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8fhe ptttf? 3H/J ftonotrai PLBUSffi3D TWICE-A-WEEK Tuesday and Friday. - Vol. 4^.No. 10. "Entered as second-class matter Jan. 1, 1908, at the postoffice ac Or angeburg, S. C, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Jas. L. Sims, Editor and Proprietor. SFas. Izlar Sims, - Associate Editor. ? ? i Subscription Bates. * One Year...$1.50 Six Months. .. .. .75 Three Months.40 Advertising Rates. Transient advertisements ?1.00 per inch for tot insertion and 50 cents for each subsequent Insertion Business Notices 10 ceDts per line for first Insertion and 5 cents per line for subsequent insertions . Obituaries, Tributes of Respect, Notic* of Thanks, aad all notices of a personal orpoljti cal nature are charged for as regular advertise Special Notices, entitled 'Wanted, Lost, Found, Far Rent not exceeding twenty-five words, one 'ime, 35 cents; two tiroes 50 cents; three times, 75 cents and four times $1.00. Liberal contract made with merchants and Others who wish to nn advertif ements for three mentis or longer, r'or rates on c< ntract ?oVerti'sin? spply at *.h? office, and they will 1? ?reft?ly furnished. .... Remittances should be made by cnecks money orders, registered letters, or express or ders, payable to The Times and Democrat, Orangeburg, S. C. THE Legislature has adjourned a- dgone home. It worked hard, but accomplished nothing. Gov. Ansel has lost ground in this county, and we believe Feathsrstone will beat him in t>e primary. rFormer Secretary of the Treasury Shaw is running about the country like a politician out of a job, but anxiens to get one. The Ohio Republicans are so bit ter against each other that they are appealing to the Courts to decide which owns the "machine." The Anderson Mail thinks that Southern states that send Foiaker delegates to the Chicago convention should require them to leave their razors at home. Not a bad idea. As the Legislature hardly ever goes put of its ranks for candidates, it is dollars to doughnuts tnat Sen ator Latimer's successor will be taken from either the Senate or the house. Congressman Haugen, of Iowa, has just discovered after serving ov er eight years in Congress, that the Wire Trust.is plundering.the farmers It takes a long time for Republicans to find out that the tariff protects the Trusty_ The passing of the sentence of death upon Lieut. Gen. Stoessel is a harsh and tragic ending to the ca reer of this Russian commander, who three years ago, was acclaimed around the world as the "hero of Port Arthur."_ The indications now are that Ex Governor Heyward will be in the race for United States Senator. He is one of the most popular men that has ever held office in South Carolina, and if he does enter the race, he will make a fine run. ? All the Republican Presidential candidates pretend to have it in for the ''malefactor of great wealth," hut when the candidate is choser. the M. O. G. W. will be invited as usual by the Campaign manager to help fill the campaign "barrel." The "Grand Old Party" has evi dently seen its best days, for the factional fights and the breakdown of prosperity has made the Republi can elephant look lean and worried, quite different from its former ap pearance of complacent prosperity. The Hon. Cole L. Blease says the Governor an i some other folks are conspiring to prevent his election as Governor. We think he is mis taken about that, but had he cnarg ed the people with such a conspira cy we would be disposed to agree with him. The Bishops of the African M. E. Church have declared for Senator Foraker for President, and intimate that certaian elements of the ne groes may bolt if he is no nominated, And this occurs under the very shad ow of the White House. Whither are we drifting? When Bryan is ejected President next November we hope he will heap coals of fire on the News and Courier by appointing its genial Ed itor, Major J. C. Hemphill, as our Ambassador to the Court of St. James or some other equally impor tant post of honor. Word comes from Washington that J. Piermont Morgan, the Wall Street finencicr has joined the Taft boomers but of course all the Wall Street financieis will be for whoever the Republicans nominato. though in the meantime they may cuss Ted dy as a bungler of prosperity. The Anderson baily Mail says "Anderson has a man who reads all the editorial page of the News and Courier every day." There is no telling what trials and tribulations some folks have to encounter while passing through this vale of tears, The Anderson man has our sympa Hard Fight Before Him. The Sumter Item thinks with Senator Cole L. Blease in the race for governor the campaign will be lively and that Gov. Ansel is con front* d with a more >erious propo. sition than Mr. Martin's threat to meet him at Philippi. The Item goes on to say that "Mr. Blease is a strong stump speaker, quick, re sourceful and aggressive, adroit to take advantage of every weakness or mistake of his opponent and re lentless in pressing any advantage he may gain. Gov. Ansel may win a second term, but he will find the race he has to run far different from the leisurely stroll to a second term that he anticii ated. Precedent is a strong bridge, but at best it will be severely strained if it carries Gov. Ansel safely to reelection. Mr. Bleasr will probably not win the nomination himself but the fight he will make on Gov. Ansel, the cut ting and slashing exposure he will make of the fundamental weakness of a phlegmatic administration, will redound to the benefit of the strongest and most popular of the other candidates. The campaign for governor pron ises from present I indications to over-shadow in inter est the senatorial contest, and with Ansel, Feathc-rstone, Richards and Blease in the race the^e is the pos sibility tha} the second term as a matter of course nrecedent will re broken." We *hir,k the Item has sized up the situation about right. We have no idea that Gov, Ansel will have a walkover, in this neck of the woods he is about'as unpopular as Heyward was popular. Some one has said the Governor is as cold as a frozen oyster. Another Supreme Court Needed. The Dorchester Eagle says: "Thereis complaint now that tie county is put to unneccesary ex pense to care for one J. M. Walker, who has been confined in the