Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ESTABLISHED IV 1869. Published Three Times Each Week On Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Entered as second class matter on January 9, 1909, at the post cilice at Orangeburg, S. O., under the Act of Congress of March, 1879. Jas. L. Sims, - Editor and Prop. Jas. Izlar Sims, - ? Publisher. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One year.$1.50 ?One year, by carrier.2.00 Six months.75 Three months.40 Remittances should be made pay able to The Times and Democrat,! Orangeburg, S. C, by registered let-1 ter, check or money order. Should Col. Felder be convicted, he need not expect any olemency from Governor Blease. ?? ? ? They are after Col. T. B. Felder ?gain. He may be indicted, but he ?will never be convicted. That is a pretty heavy tale Whar- j ' ton Barker tells on Teddy Roosevelt, but we are inclined to believe that it is true. The poor should no- be forgotten I on this day of Thanksgiving and' prayer. All should remember them, iind In this way give an exhibition of that broad humanity and care for the other man taught by Him who walked the strand of Galilee. Mrs. Roggie Vanderbilt is accused ot devising a new dance, known as J the "chicken reel." The People's Ad vocate says "that's out of season. Try the "turkey stagger," or the] "possum doze," accompaniod by a] symphony in 'simmon beer." The Florence Times says "as a warning to those negroes who indulge in the anti-kink, and other nostrums, ?o make them lose their identity as a descendant of Ham, we point out the warning given in a recent case where a negro turned to a white man, and died at once." God has quit makin j land, but has not quit making people. There are one million people born In America every year and one million imported to America from foreign countries every year. Young man, get a home now. People are coming to this coun try like blackbirds to a hay stack. The first Thanksgiving Day dinner observed by the Pilgrims because years of scanty crops and threatening starvation had been followed by a bountiful harvest and there was an absolute geniality in the prelimi naries to the famous dinner. We hare the same cause for thankfulness today. ? The pious, hard-driven, worn-out, but thankful Puritans who sat down at their tables one ovember, a few centuries ago and made the first Thanksgiving Day, never knew to ?what lengths they were to drive the ingenuity of their poor descendants to provide a dinner in' these days of high prices. Mr. William L. Royall. of Rich mond, Va., told the Senate committee on later-State commerce Tuesday that the decree to dissolve the Amer ican Tobacco Company was a "roar ing farce." He also asserted that the Sherman anti-trust law, if strictly in terpreted, was "unconstitutional and needed amendment." / < ? ? Maine remains In the Prohibition column. If it is to continue there it ?will be necessary for the temperance workers to secure tha election of of ficials who favor tho enforcement of law and to support them in their ef forts. Many a good law has become a deaii letter or been repealed be cause people have forgotten that no law ever yet enforced itself. The first Thansgiving Day dinner was a game dinner. All in the colony w?re Invited to it. So were opened the hearts of tho3e rugged worship pers that they were not content with eien this but summoned old Sachem Massasolt and all his Indian retain ers, and when the feast was spread rod man and white sat down together and were brothers. Most likely the phenomenal in crease of the Socialist vote ?t the re cent election was due mainly to dis satisfaction within the ranks of the old parlies rather t'-.^n any real ac ceptance of socialist doctrines. This is particularly t:-".e of many cities where tho corrupt methods of old time politicians forced many voters to turn temporarily to Socialism for re lief. Many business men who never ad vertise regularly (Id so during the holiday season. That in itself is a recognition of the *alue cf advertis ing, but its value would be still furth er realized with great gain to them selves if they would not confine them selves to special seasons. Such sea sons may demand special and Iargur advertising, but the up-to-dute busl Let a town or a home he without a newspaper and ignorance and nar rowness at once assert themselves. It ?s when by some mischance people are deprived of th? use of their local pa per that they realize the loss they sustain. The home paper is the