E: l?b?ishe?" in 18-39. fkUiiiilted Three Times Each Week. 8ft? Tuesday, Thrwday and Saturday. Sn :er?. as second-class matter on ftuauitry ??? 1909, at. the post office at Oiangebnrjs, S. 0., under the Art *? Oongrtt* of March, 1879. Pas. 'L Si tos, Editor and Proprietor, ffss. Iahu Sims, - ? Publisher. iSubscription Bates. Date 'ffeai. ......... 81.50 fix Months. .75 tiros Months..49 Remittances should be made by reg ister* ?& le tter, check, money order or sspwss eider, payable to The Times , aa?i Denrtocrnt, Orangeburg, S. C How do you like these contributed tradbfi. . The people who want safe fac tories for garment workers must hand over more than 89 cents for a shin waist. Almlr il Togo is coming to Pan ama, and there is no doubt in our mind tlx:;!: he ineanB to carry the ca nal back to Japan. 'Tie (Mexicans may not fear our regular army, but if they saw the gold lac< ot the Georgia colonels they ?you id certainly run. Our Uroops are close up to the border, anxiously waiting: for the news thlit some Mexican has thrown a brick }at over the fence. Senator Bailey had better be get ting his Lorimer whitewash " ready again, as the Senate is bound'to re open tha case and sift it to the bot tom. Judge Brawley has made an able, clean judge, and we can wish the public- ao better luck than that his successor will be as good in all re spects aa he has been. Andrew Carnegie is reported to have Cropped considerable money lately. But he had to do something with it until he could persuade one moire to wn to take a library. Whea you buy goods in some dis tant city that could be had as well at hone, you miss the chance to make a business ally in your own town who sooner or later may be very useful. Mrs. Champ Clark is to be a so* cial lee der at Washington. We hope shf gets the government clerks to{ attend all her parties so as to re-J lieve t ie strain of their distressing i ovcrwo rk. After the New York fire horror buildirg codes will be advised ail over the country, but often the mo tive wi U be not to protect the factory workers, but to get protection from their v >tes. You can't dun people any more on a post card. Such duns never toother:-; debtors any, and as the cred itorslike it very much, it seems too bad to stop a practice that adds to human happiness. With Mr. Taft pulling up hill, a Democratic House breaking out a _new piktn cross lots, and conservative Senate hanging for dear life to the buBhe*. which way will the load go at the extra session? The magazines say they would be driven out of business by higher postage rates. Would it not be aw ful if we never found out whether Algercn Saphead won the love of Gonev'ove Softleigh? .Wit'l only 20,000 of our troops to pa rol the Mexican 1,200 mile frontier, th* Insurgents won't have to rur very fast. They may get only the ex sreise needed by persons of the leisur > class for good digestion. Republican party discipline is all upset. The school house door is Iockeci, the teacher deposited in the coal hole, and the pupils are trying to force their way each on their own hook into the melon patch. We could save embarrassment by publishing the spring poetry offered us, but if we did so, our years of labor to get the Pegasuses of this neighborhood lassooed and tied up in the barn would be thrown away. Democratic Senators who have xaessed in the miserable Lorimer bribery case, by voting to seat him, cughi. to be convinced by the last rev elations in the matter that it was case 3f mistaken confidence on their part The New York World says Mr. Bryan has been offered one million dollars by residents of Memphis, Tenn., if he would take up his resi dent; in that city and move his Com noni.r there. If IMr. Bryan declines, ?whicb it is said he will do, we want ?;hosr Memphis folks to understand we are open for a proposition, if the oeopie here would consent for us to consider it. We are entirely in the. hancis of our Orangeburg County frier, ds. Clarence S. Funk, General Man ager of the International Harvester Company, Wednesday before the state senate bribery investigating commit tee, at Springfield, Illinois, exploded the biggest sensation of the Lorimer bribery case. He testified that Ed ward Hines, of Chicago, millionaire lumberman, asked him as manager of the Harvester company to contrib ute $10,000 to reimburse certain men who had put up a $100,000 "slush fund" to elect William Lorimer to the United States Senate. Now what do you think of that? A Wise Policy . Officials of the Southern Railway announce when a wreck or ac cident occurs on any of their lines complete and accurate information