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2TT We have opened u? a full li:
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4 t 5^ Our prices on
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2^: Our ifrices on Straw II
L tZ- necessary to freeze out all <
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% QUESTION WiCHkVERY MAN
SHOULD ASK HIMSELF.
Why is it That at Funerals We Only
Furnish the CorpjMt and the
Hole in the Grijnd?
The Jate Henry WlGrady once;
wrote lip the funeral lot a Georgia
man, and calied attention to tho
fact that the coffin las made of j
Maine pine, the clot% was from
Lowell looms, and the nails made
!of Pittsburg iron?all that Georgia
furnished being tlie corpse
and the hole in the groand.
Recently a monumenlin memory
of the Confederate dead was
; unveiled in Greenville, Tenn., the
? shaft being made of \jermont
rrarble notwithstanding Tennessee
has an abundance of thje finest
marble in the world. Another
' case where the South oniv fur-j
nished the corpse(s) anc thei
hole(s) in the ground.
A jormnn nrpLlflied
I; from the above text, but wel hesi-!
tate to attempt it. knowing thatI
many will read only far enough!
to learn that it contains ai ap\
peal lor patronage, and th?ifact;
that the appeal is made t? a'
home concern will hasten rauierj
than delay a consignment to the j
waste basket. \
But we would remind olir
friends that this is a big question
and is of far more importance up j
the people of Kingstree than!
whether they got free silver <t>r
the single gold standard, etc., etc. j
No doubt most of our readei*!
will quite agree with us theorel
ticallv, that it is time for our owrl
people to show the world that wel
can furnish something better thanJ
mere corpses and holes in thj|
ground, and that it is to our in?1
terest to patronize our home con-J
cerns. But are you consistent, I
' and do yofi practice what you
3 preach?
Do yor, in the purchases you
f make in your own business, give J
I preferencl^o home establishments i
i and send away for nothing that/
I you can buy in your home mar-/
ket at a corresponding price ? f i
? Do you let '^distance lend eip- J
chantment to the view,'- and
jump at the conclusion that vjou
can buy cheaper, say in Charles ;
ton or Columbia, without even
getting the prices of a Kingsflree
I house dealing in the same go< ds.
h or allowing them a chance to cckm-1
pete especially when they guar-j
antee to pi^et prices ? | j
Do you carefully read circulars
sent you from Charleston Ibut
carelessly toss in the waste basket
those sent you from lvingsf.ree j
business men? And when /yousend
an order to a home contcern.
do you do so with hearmgood
will, or with fear and tremjblingj
lest you should be sacrificing your^
^ pecuniary interest to your jiatri I
otism ? J I
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;5Pht \lflfp | !
iinmbl 0[[)iU;|
X Proprietor. -1
ne of ~^3
II Ml. 1
bp, Millinsry Eds, |
toare, teiss, Pistols Is. |
snow before the sun. 3
EiilS M M. |
enlarged and ^2
I framed for $2.?5 ^
ats have reached that point ^2
?ompetitois. :3
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These are the questions we wish
every business man to answer for
himself?not through any duty
he owes to us, but for the duty he
owes to himself, his own people,
and his own section. We do job
printing. Send us your orders.
In the language of the poet:
"Quoth the laven?nothing
more."
Mr Sidney M. Brown ot the Cedar
Swamp section died last Tuesday
morning and was buried near
Cedar Swamp church, Rev. J, E.
Dunlop officiating at the funeral
-services. Mr. Brown was born in
the Boggy Swamp section in 1850
and was thereforeic the 4Syearof
his a6e. He was married in 1873 to
Miss Crawford Tisdale a daughter
of Mr W.D. Tisdale, who with six
children survives him. Mr Brown
was at the time of his death a mag
istrate, and bore the reputation of
being a fa;r, impartial officer.
While Mr Brown had been sick
for sometime, his death was very
sudden.
The following cases will come
up before the court for trial nextj
v,eek: Nathan Williams and Jno.
Kir by, charged with aggravated
assault and battery; Joe Flemming,
burglary and larceny; Mar-1
ion Kelly, assault and battery; |
Melton, maliscious lible; Lyman
Nelson, obtaining goo<ls under j
false pretences; D. D. Shaw, dis- j
posing of property under lien;!
Ilugh Evans and. Bill Gardner.!
assault and battery Our
esteemed contemporary,
the Timmonsville Enterprise,
throws out the following kipt to
jts delinquent subscribers, which
phould cause some of them to oall
nnd pay up:
L "Our rather small physical pro^rtions
do not prove conclusively
^&>t we can exist on the atmosWjre
and diet, and we have been
warried long enough tosatisfac |
Gorily demonstrate that we would
*rrow mighty thin to live upon love.'
Therefore we would drawatten !
tien t) the fact that our latch
-
string is always out to tnose wno
desire to pay their subscription'
Farm produce taken.1'
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JOHNSON'S
CHILL AND
FEVER TONIC
Cures Fever
In One Day.
Mr. Kockefeller is to have a
floral clock, the only one of its:
kind 111 the land, at his country '
place, but he will find he can
miss trains by it just as easily as
though it were at S5 cent nickel
alarm.?Chicago News.