eyes, ears and mouth of the community to learn the news and disseminate it among the people. It may not al ways be faultless, but there is no other medium that can take its place, and 'there is no other single factor that'does so much for the material landiisocia! welfare of the town. And in the realm of religion and morals the ilnfluence of the newspaper is al most invariably for the right. The South Csirollna Way. In a few days over four months af ter he brutally murdered h;s young wife Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., was arrested, tried, convicted, uppeale.J to the higher court and executed for his horrible crime, after he had made a coc^ssion. "Had ho com mitted his crime in South Carolina," says the Spartanbu-g Journal, "there would have been one or n.ofp con tinuances o' the trial on acrcunt of absence of material witnesses, or to allow excitement to die down, or for some other of the many fake reasons that are advanced for this pt.rpose frequently with suoce^a "After conviction an appeal would be taken to the supreme court on the ground that the indictment was def:ctive In that somewhere in It a "the" was omitted, or that it was drawn with a fountain instead of a common steel pen or that the clerk of the court stopped to blow his nose while reading it, or that the trial judge refused to admit evidence showing that the defendant had a corn on the little toe of his left foot or that the solicitor was too ve hement in his demands* for a convic tion. Regardless of itB merits the appeal would without any order from anybody automatically stay the exe cution of the sentence. "If these grounds did not sufficient ly impress the supreme court to se cure a reversal and an order for a new trial, when the decision was an nounced a request would be filed for 8 "stay of the remittitur" and after some weeks there would be argued an appeal for a "rehearing." Several month3 more would be necessary to get a decision on this. Then, if a new trial was still refused, there would be petitions circulated asking the governor for a pardon or at least a "parole," with excellent chance that one or the other would be granted." The Journal draws a'faithful pic ture of the procedure In the trial of most serious criminal cases in South Carolina, which as the Journal says, makes our criminal procedure a joke and the many delays permitted a tra vegtry on justice. It would have been almost an impossibility to have con victed and executed Beattie in South Carolina. With his high eocial and financial standing, and with circum stantial evidence only on which to convict him, it is doubtful if his case would have gone before the courts at all in this State. But the swift justice that overtook Beattie shows that it is quite different in Vir ginia. Should Not Be Allowed. Should the Legislature which meets in January fail to take steps to protect the good name of the State ' 7 prohibiting the betting on horse racing as will be done when the track in Charleston and Columbia is established, the matter should be made an issue in the next campaign and a Legislature that will protect the good name of the State be sent to Columbia as soon as possible. No one objects to horse racing of itself, but to the base use to which it has been put. This noble and harmless sport has been prostituted to the basest pur poses, and the race track is new made the gathering place of the most notorious gamblers and the habitants and scum of the tenderloin districts of the large cities of the country The coming of the race track means the coming of the very lowest ele ments of men and women. We do not want any'Sort of enterprise to get a foothold In this State that will bring such people to her borders. State after State has driven out horse racing, and it only comes to South Carolina because it has no where else to go. Even New York rid itself of the peril of horse race gam bling. So has several other States, including Florida and Louisiana in tho South. Shall we allow it to find a resting place in South Carolina? It will do the cities in which it i3 allowed to. establish itself great harm. That is what it did for other places where it was allowed. Jacksonville, for instance, found that the desirable class of tourists shunned that town when the races were on. The coming of the race track to any city means the coming of the lowest eflement of men and women, who pollute everything they touch; Horse racing was not driven out of New York and Florida and those