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2-Uu ttoMHttf r?V ' KINGSTREE.* S. C. ?1 \ : C. W. WOLFE. v EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. ' Entered at the postoffice at Kingstree, S C as second class mail matter. ' I I ' TELEPHONE NO. 83TERMS SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ' One copy, one year . .$1 25 One copy, six months... * 75 i , One eaipy,-three, tnantfes 50 'V One copy, one year i t advance ? 1 00 Obituaries, Tributes of Respect, Resolutions of Thanks, Cards of Thanks and all other reading notices,not News, will be charged for at the rate of one eeat a word for each insertion. All changes of advertisements and all communications must be in this office ' before TUESDAY NOON in order to appear in the ensuing issue. All communications must be signed by fEfc writer, not for publication unless desired, but to protect this newspaper. ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements to be run' in Special coium, one cent a word each issue, minimum price 25 cents, to be paid for in advance. Legal advertisements, $1.00 per inch first insertion, 50 cents per inch each subsequent insertion. Rates on long term advertisements ; very reasonable. For rates apply at tiis office. In remitting checks or money orders 1 U.S. BUS pSVBUie w x THE COIWfY RECORD. "In men whom men condemn ^s ill, I find so much of goodness still; In men-whom MEN pronounce divine, I find so much of sin and blot? 1 hesitate to draw the line Between the two?where God has not" KINGSTREE?THE GATEWAY TO OPPORTUNITY. THURSDAY. FEB. 23. 1911. . Governor Blea.se \s grand stand p'ay at economy will benefit the down-trodden tax-payer very little. As we figure it, if a mail now pays taxes on one thousand dollars worth v - j ?*f property he is saved alxmt twenty eeatd. a _ Eighty crates of radishes were i shipped last Tuesday to Northern Hiarket* from Beaufort county. What's the matter with Williamsburg? But we forget?Lake City, our banner trucking section, is now joined to Florence. Oh, you strawberries' / ? According to the Honorable T4 uma^ K Watson, the Sage of Th >mson, <*a, the Honorable Hoke Smith's in >st ere litable achievement ia life woul 1 out-weigh in in fatny any plot, or number of plots, concocted by the whole tril>e of bold bad boll-weevil distributors. We believe in tax reduction, but \ ? over nor Blease's veto axe seems to Le but child's play. If the entire appropriation budget approximates two million dollars he might very easily have cut out $250,000 and left the State with money on hand . without eternally borrowing and paying interest. As it-is, the feeble little cut of $HH,000 is a mere bagatelle,scarcely worth bothering with. rfauator Tillman liad a sinking pell in the Senate chamber one day last we<ik while delivering a eulogy uu his deceased colleagues, Senators I2aj and Dolliver.v It is to*be hoped ghat no one will exhibit the bad taste to be casting about for his possible successor, as was the ease last year when the Senator's physical collapso took place. All during the Senator's illness many newspapers' were coldly speculating upon "Tom's, Dick's or Harry's" chance to land the sick man's job. If Governor Blease keeps up the pace he has set# in liberating prisoners from the State 'penitentiary, by the end of two years theiState might ^ve a good bit of money by abolish '.V ... I ing that institution. Incidentally all the criminal courts might Ik? abolished, except special courts-to try and punish the Governor's political enemies. With His Excels ileney to appoint special Judges to try these political enemies, what .a glorious spectacle of political and civil government we would have, to he sure! . In vetoing the bill* to allow the city of Charleston the opportunity^ vote on the commission form of eovernment.Governor Blease gives a gratuitous slap in the faee to about fifteen hundred petitioners, comprising the leading business men of the city. Evidently the Governor knows Charleston politics pretty weH. Senator Tillman never exactly* truckled to gain Charleston's good will, yet when he. honors the city with his presence, 'the prominent citizens are wont to fall over one another kowtowing around him. The mailed glove is more effective than the silk mitten when it comes to ward politics. Governor-Elect^ Hoke Smith is getting a lot of free advertisftg over an alleged plot the Governor "Sherlockcd" that some I evil-minded per* son or persons,of unknown name or wherealxmts, had concocted to turn t ' loose some thousands of the gay and festive boll weevil in Georgia and the Carolinas. The astute former and future Chief Executive of ' Jaw-jaw" foiled the deep-dyed villains by the simple expedient of receiving an unsigned letter giving away the whole nefarious scheme. Just why the anonymous parties wanted