There will be a picnic at Kin-j
dor's Grove tomorrow (Friday), to:
which the public is invited, bring t
your baskets >
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llil BE !
MATTERS OF INTEREST GCCURING
THERE
From Dr\v to Day. Gathered .and Put
Into Readable Shape by a
Record Reporrer.
Mr. C. M. Kollv gave your oorie>{H>ndent
one <?f the largest radi>hes
he ever saw the other day.
It was 10 inches in circumference'
and Is inches long.
Mi<s Hettie Woof ton ha< been
quite sick but is now improving.
Mrs. B.C. Whitehead, of Scranton,
was in town a day or two
ago.
Our good old friend, Mr. J. W.i
Nelson, principle of the .Scranton
High School, was in town last Saturday.
Quite a crowd of Lake Citians attended
the "Memorial'* exercises
,
in Kmgstree last Monday. Sever- j
al stayed over for the ball.
We heard a gentleman say the ;
other day that any ehurch-tuember
who attended a dance should he I
turned out of the church. We<
would like to get the views of others
on this important subject.
Hoyt, the 8-year-old son of Mr. J.'
P. Phillipps, died Monday night.;
The funeral oecured at the Baptist
church the following afternoon.
Oursympathy is extended the be- >
reaved parents.
Messrs. P. S. Wall anil H. Xach-!
man, of Scranton, were in Lake 1
City the other day soliciting sub
scriptions for a telephone line be- :
tween the two towns. About $t>01
was raised.
Messrs. J. H. Early and G. G.|
Watson, of Darlington, spent last i
Tuesday in uThe City of Flowing
Wells." The former was selling
tobacco flues; the latter tombstones,
Mr. W. H. McElveen brought
your correspondent a tobacco leaf
from his field Tuesday which measnred
61^ by 13 inches. Who can beat
this for the season ?
Misses Lizzie and Hattie Sanders,
of Mars Bluff, were in town one day j
last week.
Let all attend our festival Friday
night.
Hotel Arrivals.
The folIoVing is a list of the arrivals
at the Coleman Hotel for the past
week:
R. D. Rollins, J. Ausback, T. H,
Sprinkle, S. MeB. Scott, W. P. Anderson,
Jas. A. Ferrell son, E Ernest
Gills, A. C. Ligon. W. R. Scott, G. T. j
Bullard, J. M, Rodders, R. M. Srane ;
M. H. Pipkin, X. D. Lesesne, B. F.;
Jones, S. L. Davis, C. J. Lesesne? j
C. H. Xachman, M. A. Ross, E. C.
Epps, Miss Florence Chandler, D. E.
Gordon, Carl W. Hill, W. L. Clyde,
S. B. Boston, S. Poston, J. W. Brown
S. D. M. Boyd, M, A. Thomas. H. N.
Aekerman, Miss Georgie Rollins,
Miss Mabel Rollins, Miss Ella Rollins,
W. D. Bryan,. L. E. Busket,!
H. V. Epps E. T. MeCutchen, B. |
\V. Jones Jr. C. D. Cook J. C. Josey 1
Winslow Wrights lady, R. C. BouI-|
ware S. E. McCollough, B. B.Chan-;
dler, J. A. McGrhee' J. T. Agleton,!
O IT Sinirlotarv T A UlalflpV. !
E. H. Sauls, Julius Levy, R- T.!
Flagler W. V. Nersen E. W. Miller
W. I. Xexsen R. D- Oglesby Juo. C.
Lanham.
There will be given at Lake City J
in the tobacco warehouse, on Friday
night. May 14th. an icecream
su] per, for the benefit of the Lake
City Baptist church. There will {
be served to those in attendance
delicious refreshments. A phono-J
graph, which will reproduce much i
charming music; the selling of ten
wonderful dolls?dolls that can
walk, laucrh and talk.?and the
" ? 7 C" " /
leading a bicycle into its place
by blindfolded young gentlemen
and ladies (the successful couple;
to receive a nice cake), will be
some of the attractive features of
the occasion. Everybody is cordially
invited to attend. adv
m
Johnson's Chill and Fever
Tonic is a ONE-DAY
Cure, It cures the most
stubborn case of Fever in
24 Hours.
Have you seen the Columbian j
Kncyelop.^Ji* ' It is a -daisy." j
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WILSON VS. LINGlEY.,
FORMER TARIFF MAKER EXPOSES AD i
SURDITIES OF THE DINGLEY BILL.
i
Ray* It I* "the Most I'ltra r^otortire Tariff j
Errr Proposal"?Will Enronra~e Trosia
ami D!wonr*eo American Labor?Make*
Rome Rerlor.s Reflection* I'pon the Mc- j
Klnley Hill as a Revennc l*r?vlncer.
Ex-Postmaster General William L. j
Wilson is credited \a ith the authorship |
of the tariff bill low in forcv. His
bands were tied so that ho could net
male the bill nearly as good as lie desired
to make it, and the bill as finally
' 1 1
pnRW wnf not, .m-lltiY un yuuu an nuw
it first passed the house. It was, however,
a great improvement upon the McKinlcy
bill and is a model as compared
with the Dingley monstrosity. We
quote the following from Air. Wilson's
criticism of the AIcKinley and Dingley
bills in a recent uumber of the New
York Herald:
Thepe bills are so nearly identical in
general etrnctuie and particular items,
excepting as to the sugar schedule, that
it may be well to consider the effect of
the first bill on the revenue of the country.
