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"COTTON GINNED; little Over Ten Thousand Bales Up to Sixteenth of January ' JWhich Is Nearly Two Thousand Bales Less Than the Number Ginned Up to the Same Time Last Year. The census bureau Thursday is imed a report showing that the cot V.on in the United States ginned from Jthe growth of 1907 to January 16 ?tfas 10,337,607 bales, against 12, FI76,199 bales for the same period last year, and 9,9S9,624 bales for the same period in 1906. Active ginneries numbered 27,370. Round bales were counted as half tales. The number of round bales included 187,562 for 1908, 258,717 lor 1907, and 270,669 for 1906. Sea };land included 80,187 for 1908, 56, js26 for lf>07, and 104,710 for 1906. The distribution of sea island cot ton for 1908 by States is as follows: Florida. 27.421; Georgia, 40,436; South Carolina, 12,330. Running bales ginned by States iollow: Alabama, 1,070.193 bales; 3,441 ginneries. Arkansas, 667, i96 bales; 2,103 ,gmneries. Florida, 53, 473 bales; 247 gin neries. Georgia, 1.771,913 bales; 4,538 ginneries. Kentucky, 1,341 bales; 2 gin neries. Louisiana. 596.476 bales, 1,849 ginneries. Mississippi, 1,287,927 bales; 3,510 ginneries. Missouri, 29,378 bales, 75 gin neries. New Mexico, 303 bales; 2 gin neries. North Carolina, 591,356 bales, 2, ,716 ginneries. Oklahoma, 779,650 bales, 971 gin neries. South Carolina, 1,093,707 bales; 3,177 ginneries. 1 Tennessee,. 238,484 bales; G63 ginneries. Texas, 2,146,548 bales; 3,975 ginneries. Virginia, 8,212 bales; 101 gin neries, t PATRONS OF RURAL ROUTES Are Respectfully Requested to Con form to the Following Notice. The following notice has been sent to Postmaster Webster by Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen eral DeGraw with the request that It be published: "In view of tho numerous com plaints which have reached the De partment of delay in the delivery of mail and hardship imposed upon rural carriers while serving their routes due to the practice of some patrons placing loose coins in their boxes for the purchase of stamps each time they desire to dispatch letters, you and the rural carriers under your supervision are directed to call the matter to the attention of patrons, and in a proper and polite manner urge that they provide them selves in advance with as liberal supply of postage as circumstances will permit, and also suggest that patrons place in their boxes a small detachable cup of wood or tin in which to place coins when' neces sary in purchasing a supply of 6tamps. Wreck Near Branchville. A wreck occurred on the Bowman and Branchville Railroad about one mile from Branchville last Wednes day morning. The engine was derail ed and some of its parts damaged. The broken parts had to be or dered and the road was thus out of commission for three days. This ac cident inconvenienced Bowman great ly, as the road is Bowman's only means of communication with the outside world. Luckily no one was severely hurt. Firs at Swansea. Saturday morning between two and three o'clock the house in Swan sea owned by Mr. M. J. Rucker and occupied by Mr. E. O. Limmer was found to be on fire. The flames spread so rapidly that almost all of Mr. Limmer's household effects were consumed, the family having barely time to escape. Mr. Rucker's loss amounts to about $1,600 with insur ance of $1,000. Mr. Limmer's loss Is $S00 with $150 insurance. The origin of tho fire is unknown. The State League. Representatives from Chester, Rock Hill, Oamden, Florence, Or angeburg and Sumter were called to meet in Sumter last night to form the State League for this year. We have not heard the result of the meeting, but presume the league was formed, which will be good news to the base ball enthusiasts of this city. Hampton Guardian Burned Out. Gov. McSweouey telegraphed us Monday morning that his printing of fice had been destroyed by fire on Sunday night. We regret very much to hear this and hope that our friend will soon he on his feet again. His paper, the Guaddian, will not lose an issue, but will be issued as usual from some other office uutii nr. tan get his office in shape again. I Look Out For Fire. During these windy days every body should be more careful about tire than at. any other time. Mer chants and others before closing up their places of business should give their stores and shops a thorough look over before closing them up. All stores should be Inspected carefully so as there will be no danger. An ounce of proven! ion is worth