God be praised that these are few, that most of those in the work are the whelps of lions. The speaker, in his inimitable manner, told a story illustrating the power of prayer. In the Epworth League prayer and the books have met. The speaker had heard some pas tors say they had no Epworth League, but they had a prayer meeting. If they have a prayer meeting they have an Epworth League. What is an Epworth League but a prayer meeting? What is the universe but a prayer meeting? What will be that great army gathered.out of every nation and country and tongue, at the gates of heaven waiting one evening till the morning break, that they may enter in? What will it be? Noth ing but a pr.ayer meeting. And that great host within the gates throughout all eternity? What will it be? Nothing but a prayer meet ing. For they cry, saying, "Halle lujah, hallelujah, the Lord God forever reigneth." But to pray and to stop is to mock. The world prays too much now after a fashion. It prays now and the amen reaches from one prayer to the other. The truth is most of our prayers ought to begin with the amen. Between prayers ought to come the working days of our life, doing that which we pray to come to pass. What the young people need now is books put into their hands and someone to see that they read them. They that bury their faces in the fragrant pages of the Old Book will drink deep t;he water of life. It is the making of destiny. They will see the mysteries of God and the awful things that lie behind his throne. Good books, not the trashy romances of these latter days. This kind of books the Epworth League seeks to provide. He concluded with stating his purpose in being here to enlist every preacher in the movement. After prayer in behalf of Rev. T. G. Herbert, led by Dr. 0. A. Darby, the congregation was dis missed with the benediction. QUEEN QUALITY SHOES! A New Lot of the Fa mons Shoes for Women Just Received. RenIIm ber that the Contest for $5000 GOL CLOSES DECEM'BER 31st. Every woman who buys a pair of Can compete for one of the One Hundred Cash Prizes. Remember also that it doesn't require "Literary" ability to compete. All yon have to do is to give the best reason why these Sboes are superior to all others. The First Prize is Thbere are 99 other Prizes. Why not try for a prize ?, Buy the Shoes. To be bad in Newberry only at Si. JAUESN'S The Em ;Po: A CLOTHING A cordial invit to all members THE GOI to call at Jam Emporium and play. It consisi for all occasion; of the best tailo and splendid fal ation always sei when it comes t and Jamieson the prices are a] Clothing he sellh A Shoce presents itself a and Jamieson c so well as to si stock he carries thing desirable and price. 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