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GRAND BARGAIN in every Department Each day will see big sur prises in the way of Mill End Bargains. Come the first day and come each day afterwards. We will save you many a big round dolhr. Manufacturers Clearance of Oddments, Endments and Surpluses At Amazing: 71-2 Cents a Yard. 3000 yards beautiful Gingham Drees Madrigaa, a meet superior cloth, aU pietty new 1908 designs, absolutely fast colors. Ton would think cheap st 10 cents. A big Syn dicate Special. 7 1-2 cents. 10 Cents a Yard. Boal Butiher Linene. a good strong round thread weave, making a fabric, that looks and wears like pure linen. Goods 30 inches wide. Grand for every use. One of the big specials. 10 cents. 10 a Pair. 1800 peers Ladies' best Lisle Hose, aU 25c values; some have slight im perfe tions, but in perfect condition. A great chance to ?et the popular Lisle Hose at less than half price. 10 cents. SACRIFICES. NOW FOR THE MILL END SALE?the greatest sale of them all?the most popular, biggest and best economizing event on the merchandising calendar of this section Regardless of all other great accomplishments?this will be the peerof all our former Mill End Sales. This year manufacturers have made greater sacrifices than ever before. Many were caught m the late "artificial" panic?orders were split and many cancelled. Surpluses abound as never be fore. And we have bought more goods and at lower prices than for any previous event of this kind. A reviewal of this advertisement and a trip to our store will reveal that fact. Mill End Sale begins Thursday, January 2nd. Come early?the earily the better. This Sale Is Held Only At Theodore Kohn's. DON'T FAIL TO COME TO ORANGEBURG'S GREATEST BARGAIN DISTRIBUTION. Dress Goods. 2i pieces Imperial Wool Serge, 45 inches wide, and all pure wool, the leading colors, worth today SOcents, Salo price.66c. 25 pieces Satin Broadcloth, full 52inches wide; all the handsomest colors of the season; a cloth sold everywhere at $1.00 to $1.25c. Sale prl??.73c. 14 pieces rich Scotch Mohair Fields, full 40 inches wide-, the srj&'?flS waSety of the. season, very popular and excellent for wear; value ?5 ?pnts. Sale price.S9c It pieces 54 inch Waterproof, in ?tot? good color, grand for suits, skirts, overcoats. No better value can mow be offered for 7Scents. Sale prl??.89c. Fine Silks. 731 yds 'laffeta in Fancy Dress Silks all rich, desirable colors, value Ste. Sale price.33c. 180 yds 36 inch all silk Black Taffeta; lustrous, soft finish; worth $1.25 a yard. Sale price.. . .90c. 190 yds. 36 inch all silk Peau de Sole, the finest silk on the market, handsome quality, worth $1.2 5c. Sale price.J .. . . 90c. 350 yds all silk Taffeta Silks, black and all desirable colors, worth 85e. a big Syndicate leader. Sale price.59c. White Bed Spreads. Big purchase from Philadelphia manufacturer at sacrifice prices en ables us to offer these big values: $1.25 Marsailles Spreads at..90c. $1.50 Heavy Spreads at.. $1.13c. 2.00 Extra Fine Spreads at $l.S8c. $4.00 Satin Spreads at .. $2.7Sc. Skirt Specials. 50 Grey and Black Cheviot Skirts, all new models, worth $3.00. Sale price.$1.98 35 Rich Plaid Skirts, all shades of Grey. Values from $4.50 to $6.00. Sale Price.$2.98 Linen Goods. \ 375 yds extra wide, extra nice Table Damask, all pure linen, worth 75e. Sale price.45c 223 7de grass bleached, very wide Linen Damask, beautiful patterns, worth $1.00.. Sale price.67c 110 yds Satin Damask, extra qual ity, the best kind, very handsome de signs, retails at $1.25. Sale price 92c 300 yds all linen Bureau Scarf ing.13c 200 prs extra fine quality Towels, Sale price, each.22c 1,000 yds. Linen Suiting, very sty lish. Sale Price...14c North Carolina Wool Blankets. Buying a mills output, the Big Sydicate is in a positon to offer some big values as awful little prices. $3.00 Wool Blankets at., . .$2.15 $4.00 10-4 Blankets at.$2.66 $5.00 11-4 Blankets at .. ..$3.78 $6.00 Best Blankets at.$4.78 Godman's Famous Shoes. 300 children's kid shoe the best school shoe known, Sale price: 5 to 8. .58c 8 1-2 to 11.78c 11 1-2 to 2. ..94c 200 pair ladies' kid bloucher as good as any shoe sold for $2.00 Sale price.$1.48 175 pair Godman's fine kid blouch er as good as any $2.50. Sale price .$1.98 Wash Goods. 