will be furnished the newspapers without question and without quab ble. The Augusta Chronicle thinks "the decision is a wise ?,ne, and the road will lnd, as others following that policy have found, that nt will benefit in the end. "Much of the prejudices against railroads which has been capitalized by a certain type of politician is due to the old-time mistaken policy ol! exclusiveness and lack of confidence towards the ?public on the part of the corporations.' A railroad is a quasi public institution! The public is in terested, and has a right to know, about any important occurrence con nected therewith. "Until a few years ago, every rail road In the country maintained a :rul? of secrecy with regard to matters of public inteest that would have shamed trie officers of the Czar of Russia. When ?wrecks occurred, those with all available correct information gave corect imitations of the calami ty when the newsgatherers went around. The result was that a re porter assigned to a wreck always; got a "story" from somewhere or some how, but it was usually inaccurate, exaggerated and nine times out ot ten unduly harmful tc the fallroad. But the newsgetter was not to blame; for in many instances wrecks oc curred at inaccessible points or es sential details could be obtained only from the management of the road. "But the policy announced by the Southern is only one step in a direc tion that many should be taken by the managers of railroad properties. They ohould take their patrons into their confidence, and be perfectly frank with them regarding rates, schedules and all other matters re lating to service. They should have nothing to conceal, and therefore should hide nothing. Let the public understand about the operations of a railroad, and in a majority of cases It wrill be convinced thf.t it is operated honestly. Knowing this, the ear of the voter will not be attuned to the screachy voice appealing to anti-rail road prejudices^-prejudices which con be overcome as to the body of the people by candor and open dealing." Keep Good Towns Down. The Augusta Chronicle says hun dreds of good towns l ave been kept in the village classification and de nied their proper growth by factional strife and personal animosities. Ab an example of what *i means by the above the Chronicle says they are now trying to pass a bond Issue in Colquitt, Miller county. We know nothing of the proposition. It may be good or it may be bad, but the issue seems to have been forgotten in the factional bitterness engendered by its discussion. Ar. exponent up holding the bond issua writes a col umn long card to the local paper, from which we extract the following: Right here I dispute ever being an associate of yours during any ? period of my life. No connections whatever with you except imagi nary objects from your muiclple vision. I find you still suffering from illusions. Take the safe remedy from your old family physician. Stop your ^nocking, kicking and - 8 hing; close your childish prat tles; get with the progressives. Again, being an orator of re nown, many of us remember with great pleasure your maiden ora tion delivering med&ls to the mer ited at the close of the late Miss Alice McCann School, (hie). It is reasonable lo assume that the above is In reply to srmething equal-; ly as personal and foreign to the; question at issue. No matter how badly the bond issue may be needed, it would be better to forego it entire ly than to precipitate debates of such type between leading citizens. Sucb senseless pow-wowlng holds many a good town down, and lets better tem pered and less deserving rivals * es cape with the bone ol: progress. Stranger Than Fiction. The Nashville Advocate says were the story of Samuel Burdette woven into a novel, it would be pronounced fiction of the most crude type. It is the truth, nevertheless; and there are many who rejoice chat vindication has come, even thourh it be 30 years late, and that suspicion has been lifted from a worthy man that he may stand spotless before his fellow men In his declining days. Thirty years ago Samuel Eurdette, a regis try clerk in the posroffice at Peoria. 