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?Iir (Ernmiy Sworh. KINQSTREE. S. O. ' C. W. WOLFE, ' EDITOR PROPRIETOR. Entered at the postoffice at Kingstree, j S C as second class mail matter. TELEPHONE NO. 83. VERMS SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One copy, one year $1 25 One copy, six months 75 One copy, three months 50 One copy, one year in advance.... 1 00 * " * - * -Jt.Aiifi'oamnnfo onH All cnanges ui wkciukiuuiw ... All communications must be in this office before TUESDAY NOON in order to appear in the ensuing issue. 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 cent a word for each insertion. All communications must be signed by the writer, not for publication unless desired, but to protect this newspaper. ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements to be run in Special eolum, one cent a word each issue,minimum price 25 cents, to be paid for in advance. Le^al advertisements, $1.00 per inch first insertion, 50 cents per inch each SuusequeuL msciuvu. Rates on long term advertisements very reasonable. For rates apply at this office. In remitting checks or money orders make payable to THE COUNTY RECORD, j "In men whom men condemn as ill, I find so much of goodness still; In 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" KIXGSTREE?THE GATEWAY j TO OPPORTUNITY. THURSDAY, FEB-8. 1912. To Thine Own Self Be True. ! Do not listen to the arguments! that the other fellows are not; going to curtail. hot the other! fellows increase their acreage, if; they would Ik? treacherous to themselves and to their neighbors, I but if by their treachery they cause the price to fall they suffer most. If in spite of their treachery, cotton goes higher, you make a profit that you would not have made had you not, with the others true to the ? i A j xi :r muse, cunaueu. aihi, men, u you do not make the profit on cotton that the other fellow does, t you make it on other products. If the farmers would come to; realize this, no organization would he necessary.?Lnvrens Advertiser. Governor Blease has a pretty good nucleus for an "Ananias club". # And the State Senate "put to death" the Biennial Sessions hill. Wonder why? The State Senate seems inclined to coquet with the Anti-racing m. Is it possible that they will cut off the tail of the gambling monster and leave intact its venomous head? We realilize the fact that this is an age of extravagance, but - T 1 1 _ ? we tear our .Legislators are going a bit too fast in their opulent schemes to spend a couple of millions improving the State House and the Hospital for the Insane. Every year the burden of taxation grows heavier. What will lie the limit? Governor Blease seems to have it in for all the Joneses. He went out of his way recently to say that Comptroller Jones was "impertinent". The Governor had j , tetter be careful. Get the families of Jones and Smith against a man and he stands hut small chance of l>eing elected to office. When the tongue of trade is coated, when the eyes and limbs of the clerk are dull and languid, when the raging fever tackles the empty vitals of the till, t when tiie spider roosts in the empty cash box, and bouquets of decay are on the chandeliers, then it is conclusive evidence that the advertising doctor has not i?een consulted. Wouldn't it lie well for parents who have children in school to take sufficient interest in the .M'llUUl ilUU LIICU tlliiuicu IV i 1.711 the school at least once during the term? We hear parents complaining of the schools, who have no more knowledge of how they are being conducted than has a resident Kamchatka. We do know that strangers who have visited our school have said that we have the best school for the size of the town of any that they know of. Support the school and the teachers. Parents should l>e cautious al>out giving their children permission to stay out of school even for one day. Every day counts, if the school is of any account, and a flay lost can never '?* made up. Continued absences cause the pupil to fall l>e-| I hind and then he wants to "stop school", finding fault with the teacher, and charging him or her with partiality, prohahly. A boy or girl who stops school on account of partiality on the part of the teacher, whether real or imagined, seldom makes good "in the world's broad field of battle", according to our observation. Another harebrained scheme, as we see it, is the "proposition" to issue bonds for a million dollars for an up-to-date insane asylum. Surely the originator of such a scheme is mighty near himself a fit inmate for the palatial resort he contemplates. t li p amendment e o through there will he more lunatics than ever l>efi re. Everybody will Ik* "just crazy to go crazy", no Uouht. We believe in treating the afflicted wards of the State humanely, but the tax-payers cannot afford to furnish them a fine hotel. We may l?e wrong, hut in our humble opinion the hill to appropriate a quarter of a million dollars for a warehouse system to aid in holding cotton will Ikj a useless