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' Just received f STRA "*1 l icasui c> iai\c : pooTconrad receives a letter THAT I0I1S BACK THE SCROLL OF THE TlilS ANO SUGGEST? HOKE RENIN ISCENCES OF ITGONE SCENES. Editor County Record:? I ha?e been requested by several of my friends and acquaintances to give them another letter. I scarcely know what to give them this time. I am up at Mr J J M Graham's again, the place of milk and butter and bog killiug and sausages by the mile. I see tou are haviDg a good time eatiug possum and "taters." I know that is good, but the backbones, spare ribs and sausages are good enough for me, and sweeter 'Haters'' never grew than those made by Mr Graham, while Mrs Graham | knows how to bake them. Well, Mr Editor, my letter this j time will be a short one, but I must tell you of a letter I received from two old friends whom I have not aeea in 25 years. Now,that takes me j away back again?those memories so dear to this poor old heart. Take me back, yes, take me back? "Backward, turn backward, oh! time, in thy flight." ' Times aud people were so different from what so many are now . Mr Editor, you dou't know anything aknii!1 fh/vsp times ?hf-n rvnnlp wonlii ? r r? | move along so much more quietly; than cow. Time seemed longer. It1 waa not all hurry and bustle?a! scramble after this and a grab at i that; get rich quick as you can,right I or wrong. All is fair: he who gets j the most by ways most unfair is of'en ; loosed upon as the cleverest gentle- * man. Yea, 1 received a letter from mvj old frieud. Mr C O Wheeler, and I -would like so much for you to put it; in The Record, as I want my! friends that read The county j Record to rejoice with me. As \ the Spartan soldier said after he had run a distance of fifteen miles from l\*.. ?ll KIaA^I' tl*Am I LUC UilCliCiiCmT ilii Viwui livui ?mv wounds be had received m the tight: "Rejoice with me, countrymen, the victory ia ours!" and fell dow n and expired. Now, I am ct fc ready to fall i down and expire: but if I do, I want! my friends and countrymen to re- . joioe with me, for to me it is glory more grand to get a letter of lore, from a noble fellow likeC 0 Wheel-; er than to tell of great victories inf bloody battle. I write about my friends: yes,! L, T Mr pro?e tirem iu uc av iuuu i x, j Editor?) and I must prove this good fellow so. At one time I owed him; four hundred dollars. Says he to; me (for he had my note and in shape | that nis money was sure), "Conrad, j bring me three hundred dollars and j I will call it square." Well, I got! busy and called on my friend, Mr VY D McFadden, for whom I was boating rosin and turpentine from Mouzon's Bridge to Kingstree. "Billy" gave me a check for $300,so j I got $100 as a gift. So please, sir, put this later in The Record. It ia but a few lines, but it went to the old heart of I'oor Conrad. Darlington, S C, January 23, 1909 Mr Courad Constine, Xingstree, S Dear Friend:? Recently Mr Henry Smith handed me TheCointy Record,in which was a letter from you, which I enjoyed reading, ar.d we then and there agreed to ask you to come to Dar-' lington and visit us and we will try; and gire you a good time between us. You cau spend part time with j me and part with hiur Now, old ' A'-1i, - ?