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V Xj. ' ^ U|W~~ r| ' . , 5 i ' - '' VOL. XVIII. KINO ST REE, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1902. NO. 38 . /. ' ?' . MERRY WEDDING PARTY. Guect Her? for the Mey-Devie Nup t'als 1 hit Afternoon. There is a very merry weddinj party in town today, and the nup tials will have been celebrated b; the time yon read this. The wedding is that of Miss Cor Davis to Arthur Alston May, one o the most promising young men o that very enterprising and progres sive community of Cadee. The are to be married at 5:30 o'clock a the home of the bride's parents 01 Palmetto street. Rev. Haroli Thomag performs the servicet There are wedding guests from al sections of the country, among ther Charles Orrin Moss of Philadelphia a long time friend of the groom wh will be best man, and Ira M. Ben ford of New York, friends and rel ' atives from Kingstree, Lake City Salters and Cades. A very merr time is ex Dec ted bv the ruests. Th wedding party will leave on the eve ning train for the home of the groor in Cades. Their friends will giv them a hearty "send off."?Florenc Daily Times, Sept 16. STATE AND FEDERAL ELECTION How the Volt Stood According to th Official Count. The following is the official oouc of the second primary: Latimer 53,890, Evans 36,371 majority 17,519. Heyward 50,830, Talbert 40,494 majority 10,336. Gary 42,737, Sloan 48,024; majoi ity 5,587. Gantt 47,312, Wilson 43,669; mt jority 3,643. Jones 45,885, Walker 44,873; mj jority 1,012. Boyd 41,544, Frost 49,452; mt jority 7,878. Caughman 51,060, Evans 39,75( majority 11,304. Bellinger 5,847, Croft 5,971; m? jority 124. Aiken 8,772, Smith 6,956; mi jority 1,816. Those receiving a majority wei declared the nominees and the con mittee adjourned. K BortdO for County Officials. I represent the United States Fi delitv and Guaranty Co., of Balti more, Md., which has a capital c $2,500,000. Save your friends th annoyance of going on your bon by getting bonded in this company We make a specialty of bondin County officials at low rates. Kel erences: The Bank of Kingstre< the Sheriff, County Supervisoi County Supt. of Education an County Treasurer. C. W. Wolfe. tf Kingstree, S. C. Special Sale Monday. Ribbon worth 25c 30c and 40 will goat this Special Sale for 10c yard. Ladies' Feather Bone Corsel worth $1.00 and $1.50, will go * 9c. This Special Sale will tak place Monday, September 22, at Schultz's Bargain Store It Next door to the Dispensar; Shoes, dry goods, notions, etc., i reduced prices. Need cash. v> ^ wllkixs. Few people know what the don't want until after they get i * ' v CLEMSON COLLEGE CHAT. - College Opened Wednesday of Last Week with Enrollment of 600 Students. ^ Clemson College, S. C. September 16, 1902. ^ Clemson opened Wednesday under most favorable circumstances. Dr. D Mell, the new president, is very much liked by the students, he says1 * he is here for business and intends! to make this the most profitable ses- j sion Clemson has ever had. First * Lieut Edgar A Sermyer, 3rd Caval-1 a ry, U. S. A., has been detailed for duty here, and will act in the capac'* itv of Commandant. In a shorl address he says he intends to build the a military feature of the college to a l' high standard of excellence, and 0 have discipline enforced to the fullest extent There are about five hundred stu'? dents enrolled, nearly all of the old Y students having returned. B The following cadets are from Williamsburg county: 1 S W EppS, Senior class; S G Bryan, e G 0 Epps, S 0 O'Bryan, Junior * class; Duncan Dunlop, S P Harper, W M O'Bryan, Jr., Freshman class. "'04." # Card of Thanks. - Editor County Record:? t As it is impracticable to Return thanks in person to the many friends l_. who honored me with their votes in the second primary, I take this method ox expressing my graieiui appreciation to them all. While I did not quite get elected I feel that I and my friends have nothing to be ashamed of or to regret. Toward my successful competitor k. I entertain the kindest feelings, and to the best of my ability I shall en^ deavor to do my part toward the upbuilding and advancement of the *. county. With a kindly feeling for all and ^ maluce toward none, I am, Very respectfully, k. U. -E. >V HEELER. >e Death of Mrs McConnell. l* News reached here Tuesday morning of the death of Mrs. Mary Brisbane McConnell, which took place on Monday, September 15, 1902, at . Morrisville. Mrs. McConnell was a h most estimable christian lady and her death is a sad affliction to her e family and to the community in 3 which she resided. Mrs. McConnell (uee Hext) was ) g born in Barnwell county June 9, 1832. She married Mr. John Thomas ? McConnell, of Black Mingo, Wil. liamsburg couuty, who died in 1877, leaving four children: Mrs. T. P. Steele, Mrs. J. Wesley Cook,- F.