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She (fount# fUcotd. j KINGSTREE, S. C C. W. WOLFE. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS SU BS>< RI PTR >N RAT?S: One copy, one year .* ?i 25 One copy, six mom lis ? 75 One copy, three monts 5U One copy, one year in advance? 1 Obituaries, Tributes of Respect, Res"lutions of Thanks, < ard< of Thanks and all other reading notices, not News, will be charged for at the rate of one cent aw >r 1 THURSDAY. AUG. 20,1908. Is Mr Bleasc Sincere? r Mi lilease in his campaign for Governor at every meeting says: j, "I am opposed to the higher education of the negro race ami h favir or of the taxes paid by white people going to, and being used only for, the education of white children/' ! jr. . A worthy sentiment indeed, and j * we frankly admit that we are heartly iu accord with .Mr Ulease, if he means what lie says. But i? there's the rub. Iu the face of h ' this declared hostility %Mr Blease accepts the trustee-ship of a negro college at Orangeburg, and here is what Thomas E Miller, the negro president of the college, has to say iu Mr Bleasc's behalf: : "I know Hon Cole L Blease well. I huve watched his acts and votes in the Senate. I believe?and the records will show?that he never cast a vote against the college, nor l J x. ___ x 1 nas ne moveu to cui uown appropriations." Now, are we not justified in asking: "Is Mr Blease sincere?" 1 "Five county candidates will slide into office unobstructed by another fellow who wants the office. It is interesting to note the sickly grin of a candidate when his competitor gets off a really good V joke. = Will the News and Courier's bright paragrapher tell us if what's p*' sauce for the hen is sauce for y the gander? A newspaper without an editorial opinioD is about as influential as a yellow dog with a tin can tied to its tail. Mr Blease boasts of his popularity at home. Watch the returns and compare Blease's vote in Newberry with what Ansel gets in Greenville. _ A good platform upheld by a designing and unscrupulous dema gogue won't stand much strain. Aj well build a house upon a foundation of quicksand. [ We have heard it predicted that Cole L Blease will carry Williamsburg connty. It would surprise us mightily if the prediction be verified. .??? It is pretty definitely understood that the legislative delegation will endorse for road engineer the man nominated in the primary. Will you support for solicitor a home man or a "rank outsider? ?, ; If one will investigate closely Mr Blease's political career he will find enough to convince him that Mr Blease is not fit to be governor of South Carolina, and it will not require a microscope ither. Not Very Consoling. Humorist?The editor makes fun of my Jokes. Spacer?Well. I don't see that you have any kick coming. That's more than you are able to do.?Chicago flfww*. Mr Stoll's candidacy involves a broader issue than the mere question of his election. It is whether or not the people of Williamsburg will support a home candidate. Your vote nest Tuesday will answer the question. It has been many years since Williamsburg has bad a candidate for State or district office, and it will be many more before another will dare to offer if Mr ' . . . I Stoll is knifed by bis home people. ? ? | Twice a candidate for lientenI I ant governor, once (before this ! time) a candidate for governor, the highest vote ever polled by .Mr 15lease was 18,000 out of a ! total of 100,000. To win this !election he will have to triple the high water mark of his political career. Will he do it? Well, j j hardly. ____________ If it were left to the voters of Williamsburg county the lienlaw would be wiped off the statute books in a short order. Many candidates now quaffing freely the cheering and exhilarating waters of hope will wake up with sagged spirits and a dark brown taste the morning after the *5th. Mr James E Davis, usually well posted on the rules of the Democratic party, sprung a neat poiut at the campaign meeting in Kingstree wheu he cited the constitution of the party requiring all county candidates except magistrates and supervisors of registration