other States by statutes for bidding horse racing?there are no such statutes?but by statutes for bidding gambling on the race tracks, and that took all interest out of horse racing. When scch laws were passed, horse racing sought an asylum elsewhere, j demonstrating conclusively that horse (racing as- conducted in this country at tliis time cannot exist without j gambling: and it ic gambling of the i worst sort. Men and women of South ; Carolina, remember that?especially when it is urged that there is no harm In a good horre race. Of course there is not, and horse racing is not outlawed anywhere, but horse racing vanishes when gambling is outlawed. The Legislature should pass such a law at its next meeting. ? ? ?-v. Tlmnksgiving. I The toll of the summer is over, the I crops have been garnered, and it is j right and proper now, that we should I stop for a few moments and turn over thoughts, and render our thanks to rho great giver of every roo.1 and perfect gift, for the bounties we en joy and the genoral prosperity of the country. We would be very indig | nant should any one accuse us of be ing ungrateful for *he favors accorded us; but there is a law of nature that decrees, that if a man will not use a faculty or power, he shall not retain it, and the spirit of thankfulness is n?t exercised as much as it should be. In this excited and feverish race of ?ife, wp simply snatch its many bless ings without stopping to think of the source from whence they came, and we are slowly, but surely, losing this principle of gratitude, and as the general prosperity Increases, we are withdrawing more and more into the little circle of self. As we become more and more independent of each other, we become more and more selfish, exacting and ungrateful, not cnly toward the Lord but toward each other. But let Tbankrgiving Day remind us that we should be grateful; and gratitude, like every other hum.m principles, comes to us by cultivation; cultivation either fiom pressure of circumstances or frDm self-imposed discipline. Eut in these prosperous times, few of us take the trouble to impose much self discipline, or to cultivate the noble principle of thankfulness, but give full rein to all the selfish instincts of the animal nature, and especially to the greed for money getting, and out of this state of affairs grow all the strifes of the home and country. It causes all the strikes and con vulsions arising from the contentions between capital and .'abor, and all the anarchy, which attempts to extort that which is not freely given, and the only remedy that we see for this festering state of aflairB is come aw ful calamity, which shall wring from us the fragrance of human sympathy, or some tremendous impulse that will cause the people to put a check upon the selfish propensities and com pel us to acknowledge our mutual de pendence upon each other as well as upon the Lord of Heaven. So, wel come to Thanksgiving Day, and let us learn a lesson of gratltuoe which shall bring us, instead of a curse, a blessing from our universal pros perity. Most Disgraceful Affair. ?Four of the brutes who cenfessen {o a participation in the tarring of a young lady school teacher at Lin coin ' entre, Kami's, has leen sen tmced to one year in jail, which i3 the worst punishment that could be inflicted by the courts of Kansas for such a crime. It is hard to believe that such a disgraceful crime could be committed in a civilzed country, and it is a pity that the brutes who committed it escaped with such light punishment. Some of the men who have confessed to being guilty of this horrible crime are rich and leaders in the community, but that did not save them. The young lady teacher who was tarred was very pretty and popular, and some of the young women in the town in which she was teaching bo came insanely jealous of her and be gan to make plans to kill her popu larity. They told certain young mar ried women that the young teacher that she had been "taking on" with them, this of course aroused their anger. The girls also told their sweethearts that the teacher had been boasting that she had them "at her feet," so to speak, and urged them to resent it. The result was that the little town was stirred from center to circum ference. The young husbands and single young men held a meeting and determined to punish the young pret ty school teacher they had been told was doing so much talking about her conquests over them. After some deliberation they determined that she