a pound of cure, remember. A MIDDAY FIRE. Mr. C. D. Kortjohn's Residence on Amelia Street Burned. Orangeburg had a midday fire on last Friday, when at one o'clock the residence of Mr. C. D. Kortjohn on Amelia Street was discovered to be on fire. The alarm was immediately sent in, but owing to the fact that the fire bell has been out of com mission for about a week there was some delay in locating the fire, the existence of which was made known by the siren whistle, which is used as a general alarm. Notwithstanding this delay and the high winds which prevailed at the time, the firemen did very effective work and confined the blaze to one building, although there were others close by. The burned house is the property of Mr. John A. Zeigler, of Summer ville, and was worth about $4,000. Mr. Zeigler had $2,000 insurance on the property, which will hardly cover the loss, as the house is badly wrecked. Some of Mr. Kortjohn's furniture was saved, but in a more or less damaged condition from fire and water. There was a small amount of insurance on the furni ture, but not near enough to cover one half of the loss. It was a lucky thing that the fire did not occur the night before, as there was a gale of wind blowing all night and we might have had a much more serious con flagration. As was stated last week the fire bell is being moved from its old lo cation to a new steel tower on the city's Saint John street property and until this work is completed and the connections made with the Gamewell Fire Alarm System the siren whistle will have to be depended upon in case of fire. Those who have inspect ed the ruins of the building burned on Friday are convinced that the fire originated in the extreme north east corner between the ceiling and th roof, which would indicate that it was caused by rats and matches, as there is no chimney within fifteen feet of where the fire started. LA GRIPPE IS WITH US. Nearly Everybody in This Section Has Been Touched. In common with communities all over the country, Orangeburg is now in the grasp of a grip epidemic. There are few families in the city which have escaped. In some houses there have been three or four cases at the same time. All the physicians are unusually busy in consequence. , The weather conditions have been espec ially favorable to the development and spread of the malady and, un fortunately, the weather man, can [promise nothing better for some time to come. Orangeburg, however, is not by any means the only com munity upon which the epidemic has .descended. Reports from all parts of the country, north and south, are to the effect that la grippe numbers its victims by the thousands. The same report comes from all parts of Orangeburg County. The Cotton Association. The Orangeburg County Cotton Association will meet In Orangeburg on next Monday. A good atten dance is desired as business of im portance will come up for transac tion. There will be an election of officers and delegates to the State [Association, v/hich meets In Colum bia on Wednesday, February 5. The State meeting this year will be a most important one, and some of our most level headed farmers should be sent as delegates to it by the County Association. Remember the date of the meeting and be sure and attend it. Distinguished Visitors. A number of distinguished visitors are expected to attend the dinner of the Business Men's League on Wed nesday, which will be quite an up-to date affair. The names of the dis tinguished visitors who are-expected are: Gov. M. F. Ansel, Hon. J. A. Fox, Congressman A. F..Lever, Maj. J. C Hemphiil, Capt W. E. Gonzales, Mayor G. R. Rhett and Mr. L. B. Dozier. Commissioner E. J. Watson was also expected but he has an ap pointment in Washington on that day and will hardly be able to attend. The Coldest Day. The coldest day we have had this winter was last Friday. During the fire on Amelia street the water as It fell from the hose on the trees froze and encased many of their branches in Ice. Icicles were also formed on the lower part of the burn ing house by the water as it fell from the roof. A Handsome Fountain. Messrs. A. Calhoun Doyle & Co., have placed an order for the hand somest soda fountain ever brought to Orangeburg. We will not attempt to describe as we feel we could not do it justice. So our readers will have to wait and see it for them selves. It will he here in time for the coming season'.? business. Coming Happy Event. Cards are out announcing the ap proaching marriage of Mr. Henry Ott