to run in the primary election. We do not believe iu attacking a mau's personal character when he enters politics, however bad it may be. That is a matter that people should find out for them..1 selves; 'In men whom men condemn as ill, I find so much of goodness still; Is men whom men pronounce divine, I find so much of sin and blot; I hesitate to draw the line Between the two,where God has not." Audible Contcience. Bonter?Excuse my yawning. I didn't get a wink of sleep last night J upp?Toothache ? Bonter?No. A woman aeked me for some money yesterday, and I refused her. Well, the tones of her voice rang in my head all night. I couldn't close an eye. J upp?Conscience stricken, eh ? Was it a deserving case, do yon think? Bonter?It was my wife. When a newspaper's expressed ideas don't happen to chime in with his infallible opinion as to certain candidates there is always some asinine creature to say that the paper has been "bought up." Let the individual who makes this reckless charge try to "buy op" just one newspaper's opinon and we guarantee that he will be undeceived in a very vigorous and convincing way. Will nnp npnnlp an hank on " ? i?r " n- ? a home man for a stranger? one who, if elected, would have i no interest in our county beyond his official duties; one who pays no taxes to support our own county institutions; one who is a stranger to nine-tenths of the people he is asking to vote for him and who might hold the. office ten years and know the names of but comparatively few of his supporters? We shall see. If Williamsburg county will stick to him Mr Stoll's chances for success are very flattering Let it not be said that his own county people defeated him. At one of the campaign meetings | Mr Blease got so wrought up in his fine frenzy of oratorical elo- j quence as to say, apropos the appointment of a negro uotary by Governor Ansel and Ansel's defense that Tillman, Heyward, McSweeney, Ellerbe and many others of his predecessors had done the same thing: "I would not appoint a negro to an office if every white man in South Carolina asked it," or words to that effect. Think of it! If every white man in South Carolina asked it. Is anv one who would ! utter such a sentiment a safe man f..>. flit. liJ..jinl linmir>ililn nfTipp ,v" l,,t "#*" I of Governor.*' For Railroad (omm issioncr. I beg to announce my capdidacy for re-election to the-office of Kail-j road Commissioner. 1 ant making my campaign, not on promises as to what I will do, but <?n what I have done. Those who have had business with the Kail road Commission will testify that I have ever been ready to discharge the duties of my ofliee fearlessly, ini partially, and to the best interest of the people of South Carolina, and that I have always been courteous to tlmse desiring information or relief. # I am the only Railroad Commissioner who has moved his residence to Columbia, to as to be in immediate touch with the work of the office. During my term of office I have personally inspected every line of* railroad in the State, often walking i crossties that 1 might be assured that the condition of the roadbeds j aud tret ties were su^\ I have been often i \every county in South Caro?T!P, lot Xv?into the condition of the sta> ud improving the convenie .s or the traveling public. I have stood for lower freight anil j passenger rates, better schedules, and safer modes of travel. The handsome majority you gave | me formerly has alwaVs been appreciated ar.d has been au incentive to j a faithful performance of my duties., I hope to have your support in the ; coming election, and I shall strive ever to render you faithful service. Respectfully, BanksLCaughmax. SCRANTON NEWS AND NOTIONS. TOWN TAKING ON NEW LIFE-MANY! CHANGES-SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NOTES. Scranton, August 17: For the past two weeks Scrautonians have been the busiest people iu the lown's history. Some of the merchants have been moving into new stores, some letting contracts for new buildings, some moving into old stores from other cities and others are busy sella of FKaIC a)/1 ofail/lfl Wd I 1U^ at tUV. 1 viu DKUimm ii v/ nave the best shade trees of any town in Williamsburg and before always this is going to be the center spot of the county. First comes our old friend, Mr P M Lee, who recently moved from Conway and opened up at the old Nachman stand. Next comes that good old fellow, Mr J M Parker, who recently mov ed his stock of merchandise from the old Nachman store into his new and up-to-date building on Lee street Then comes Mr R Mac Cooper, who has moved from the corner of East Lee street into a new modem building nearby on Lee street, just beyond the ice plant. Mow comes the old reliable, D Lamar Lee, who has let the contract go for a new brick building on the corner of Lee and West street and it won't be manv days before he will be in his new store. Mr Claude Timmons has moved his entire stock of goods to Brooks X Roads, in Florence county, but we know he will soon return, for if you once get used to Scran ton you have to stay. Hello! I was about to forget Mr L H McCullough,wbo has recently ess tablished an up-to-date paint factory on Pine avenue, near Cannon hotel. Mr McCullough is also expecting to erect a column post spindle factory in Scran ton some time soon. Miss Florence Jacobs of Kingstree is the guest of Mrs W S Lynch this week. A protracted meeting at the missionary Baptist church is going on here this week. Dr W S Lynch returned Saturday night from Okalahoma, after a two weeks' stay in that country. He speaks of having had a nice trip and says that Okalahoma is far ahead of South Carolina. Mr J M Myers spent Sunday with his parents at Cowards. How W B Gause of Cowards was in town between trains Monday. Miss French Coward returned last week from New Zion, where she has been visiting friends. Mr J E Turner paid friends at, Effingham a pleasant call Sunday. Mr 1' M Lee was in Charleston one day last week on business. Mr and Mrs X M Graham have returned from Sullivan's Island, where they have been spending the summer, enjoying the cool sea-breeze. Or and Mrs C II Fate returned last week from Stokes bridge, after spending several days in that towu with relatives. .Miss Annie Singletary was 1 town today from Cowards. ^ Last Friday night, Aug .si 14,! Miss Ilessie Graham, the ^ ' ".a' and accomplished dang' u?. )f Mr and Mrs R 11 Graham, gave id her many friends a birth-day party that will be long remembered by those present. Various games wkre played utwl nVKrvlmile ivnnrtvd si (rood time. *-'? / vvv,j -vr ? ? 0 ? Refreshments were served in abundance. Mr J X B-and of Savannah, (iu, genera! superintendent of the A C L Co., accompanied by PA Willcox, Es'j , of Florence, is in town today on official business. M 5.ss Florrie Barnwell of Adams Run is visiting her sister, Mrs D L Lee, this week. Mrs Maggie Richardson and her two sisters, Misses Fannie and Nena Brooks of Marion,are visiting rel atives in iscranton. M Pt M WOOD S SEEDS. J| Best qualities obtainr.ble. [/ Winter or J II **_ IF nairy veicn Q makes not only one of the largest- | yielding and best winter feed and forage crops you can grow, but is also one of the best of soil-improvers, adding more nitrogen to the soil than anyiother winter crop. Wood's Descriptive Fall Catalogue gives full information * about this valuable crop; also ^about all other Farm 6 Garden Seeds Ofor Fall planting. Catalogue / mailed free on request. Write I for it. II T. W. WOOD ft SONS, J Seedsmen, - Richmond, Va. A Rare Souvenir. A curious souvenir Is preserved Id the Bank of England In the shape of a note for ?1.000 with which Admiral Lord Cochrane paid his fine when he was falsely accused of spreading with an interested object a rumor that Bonaparte was dead in 1814 so as to cause a rise In the price of stocks. The sum mentioned^as raised In subscriptions of a penny by his Westminster constituents. The note is indorsed with the name of tbe intrepid but ill used salt and has inscribed on It a sentence in which be expresses tbe hope that one day he will prove his innocence and triumph over his accusers. That consummation was not effected nntll eighteen years later, when be was reinstated by William IV. ?Loodoo Telegraph. Submarine