800 yards of English White Check Madras. Regular 15 cent values. Saie price.16c 350 yards Scotch Madras with beatiuful colored work. Worth 20 cents. Sale Price.12 l-2c 500 yards White Check Nainsook, single and double checks. Worth 12 1-2 cents. Sale Price.8 l-2c. 1000 yds India Lawn Mill Ends, soft and sheer, values 12 1-2 to 15c Sale Price.8c. 900 yds Persian Lawn, 45 inches wide, splendid for fine dresses, worth 20c. Sale price.12 l-2c Mill End Specials. 75 Colored Belts, some silk, some velvet and some leather, all worth 25c to 75c. Sale Price.loc. 120 Children's Union suits, all sizes from 2 to 14 years well made of good yarn. Sale price.21c. 75 Suits Ladies Union Suits, fam ous Oneita make, 75c values, sale price.42c Taffeta Top Umbrellas, variety of good strong handles, $1.25 values. Sale Price.88c. ?"Uesaline and Satin Taffeta Rib bon, all desirable colors, 4 to 6 in ches wide. Sale price.19c Chil Iran's Tamoshanter Cap, red, blue and white, best quality. Worth 75c. to $1.00. Sale price.48c. Baby White Sik Caps, all new stock, all new designs. 75c values. Sale price.48c Heatherbloom Petticoats made with full deep ruffles, nice as silk, Worth $2.75. Sale price .. . .$1.98 Near Silk Petticoats very full, and made as nice as any $5.00 skirt. The splendid line of nice values $2.00. Sale price.$1.19. 60 inch Fur Neck Scarfs made of Sable Coney, values $3.00. Sale Price.$1.78. 70 inch Isabella Opossum scarfs, richly finished with heads and tails. Value $6.00. Sale Price.$3.90 Large Hemstitched linen table covers full 27 inches square. Values 75c. Sale price.43c Rich Cut Out Embroidery table covers and bureau scarfs. Values 50c Sale price.38c Dainty Swiss Curtains, made with deep insertion. Value l|3.00. Sale price.$1.98 Handnome Nottingham Lace Cur tains, richly made with scroll design, full 3 1-2 yards long. Worth $1.75 per pair. Sale price.$1.19 Japanese Leather Bags., made with strong frames and handles, all col ors. Values $.00. Sale price.. ..48c 16 button Long Lisle gloves. All popular colors. Values $1.25. Sale Price.92c Wrist Length Kid G!oves, black, tan and white, soft pliable kid. Val ues $1.00 to $1.25. Sals price..73c . . 500 yurds 20 inch deep embroider} flouncing. All rich work, brand new patterns. Worth 35c per yard. A big mill and Special at sale price.. 19c 500 yards linen torchon lace val ued at 8c to 12 1-2 c per yard. Sale price.5c Shoes. 75 pairs of regal Grade shoes, all brand new goods, sold usually at $3. to $3.50. Sale price.$2.65 36 pairs best Regal kid shoes, cheap at $4.00. Sale price.. . .$2.98 32 pair Boston High Grade Ox fords, these are $2.50 Oxfords, sale price.$1.98 Bleached Cotton Goods. 700 yds guaranteed Lonsdale Cam bric, extra wide, beautiful finish. Syndicate price.13c. 450 yds. English Long Cloth, grand for underwear, the 20c kind. Sale price... . .12%c. 1,000 yds. 36 Inch Irish Bleach ing, soft finish, no starch, worth 10c. Sale price.7c. Big Toweil Bargains. 300 Huck Towels, 15 values, Sale Price..10c. 250 Large Turkish Towels, worth 20c for.12c 240 extra Size Turkish Towels val ue 30 cents, for.18c 325 Extra Fine All Linen Towels, worth 25c, for.17 l-2c Children's Coats. 50 Broadcloth Coats, all popular colors, worth $2.50. Sale Price $1.48 25 Velvet Corduroy Coats, worth $3.00. Sale Price.. .. .. ..$1.98 Theodore Kohn, Orangeburg, S. C. Outings at 7 l-2c. 2800 yards of dark heavy raseceai Outing, all splendid patterns that look nice and wash well. Then wide goods and are sold at 10c. A. reputation maker, 7{- cents. Persian BraidatlOc. 300 yards fine imported colored Persian Braids, showing all the rick winter Shadings, lovely dress trim mings. Sell at 25c a yard. 10c cents. 10 Yards for 65c. 2000 yards special solf, yard wide Long Cloth. The kind that sells at 10 per yard This is splendid bleach ing and will be appreciated. Cornea in 10 yard lengths. Only 10 yards te> each customer. No more no less. lt> yards for 65 cents. Suits and Coats. Beautiful and Stylish models at prices that wouldn't pay for the o#st of the materials. 10 Novelty Tailored Suits, ee?i fitting jackets. Values up to $12.56. Here are big bargains. Note the? price.$BJt? 12 American Woolen Serge Sutts, in black, navy and brown, sold fit $13.50. Sale price.. .. . .$S.?S 16 Handsome Chiffon Broadelota, in navy, brown and black. Values up to $20.00. Sale price.SI44? 15 Ladies' Long Coats mad* oi fine all wool mixtures, spleadi* wearing coats. Values up to $7.?t. Sale price. $3.9S 12 Ladles Wool Cravinette Goats, extra long, shown in all colors, splea dld coats, values up to $12.50. Sale price.