to turn loose the greedy insects on new grazing ground, except through pure "cussedness," or why the discoverer of the wicked plot did not disclose his own name, at least, is left for our ancient friend ' Echo" to answer. Is it a hoax on Hoke or is the hodx Hoke's own doin*? ( ______ STORIES OF MARK TWAIN. Th? Great Humoriet Wai a Child in ' Financial Matters. > '*E very body who knew Mark i Twain recognized that in a matter I of business lie was the veriest i child," said the clerk of a hotel ( where Mr. Clemens used to put up. "Y remember that one day after his wife's death, when her estate ( was being settled up, he came downstairs one morning to receive an /OVisMal InrkL-intr lfttpr from ono of 1 tho administrators. Fie opened it ( slowly and stood for a long time ^ studying the figures on an Enclosure. "'Good Lord!' he finally ex- ' claimed. 'Do 1 owe them $33,000 < or do they owe me $18,000?' He i passed the paper over to me, and < when I told him tho balance was in 1 his favor he seemed greatly relieved. "Once he was unintentionally instrumental in getting our cashier ] tired. Mr. Clemens was in the habit ( of getting $50 or $100 a day from the office. Sotnetimes he would get it without a draft, and sometimes 5 his secretary would come down- 1 stairs with him and cash a check, j After he had gone home after one j of his visits we sent him a bill. We got an answer saying the bill was too small, for he had drawn $100 1 more than he had been debited with. This made the proprietor angry, and he fired the cashier on ] the 8pot. It efterward turned out , that on the morning that Mr. Clemens had drawn this particular $100 1 his secretary immediately afterward 1 had given the cashier a check for ] $100, so that there was no entry on , the book. ( "One day when Mr. Clemens walked in and signed his name I asked him how long he expected to stay. I'll tell you/ he replied, 1 leaning over the counter. It de- , pends on the weather and my shirts. I've one shirt on and two in mjt grip. As soon as they all get T om orrtin<? harlc home.'"? J. V"-" e Q New York Sun. No Happy Medium. "A very young person doesn't aire what any one thinks of him." "Yes; I have noticed that" "And today 1 beard an eiderly lady say that she had got so old that she doesn't care what people think of her." \ .. .. ..* v ' j . A jj 'TOPICSj! A $70,000 fire devastated the town of Jonesville Friday morning. XXX ' J Edgar Shumate, superintendent of Moneynick oil mill at Pel2er, wras crushed to deathf a few days ago by a'fly wheel Of an engin?. XXX At a negro hot supper one day last week ney Tirzah, in York county, Will Barrett was shot1 and killed by Sam Ferrall. Both parties were negroes. XXX John Keith, a farmer, of Marion county, committed suicide last Wed.- ' nesday by shooting himself through the head with a pistol. No cause is apparent for the deed. XXX j i A negro woman and child were burned to a orisp Thursday of last week in a house near Orangeburg. It is suspected that they were murdered and the burning was to conceal the more heinous crime. ' ' XXX .V . 4 >4 ' . ... _ ?. J Duncan u jirant,a wnue man, ana ' Mary Fair, a negro woman from Laurens county, both serving life sentences, have 1oeen pardoned by Governor Blease. Both these pardons had been refused by Governor Ansel. x xxx ! The Charleston Sons of the Revolution will attefcd service in a body next Sunday at Grace Episcopal church in that city, being the first Sunday after Washington's birthday. Walter Hazard, Esq, of Georgetown 1 has been invited to address them. ' xxx 1 Mr S Bland Conner, principal of j Ft Motte school,lost his li^e last Saturday attempting to alight from the ''Purrflina Snomal " ( foot train nn the Southern railway,while the train was moving. The unfortunate young 3 man was horribly mangled and died three hours after the accident. i XXX I At his plantation on the Enoree \ river, three miles from Woodruff, s last week William Martin Langford, | / an aged Confederate veteran, put a bullet through the heart of his son, William David Langford, 35 years ^ )ld,killing him instantly. Domestic u trouble was the cause of the trage- J ly. XXX Jy Upon entering a room in Green- * rille Wednesday to arrest G W Stone- > cypher, who had been raising a disturbance in a drunken spree,Thomas js I Cureton,familiarly known as "Un- ; :le Tommy," a 70-year-old police- ^ nan and the oldest man in point of * service on the Grdenville police force, was shot in the head by Stonecypher. XXX t Near White Sulphur, Georgia, masked robbers held up a fast train ] m the Southern railway early Sat- c arday morning and -dynamited a I small safe in the express car, from t which they took $700. The big safe ^ in the same car contained $65,000, it ^ is said. The robbers, supposed to be b seven in number, escaped in an au tomobile. . J XXX, Rewards aggregating $700 have ( been offered for the capture of an unknown desperado who on Friday ) morning of last week: shot and killed ( 0 S Gunnells, of the Greenville city 1 police force,and wounded R V Johnson,another policeman. The shooting I occurred about 2 o'clock in the morning in the colored passenger! waiting room of the Columbia & | Greenville railroad,when the officers ] of the law were rounding up the 1 unknown man as a suspicious char- < acter. Intense excitement prevails | and if the murderer is caught he ( may "be lynched. T- ! The fctjly Objection. "I always take things as they come." "I would do that, too, If I could." "If you could?" "Yes." I "Why can't.you?