111., put a package of registered let ters containing $3,b 00 into t. mail sack and billed it to its destination. When the sack was opened the pack age was missing, and suspicion fell upon Burdette. Owing to the con fidence reposed in him by his super iors, Burdette was not prosecuted, but was retained in his position foi two years longer, when he entered the ministry and was sent to Asia as a missionary. For several years past he has been pastor of a church in Springfield, Mass., loved and honored, but occasionally reminded of the missing registered package, a few weks ago a veteran mall sack found its way into the government repair shop in San Francisco, and. under neath the lining in the bottom was found the package, where it had been hidden from sight for 30 years. Im probable as the story is, its truth has ben vouched for by the postal au thorities. ? o~? - Lame Dock Pond. There seems to be a lot of pub lic money wasted in putting defeat ed congressmen on commissions for which there is little use, and for which, if they are of use, very few of the appointees have needful quail fications. It Is getting so that for almost every conceivable thing there is a commission, and apparently they are created mainl} for above named purpose. If a co. gressman on the dominant side, or any side, is defeat ed for renomlnation or re-election it is always open to him to follow his previous calling or take up some vo cation. That, certainly, would be more manly than to be cared for by the government at the expense of th* public. The Democratic House should look into this lame duck buslue33 and cut off the supplies on which they feed. This lame flnrk pond grows bigger and bigger and it is about time to abolish it. Opening Books of Subscription. State of South Carolina?County ot Orangeburg. Pursuant to a commission Issued to the undersigned an corporators by R. M. McCown, Secretary of State, on the 16th day of February, 1911: Notice is hereby given that Books of Subscription to the capital stock of the Farmers and Merchants Bank will be opened at the office of H. P. Fu'lmer in the town of Norway, in the County and State aforesaid, on Tues day the 11th day of April, 1911, at 11 o'clock A. M. The said proposed corporation will have a capital stock of Twenty Thous and ($20,000) Dollars, divided into eight hundred (800)0 shares of the par value of Twenty-FFive ($25.00) Dollars each, with its principal place of business at Norway, Orangeburg County, in said State, and will be empowered to engage in a general banking business. C. T. Dowling, H. P. Fulmer, H. E. Garrlck, G. Dan Garrick, O. J. Fanning, W. C. Williamson, J. W. Lybrand, L. B. Fulmer, W. G. Sanford, J. F. Bates, J. C. Spires, Corporators. Citation for Letters of Administration The State of South Carolina?County of Orangeburg. By G. L. Salley, Clerk of Court, Acting Probate Judge: Whereas, John A. Gleaton has made suit to me to grant to him Let ters of Administration of the Estate and effects of Arthur O. Gleaton, de ceased, These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kia died and Creditors of the said Arthur O. Gleaton, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Or angehurg, S. C, on April 19th, 1911, next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in ,-tjhe forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be grant ed. Given under my hand this fifth day of April, Anno Domini 1911. (L. S.) G. L. SALLET, Clerk of Court. Acting Judge of Pro bate. Notice of Sale. By virtue of power contained in chattle mortgage belonging ;o the undersigned by J. P. Hutto, dated 16 day of August, 1909, past due and unpaid I will sell to the highest bid der for cash at public auction begin ning at 10 o'clock Wednesday, April 12, 1911, at the J. P. Hutto gin on the Ninety Six Road in Orangeburg County the following property: One 20 horse engine Calvert make. One 60 saw gin Smith make. One 70 saw gin Winshlp make. One Continential section and boil er. One good packing press, shafts and pulleys. One saw mill complete. M. S. Williams, Neeses, S. C. j State of South Carolina?County of Orangeburg. In Court of Common Pleas. Kittie A. Grier, Plaintiff vs. Edith K. Grier, et al, Defendants. Pursuant to order of said Court made in the above entitled case. All persons holding claims against the estate of the late A. Coke Grier of Orangeburg County, are required to present and prove same before me on or before the sixth day of May, A. D. 1911, or be debarred payment. I. W. BOWMAN, Special Referee and Officer of Said Court. Good News!! At fiist we thought we wouldn't be able to meet the present rate of the critical public's buying? but we've been able to offset the heavy demand by wire orders to our manufacturers which are now amving. We can, therefore, supply your ev ery want in the snappiest Spring Hats, Neckwear, Shirts, and ex cellent hosiery. Have you inspected those fancy waistaoats? The finest ever. $1.00 to $3.00. Renneker & Riggs THE FASHION SHOP. Warfleld in "The Music Master." 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