to Miss Josie Ruple at the home of the latter at Ruples, between Or angeburg and Bowman. Mr. Ott is to be congratulated on winning such a charming life partner as Miss Ru ple. Will Be Repeated. "Dot, the Miner's Daughter," which was successfully presented at Cameron on last Friday night will be repealed at Elloree on next Friday night. All should go out and see this drama, as the young people who take part in it play their parts well. Mad Dog Killed. A mad dog, that was running at large on the streets, was run down and killed on Saturday morning near the Southern Depot. Before being ki'led the dog had bitten a littie colored girl. BEAUTIFUL HOME WEDDLXG. Mr. Sol Kohn and Miss Bessie Stahl Married in Atlanta. Mr. Sol Kohn, the efficient mana ger of the Theo. Kohn mercantile business of this city, and Miss Bes sie Stahl, a beautiful and charming young lady of Atlanta, were married in that city on last Wednesday eve ning. The following account of the happy event is taken from the Atlan ta Journal: "The marriage of Miss Bessie Stahl and Mr. Sol Kohn, of Orange burg, S. O, took place last evening at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. Stahl, on Washing ton street. The ceremony, .which was witnessed only by the members of the two families, was performed by Rabbi David Marx and was fol fowed by a beautiful reception at which over a hundred guests were entertained. The drawing room where the altar was arranged was beautifully de corated with quantities of palms, Terns and realistic garlands of white wisteria and clusters of great fring ed chrysanthemums. The bridesmaids, Miss Alya Baum, of Dublin; Miss Flora Hirsc.li. Miss Adelina Kohn and Miss Elsa Stahl, wore the daintiest of lingerie frocks ever slips of soft blue silk which with great bouquets of pink carna tions made a most effective color combination. Miss Eua Stahl was maid of honor and wore a lovely gown of blue mes saline made empire and trimmed with lace. Her flowers were white carnations. The ribbon bearers, Miss Blanche Hirsch and Miss Edna Benjamin, wore lingerie gowns and the bride was attractive in a lovely princess empire gown of silvery white mes saline. It was trimmed elaborately with quantities of princess lace and she carired a shower bouquet of brides roses and lilies of the valley. Mr. David Kohn, of Hogansville, acted as best man. The decorations in the dining room were in pink, carnations being the flowers used with garlands of smilax and tulle. In the centre of the table was a tall vase filled with fragrant carnations above which was suspended a bell made of pink rose petals. Candlesticks were shaded with pink tapers and all the sweets were in pink tints. In cutting the bride's cake, Miss Winnie Cooper cut the ring, Miss Adeline Kohn the thimble, and Miss Henrietta Kohn the dime. When she threw her bouquet it was caught by Miss Alva Baum. Mr. and Mrs. Kohn left for a four weeks' trip north, after which they will be at home in Orangeburg, S. C. A number of lovely parties preced ed the wedding which were given by the friends who regret that Mrs. Kohn's marriage takes her from At lanta. WILL HAVE BASE BALL. Orangeburg to Put a Good Team in the State League. The Sumter Item says: "Mr. Har ry C. Wannamaker of Orangeburg, spent several hours in the city yes terday afternoon between trains. Mr. Wannamaker is one of the most promiuent young buisness men of Orangeburg, is also a leader in base ball circles. When asked about the outlook for State league ball in Or angeburg this summer he said that Orangeburg would he ready with a strong team when the season opened ?that the fans of the city on the Edisto had no intention of abandon ing the game. In fact, they expect a better season than ever. A new ball park will be laid out within a few minutes' walk of the business centre of the city and the attendance will be larger than it has been in the past owing to the convenient location of the park." ? How Did It (Jet There. During the fire on Friday a rather queer thing happened to the Phoenix, the colored fire company. While playing a stream of water on the fire all of a sudden the water ceased to flow in sufficient volume to force it ten feet. On examination a piece of wood was found in the nosel, which almost completely stopped it up. It was taken out and the company was soon at work again. But the ques tion is how did that piece of wood get in the pipe? It must have come through the water mains as the nosel was not stopped up until after the company