$7.J0t^o** 25 Ladies' Extra Fine English Kersey Long Coats, grand shades ef Tan, grey, castor, and garnet, coats; worth up to $15.00. Sale price $9.90 Fine Art Squares. 8%xl0% ft. Body Br?ssel Art Square, splendid designs, wears fine,, worth 16.50. Sale price.. ..$11.00 9x12 ft. Lovely Br?ssel Art Square, the handsomest designs ever shown; the colorings are superb; worth easily $20.00 Sale price 14.8S 8%xl0%ft. Axminster Velvet Art Square, rich Oriental and floral designs, no handsomer ones shown for $27.50c. Sale price.. ..$19.60. Napkin Bargains. $1.25 All Linen Napkins at.. ..92c $1.50 Big Linen Napkins at . .$1.12 $1.75 Fine Linen Napkins at. .11.38 2.50 Elegant Damask Napkins$1.72 AS HE SEES US. A Fair Northern Man's Views of South Carolina SOCIAL CONDITIONS. The Very Interesting Address of Mr. Qeo. A. Beers, Formerly of Bris tol, Conn., But Now a Resident of Rowesville, Delivered at His For mer Home to an Andiene? of Re publicans. Mr. George A. Beers, assistant treasurer of the J. H. Blake Lumber company of Rowesville, S. C who is at his home in Bristol, Conn., for the Christmas holidays, was by rea.uest of the programme committee of the Men's Union of the Congregational church, the speaker at the meeting of the Union Sunday noon, and he took for his subject, "A View of the Physical, Social and Moral Condi tions of South Carolina and Its Peo ple, with Special Reference to the Prohibition Wave that is Spreading Over the South." A correspondent writing to The State from Bristol says what makes the address of interest to readers of a Southern paper is that Mr. Beers, who has lived in the South for the last 10 months, and in that time has come to view Southern conditions from a Southern standpoint, was lis tened to with the closest attention by an audience every one of whom is a Republican in poiitics and are lead ers of thought in the community. Mr. Beers said in part that the physical conformation of South Car olina mi?ht be divided into the high lands and lowlands and that while the southern part of the State was almost a dead level, the northern part, commencing at Orangeburg, 76 miles from the sea, waa slightly rolling with higher hills in the vicin ity of Columbia and mountains in the northern part of the State. The conformation of the land de cided apparently the character of the settlements of the early days. The cavaliers came to South Carolina and settled on the lowlands and built up large estates and lived in baronial style and with their great estates cultivated by negroes became the ar istocrats of the State. The higher lands were settled by small farmers of Scotch-Irish ancestry and to this day there is something of a distinc tion in the character of the people inhabiting the different sections. There never have been nearly so many negroes in the upper counties of the State. In speaking of the social conditions it can be said that the ever present negro furnishes a question that only the Southerner can handle wisely and he will be put to his ?. it's ends to know how to handle it to the best J advantage of all concerned. In the I first place there is no well defined race antagonism. The negro must not ask for social or political equality and it can be said that in the rural com munities he is not looking for it or expecting it. A white man who goes into the State from the North must learn that the negro is never to be address ed as sir. He does not expect to be put on the same social plane as the white man and will despise the white man who accords him that place. Then again the white man from the ! North must not do it, if he expects ? to be treated like a white man by the Southerners. Among themselves the Southern ers are the most hospitable people on the face of the earth and the strang er in their midst will be treated like ! one of their own kind, as long as he i does not overstrp the code of conduct i which the Southerner has establish ed for himself. When it comes to business the . Northerner will find that the man in the Southland is abh' to hold his own I with the sharpest Yankee that ever ' tried to make a bargain. There was a time when the Southerner who call ? ed himself the aristocrat looked down ' on the man of business and the pro fessional man as well, unless