Navigation. Tbe idea of the submarine la certainly as much as 200 years old, but most of tbe earlier plans were flat failures. In 1774 an Inventor named Day lost his life during an experimental descent in Plymouth sound. Etashnell of Connecticut in 17715 contrived a submarine vessel propelled by some kind of screw. Robert Fulton also in 1790 MiltLvK All^w) wrifK UiVCUbCU ck uvak n UIVU ?uuu UUCU rr aiu combustibles might be propelled under water and made to explode under the bottom of a ship. It. Is hard to say who was the originator of the idea of the submarine boat unless it was Day. ?Nbw York American. A Hard Case. "His wife earns her own money." "Indeed! I did not know she was employed." "Oh. yes; hard at It all the time." "What does she do?" "Works him to give up."?New York Journal. Why He Fretted. Amateur Sportsman (after shooting h!s best friend)?Too bad. too bad! But I thought yon were a deer. The Yict!m?Don't fret. Amateur Sportsman? Don't fret! Why. man. I promised my '.!> a pair of horns.?Illustrated Bit9. The Clock Was Wrecked. Riway?Use an alarrj clock nowadays? Jijjsnp? No: never tried one hut once. Blway ?How was that? | Jijrsi.p? Well, you see. the first time It i went off I didn't exactly know what it ! was. and so I said. "Oh. for heaven's sake. Maria, shut up!" Maria hap- ! peaed to be awake, and?well, that is how it was.?Liverpool Mercury. Chivalrous Chicago. Iu Chicago more than in any other i place is woman regarded in the.light' of a thing of beauty and a joy forever, j There is hardly a man in Chicago who docs not esteem feminine loveliness as | something beyond price?something to 1 live for. to strive for, to suffer for and if necessary to die for.?Chicago Inter Ocean. A Historical Mystery Solved. The man in the iron mask explained. "I let ray wife cut my hair," he sobbed. ITercwith all tendered him respectful | sympathy.?New York Sun. ? :?:@ :?:@ :?:@ :@:@ :?:<? IDAY tlCE 1 DRY ( (c 4 (f ?s4 ? 8 i Walk? an ? i Brown's @ ? ? 1 ? \ IlTstac @ THE OLD f ?:?:? :?:?:?:?:?:?:@:<? FRUIT Extra Frui and Ri HAVE YOU SEEN OUR NE FINEST Of Hammocks, ICE CREAM Refrige ZINC LINED AND WHIT Screen Doors Everything to be found in Sto COFFINS AN! BIG STOCK HOUSE AI> HINfiSTREE m Organized, Develope( Principle of Cons Along Progressi BANK OF WII livmiio i ncc, RESOURCES Solicits a share c business, feeling our ample resoi rior facilities wi ciation with us agreeable and pi C, W, Stoll, Pres. E. L. Montgomery, Asst. C A Girl After Hit Own Heart. A Scotchman, wishing to know his fate at once, telegraphed a proposal of marriage to the lady of his choice. After spending the entire day at the telegraph office he was finally rewarded late in the evening by an affirmative answer. "If I were you," suggested the operator when he delivered the message. "I'd think twice bef<;re I'd marry a girl that kept me wailing all day for my answer." "Xa. na." retorted the Scot "The lass who waits for the r.ight rates is the lass for me."?Everybody's Magazine. " " i Origin of Boston's Glc-y. ' Even as early as the days < ( Ilenry V" VIII. some sort of volume r force ^ had existed in England, and what 13 now the Honorable Artillery company ?. 1 flint t!m/k AT>r! o vv as lunucu uc iuai uuiu unu uw?-uiv ** center of instruction for the city train-' ed bands during the time of Cromwe??V The Honorable Artillery company may be coutifod among tbe things which crossed in the Mayflower, for in 1G3S was formed the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts.?London News. ).'?;? :?:@ .*?;? .*?;?;?;? [T WIM ? 11 olUfllj. MODS, | i ? \ ? ? \ ? Over. { , d . | ? Shoes. \ ? \ .? } ? { @ . ? :kl ey. S RELIABLE. ? i>:?.@:@:?:?:?:?:@:?:? JARS t Jar Tops ' ibbers. ;W PATENT FRUIT JAR? ^ EARTH: Hammocks. WDPP7PDC1 r niiiiziiiiio, rators. E ENAMELED LINED. and Windows. i a First-class Hardware re. D CASKETS. JD CARRIAGE PAINT. iVARE COMPANY. i and conducted on ervative Banking ive Lines, the jLIAMSBURG- ' eniiTU raom ima ovw I n wnnvhiivft > $150,000 1 )f your banking confident that irees and supe11 render asso i permanently ofitable. : : E C. Epps, Cashier, ashier, F. Rhem, V, Pres, t ,\ ; ... ' .