had been playing a stream of water on the fire for some time. Did Fine Work. The fire department did splendid work on last Friday during the fire on Amelia street. The first company on the ground and went into action was the Phoenix, the colored com pany. They behaved most gallantly and soon had a stream of water on the fire, which checked it consider ably until the other companies ar rived, which was in a very short time. All tho firemen, white and colored, did most effective work, and the half burned building now stands as a monument to their prowess as fire fighters. On behalf of the citi zens of the town we thank the fire men for its excellent and effective work on Friday. Notice. The Orangeburg County Cotton Association will hold regular quar terly meeting on the first Monday in February at the Court House at 11 o'clock. Election of officers for en suing year and delegates to State Convention, as well as other Im portant business. Let us have a full attendance. G. L. Salley, Secty. Went on ii Strike. About fifty hands employed in lay ing a new track for the Southern Railway in this city went on a strike last, week because their wages had been cut. which they refused to agree DREAMS AND GHOSTS. Meeting and Talking With Spirits of Living and Dead. Prof. liner, of Berlin University, Says During Sleep Our Spirits Wander About Heaven and Earth. The mind has a back door. The brain has often been called the house of the mind. Oneshouldnot be surprised to learn that it has a back door, like other houses. It is through this exit that the soul escapes in the silent hours?in the hour when we are in the strange death-like condition which we call sleep. At such times it roams abroad in search of adventures, and fre quently it finds very curious and even astonishing ones. In sleep we pass out of the body into a wonderful region, with which in our waking moments we are not at all acquainted. What and where is this region, and who are the people who inhabit it. Such questions are most interesting, and now for the first time comes forward a wise man who ventures to answer them. The wise man's name is Professor Moritz Baer, who occupies the chair cf phycho-physics in the University of Berlin. He says that the mys terious country which we visit in our dreams is the Hereafter, and that the people we meet there are in reality ghosts. Some day, after we are dead, we may come to know them better. Each dky of your existence on earth, says Professor Baer, may be regarded as a life In miniature. Night comes, and you die?tempor arily. The whole term of your sur vival in the world is a series of little life-times, interrupted by brief per iods of seeming death, which we call sleep. The likeness of sleep to death has been the subject of a vast deal of philosophical comment. Butit is much closer and more striking than is gen erally imagined. When you fall into slumber, your eyes turn upward, your heart-beat slackens, your pulse becomes feebler, and your breathing slows down. Your condition, in a word, counterfeits death most re markably. If the death were real, your soul would take its departure for good and all, never to return. But in this temporary state (according to the theory of Professor Baer) it merely steps forth for a while, coming back when summoned by the waking con sciousness. In the meantime it may traverse enormous distances; for the soul, or ghost, seems to be uncon trolled by mere physical limitations such as retard and impede the move ments of the body. We often meet in our dreams peo ple who, as we well know, have long been dead. Yet, somehow, we are not in the least surprised. We talk to them, and hear them speak, as if it were unite a matter of course. Why should this be so. Professor Baer says it is simply because ghosts are the most natural kind of persons to encounter in the country of non-liv ing. It is In the realm of the Hereafter these people dwell; a realm in which (so Professor Baer believes) we must some day take up our own residence. It sems to he a country of shadows. But, unfortunately, the glimpses we get of it are too fleeting to enable us properly to judge. Or rather, it might be said that, for some reason not easy to explain, our waking mem ories of our experiences in that mys terious region are so fecb1? and in distinct, save in rare Instances, that they serve only to puzzle and confuse our minds. The dream folk, who dwell in the land beyond the threshold of waking consciousness, appear to be cheerful