the lat i ter was a land owner also, but that day has largely passed away. Today 1 the business man of the State is its greatest hope for future success. Columbia is a good proof of what business can do for the South. With a population that has nearly doubled since the last census was taken it is one of the most progressive cities of the South. Time was when a female who did not marry was not allowed under any circumstances that might arise to do anything towards her support, but that has passed away along with oth er old time ideas. Today the daughter of the South who has received a college education goes out to use that education by helping to improve the minds and morals of others. The speaker has known of a number of young ladies1 [ of the greatest refinement, coming from the best homes in Orangeburg who are not obliged to do anything for a living, who are at the present time teaching school in the rural communities about Rowesville and St. Georges. What this means not only to the better education of the coming generation but in the way of teaching them by example a more refined way of living, can only be es timated by those who have lived in those communities and understand the necessity for such an education. While the people of the State have some characteristics that seem un fortunate to a dweller in a more con servative State, such as the two fre quent homicides, yet the better ele ments in the State, including all the leading papers, are casting the influ ence against the too frequent; using i of the gun to settle disputes. It must be remembered that half of the murders in the State are laid to the negro population and that they belong there. The home life of the Southern family is something: to be admired. No child thinks of addressing a fath er without adding sir and the love of the children for the mother is some thing beautiful to s?e. The Southern white family as a rule is a big one and this in the mind of the speaker ? is going tr> solve the supremacy of the race question. Families of eight, ten or twelve children are the rule I instead of being the rare exception ; as in the North. While this is true j of the whites just the reverse is true l of the colored children. While they are born into the world in great numbers only a small comparative percentage get beyond infancy and of those who grow up but few live to old age. At the Prospect camp meeting, which the speaker visited last fall, where 1,200 negroes were gathered together there were but few to be seen who were over 50 years of age and of these all without an exception were old time slaves. The larger portion of anv gathering of negroes to be seen in the State are under 30 years of age and the cause for this is found in the death rate which is abnormally high, owing to 1 unsanitary living and inherited dis [ ease which saps the vital powers. The speaker boarded while in the 1 South with a doctor and he was told I that the death rate among the ne groes from pneumonia during the winter and spring months was something great. They take no care of themselves or of each other when sick and a pneumonia patient is almost sure to die. Consumption which was unknown in the old slavery days, now claims its victims by the thousands among the negroes. This condition of the negroes may be something to be deplored but it looks to the speaker like a survival of the fittest and as being the way that nature takes to carry out its inevitable laws. In speaking of the wave of prohibi tion that is sweeping over the State it can be said that the negro or rath er the presence among the people of the negro is responsible for what is being done all through the South. While the negro in the rural com munities of the South is tractable and docile when sober, there is no telling what he will do when drunk and the fear of what might happen in communities where the negro out numbers the whites tnree or four to one, a? he does in many places in the South, that is making the white man pass laws that will make it as hard as possible for the black man to get liquor. The white man of the ', South is much like his white broth er of the North. While there is no longer the sideboard in every home with an invitation to drink extended to every visitor any more than the same thing exists in th^ North, yet the white man by means of clubs and kindred organizations will