- J -TO GO( rom USS BR< n and FIT GUARANTEED. LADIES' YOURS fellow,come, as I assure you I would : certainly enjoy having you here and I know Mr Smith weald. Yours truly, C O Wheeler. I am now about through with Mr J J M Graham's work, dressing the | lumber for quite a large building for a store and one small job for Miss Pearl Graham, mending the sewing machine drawers. Having eaten all the sausages and backbones, too, ! Xow for BJack river fish and "pine bark stew." Hoping, Mr Editor, when you have space in The Record to spare you will put this in if it happed to miss the waste basket, Yours very truly, Poor Conrad Cades, S C, February 24. Teachers' Association Meeting. The next regular meeting of the Williamsburg County Teachers' association will be held at the graded school building, Kingstree, Saturday, March 6. Following is the programme: "How to Make Grammar Interesting"?Mr W E King and Miss Mary Huggins. "Fractions"?Mr H G Sheridan. "The Literary Society in the Public School"?Mr 0 M Mitchell. The April meeting will be held in Scranton, April 3. J Groves Colbert. Pres W C T A. Foley's Orino Laxative cures constipation and liver trouble and makes the bowels healthy and regular. Orino is superior to pills and tablets as it does not gripe or nauseate. Why take anything else? W L Wallace. A Deservedly Successful Mtgaziie. Lippincott's for March is as fresh and vigorous as the month's bracing .winds. More than half its substantial bulk is given up to the complete uove!?"A Knight Errant in Broad way," by Rupert Sargent Holland, whose hook, "The Count at Harvard," was well received a couple of years ago. Mr Holland takes as his theme the career of a rather commonplace and not particularly scrupulous young mau who comes to New York from a small country town to seek his fortune. He finds "Tenderloin* life fascinating,and as he is in the employ of a rascally lawyer, he is rapidly succumbiug to the evil influences which surround him " kAn U mmnrr orirl PAmnfl infft hifl ?? UCU C? JVUUg glift VUMJVW *"VV M*W life?a young girl who is sweet and pare. Somehow his old associates besin to seem tawdry to him, his better nature asserts itself, aud in the eud he proves his manhood and his entire worthiness to wed the charming Rhoda. The transactions of the crooked lawyer and the still more crooked "promoter" throw an interesting side-light on one phase of life in the modem Gotham. Despite the vigilance of the postoffice authorities, it is safe to say that there are still numerous enterprises as dubious as the "National Non-Refillable Bottle Company," and there probably always will be so long as there are people gullible enough to put their money .^to get-rich-quick schemes about which thjy have no authoritative information. Ijl T_JrvnAtr un/1 Tq v nlnopo f r UlCJr 3 JllUUCJ anu JLUI VK1UO Iriit air passages, stops the irritation in the throat, soothos the inflamed membranes, and the most obstinate cough disappears. Sore and inflamed lungs are healed nnd strengthened, andi the cold is expelled from the system. Refuse any but the genuine in the yellow package. W L Wallace. The man who was born in a cellar is just as much entitled to sleep in the guest chamber as the one who was born with a silyer spoon in his mouth. L rnhii*'- [ )D CLOTI OS. A FULL LINE 1 - aiso nave samples ot TAILOR W TO PLEASE. SCMIVTON SNIP SHOTS. Mr Wright to Resume Business?Local and Personal Notes. Scranton, February 23:?No, dear Marguerita, "W E C" has hot fallen into innocuous desuetude, but has been busy building air casiles which have collapsed with such rapidity as to chill his hopeful heart into a state of! roonAncfllDCcnnco T .Arslr fnr 11C I hereafter, we will appear in these columns more frequently. The local baseballists have organized a team and are practicing for the approaching season. We expect to see some interesting games during the summer. Pelzer M Lee and Charles P Johnson have formed a partnership for the purpose of conducting a general mercantile business in Scranton. They are opening a large stock of goods in the Cusaac building. It is understood that Mr Winslow Wright, who suffered so heavily from fire recently, will resume business in the near future. i Messrs L L Hmson and W J Wright of Whiteville, N C, visited Mr and Mrs Winslow j nr .