* "The things 1 want never come." V, } * J ' I SPEpIAL NOTICES iffS Phone us when you wajnt QjT to get a notice under this , heading. Price one cent a Aj} word for each insertion. No V ad taken for less than 25c. ( Phone 83. I For Sale?Scholarship in Bryant & Strarton Badness college, Louisville. If interested let u* ht-ar from you. 8-ll-tf Thk ( ol'nty Record. Wanted ?To buy 1,000 head of Chickens at once. Cash paid for Hides and Furs. *' r5 , *v The Peoples Market, 2-16-4t H A Miller, Final Discharge; Notice is hereby given that on the . 20th-day of March, 1911,1 will apply to P M Brocldnton, Judge ' of Probate fot Williamsburg county, for a Final Discharge as Administratrix of the estate of Hector Mpuzon. . Luella Frasier, i 2-23-4t Administratrix. 1 Weekly List of Special Bargains in \ arious Departments?Jenkinson BrosCo. > Page ad announcing Bargain Sale? S Marcus. Closing-out Sale of Everything in the Store?H D Reddick. ? * ' An Interesting Example of Interest Accumulation?Farmers & Merchants Bank, Lake City. Desire the Farmers to See Their Line of Planters and Cultivators?/ * R F Taylor & Co, Lake City. Notice in Bankruptcy?Charles W Stoll, Referee in Bankruptcy. Notice to Creditors?Marie D Harrelson vs E G Dunlop et al. Pinal Discharge?Luella Frasier, . Administratrix. , Big 30-Day Offer. We are making a big offer for 30 j lays only oti the following: [*he County Record, - $1 00 ' Atlanta Constitution, Three times a Week, - - 1 00 Some and Farm or Southern Cultivator or Southern Ruralist,, - - . - - 50 $2~50 All the above for 30 days' only for 11 75.1 You can't afford it? You can't ifford to miss it. If preferred, Hunan Life, a dollar a year magazine, vill be substituted for any of the ibove named maga^nes. 1 tf k nival of Passenger Trains at Klngstree. The Atlantic Coast Line railroad ?? ? ? ? ? ?! .iwwJ ^^.11 AttnnoaLa/1 . IttS piUIllUIg?l*:u U1C lununiue avucu- j tie, which became effective Sunday, j anuary 1, 1911: ^ North Bound. j fo 80 - - - 7:45 a m j No 46 - - 11:37 am I Jo 78 - - - 6:12 pm | South Bound. i lo 79 - - - 11:14 a m * No 47 - - - - 6:09 p m ? lo 89 - - - - 9:10 pm | Daily except Sunday, j When He Did Better. , X A celebrated bishop once eat x hrough a long and atrocious ser- c non on a hot summer morning, k The preacher was a youth just out ? if college?a very conceited youth, i le bellowed through his aermoq at f he top of his lungs. His gestures vere violent enough to break his ] trms. At every climax he fixed ; he bishop with his eye to see if 8 uitable impression had*been made. And at the end of the service this j roting snip swaggered up to the j >ishop and said: J "T fancy I did rather well today, | lir. Don't you tlnplc tor c "Yes.'* returned the bishop; "but J rou did hotter Inst- year.** J "Last year'*' end the yoongman. 'Why. T didn't preach at all last rear." I "That's tin* reason." said the bishop, with a pleaeiyt smile.* A* H* Should Bt. "After you've been two weeks in the house with one of these terribly handy men that ask their wives to be sure and wipe between the tines 5f the forks, and that know just bow much raising bread ought to have, and how to hang out a wasn so each piece will get the best sun, it's a real joy to got back to the ordinary kind of man. Yes, 'tis so!" Mrs. Gregg finished with much emphasis. "1 want a man who should have sense about the things he's meant to have sense about, but when it comes tojceeping house I like to see *him real helpless, the way the Lord planned to have him!'* t s < . i a.AfPi'/Hj 11 "fifi ..t I \ . tiS96M6d69896S6S6a!636S6Sa |lj. stackley! f) The Coffins and Caskets Man | ^ ii offers his services 8 ( | Day and 'Night | 8 in theS FIRST OFFICE OYEIT STANLEY'S DRY 600DS CO.'S. 8 " : @)/vvvyywvyvywv^^ I The Secret of Success j | Is to buy right, sell at small profit | '| f to the right party quick, make all 3: :S good you promise and do unto your . : fellow man as you wouldhave him do j; : unto you. ' - 3; it This we do. Come try us. 3; it Third load will be here by the 25th. 3: I Greelyville liw Stock Co., i \t Ij. B. RHODUS. 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