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She Countn Hccori! - E> KINQSTREE, S. C C. W. WOLFE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS SUKS< RIPTION RATES: One copy, one year, ? ? ? $1.00 j One copy. >ix months ? ? - .5*1; One copy, tli ee months. ? ? .25 Subscription payable if ulvanee. I1 OBITUARIES. Obituary notices will be published ftee up to 10) words, except poetry. All obituary poetry will be charged fori at the rate of one cent a word. When obituaries are extended beyond 1001 words count, the words ami enclose money or stamps to make up the difierk \ once.* Remembek, we publ^h free only one hundred words obituaries, tributes of Respect. Resolutions, etc., tree. Also, only one obituary of the same person will be published free. This does not apply to news notices of deaths Sent us i an news. This notice will be strictly adhered to. ; THURSDAY. APRIL 30,1908. | NOTICE. Beginning with Ala? 1, 1908, the subscription price for The RECORD is as follows: One year in advance $1.00. One year on time $1.25. Six months in advance 60 cento. Three months in advance 40 cento. No paper will be continued after May 15 that is one year or longer in arrears. C W Wolfe. 8-26-tf The Last Call. Owing to the fact that we have not yet been able to get all our statements mailed to delin- , quent subscribers, we have decided to extend the time for revising .. . . oar mailing list to May 10. mis is i positively the last postponement. Please bear in min<j that on May JO every subscriber indebted to 1 us a year or more will be cut off. We have also made arrangements with a collection agency to take these accounts in hand for collection. In this matter we have tried every way pessible to give our subscribers the opportunity of paying what they ove and we are forced to the conclusion that those who do not pay by May 15 do not intend to pay at all. Inn orrnr in anv acmnnl. that ""J -- ?J ? il called to our attention will be cheerfully corrected, but remember that on May 15, 1908, every subscriber one year or longer in arrears will be cut off, and of course the cutting off process does not settle the account. Our New Solicitor. Governor Ansel has appointed M solicitor for the third circuit J B McLiucnlin, Esq., of Bishopville. Williamsburg, as usual, . ! 1 nr. li was iguoreu. v?e are wen aoqnaiuted with Mr McLauchlin and feel coutident that he will make an able and fearless prosecutor, but that is not the poiut. Every other county in the circuit has some recognition inState or district except Williamsburg, and this is the first favor iii the way of political appointment that she has asked for in many years, and Williamsburg's candidate was handed a lemon. It seems that our county is a negligible quantity except when the silver-tongued spielers come down and beg for our twenty-five huudred votes in the primary. Well, maybe, in the not far distant future we may be appreciated more when the "pork barrel'' is being dished out. Divided Democracy. "I have heard some things from ( Hew York, and if they are true one > I might Wfll say of your party th<'re as 1 a drunken fellow once said when he heard the reading of an indictment j for hog stealing. "The clerk read on till he got to; and through the words 'did steal, j take and carry away ten boars, ten ; sows, ten shoats and ten pigs,' at; which he exclaimed: 'Well,by golly,! that is flif most equally divided gang ; of bogs I euer did hear of.' "If there is any other gang of hogs I more equally divided than the Demo ! crats of New York are about this' time I have not heard of it." ? Exircui from Abe Lincoln's Speech in the I tS Senate in IS48. Governor Ansel has "reserved his decision" in the Williamsburg dispensary case. For the benefit of all concerned we hope the Governor will not reserve too long that weighty decision. It begins to look as though our Governor's long suit is "masterly inactivity." ^ A big cut or a little cut, small scratches or bruises or big oues are * i L_ T??wr:??/o neaieu quicsiy uv uchiub ^muv lized Witch Hazel Salve. It is especially good for piles. Get DeWitt's. Sold by W L Wallace. Other Democratic Club Meetings. High Hill, April 25?High Democratic club met today and elected officers as follows: S J Godwin, president; L McGee, vice-president; J C Moore, secretary; W P Gause, member executive committee. Delegates to county convention; Wilie McGee and W P Gause. Registration committee: J M Gause. Respectfully, J 0 Moore, ' Secretary. Gades, April 25?Cades Democratic club met today and enrolled I ninety-two members. The following officers were elected: J P Epps, president; T P Fulmore, vice-president; W J Smiley, secretary; R E Tart, treasorer; H Foxworth, commissioner of registration; J J M Graham, member county executive committee. The following delegates were elected: W J Smiley, W E Nesmith, J J M Graham, W E Hanna. J P Epps, President. Mouzon, April 25?Black Kiver Democratic club met today and re organized. 