get what he needs to drink even in pro hibition States like Georgia and Ala bama. The speaker thinks that the coun ty dispensary law of South Carolina with local option comeu as near solv ing the drink evil as any method that has come under his observation. With the business handled in the way that it is and with good men in the county dispensaries who will not sell to men who are drunk or drunk ards and with the law as it is, so that it must be sold only between sun up and sun down and the places closed on special occasions, it seems to meet the situation as well as any law of human contrivance can, It is the opinion of the speaker that near ly all the counties except Richland and Charleston in the State will go dry at the next general election. It is also his opinion that the law as it stands is pretty well observed in every county in the State except Charleston, where practically every restaurant in the city is a blind tiger for the sale of liquor. The people of South Carolina are a religious people so far as outward forms go and in the little village which has been the home of the speaker for the last year practically every man, woman and child is a Methodist, which church fairly di vides the honors for membership among the people of the State. In noticing obitug.ry noticies as printed in The State the speaker has bse rved that practically every one written about who is a man of ma ture years recites the fact that he was a distinguished member of such and such a regiment in the late war and he was an active member of uch and such a church. The speaker believes that the peo ple of South Carolina are as good and no better morally and spiritually than the native born population of Connecticut. Of course they do not have the foreign element with their loose way of observing Sunday to deal with as does Connecticut. The speaker is satisfied that the proud old State of South Carolina which [stood with Connecticut shoulder to shoulder in fighting the war of In dependence has a splendid future before her. The war and the Recon struction days put back her develop-1 ment half a century but the people have taken hold to place her in the front rank of States and already their efforts are bearing fruit to a degree that one not acquainted with the State of affairs would hardly be lieve. Must Be Crazy. At Budgepest, Conn., Thomas Mc Cann, deliberately set fire to the house in which his wife lay bedrid den. Their daughter rushed through the smoke and flames and car ried her mother to safety. Both women were slightly burned and nearly suffocated. They will recover. MeCann later gave himself up to the police, saying the house was his and he had a right to burn it. His family refused to leave the bouse, he said, and he was trying to smoke them out. In case of poisoning from carbolic acid give the patient alcohol, followed by water, vinegar or white of egg. Apply warmth to extremities. MADE TERRIBLE MISTAKE Shot His Son in the Dark for Burg lar. At San Jose, Cal., Bertram Somerir. early Thursday shot and killed fahr, five year old son, mistaking him for a burglar. The child, it Is believed,, was walking in his sleep. The par ents were awakened by a noise i the room and, seeing the outline of a figure near the window, they con clued it was that of a burglar. Mr. Somers reached for his pistol, and fired, killing the child instantly. Better Than Nothing. Two preachers, two college pro fessors and twenty-five college grad uates are working as conductors ob Pittsburg street cars. They have all been employed within ihe past two* weeks. They say they couldn't get any other work. Fire Protection Cheap WHEN ONCE TOUR BUILDINGS ARE PAINTED WITH Oibraltar I*aint? -In All Colors Great Protection is afforded from Fire as tested here Nov 30th by a house set on fire that had been painted inside and out with these wonctar ful Fire Resisting Materials. Hundreds witnessed this test cf Fire. Re sides affording greater protection owing tc its Fire-Resisting qualities,. /GIBRALTAR PAINT" is more durable than any other paint as it resists the sun heat and wears longer. Best thing made for painting Shingles, Tin and Iron. Why not use "GIBRALTAR" Paint, when Fire Resisting, Reasonable; in Price and More Durable than others. Southern Gilbraltar Paint And ROOFING CO., Charleston, S. C. For ?alo By J. "W. Smoak, 12-5-3mos. ORANGEBUBG, & C.