* i i i. i. wngni iasi ween. Miss Esteile Coward came 1 home from HartsVille last week to visit her parents. Messrs W Eugene Cooke, P M Lee and C P Johnson went to ; Florence last Friday on business. i Monday, the 22nd, being Wash- i ington's birthday, the exercises ] at the graded school were suspended. Mrs J T Kimball of Conway is 1 the guest of Mr P M Lee's fam- , ily. The ruins of Wright's mammor/.o nfilfl OcfoKl ichmPTlt U1U111 llltl vail WIIV. covuvnwrkiuivtiv excite the sympathy of all pass ers-by. It is hoped that frcm the ashes of such valuable property a larger and more prosper ous business will soon arise. W E C Pneumonia Follows La Grippe. Pneumonia often follows la grippe but never follows the use of Foley's Honey and Tar,for la grippe coughs aud deep seated colds. Kef use any j but the genuine in the yellow pack age. W L Wallace. J m m i A Cantankerous "Critter." , j The Salisbury, in u, spectator j tells of the troubles of an esteemed contemporary: "The editor of The Fayette Advertiser is bragging this week about his new gasoline engine. He'll never brag again, for he's had that engine a week now,and if you've noticed, no ; one ever brags on a gasoline engine but once. Of all machines ever invented for man's undoing, this same j orHonlinp ahnormitv takes the lead. It' ie as cantankerous as a donkey, as obstreperous as a pig, as stubborn as i a setting hen and as perverse as a woman!" You should not delay under any ' circumstances in cases of Kidney j and Madder trouble. You should take something promptly that you know is reliable, something like De- j Witt's Kidney and Bladder Pills. They are unequaled for weak back, backache, inflammation of the blad- j der, rheumatic pains, etc. When you ask for DeWitt's Kidney and Blad- ! der Pills, be sure you get them. They are antiseptic. Accept no substitutes; insist upon getting the right kind. Sold by D C Scott, M D. wmmmmmmmwmmmammmmm mm wi - SPRII IDE SKIRT! President Mckinley's Sweetness of Spirit,. The quality that overcame those who dealt with AlcKiqJey was his sweetness. The old sto*/ of the late speaker, Tom Reed, has probably been heard by mauy. ?pinebody, speaking of a prominent man, said: *1 wish I could say what I heard him say, v.hat in all the thirty years of his married life he never uttered one impatient word to his wife." I ' Why don't you say it? The other did," Reed drollv qut.'ied. Now, ordinarily, when a man eays that sort of thing some doubt arises in the minds of his bearers, because there are times in the lives of most of us when we say things that we would be glad to have wiped out,and the good women who permit us to live with them know it. This was literally true of William McKinley, and the enlogiums pronounced upon him can be verified by everyone who knew President McKinley in l is home life, or came in contact with him. Mr Carnegie has said he nev. r heard an impatient word from his lips and never kuew him to be angry. I knew him pretty well and I never knew him to be angry but once and that was when someone threatened that if a certain thing which McKinley did not think right to do, in reference to his policy in the Philippines, was left uudone, it would lose him his nomination for a second term. ? William Howard Taft, March National Magazine. Galloway cattle are being raised in Alaska for their skins, which are considered the equal of bearskins for beauty and durability. Dyspepsia And General Debility iire cured by P.P.V. Lippinau's Great RciikhIv. the *unerior of 11 sarsa pari lias. P-P.P. is the great?-st tonic for the stomach that \va> ever known. 