enough. If we can judge of the con uition of the dead from what we see of them when we visit the strange country they Inhabit, it would not seem that they are otherwise than happy. On the contrary, they are often merry; they talk pleasantly and sometimes most amusingly. It may be said that most of the people we meet In dreams are living individuals. Yes, undoubtedly, but not the lving persons themselves. These likewise (says Professor Baer) are phantoms. For the living have ghosts as well as the dead. What we mean by a ghost is the soul of a hu man being dead or alive, made visi ble to the eye. Such phenomena are rarely, if ever, obsberved, in waking moments, but in the silent watches, when the spiritual self escapes through the hack door of the mind and wanders abroad, they are so common as to be not even note worthy. And. where the ghosts of the liv ing are concerned, what more nat ural than that your phantom, or mine, when it slips out of the body and visits the region of the Beyond, should meet the spectres of other sleepng persons, likewise on the ramble? Most of the souls (if such we shall call them) that we encoun ter on these occasions are, as might be expected those of total strangers, but many are friends of our waking lives, and sometimes they are near relations. Doubtless, profitable ex changes of recollections in regard to such meetings might be made after wards, between yourself and your neigh bor Smith, for example, follow ing a dream conversation in which you two engaged?were it not for the excessively fleeting and frag mentary character of such memories, which hasten to escape us even as we are trying to rcall them. One thing fairly certain is that the ghosts of the dead have no power to communicate with us. unless it he in dreams. If they possessed such pow er, they would undoubtedly exercise it: yet (putting aside all the phenom ena of so-calcd "spiritualism" as hopelessly discredited) they give us no opportunltj of the kind, though we would so eagerly grasp it. Dien flown in the human mind there exists a belief that the dead, generally speaking, are hostile and dangerous to the living. Hence the dread which will withhold not only a child, but almost any grown person of either sex from passing alone though a graveyard at night. Indeed, it is safe to say that nothing in the world, or out of it, is regarded with such universal fear as a ghost?this too. notwithstanding the fact that no authenticated instance is on record in which a specre or apparition of any kind did harm to a living crea ture. The superstitution in question is doubtless an inheritance from our most remote ancestors, who believed that the dead were liable to assume the guise and role of malignant de vils; but it seems strange that mod ern enlightenment should no: have . done away with so nonsensical a no tion. Oddly enough, however, when in our dreams we encounter the ghosts i of the dead, we are unterrified. To do so, indeed, appears quite natural and a matter of course. For under such conditions the point of view is changed. We ourselves are phan toms likewise (according to Profes sor Baer), and we meet them, those others, on an equal footing. They ; are not afraid of us, and why should ! we he afraid of them? At the bottom of the ghos:-fear is : a dread of the mysterious, the un known and the intangible. But, when your soul has made a tempor ary escape through the mind's back uoor, it finds itself in a world where, ? as one might say, all the relations of things are altered. It has arrived, so to say, behind the scenes, and (as under circumstances on the stage) i the mystery becomes mere matter of course. Intangibility is normal in the realm of the Hereafter?especial ly,, when oneself is a part of it. Professor Baer advances his ideas ! on the subject not as a statement of ascertained fact, of course?the mat ter being one respecting which ex act knowledge is obviously impossi i hie?but as a theory, which, he thinks, finds endorsement i:i definite and logical evidences. It is not prac ticable here, for lack of space, even i to summarize these evidences, which ' are drawn to some extent from a study of what he calls the "ana ? tomy" of dreams. His conclusions i ?the essence of which lies in the theory that the dream life is in a I certain sense a real life, and not ; merely a "magic lantern show," in . which imagination uncontrolled, in ? fantastic colors, paints a multitute of slides"?may be put, as he offers them tentatively, in the form