^ D. and J. Zuill McConnell, Jr, all of whom still survive her. Mirth, Mimicry and Music. Ic The World's Leading Monologist, tt Ralph Bingham, of the Alkahest Ly g ceum, will give an entertainment in the Court House Wednesday eve:e ning, September 24. Mr Bingham I will rriv? <m ?vri<rin>il f?nti?rtsiinmi?Tit_ I "1" bI,V "" V* 'O* V..W. vW...M.v...7 presenting an evening's programme r< of song, music and story of the brightest order and the most enjoyit able character, inducing pleasure and delight and provoking mirth, merriment and laughter. Admission, adults 50c, children 25c, Tickv ets on sale at Dr P C Scott's drug I. store. i sijnp w TALKS TO THE BOYS ABOUT THE DOG STAR. Takes "Bill Arp," the Georgia Philosopher to Task for Denying the Existence of Dog Days. I see in a late letter to the young people on the "solar system", "Bill Arp" knocks all the romance out of the dog days, saying, "there are no dog days, nothing but u superstition that has come down to us from the ancients." Well, well, may be so, Mr. Arp! But please don't be so dogmatic about our dog days. Indulge us in a little floating, legendary fancy; let us have something to frighten the boys with when they insist on going in swimming every day; we want to tell them: "the dog days ain't out yet, it might make you sick", and don't dishearten these old farmers who say, "To destroy cockle burs they must be cut up in the dog days," and "To plant turnips in dog days, to belt trees in dog days, to cut the sprouts off the new grouud stumps in dog days, and to nurse your sore hand a little better in the hot sultry weather of the dog days". The dog days are said to be those 40 days the sun seems to rise and set with the dog star, Sirius, the brightest fixed star in the Heavens; you can find him now, just at day light, abont 2 hours high, a little south east of, and about 20 degrees from "Orion" or the "Ell and yard", but don't mistake Venus for him, for she rises ubout daylight now just in the east. But Mr. Arp treats this great stellar sun?which he says gives 400 times more light than our sun, but whose distance is so preat that the best telescopes make him look no bigger than the naked eye?I say he treats him with too much irreverence 'when he says his time of rising is "very irregular". And he mixes the present too closely with the profound future in claimiug, "The appearauce of Sirica is very uncertain and in course of time he will rise in winter". ri? 11 a! xi 1 .wow BiriUB, as wen as oiner nieu [ stars, rises and sets 360 times in a year while the sun rises and sets only 365 times, hence Sirius gains about 4 minutes on the sun every day, so he in dogmatic reality, will rise with the sun only one day iu a ; year, and Arp ought to have given us at least one dog dUy. But I suppose the ancients meant the time the dog shir became hid iu | the twilight of'the evening und rose ahead of the dayn in the morning. But let us examine a little closer this, so claimed, irregularity and uncertainty of the appearance of Sirius. The length of our year, measured by the time it tykes our earth to pass flio ami flinf ia frnm VlILt li; VUlUi V 14V UUU) VUMV *i/f kivut the time the sun is exactly vertical at at equator on June 521st until it is precisely vertical ;tt the equater next 21st of June, is put down at 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 49 seconds, and is called the tropical, or solar year; and always keeps the same seasons to the months. But the siderial year is the time the earth takes in passing from a fixed star until it returns to the same fixed star again; and is 365 days, C hours, 9 minutes and- lli seconds; so the star year is about 20i miuutes longer than the 6olur year. ? # M But that star year is perfectly uni- ^ i. form, and the dog star is just as cer- r ' tain to be on hand at his regular % tiine as the sun is to rise and set Now, this dog star year, being only ^ 20i minutes longer, he will take 7o , years to lose 1 day, and* therefore more than 6000 years before the dd? si star will rise with the sun in winter. P But long before that time I expect ti to know more about this great stel- ti lar sun and the worlds that ever revolve around him, and the iatelli- , tl ( gences that people those worlds in ^ that far off distance, which cannot ^ be less than millions of millions of ft] miles from the confines of our solar i system. For when we get to Heaven; in homage to God in His. unbounded goodness and wonderful works, I ci expect, among other things, to be m , permitted to go on an excursion to p . Sirius and other wonderful places in tl \ God's subline Universe of suns and it revolving worlds: for they will remain and "shine as the stars ? * , forever". Yl If A**A?tr a4-rti* ia a JIUiCVtU) U C?C1J UAtU OlOl AO ? j ? sun, and each sun has his family of revolving circumnavigating worlds, , like our planetary system; and these ^ , systems are traveling about other , great common centers; and finally the