1 i.digestion. Had Dreams, and itiliousness five way rapidly to the powerful tonic and Moot clean-in? properties of P. P. P. A prominent iiaiiroad Superintendent living at Savannah,(ia., in which city lie vva- born, says he leels better than he ever did. anil he had the worst case ot d.v^p* p-ia on record. He had no appetite, ana the little he ate disagreed with I int. causing him to vonjit.ofnn; he had pains in tie head, br-au a id stomach; tut after using three bottles of P.P. P. he felt like a new man. lie *ays that he feels that he would live forever if tie could always get P. P. IV His name w ill be given on application to IIS. Sold by W L Wallace. Weak Kidneys 3attM mora tronbla tbaa any othar erfaa of tba body. Tba fanotloa of tba kldaaya la to taparata taorraalc salt sad watsr la tba proMas of circulation, sad to rtaort tbaa aad thalr attandaatpolsoas from tba body through tba bladdar. Tharafora whoa tho kldaays , kaooaa dlaaaaod aad waak thay ara naturally I taabla to parfora thalr work properly, aad palna la tba book, Inflammation of tba bladdar tad urinary dlaordara ara tbo raanlt. It la imparatlra that a prompt ralfnf ba afford ad. a bleb la kBpoaalbla nalaaa yon rtaora tba BeWitt's Kidney and Bladder PiUa promptly allmlnats poisons it am ins sjmn i iatf st las same tins maka ths kidneys wall 1 and strong. Per Wnak Kidneys. Baokaohe, tnRamnaaflon of the bladder ana all , urinary troubles De Witt's Kidney end Bladder Pills are unsurpassed. A Week's Treatment for 25c. Money baek If they fall. For Sale by W L Wallace. \ Jt D, GILLAND, j1 i Real Estate Broker, i i KINGSTREE, S. C. j * For Rent -Farm of 129 i s acres. 99 acres cleared ) ! > and ready for cultivation. <? j M-room dwelling, stable, * j } barn, &c? 3 miles north- \ j e west of Kingstree on the \ ? Sumter road. Very rea- \ } sonable price. Apply at \ > office of Cilland & Gil- \ } land, Kingstree, S. C. i 5ARERS:' SAM % MEASURES TAKEN ^ r>/\r? c* a MP + m ruK c. 5. MAI 1 SHEET j| Instrumental |j All the Late Populi ? In Fui ? . c we ofFer something" for ever) to the most luxurious. We ( |j Coffins, Caskets and! *2 Services day or ni^bt *2 1 JO U We are exclus tl ? Huyler's ? It's a pleasure to s! 1 L. J. ST. ? "The Furni ? KINQSTRI ^006000006600 iSPORTINl X GET READY FOR THE BI O HEADQUARTERS FORG1 O Ri t nenn.7 an A Wc Q J UXAU TT V X Harness, Builc 8 and Shelf Hare 0 AQENT FOR ncCORJV g HARVESTERS A g LAKE CITY HARD X LAKE Cr 2XXX)QOOOOOOOO \ IN ADD1T1 { the large line of jEiBf.mn r we always c \ -Repair Dei { for Watches and Jewelry is \ We want your business. * r\r laiiralrir i UlUftCU VV CI dvvwujr \ SATISFACTION. } We are Watch Inspectc i Georgetown & Western Ra i solidated Railroad. 5 ?&?MAIL ORDERS ReceiFe Proi Stephen Thoi \ JEWELK } 257 Km STREET, ( \ w ^ Young Let us help you. You 1 HARNESS. We have a la you at close prices and on lib you future trouble by selling us a trial. It is a pleasure foi For the older folks we h; COMFORT and WEAR. W ment of harness at all times, ons of standard makes. HORSES AND MULES season opens up. Give us at to MAKE TT PLEASANT and At tlft old stand of Tho W. P. HAW KJNGSTR] --- ' I fl ZZZTl IPLES. 3 RCUS. / SSSSSSSSSSSASSSS* MU5IC | a/7</ Vocal | ir Selections at 10c $ rniture | r home, from the humblest ^ livide profits with you. 2ft Jndertafcers Supplies ; cheerfully rendered g ive agents for Candies g ;*1 bow you our goods. j#l ' 4CKLEY, 8 m ture Man" 8 BE, S. C. g OOOOOOOOOOOOt I lmO RD SEASON. WE ARE X ? IJNS and AMMUNITION O ATT IgUll iYlCUCl JLCU, Q ling Material^ Iware, 8 s LICK MOWERS AND Q ND HAY RAKE. g IWARE COMPANY, ? rr.s. C- O 00000000000<9\ [ON TO I ||j llsuDIIH :arry, our t partmerxt ) in IK A Caii^Ii l UllCAL-CUCU III UIC JUUlll. 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