should be punished, and they de cided upon the most cruel torture they could think of, which was to apply hot tar to her person. The young teacher was invited to a dance, and on her way in a buggy with a man in the plot, she was taken from the buggy and carried into some nearby woods. There her clothes were torn from her body and hot tar poured on her. The cowardly brute, who had de coyed the young woman from her home on the pretense of taking her to a dance, was first arrested, and coward like, he told on the other-, who, he said, had paid him for acting hia part in the horrible drama. Sev eral arrests were made, including somo prominent men, socalled, cf the town. When they were brought to trial four of them confessed and two more have been convicted. Men com mitting such a crime as this on a defenceless woman are brutes of a low order, and no punishme it would be too severe for them. To start with they should have been tarred as they tarred the young woman and then sent to prison. One-bo If Cent a Word Found Notices Free. Buy Your Display Vehicles?from Si fly and Frith and take the Blue Ribbon. For Sal"?An Oliver Typewriter, very little used. Will be sold cheap. Mrs. W. C. F.?.his, Elloree. For Sale?One big nice first t-lars mule, seven years old?at once. S. A. Rlackmon, Orange burg, S. C. 11-24-41 j Wanted?a man with family to run I two*, three or four horse contract I farm. Apply at once. Paul A. Glea 1 ton, Springfield, S. C. Co to T. G. KnotK Noenes. S. C. and buy your Shoes, Pants, Overalls, Cloth, Notions and Groceries o" all kinds at cost for the next fiflecn days. jI-L'S-C For Sale?Residence i>"> Whitman street. Modem conveniences, sew erage and lights. Terms reason able. Apply w. W. Wannama ker. 10-14-tf. Wanted?Price on five cords of yel low pine, 4 feet length, delivered in Orangeburg. Write J. L. S., care Times and Democrat, Orangcburg, S. C. Wanted At Once?Contractor to roll six room dwelling, distance of four hundred and fifty feet. No turns, grade, downward. W. M. Fair & Co., Elloree, S. C. For Rent?One small farm of fifteen acres cleared land with tenant house and two out buildings for I particulars apply to Laura Hickson, I R. F. D. 5, Orangeburg, S. C. 1* Wanted?A male teacher for Hlu ? Field colored school in District No. 10, Calhoun County. Salary $25 per month. Apply with stamp to D. W. Haigler, Cameron, S. C. For Sale?One good saw mill and saw. One good 20 H. P. boiler and engine. One good Timber Cart and everything used around a mill. Apply to J. W. Sm?ak or Mrs. F. P. Langley. Wnnted?three families to run share farms, also two wage hands, on my plantation on the Ninety-Six Road, about nine miles from Orangeburg. Coed lands, good schools and close to churches. References required. Apply to H. W. Black, R. F. D. 3, Orangeburg, S. C . 11-2S-6 Lost?Either in the Academy of Mu sic or between that building and the Orangeburg Hotel an open face lady's gold watch, small chain, about four inches long, with a patent fastener. Finder will be rewarded by leaving at Times and Democrat office. R. R. Gross, ?Holly Hill, S. C. At Orangeburg Hotel Tuesday. 11-18-1* Fine Farm For Sale?Will sell my farm seven miles from Orange burg, one and a half miles from Jamison, S. C. Land consists of 350 acres. 225 cleared and in hi?h state of cultivation. Seven room dwelling. Five tennant hous es. Thoroughly equipped with out buildings gin etc. Only enough cash wanted to insure eale. Bal ance on easy terms. Apply to E. J. Wannamaker, Orangeburg, S. C. For Sale?225 acres of land, five miles from North, S. C; good fix room dwelling, six tenant houses, thoroughly equipped with barns, stables and other necessary out buildings; 185 acres utrler high state of cultivation, clear of stumps and level. This land easily makes a bale of cotton per acre; on R. F. D. and within 3--I mile of a good school. High and healthy. For further information, apply to D. H. Dydrick, North, S. C. 11-11-1* Opening Books of Subscription. The State of South Carolina. Exec utive Department. Ey the Secre tary of State: Whereas, L. 