a' . universe itself in majestic obeisance sc circulates around God's eternal C , throne, as the supreme, awful centre ^ of the whole, then, surely, eternity 41 is too short to comprehend it all. le 1 suppose David was thinking on L some of these thfhgs when he said; "Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, it is high, I cannot attain ^ unto it"?And in contemplation ^ of God's presence every where he said, rp "Whither shall I flee from thy pres- ^ ence? "If I ascend up to heaven thou ^ art there; if I make my bed in hell, ^ behold thou art there; if I take the w wiugs of the morning and dwell in ^ the uttermost parts of the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me," Then, A WHERE 18 GOD? "Oh where is the sea?" the fishes ? cried, '8 As they swam the crystal clearness di through. 1 M r "rre ve uearu uuiuviuui mc vacoh a tide, ? And we long to look at the water# lx blue. a The wiso ones speak of the infinite sea, er Ob, who can tell us if such there be!" hi The lark flew up in the morning 111 bright, a{ And sung and balanced on his wings; m And this was its song, "I see the u. light, ft< . . .. w i looK o'er a wona or cK'auciiui miogx, ~ Bur, fiying and singing everywhere C In vain I search to find the air." p] But to go back to Sirius; don't understand me as trying to go back on p, "Bill Arp." I reckon he was so full of ]v; contempt for President Roosevelt p, because he won't apologize for slan- w dering Jeff Davis, that he felt kind h, of snappish about dog days. No! No! te "Bill Arp" is the Gamaliel at whose Uj feet sit all loverfi of Humanity. A u patriotic philosopher, a true demo- nj cratic christian gentleman; about cj whose future home we have just been al - - ' ? T !11 talking, uua wftose company i wm be glad to seek in that grand excur- re eiou to the aforesaid dog star. jj And if any of you boys fail to rec- hi oguize Sirius in the early mornings, tl I will take pleasure in pointing him re out if you will come to fa Possum Fork. Car of flour just arrived and will sa sell cheap for cash any grade, also m any size sacks. Wilkiss. ii Election Echoes | ^ .The general election comes off 'uesday, November 4. Mr Elbert H Aull, the private icretary to Gov McSweeney and ? resident of the State Press Associa- ? on, has been elected to the Legislate from Newberry county. , ' ' 4 \fw C T 11 Ana ttiofl * W iUi VlttUUC U UiikOO TTM UUUtCU I easurer of Florence county on the irst ballot over several competitors. [r Lucas is an old Kingstree boy ad is a brother-in-law of VV L Bass, taq., of Lake City. Not only the candidates, but every Itizen who participated in the pritaries has pledged himself to supart the nominees of the party. Bear lis in mind and turn out and vote i the general election. In the second primary Capt Heyard received a phenomenally large ate in his home county of Colleton, ie returns showing 2192 for Heyard to 58 for Tallaert, or about 98 ?r cent for the former. Following are the representatives id representatives elect from the - fven congressional districts of South arolina: 1st Geo S Legare, -2nd G f Croft, 3rd Joseph T Johnson, th D Wvatt Aiken, 5th D E Finy, 6th R B Scarborough, 7th A F ever. Even the worm will turn. A ory is going the rounds that after le first primary an enthusiastic eyward partisan sent Col James H illman the following telegram from Kershaw, Lancaster county: "Heyard 189, Tillman 2. Hurrah for illman." Col "Jim" promptly ired back, collect: "Two wise men id one fool in Kershaw; not mcerned about the rest." The defeat in the 2nd district of ttorney General Bellenger lor con e J8 occasioned much surprise, and accounted for by the fact that in ischarging the functions of his resent position Mr Bellinger made me powerful enemies, who were ?nt upon his political undoing. To man like Mr Bellinger, who on sev al occasions has taken his life in is own hands to prosecute a criinal, this defeat weighs not on*.,iota gainst the consciousness of having et every demand in the full and meet discharge of his duty. Mr ellinger will continue to reside in olumbia where he will pursue the ractice of his profession. Governor-elect D C Heyward has iblicly announced that Mr J Ed orrnent, of Darlington, will be his rivate secretary. Had Capt Heyard searched the whole State over i could not have found a man betr suited to this position, or whose jpointment will give satisfaction to greater number of South Curplians. Mr Norment is one of the everest newspaper-men of the State id his friends are legoin. It will ? remembered that at the end of cent State compaign all the candates chipped in and presented in with r lnvin<r erm im a token of teir appreciation of his impartial ports of the meetings and his un- ' ? tiling courtesy on all occasions. ' ' . % Having purchased twenty tivv icks coffee, I am prepared to give iy customers big bargains. Drop a and inspect. Wilkins. ? V t # .mM