expenditure of the tax-payers' money. It smacks too much of the "Alliance Exchange" and the "Sub-treasury scheme". A few individuals will get the money and the offices, and the farmer, as usual, will l>ear the brunt. If we are in error we shall f>e pleased to he set right, but according to our lights at present it is not a scheme that will benefit 3 the farmer commensurate with the unnrmdiK pvnpnrfiture involved. Governor Blease professes to stand for reform, yet it is charged that he authorized the committee on State House and Grounds to employ architects to draw plans for remodeling the present State House at a cost of nearly fourteen thousand , for rkl'iru und model' Will UV11UIC 1VI ? . ?. ... the tux-payers stand for such extravagance? But that is not the worst. The fourteen thousand dollar plans are for the purpose of expending a million dollars for remodeling the State House, for which same purpose, less than ten years ago, if we remember aright, something like two hundred and fifty thousand dollars was squandered. We say squandered advisedly, for they say that the money spent was worst than wasted, for it did the I building harm rather than good, i Will the tax-payers vote for such ( 4 ruinous taxation? We hoi** not. The local newspaper works for * the town; does its l?est to further every legitimate enterprise or industry, and promote progress in ( every line. It draws trade to the 1 town and directly or indirectly puts ( money into the pockets of every citizen thereof and adds to the well j U'ing of all. The Record has a , weekly pay-roll approximately fifty 1 dollars ?twenty-five hundred dol- J lars a year?almost every dollar of which is spent here in town. More] over we pay State, town and county ( *ovi>c mwl ?nd r*nntrihnto to < almost joverv worthy cause: yet : some of onr business men send their job work to strangers, without even 1 giving us the chance to bid on it! Is it fair? We don't charge any higher price than any other concern < will make you, and we do think we I should be allowed to make a hid on ( your job work, especially the work of the court house officials. j1 WHAT OUR REPRE- j; SENTATIVES ARE DOINGj; ? i1 AT THE STATE CAPITAL?MEAS- ( L'RES WISE AND OTHERWISE j 3 BEING CONSIDERED. t PaIi.MAUJA r CI ( Cnom q 1 \ ^ VjUlUinuia,rcui utu j u. \upwiui/. I The current week will likely go j * down in the journals of the 19121c session of the General Assembly as J1 the busiest of the entire session, j1 unless it be the last., which usually c has more crowded into it than the jN ordinary Legislative week can stand.1 ( The Senate is especially busy this,5 week, there being several important i matters sent from the House and ; several originating in the Senate ir that must be disposed of with de- * liberation. ( One of the most important matters 1 before the upper branch of the Gen- j1 eral Assembly is the so-called "Anti- f racing bill". Thi3 bill is intended * posed of by the end of the week, but j before disposition be made it will' t most certainly bring forth heated ' ? , a debate. ^ This bill, fathered by Senator v Epps, provides that not more than b one dispensary may be established * g in any county having the dispensary system, except those counties that p have cities of more than fifteen a thousand inhabitants. The bill is ^ thought to be a good measure by 1 P those Senators opposed to the liquor s traffick, especially by some of the | u to prevent book-making, pool-selling j1 and other forms of gambling, and it I? will thus outlaw horse racing as it is N now maintained. Charleston is the * only town at present with a race t course and the bill will affect that r city chiefly. There is much opposi- f r tion to the bill, both in the General ' s Assembly and in Charleston, and in ? some in other counties of the State. The bill passed the House last week with only a few slight amendments, j the law to become elfective immediately upon its approval by the Gov- i1 ? 8 ernor. A similar bill has passed I \ two readings in the Senate and there are many favoring its enactment, j * i \ The Senate bill was called on third . | || reading last week but those in op position to it asked that debate be c postponed till this week and this was 1 done, it being agreed that it be set 1 ? | ? as special order for Tuesday night. 