'M. Mims and W. D. Black have this day filed in the office of the Secretary of State a written Declaration and Petition, under and pursuant to "Chapter XLVI1I. of the CWe of Laws of South Carolina of 1902," and Acts Amendatory thereto, which Declaration and Petition set3 forth the names and residences of the Petitioners; the name of the propos ed corporation; the place at which it proposes to have its principal place of business or be located; the general nr.ture of the pusinesa which it pro poses to do; the amount of the capi tal stock, and now and when payable, and the number of shares into which the same is to be divided; which dec laration has been recorded as requir ed by lavr. Now, therefore, I, R. M, McCown, Secretary of State, by virtue of the authority in me vested by the afore said Code and Amendments thereof, do hereby constitute and commission the above named petitioners a Boara of Corporators, and hereby authorize and empower them to open books of subscription to the captial stock of The Springfield, Sally and Wagener Telephone Company, to be organized and created under and pursuant to, and with the rights, powers and priv I'c^os set forth in the said Declara tion and Petition. It is hereby required that one day's previous notice thereof be giv en in the Times and Democrat, a newspaper published in the County of Orangeburg. Given under my hand and seal of the Stale, at Columbia, this 1st day of November in the Year or our Lord one thousand nine hundred and clev er, and in the one hundr;d and thirty sixth year of the Independence of the United State. R. M. McCown, Secretary of State. Valunble Ijand for Sale. At the request of the owners we will offer for sale Immediately after , the legal sales on the first Monday in December the following described , real estate, tc wit: All that certain piece, parcel or , tract of land situate, lying and being near Jamison, Orangeburg County, South Carolina, containing two hun dred and lorty acres, more or less, , and bounded by lands of T. P. Hor ijger on the North, by lands of John Vaughn or IJarley on the I2ast, bj |ipnd3 of J. Ii. Robinson and Estate of Jr.mes M. 11; II on tho South and on , the West by the Southern Railway. This Is the home, place of the lato Dr. Andrew f. Horror and is being . scl.i for division among the heirs. It is one of the mor.t valuable plan , tations in tho County, and has a fine two story dwell in:,' with barns, out houses, and tenant houses thereon. Will be sold privately before sales day if desired. For information ap ply to Dr. A. A. Horger. Harluyville, s. ('.. or the undersigned. -It. Wolfe and Berry, Attys. Executors' Notice. Notice is hereby given that on Wednesday, the Sth day of Novem ber, 1911. tho undersigned will file with the Judge of Probate in and for the County of Orangeburg, their iinal account as Executors of the Last Will and Testament of Rebecca E. Way, deceased, and will thereupon apply for their final discharge. All persons holding claims, if any, against the said estate of Rebecca E. Way, deceased, must present the same duly proven cn or before the 7th day of November, 1911, or be de barred payment; and all persons in debted to said estate must make pay ment on or before the date last above mentloaed, to GLAZE & HERBERT, attorneys, or to the undersigned. W. B. Way, 4t. Wm. L. Glaze. Sell Property for Taxes. Upon inquiry from M. E. Ziegler, Esq., County Attorney, Comptroller Genen.l A. W. Jones has given the ruling that under the law the sheriff of a county has the right to seil per sonal property belonging to a tax payer for delinquent taxes on real es tate. According to the code of 1902 the comptroller general says "the sheriff is directed to sell the per sonal property of the taxpayer if suf ficient can ,be found before levying upon real estate." The comptroller genen.l also rules that under an exe cution for collection of delinquent taxes due on any real estate of a tax payer in his county, the sheriff may levy upon any personal property found anywhere in the county, wheth er the taxes have been paid in the count;/ or not. Much to Be Thankful For. As a city -we nave much to be thankful for. Our churches and schools come first. All of these in stitutions are doing good works, and are as free as air. Let us be thank ful for them. We have able, conse crated ministers in our churches and our schools are in charge of a thor oughly efficient and conscientious corps of teachers. The fraternal or ders also have enjoyed unprecedented acquisitions to their membership. In the administration of our city govern ment we have occasion for pride and gratitude. Efficiency, honesty and progrsssiveness have marked the con duct of our municipal servants. In manilold regards we have been blessed abundantly. Tillman Volunteers, Attention! Attend drill and meeting Saturday afternoon, Dec. 2nd, without uni form. Members who have rifles must bring them in at this meeting. Those who cannot aticnd any of the drills v?ill send in their equipment neatly laundered and done up. Now men who ha\e made application for mem bership, now have an opportunity for enlisting. Militiamen who have not been enlisted six months prior to encampment, will not be allowed to attend. J. H. Claffy, D. C. IJayden, Captain. 