1 ii Duke was re elected psesident; R J Bnrgess, vice-presideDt; J T Friersou, secretary; D B Young, executive committeeman. R J Burgess and J T Frierson were elected delegates to the county convention. J T Frierson, Secretary. i Unhardened by Custom. It is strange what tricks even tutored nerves will play. The strongest man will wilt into an unconscious heap under the vaccination lancet or be reduced to abject faintness by the sight of dentists' implements. The Earl of Malmesbury in his memoirs tells a little incident illustrative of this fact: A sad accident happened this afternoon to one of the keepers, who blew off two fingers of his right hand in loading a gun. The fingers had to be immediately amputated. All the gentlemen stood around to witness the operation and to encourage the man, who showed great pluck. It was curious that every one bore the sight calmly but Lord Raglan, who had seen 100 battles, lie fainted and had to retire. Id action he is known to be remarkable for his unmoved sang froid. Read the Farmers & Merchants Bank's ad. this issne. Notice to Trustees and TeachersMiss Nance, State organizer of the Rural School Improvement Association, will he with us the third week in May. I would be glad to hear from such communities as would care to have her visit them and will assureiis a good attendance. J G Mccullough, County Superintendent of Education. SPECULATION. How It Act? at a Brake on the Flue- | tuation of Prices. Speculation makes the change in prices gradual. There is not a sud- ( den drop. It is impossible to se- , cure absolute stability of prices, and speculation accomplishes the next best thing by putting a brake on fluctuations. It is the theory of those who denounce ail forms of speculation that there is no relation between speculative prices and the law of supply and demand. But the main function of the exchanges is to make an absolute free market, with free competition between buyers and sellers. This compels minute regulation of prices. There is no speculation in potatoes, and the housewife will tell you that the expectation of a bad crop will put the price up so quickly that she will have suspicions of the honesty of her dealer. When a speculator on the cotton exchange sells July cotton at lOVk cents a pound he is registering his belief based on a close study of conditions at the present Tnlv 1 n#>rt not ton lllIIU tllUi. l/VIViV " Uij ? t?v?? will not be worth 10y2 cents a pound. He and hundreds of others try to discount nature and anticipate events, and, as we have seen, the user of actual cotton utilizes this situation to his own advantage and security. During the seventeenth century one Edward Lloyd kept a coffeehouse in Tower street, London, where several of the big merchants used to meet. Many of them would have ships at sea with rich cargoes facing the many uncertainties of voyages to and from the east, involving great loss if they did not arrive 6afely. These merchants developed a plan of each assuming a part of the other's risk. Each would write his name under the names of the ships of the other merchants, and it is here we find the origin of the modern system of underwriting, which is nothing more than a division of risk. i_ /?;i;?? ?OTnrt Laoya 3 nas uecuuie tt iiuuuiu uauiv in every corner of the earth, -but in 1768 it was denounced as a gambling house that ought tp be suppressed.?John Paul Byan in Metropolitan Magazine. A Chang* of Nam*. "Father," said Tommy Bardell of the" William Henry Harrison grammar school, "you want to come next' 1 Saturday afternoon and see ua play a game with the Oliver Wendell Holmes football team. We're going {o do 'era up/' ??? ?* " "Do you belong to a football team?" askfcd his father. "Tt is news to me." -n ?"Do if1-'exclaimed Tommy proudly. ''Well, I reckon! I 'm the quarterback of the Tornadoes." "The Tornadoes? Who are they ?" "That's the name of our school team." "R*mph! And you are going to plav a game next Saturday, are you ? Well, I'll go and see it." The game took place according to announcement, and the Tornadoes were beaten bv a score of 26 to 0. "Tommy," said his father, overtaking him while he was on his way home, "what did von tell me was tne name of your team ?" "The Tornadoes," answered the boy, "but we're going to change it to something else. We ain't even a fog!"?Youth's Companion. Considerate. "A Yorkshireman," said a Londoner now visiting in this country, "came to London to 6ee our famous British museum. Unfortunately the Yorkshireman chose a close day for his visit, and the policeman at the gate when he presented himself there waved him away. " 'But I must come in/ 6aid the Yorkshireman. I've a holiday on purpose/ " 'No matter/ 6aid the guardian. 'This is a close day, and the museum is shut/ "'What? Ain't this public property ?' "'Yes,' admitted the policeman, 'but,' he cried excitedly, 'one of the mummies died on Tuesday, and do you begrudge us one day to bury him in ?' "'Oh, excuse mo.' said the Yorkshireman in a hushed voice. 'In that case I won't intrude.' " Now Use For Himself. mi ?i/i r^n^xr. x litre was a u um itnu? earned a living by doing odd jobs about suburban gardens. A woman had employed him to roll her lawn and told the servant to give him his dinner. The dinner consisted of toast, and the big plateful disappeared so rapidly that the servant asked, half in wonder and half in sarcasm: "Shall I do some more?" "Aye, aye," was the cool reply; "go on till I tell you to stop." After dinner the servant suggested that he pull weeds up, but he refused. "No, no," said he; "I dassent stoop after such a meal. I've filled myself for rolling!" ? London | Scraps. / * / l s I UBALLOON. The F That Ccmts With a / 'U?h the Air. Flo.. .v up into the blue ! ocean o watching the earth ?ink slow- sway beneath us and fade and cnange quietly to an ira- ! mense map spread before our won- j Jering eyes?such are the first im- j pressions of bailoon voyagers.