1' | g It is thought the bill will pass the I o upper branch as easily as it passed the lower branch. ie Dispensary Bills. il Another bill that was set last week j 1 as a special order for one day this! t week is the bill to allow an election li on the dispensary re-establishment in Orangeburg county. There were many in the Senate opposed to the n bill and a lively debate was pre- f cipitated. However, it was post- e poned. The bill will likely be dis- f posed of ere the end of this week. p Senator Epps' dispensary bill was r debated to a small extent last week, c but debate was postponed till this n week. This will also likely be dis-! I senators from counties not having1 iispensaries, but bordering on 'wet" counties. They claim that ;he adjoining dispensary counties jet the revenue, while their counties ret the "drunks". Appropriation Bill. The Appropriation bill was intrcluced in the House last week and it will likely occupy much of the time: )f the House this week and of the i Senate next week. Each sub-division : )f the bill will be considered separate-: y. The State levy this year is 5 3-4 mills, the same as last year, the j total outlay being $1,970,000, over j igainst a total last year of$l,939,000.! Last Week's Work. Last week saw several bills of im- j portance passed in each branch of i the General Assembly. In the House , oa ao11a/1 A n f 1 ??nnmrr V"vi 11 lira a i me wv.aucu fiutn 01,1115 uui niw sent to the Senate, as was the bill 1 to provide for electrocution of criminals in the State penitentiary and the abolition of the practice of | hanging. The House last week sustained the' Governor's veto of an act, passed by both Houses last year, to allow commission form of government in ( cities of population between 9,000' and 20,000 and between 50,000 j and 100,000. It was desired to make a few changes in the bill and in order to do this it had to be introduced as a new bill. This bill, allowing the commission form in rities of the above named class, was passed by the House, being practi-, rally the same as the bill passed last fear, with an amendment to provide ' ;hat the establishment of the form , loes not put an end to the terms of he incumbents in office as city I )fficials. The bill applies solely at ! jresent to Charleston and there was nuch opposition to it from that city >n the ground that the last year act ' vould legislate Mayor Grace and his ; rouncil out of office. The bill was J .. J ?1 1- * J. il:. r x I io amenaeu as 10 reject tms icature. j Cigarette Bill. The Senate last week tabled, on notion of it3 author, Senator Rainsford, of Edgefield, the bill introiuced last year to prohibit the nanufacture and sale of cigarettes i ind cigarette papers. The bill has 1 ;een a stormy career, but last week t appeared as though it would pass he upper branch. However, when in amendment was offered that vould exempt some score of counties Tom the requirements of the bill |1 he author moved to table the entire I neasure. The Senate also laid to j est a joint resolution providing for )i-ennial sessions of the General As-1 embly. The resolution was introluced by Senator Wharton. School Examinations. The Senate last week passed the iill to nrnvide for medical examina ions of students in public schools ind colleges of the State. There . vas opposition to the bill on the ? tart of many of the Senators and it /as finally amended so as to allow n certain counties the parents of i student to have the family physi- ; ian make the examination and retort the result of his test to the chool physician. The Senate also , ent to the House a bill to put the j ;raduates of the State Hospital for , he Insane on an equal footing, with 1 qual rights and privileges, as grad- . lates of other hospitals of the State, 'here was much opposition to the till and the two factions among the 1 Deal nurses became marked. ' The House last week passed the ] 'mileage bill", to allow holders of ^ nileage books to present same for 1 are on trains without having to xchange for ticket at stations be- ] ore boarding the trains. The bill i assed the Senate last year, but eturns to the Senate again tor ] oncurrence in a few slight amend- 2 lents. Wyatt A Taylor. , WOW Banquet. * The local WOW camp had a 'feast of reason and flow of soul" : nd a plethora of creature comforts londay night at the Kellahan Hotel, /here an elegant supper was served iy Minehost Nettles. To say that he collation was up to the usual j ?- J- J - -C HI ..1~- nn tanaara 01 ujis pupumi nuouciijr un ; uch occasions is praise sufficient, j ^bout fifty plates were served and 11 went off with amity and jollity, j Ve return appreciative thanks to I he committee for an invitation to participate in the enjoyment and incerely regret that we were too nwell to respond thereto. I / TOUCHING SCENES E IN fiFORI A 1 \JIU VIBl Throngs of Health*Seekers Reser ries Are Told That Wc Hearts o: Atlanta. Ga, (Special):?Stories of ( strange and remarkable reaults that i have been circulated in this city by hundreds of persons who have used the new Root Juice treatment for rheumatism .stomach trouble, kidney disorders and similar complaints, have reached even the humblest hovels of the poor and destitute and: throngs of cripples and infirm have poured into the headquarters of the scientist's representative to beg or buy the strange new medicine that is said to exert its powerful influence over certain diseases in a manner that seems almost miraculous. Pale faces, weak and sickly widowed mothers, with ill-nourished infonts clutching at their skirts, have told stories of suffering, sickness, privation and despair that have caused strong men to turn away and hide their tears. Once healthy and able men now' criDDled bv the ravaeres of merciless 1 rheumatism, with