Both bills are vest and voluminons
schemes of class taxation, the production
of public revenue being an incident and
entirely subordinate to the purpose of
taxing all the American people for the
benefit cf a smtdl part of the people.
The protectionist has but one remedy,
which he applies whether the revenue
be redundant or deficient. If times are
prosperous and moire money than is
needed pours into the treasury, he in- <
creases taxes by a scheme that tarns
hi? 1?irf?rr Tmrt of their avails into tiri
Tare pockets, nod this reduces prablio
revenue. If times are depressed and less
money than is needed pours into the
treasury, be seizes the pretext of increasing
publio revennes by adding
enormously to the amount of private exaction.
The act of 1890, whatever its other
effects, did reduce revenue Prom a
large surplus it swept us headlong to a
deficiency, although it weighted the
people with heavier taxes and although
another law, passed in Jaly, 1890,
turned into the treasury as a part of the
general assets to be used for paying expenditures
a {rust fund of more than
$54,000,000 which belonged to the national
banks and bad always been held
for the redemption of their notea
Even before the Harrison administration
ended we should have been oonfionted
with a large deficiency but for
the use of this trust fund and the farther
fact that Secretary Foster, by a
change of bookkeeping, added to the
treasury balance $30,000,000 of tokep
and subsidiary coin not before treated
as a treasury asset With these extraor
dinary additions, even, we wound up the
fiscal year June 80, 1893, with a surplus
of only $2,341,674 as against a
surplus for uhe fiscal year June 30,
1890, of over $86,000,000 before tbe
above trust fund and subsidiary coin
were touched. And during tbe fiscal
year ended June 80, 1894, through all
of which the McKinley bill wt> in lorce,
expenditures exceeded tbe revenues to
i:be amount of $*9.803,260, notwithstanding
tbe frjCV that tbe expenditures
of tbe government were $15,962,674
less than in toe preceding year.
This statement shows bow absurd and
igroundless is tbe claim constantly made
by tbe protectionists that recent deficits
in revenue are due to tbe substitution
of tbe existing tariff for tbe McKinley
bilL Nothing is more certain than that
if the bill bad been in force daring tbe
last three years tbe annual deficit would
have been immensely swollen, while tbe
' ? * 1 A
people in a season ox depression ana
bar l times would have staggered under
much heavier hardens of taxation. Even
in this disastrous period, customs duties
under the existing law have increased
from less than $182,000,000 in 1894, ;
the last year of the McKinley bill, to':
even $152,000,000 in 1895 and to over ;
$160,000,000 in 1896.
In the sugar schedule alone the balance
in favor of the existing law is
about $55,000,000. The customs revenue
reached nearly $40,000,000, scarcely
any of which would have been receivable
under the McKinley bill
That tbo Dingley bill, present conditions
considered, is the most ultra protective
tariff ever proposed to be enacted
in this country plainly appears from
Chairman Dingley's statement that if
levied on the importations of the last
fiscal year it would have increased the
revenue $112,000,000?that is to say, it
would have gathered from an importation
of $775,724,264 of imported merchandise
tire enormous sum of $272,000,000,
which is nearly $50,000,000
more than any customs revenue ever
collected in one year in this country in
the past And to say that its rates will
probably cheek dutiable imports to th?
extent of reducing the estimate to $70,
000,000 is only another way of sayinp ,
that to that extent such rates are pro
hibitory.
American consumers are shut in the
borne market to be preyed upon by oom ,
binatious and trusts without poesibili i
ty of relief from outside competition
* LJ ^ 4A IrAni t
sucn comuxiiHtiuuB, uj jvunu^ m ?w .
up prices and to curtail production,
wage more merciless war against tb)
employment, the opportunities and thj
compensation of American labor thai
any possible competition from abroad
could da
The falling off of importations undf r
the present law dispels the illusion
that the American laborer is-anywbei o
deprived of employment by the impa tution
of foreign products. The gratifying
increase in our exports of manufav
tores is equally strong proof that tha e
laws are helping us to enter and command
new markets, which means not
only larger employment for our art isans,
but more home consumers for oi:tr
farmers.
In the new tariff bill spunk is on t' ie
free list We have our opinion of a m: .n
who is* compelled to use import <d
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INChoice*Hay,
Oats, Corn am
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Consignments of Cotton. Poultry, Egj
When you ship your pr
gre.it satisfaction in 1
dealing with a reliable I
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All Styles and Stars for A The Genuine ail bear fhia
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?s and Farm Products SolicitOcf/
oducts there is a
knowing you are
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Wholesale Stoves,'Tin' Wares*'
House Furnishing Goods", Oil.
Heaters Tin Plate Sheet Iron*
Tinners' Supplies; GalVeni?ed
Gutters anii! Pipe. v |
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and II KATF.RS.