^The ; nnic\- shouts of those wfa> ^.'o j wish us "Bon voyage 'o^tomej fainter and fainter unt* bsolute quiet reigns about us. It ?s so still j that the ticking of the cl*:k in tiie barograph is heard noi^' countingl the seconds as it tra.v- .he line of Dur upward flight across the sheet. J Meanwhile the earth map down below us stretches-out larger and larger, but its details are fading and becoming blurred. High hills have chare/* d to flat surfaces. A river winds and bends its way through the duller colors like a tangled ribbon of silver. A small lake sparkles in the ?*mshine. giving life and tire to the x,yer shades '?bout it. A railway tr .creeps s owlv along, its trail oft Y.e strea ning back over it. But' .V look it suddenly disappear ,om *ight. apparently swallowed up fflrfore our eyes. Then we realize that it has plunged into the tunnel through a irili which to us seems only a flat surface. Now it appears again, coming out on the other side. So the wonderful scenes come and go, ever changing. I nit over graDd and inspiring?scones that come back to ns real and vivid, that we may live tlmm over again in later days. The cloud effects are at times the most beautiful of all. After having sailed up through these into the dazzling sunlight we see the snowy hi lows just below our car. the shadow of our balloon falling upon their white surface. This shadow is often surrounded by a halo of rainbow colors of rare beauty. At such times one has the feeling of having left the earth completely and to have reached some other planet. The white masses just below seem to be quite solid and look as though one might step out of the balloon and take a stroll over them if one onlv had snowshoes. The air is wonderfully clear and pure and gives one a feeling of exhilaration much greater than that enjoyed in mountain climbing.?Henry B. Hersey in Century. .... ~in flulm. vynara odibi^* m>? ? In the Dutch army a' man must be able to swim as well as {<J nght. Moreover, if he is in the cavalry must have a horse which will take a fiver as ^asily as a hunter takes a fence. Swimmfng maneuvers are part of the regular drill there. Collapsible canvas boats mabned by 3 few oarsmen lead the horses so that they do not attempt to land on stone quays and other 'difficult points. The men swim across with their horses and on them. They do it in swimming costume and in all the accouterments of war. There are few nautical emergencies in which the Dutch army is not prepared. Some of the officers have even reached a degree of proficiency that not only their horses and kit cross the river with them, but their pet dogs sit upon their shoulders and are borne over almost without getting wet.?Stray Stories. Something For Her Neck. A ludicrous story is- told of a young Japanese engineering apprentice in connection with the Christmas custom of kissing. He was serving his time in the north of England and was astonished when a waitress at the dining rooms which he regularly frequented kissed him under the mistletoe. On its being explained to him that a present was expected in return, he suggested a .-.I/-.t-qo HTho /lamcpl hnw pail Ul gtUIVi}. M?.. ever, had heard that he was immensely wealthy and gently hinted that something for her neck would be more acceptable. When the present arrived next day she conjured up visions of a pearl necklace as she tremblingly undid the parcel. Then was disclosed to her disappointed gaze a Jap's idea of "something for her neck. It took the shape of a bar of soap!?London Standard. John Smith. Transferred to other languages, the plain name "John Smith" seems to climb the ladder of respectability. In Latin it is Johannes Smithus; the Italians smooth it off into Giovanni Smithi; the Spaniards render it Juan Smihus; the Dutchman adopts it as Uans Schmid; the French flatten it into Jean Smeets; the Russian turns it into Jonloff Smittowski; at Canton John Smith becomes Jahon Shimmit; the Icelanders say he is Jon Smithson; among the Tuscaroras he becomes Tom Qa Smittia; inToland he is known as Ivan Schmittiweiski; among the Welsh mountains they call him Jihon Schmidd; at Mexico his name is written Jontli F'Smitri; in Greece he turns to Ion Sinikton, and in Turkey he is almost lost in Yoc Seef. / 1 ?:?:@:@:?:?:@:?:@:@:@: I EH LI JUXl JL iJi UXA .1 DRY ( ? ? i < VS5> > ? J | I Walk" ? j an @ > Brown's ? \ ? 1 (?) 'WW^'W 1L. 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I _____ m W i Distributors IV s i Planters Q; d Guano Distributor Combined /\ 4 44 44 4| :? vs Two-Horse Plows $' , Hoes, cllaif, II*ir.es, /fi g needed on Farms. j|jS > Sewing Machines. # i Caskets. jy\ WARE COMPANY. | 1 ana < conducted on ervative Banking* ive Lines, the y jLIAMSBURG SOUTH CAROLINA > $150,000 )f your bankingconfident that irees and supe11 render asso; permanently ofitable. : : E. C. Epps, Cashier, ashier, F. Rhem, V. Pres. _ _~J cement! I ?ftKlk ;ock and good will of F. C. 1 my old friends and pae give prices on nno Uornnaa v (UlXO| JLLCUUQOOi] j l * ate Liverj and Feed Stable or hire aL living prices. . , awkins EE, S. C.