of questions: > To begin with, what is this strange ! realm which we visit in our dreams? Professor Baer believes that it is actual, and by no means purely in ? aginary. It is not even an "undis covered country," for we spend there i no small part of our time limit. But ? where are we to suppose that it is 1 located? Is it near or far away? Or ? re we to suppose that it is simply an invisible world, through which we ? unconsciously wander in our waking ; moments, thottrgh unable to discern ! the people (viewless under waking conditions) who inhabit it? Again, shall we, after we die, as ' suming in permanent fashion the ' ghostly state, ourselves become in ! habitants of this mysterious country? ! And, if so, what will be our condi ? tion therein? Shall we be happy, or otherwise? In classical literature ' one finds again and again the idea, which the scientists seem to have : persistently entertained that the souls of the departed suffer from a chronic melancholy. Thusi the heroes 1 of the Trojan war, as Ulysses found i them when he ventured into Hades, continually lamenting their lot, wish ing that they were alive again. But has such a notion any proper basis? Professor Baer's belief is quite op posite. At all events, he deems it a mistake to believe that the ghosts we meet in our wanderings through the domain in the Beyond are pur suing, like the phantoms of Hector and Achilles which Odyssens met, an altogether aimless and vegetative ex istence. He thinks we may rather suppose that they have occupations of one sort or another, useful in ways we know not of. If the wanderings of "he ghost, in sleep are under any sort of control, it would be interesting to know by what they are directed. Nothing, seemingly, could be more haphazard. Scenes and Incidents follow one an other in no orderly sequence, ap parently, and people come and go without any obvious rhyme or rea son. Many dreams, of course, are very pleasurable, while others are far from agreeable and sometimes even terrifying. But, as Professor Baer suggests, there is no reason for supposing that in the region of the Hereafter?if his theory, identifying it with the country we visit in our slumbers, be accepted?is a place de void of unpleasantnesses. The ghost that walks in dreams, according to his idea, is none other than the subconscious, or secondary, self?the strange "double" which in habits every one of us, doing much of our thinking for us, yet only in rare instances revealing itself in such fashion as to he distinguishable from the self we know and recognize. Con sidered from this point of view, the spectre of our nocturnal visions is extraordinarily interesting as a sub ject of study. What a pity that we cannot grasp it and study It at leis ure! Pay Up! Pay Up!! We have sent out a number of bills to subscribers who are some what behind, and In order to catch up and comply with the law we have made them a very liberal prop osition, which we feel that any hon est man will be glad ti jump at. We will send out notices to all the other subscribers who do not pay up in a week or ten days. Those who do not. pay up will be dropped in ac cordance with the n.' s of the f'ost officc Department. Card of Thanks. Mr. C. I). Kortjohn, al n-ho--c home the fire occurred Frit!";-, de sires to extend his thinks and ap preciation to the Firemen and others who responded to the alarm and ren dered such valuable assistance. ANOTHER HOME WEDDING. Mr. H. S. Poole and Miss Lottie WiP liamson Are Happily Married. A very pretty home wedding oc curred Sunday morning, January 12, at half-past ten o'clock, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Williamson, of Rockey Grove, when Miss Lottie Williamson became the bride of Mr. Henry S. Poole, of Lexington, S. C. The Williamson home was tastily decorated for the occasion, the color scheme being green and white. Quite a number of friends and relatives were gathered to witness the happy event. While Miss Julia Sawyer skillfully rendered Mendellshon's wedding march the at tendants entered as follows: Miss Annie Tool with Z. P. Cor bitt, Miss Mary Corbitt with Mr. E. A. Pool, Miss Lessie Pool with Mr. R. A. Corbitt, Miss Maggie Knotts with Mr. L. M. Whetstone, Miss Drticilla Williamson with Mr. Gol ford Gleaton, Miss Pearl Gleaton with Alexander Pooie, Miss Estella Reed with Mr. W. T. Pool, Miss Hertha Corbitt with Loyd William son, Miss Maggie Williamson with Mr. R. L. Poole. Then came Mr. Pool and Miss Wil liamson, who slowly proceeded