faces lined and j drawn by pain and suffering, have ! hobbled in on cane and crutch,telling of families dependent upon them, of neglected little ones and 3!ckl> wives, begging just one bottle of the great new liquid that may possess the pow-J er to change their condition,strengthen their weak and stiffened muscles and enable them to care for the loved | ones at home. Such persons have been given cards to be signed by any preacher orj clergyman as a recommendation and which when returned properly filled out have been exchanged for full sized one-dollar bottles. The cards are supplied by the main laboratories at Fort Wayne, Ind? and can be obtained by any worthy and deserving poor person who needs medicine and has no money to pay for it. Not only have the poor people become interested in the strange liquid, but persons in all walks of life; i i._ I _ _ _ J mercnanis, ousmess men,everyone is talking about Root Juice and its wonderful cures So quickly and marvelously have j some severe cases been cured that j stories have been circulated to the ( effect that the medicine possesses < Always On 1 ?-??i Wide Awake This week we have a Specia A. large line of Men's Plow Shoes all sizes. Men's Oil Grain Plow Shoes, We have a large stock of all n i _ __ _i _ _n i__ r ana uniiaren, ana we sen oniy ior Ladies, we want to call your i special attention to our line ofji New Spring Oxfords, Low Cuts : < ind Pumps. Come and see them, | < the best line we have ever shown 1 < for the money. j i We still have on hand a few j pairs of Wool Blankets that we ' ire anxious to close out at a sac- j{ dfice. 11-4 All Wool, Blue and Pink Plaid Blankets, $5.00 values, 11 low going at $3.75. ;J Very fine quality, all Wool ! Blankets, $6.50 values, now clos- ! I ng out at $4.50. Wo o 1 ca VmvA nn hand a larce ' ot of Children's Suits that we ; < ire anxious to close out If you j leed a nice suit for your little j )oy, here is your chance. Our showings of New Spring ' ] OUR ENTIR] DRESS C CLOSING OUT I YOURS 1 Jenkinson inwr.CTP! 1^11 1 V>k/ M, A%j V NMD HA S CAPITAL CUT. \ nble Walking Hospital and Sto. '9 >uld Wring Tears from f Steel. miraculous power, but this o^ couraO*vi| is ridiculous and untrue. Many of those who have used it, however, say that the good effect i?| < felt so quickly that it does seem ilmost like a miracle, Persons who for years have strf-%* fered from loss of appetite, indig?A*j9; tion, gas on the stomach, pains', belching, bad breath, shortness of A breath and other such symptoms of 3 severe and chronic stomach trOtiB&M say that the first few doses produce . 'j noticeable benefit. Mr P C Harrison, a well knowBvS plumber of Atlanta, who has been using the new treatment for rheum* , tism, met a friend on the street the other day who remarked: "How well | you are looking! The doctor is bring- 1 ing you around in fine shape." "Doctor, nothing," Mr Harrison replied, ' "I have not seen the doctor for three > weeks. I have been using the new | Root Juice treatment that everyone is talking about and am feeling fine." After telling of the above incident, I Mr Harrison said, "I have been suf- j fering from rheumatism and constipation for five years and in wet or changeable weather my joints would swell up and rain so terribly that I would have to have them lanced. v* l pain was terrific and sweat would stand out on my forehead in large drops. At times I had no appetite, could not eat and could not sleeps or > work,I am a plumber by trade and am now at work again. I have bo more rheumatism or swollen joints, my bowels are regular and Tfefel like my old self again, thanks to this great medicine." Other well known persons who i have suffered from indigestion,backaches, headaches, nervousness, sleep- ,1 lessness, dizzy spells, weak kidneys ^ and bladder, too frequent, scanty or ; burning urine, tired, worn out and 1 run down feelings, report equally 1 good results and many say that the | first few doses made them feel better. The Root Juice medicine is being ' sold in immense quantities and druggists everywhere say they have never known a medicine for which the demand was so great. 'he Look-Oil! r for Business .j i ,1 Message in Men's Plow Shoes, that we are offering at $1.29, , 'M the best grade, only $1.7j>. kinds of Shoes for Men, Ladies- . cash and we sell cheap. , i Embroideries are the daintiest, and prettiest patterns we have ever shown. 45 inch Embroidery Flouncings for Ladies* dresses, only 60c the yard. 18 inch Flouncings, only 25c the. j yard. If you want to see pretty n i l J T CjiriDroiaery ana L?aces come to Dur place. Ladies, it will certainly surprise you to see the splendid bargains we are showing in Ribbons af all kinds. Sash Ribbons, Hair Bow Ribbons of all kinds, Plaid Ribbons. See us when you need nice Ribbons. Good Bleach Homespun, 1 yard wide, only 6 l-4c the yard- ^ Best 12k Canton Drill Flanfl# now going at 9c yard. Best 15c Canton Drill Flannel,- v? now going at 11c the yard. = V F. T.TNF OF >UTINGS /ERY CHEAP. :ruly, Bros. Co. f EE, S. C. . 1 J