1st Sergt. Gives the Real Facts In Regard to Her Case and Tells How She Suffered. Jonesboro, Ark.?"I suffered a com plete break down in health, Bome time ago," writes Mrs. A. McGill, from this place. "I was very weak and could not do any work. I tried different remedies, .but they did me no good. One day, I got a bottle of Cardui. It did me so much good, I was surprised, and took some more. Before I took Cardui, I had headache and backache, and sometimes I would cry for hours. Now I am over all that, and can do all kinds of housework. I think it is the greatest medicine on earth." In the past fi'ty years, thousands of ladies have written, like Mrs. McGill, to tell of the benefit received from Cardui. Such testimony, from earnest women, surely indicates the great value of this tonic remedy, for diseases peculiar to women. Are you a sufferer? Yes? Cardui is the medicine you need. We urge you to try it N. B ? Write to: Ladles' Advisory Dept., Chatta ijoor.i Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.. for Special hirtruetiCJU, and H-pngc b-jok, "Home Tre*tmen? Waoica," scot In plain wrapper, on reauesU 'I lie "Pike" is a full, free fitter that carries the snap and ginger so essential for a season's favorite. Jt pre serves in it's lines a symme try not found in other ex treme lasts which rely on drawing attention purely through their freakishncss. In Patent leather as well as Gun Metal at $4 and $5. There is a WALK-OVER model just for you. Maybe it's the "Pike." if it isn't one of the other stylish WALK OVER Models in our store ivc arc confident Renneker & Riggs, THE FASHION SHOP. MY THANKSGIVING LATION I have much to be thankful foir^this year, 1911. ? I thank the pubKc whose fa 'or has enabled me to do the biggest jewelry business between ,vo Thanksgiving Days since my frst coming to Orangeburg: and 1 accept this favor as an obligation on me to still further improve my stock and my service in every possible way. Especially do I thank the many who, after finding my goods, my prices, and my ways satisfactory to them have spoken words of approval to their friends and so have increas ed the number of my customers, Most heartily do I thank the many hun dreds ef eye-glasses and spectacle customers who have recommended me so kindly to their friends for the satisfaction they have received from wearing my glasses. Finally I thank you for all past favors and sincerely ask for your further valued patron age. Wise Jeweler and Optomeitrest 50 TAST RUSSELL STREET. ORANGEBURG, S. O. ! The Edisto Savings Bank OF Orangeburg, S. C. We want you io own one of our new safety boxes which we have just put in our fire-proof vault?never keep a fire policy in the building insured?you should keep your papers j of value and your jewelry in one of our boxes and be secure. The United States Government has named this Bank as the depository of its Postal Savings Bank funds?let us count you among our depositors. Your deposits with us are absolutely secure. We have a capital and surplus of !|> 135,000.00 and resources of over $255,000 which should be sufficient to guarantee you against loss. We carry Burglar Insurance. Give us your business and feel safe. w GLR LINE 15 COMPLETE, Every Standard southern Vehicle Represented in our display at the South's Largest Vehicle Repository on EAST RUSSELL STREET. Everybody invited to call and examine our line. W 3 ? fexa lliams & Sharpers on THE UP-TO-DATE Merchant Tailors and Dry Cleaners First Ctass Vorkn^slplp Gu^ra^teed. Special Attention to Ladies Clothes. Suits Made to Order. Clothes called for and delivered. PHOITE 97-L. Under Post Office Orangeburg, S. C WE CARRY THE LARGEST BELTS L\ STOCK IN SOUTH CAR LOIN A. We have the 14 in 6-ply e.nd the 1 6 and 18-ln 8-ply Gandy Belt. It Is the Original Red Stitched Canvas Belt. There are a great many Imitation? on the market, but you can always tell the Gandy, for It Is stamped ev ery 10 feet (Gandy). We also have the 14-inch 6-ply Giant Stitched* This belt has a national reputation. It is the Original Seamless and Stit ched b<ilt. Write for prices.. COL UMBIA SUPPLY C03IPANT, West Gervais Street, Columbia, 8. O.