to the altar where the ceremony was per formed by the bride's Pastor, Rev. T. S. Wright. The bride wore a beautiful gown of white silk. Her bridesmaid's were daintily attired in white gowns. The bridal party and also a large number of relatives and friejnds enjoyed a sumptuous din ner at the home of the bride. The bride is the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Williamson. She Is an attractive young woman and very popular with her friends. Mr. Poole is a very popular business man of Lexington. Their popularity was shown by the many presents the happy young couple received. They left for Lexington the next day, which will be their future home. Their many friends wish for them a long and happy life. Rev. T. S. Wright. OPPOSED TO LIQUOR. In All Forms and Want the World to Know It. Inouiring Citizens and Others: The appended resolutions are the answers of the minister to the statement made tnat they a'-e sat isfied with the present Dispensary system. Other ministers would have signed the within could we have seen them. Whereas: In some unaccountable way the report has gained circulation that, as a community we are thor oughly satisfied with the Dispensary System, and, Whereas, Report comes to us that the ministers of this city are not protesting against the liquor busi ness, and that this is considered as a sign that all are satisfied: There fore, be it, Resolved: That as Teachers of Righteousness and Christian Citi zens we condemn liquor business in any form both as a Dispensary Sys tem, and as carried on by locker sys tem as operated in various clubs and be it further Resolved, that we pledge our hearty support to any movement headed by Christian Citizens toward Prohibition, and to this end we call the attention of our county delegates to our protest. E. M. Lightfoot, J. L. McLees, J. C. Deitz, L. P. McGee, W. L. Holmes. J. W. Kenney, S. D. Colyer, B. M. Foreman, D. D. Dantzler. News About Town. The Twice-a-Week Times and Dem ocrat is very popular with our sub scribers. Mrs. J. F. Evans, of the Cameron section, is spending some time in the city with relatives. On account of the pressure on our advertising colums we were compell ed to issue an eight page paper to day. Mrs. Herbert requests the ladies of all churches to meet her at the sta tion parsonage on Friday afternoon at four o'clock. The alarm of fire yesterday was caused by the roof of a house on Windsor street taking fire. No dam age was done. See the page advertisement of the Branson Clothing Company on the fifth page of today's paper. Read it and give them a call. The Atlantic Coast Line Railway has at last completed its turn table in its yard in this city. The short trains will no longer have to run backwards. We are gratified at the way our subscribers who are in arrears are responding to the notice we sent out. We hope to hear from all of J them in the next few days. Ransdalc's Voting Contest. Mr. J. C. Ransdale gives notice through The Times and Democrat to day that he will conduct another voting contest this year, in which he will give away valuable prizes to the amount of $3f>0. There are sev eral prizes and any purchaser stands a chance of getting one of them. See his advertisement on page four of this paper. Gone to His Reward. Uncle Alexander Robinson, who has been an old and faithful servant in HA- family of the lion. Samuel Dibble for over thirty years, passed into tho Beyond on I.ist Wednesday night and is now at rest. He had been an invalid Toy rome years and not able to do any work, but he was kindly cared for by tho family whom he had served so long. Valenl Ines! Valenl ines! Sims' Book Store has a lot of handsome Valentines on sale. Call before they are picked over. PASSED THE HOUSE. The Repeal of the Lien Law Now Almost Certain. / _ Strong Arguments Made on Both Sides.?Believed That the Bill Will Pass the Senate. An overwhelming vote in the house passed air. Richards' bill for the re ] peal of the lien law to a third read ing Friday morning. The hill passed was very short, being as follows: "Section 1. That section 3059, volume 1, code of laws, South Caro lina, 1902, relating to liens for ad vances, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Sec. 2. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this .bet be, and the same are hereby, repealed. "Provided, This act shall take ef fect on the first day of January, A. D. 1909." When special order bills were reached Mr. Richards at once called ? for the lien law measure. Mr. Ruck er, who had the floor the day before when the proceedings were interupt ed by Gen. Lee's speech, was rcog nized. Mr. Rucker stated at the outset that he was in a hopeless min ority, but he thought the general as sembly was making a mistake in passing the Richards bill. However, if the arguments made by the major ity were correct he wanted the re peal to go into effect at once, and asked Mr. Richards if he were will ing for this. Mr. Richards said that he was not. Mr. E. E. Verner, one of the most earnest advocates for the repeal of the law, talked at length in favor of the pasage of the Liii. He was fol fowed by Mr. Harrison of Greenville, who argued against the repeal of the law. Mr. J. P. Gibson stated that he had called a mass meeting of farmers in bis ocunty, Marlboro, to discuss the matter, but afterwards this meeting was called off. With present labor conditions and the fact that there are now in the fields of his county 500 bales of unpicked cotton he thought the repeal of the law un wise. Mr. Gam's also made a vigorous fight against the repeal of the law, citing labor conditions and the need for encouraging the small farmers. Representatives Brantley, Wyche and A. G. Brice all spoke in favor of the repeal and denied the statement that the repeal would enslave the small farmer. Mr. Richards, the author of the proposed repeal, then spoke. He call ed attention to the fight year after year, the agitation by the farmers and urged his argument that t/.e re peal of the law would not he a hard ship on the tenant farmer, as was claimed by the opposition. In an swer to Mr. Rucker he would say that the reason he did not wish the re peal to go into effect at once was be cause it would work a hardship on tnose holding liens. He therefore wanted to give the landlords or farm owners time to prepare for the change. He believed that the re peal might temporarily effect some oi the tenants and some of the land owners, but in the long run it would prove a blessing and would take out of the grasp of the merchant-farmer, who charged anywhere from 25 to 100 per cent, for supplies, the poor man who worked a small portion of the farm. The Vote. On the motion to strike out the enacting words of the bill, made by Mr. Sellers, the vote was as follows: Nays?Whaley, Aull, Ayer, Bal lentine, Bethune, Boyd, Brantley, Brice, A. G., Brice, T. S., Bryan, W. D., Bryan, F. M., Cannon, Carson, Carwile, Cosgrove, Cothran, Court ney, Croft, Culler, DeVore, Dick, Dingle, Dixon, Dodd, J. H. Dowling, Epps, Frost, Gary, Gause, Gibson, W. J.. Glasscock, Gyles, Hall, Harmon, Harris, Hughes, Hydrick, Johnstone, Jones, Kellahan, Kershaw, Kirven, Lane, Lawson, Lester, Legare, Ma jor, McKeown, Mann, Miley, Miller, Morrell, Nash, Nesbitt, Nicholson. Niver, Richards, Richardson, Saw yer, Saye, Scarborough, Sharpe, Slaughter, Smith, J. E., Stillwell. Stubbs, Tatum, Todd, Tomkins, Van der Horst, Verner, Wade, Wanna maker, Wiggins, Wingard, Wyche, Yeldell?75. Yeas?Bailey, Beattle, Carey, Car irigan, Clary, Clinkscales, Derham, [Doar, Douglass, J. P., Gibson, Cood win, Harley, Harrison, Hinton, Lit tle, McMaster, Nickols, Norton, Par ker, Patterson, Reaves, Rucker, Sel lers, K. P. Smith, Thomas, VonKol nitz, Wallace, Wimberly?29. Pairs?Fraser, aye, Leitner, no; Walker, aye, Arnold, no; Robinson, no, Spivey, aye; Garris, aye, You mans, no; Grier, aye, Cox, no. Amendments Voted Down. The house voted down the propo sition by 91 to 24 to make the law effective at once and by a vote of SI to 23 voted down Mr. McMaster's proposition to extend the time for the enforcement of the repeal until 1910. .Mr. Richards believes that the act will pass the senate by a majority of at least four and possibly five. He I has canvassed that body thoroughly land the repeal is certain. He will now support the bill offered by Mr. Hydrick, which will protect the farm ers and tenants, in that a mortgage on a crop before it begins to grow is forbidden. Mr. Hydrick's bill is as follows: j "No mortgage of any crop or crops shall be good and effective to ; convey to the mortgagee any inter est in any crop or crops to be raised during the year in which said mort gage is given, and unless the land whereon said crop or crops are to be raised shall be described or men tioned in said mortgage, and unless the crop or crop:; herein referred to shall be up and growing at the time of the executh n of the mortgage. That said r.mendment shall not take effect until the first day of Jan uary, 1909." t