county Jail for more than a vear. The case was tried nearly a year ago and Walker was sentenced to 15 years in the state penitentiary, but has remained in jail here nending a decision from the Supreme court. The county is paying $9 per month board for Walker and the board is getting tired of it. An investiga tion into the matter has been order by the supervisor." The Legisla ture has just established two more circuits to relieve the congestion of cases that accumulates in the cir cuit courts, and may be at the next session it can be induced to establish another supreme court to work off the congestion of cases that has ac cumulated on the hands of the old one. An Object Lesson. In the hold of one lake steamer, 4 21,000 bushels of wheat were carried recently from Superior to Buffalo. Think of the pretty baking and loaves of bread involved in that sin gle boatload of grain. It weighed about 25,260,0^0 pounds and will mill into 18,945,000 pounds of flour, con vertible into more than 20,000.000 j pound loaves of bread?three loaves a day for each man in Admiral Evan's fleet during the whole cruise of a year and a half. Assuming that this wheat was harvested from lands which give an average yield, the crops from 33,680 acres were pour ed into the ship. It took 12,000 farm wagon loads to carry the wheat to the railway stations and 300 cars of for ty tons capacity were hauled to Su perior to make that one cargo. Here we have an object lesson of the val ue to farmers of water transporta tion and what the canaling of our waterways will mean, Morgan and Rockefeller. The "interests" that inspired the Aldrich Currency bill will hardly know it when the Senate gets through with it. "Whatever the minor eccentricities of it's varigated texture" remarks the New York Journal of Commerce, "one vicious pattern will run all through it. It will provide for an emergency addi tion to the regular volume of cur rency, secured by a deposit of mis cellaneous bonds and heavily taxed, j This will be a mere exaggeration of the radical defect of the existing system, gathering the- corrupt hum or, with which it is infected into a morbid excrescence." This severe criticism from the leading business and financial newspaper of the country, should cause a Republican Congress to pause before it fnrther complicates our cumbersome finan cial structure by makeshifts. Controlled by the Few. Senator La Follette says that sev enty six men, holding 1600 director ships in the great business ennccrns of the country, control the business of the nation and that the railroads are controlled by eight men. No wonder the last Republican National Convention refused Senator La Fol lette a seat in that convention, and that there is an evident conspiracy to keep him out of the coming con vention. The Reoublican machine does not allow such home thrusts to be made by those labeled Republi cans. Can Vote it Out. A bill has passed the Legislature allowing any incorporated town where a dispensary is located to re quest an election upon a petition of 01 e-f< ur.h of the qwMfwvi v-.;. r? in such election to be ordered after twenty days notice. Under its terms any town can secure an election up on removing the dispensary, in which election only the voters inside the incorporate limits of those towns can vote. It dees not apply to county seats, and several of the counties are exempted from the pro visions of the bill. This is a good law, but it should have been made applicable to the entire State. Setting Eggs for Sale. Plymouth Rock Eggs for sale at $1.00 per setting of 15 eggs. Mrs. Isaac Bennett, 2-25. Jamison, S. C. P.'iUljps Improved Cotton Seed. Hay the; ie.iuK.j Phillips Im proved Cotton Seed and make more cotton this year. Write for pamph let and prices or see J. L. Phillips, Orangeburg, S. C. l-10-3m. The State does not think we are exactly fair in asking "if the attor ney-general can tote a pistol around and challenge mortal combat, why j can't other folks do the same?" We would not do the attorney-general 1 an injustice, as our sympathies are [entirely with him in his efforts to bring to justice every man who took I graft, but we cannot endorse his ac I tion in the Koester matter. If we have done him an injustice we hum |bly apologize. But will the attor ney-general say he was not toting a pistol that memorable day? Mr, Featherstone is a good, clean man and would make a good, clean governor, and will be much harder to head off tnan some people think. Notice to the PubUc. Having purchased the entire bus iness of "The Co-operative Store," I will continue in my own name. Thanking my patrons for past fa vors, I respectively solicit a contin ance of the same and promise my best efforts to serve the public with honest dealing and the best prices consistent with sound business. Respectively, Lewis G. Funderburk. Notice of Dissolution. The copartnership heretofore ex isting between the undersigned, un der the name and style and "The Co operative Store," is this day dis solved by mutual consent, Lewis G. Funderburk having purchased the entire business will continue the same in his own name. All persons holding claims against the said company and part nership will present the same to Lewis G. Funderburk, and all per sons indebted to the safe must make payment to him. Lewis G. Funderburk, T. M. Richards. l-2tl Scene First from Murray and Muck, is "The Sunny Side of Broadway,' Which is at the Academy of Music Thursday Evening. 1008 SEEDS 1908 6 CLARK'S SEED STORE Just received my Spring Stock of Field, Garden and Flower Seeds, from the best growers in the U. S. IRISH POTATOES. 7, of the leading varieties, grown by T. W, WOOD, & SONS. BIRDS?Hart's Mountain Canaries, (TRAINED SINGERS), South American Purots talkers, Bird supplies of all kinds. Cages for breeding and for song birds, Fish food, Aquariums etc. Prepare your ground und plant now. Yours Truly, S. H. CLARK. 55 RUSSELL STREET. 0 > TO THE MAN WHOSE LIFE IS i<OT INSURED. WHAT YOU NEED MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE IS A Standard Equitable Policy. DO YOU DOUBT THIS. THEN FILL UP THE FOLLOWING? Coupon. Phone 1972. Orangeburg, S. C. Please send me a complimentary copy of your booklet telling about your STANDARD Po?,CY. Also rate charg ed per $1,000 of insurance at age. Name. Address. Date.190S. FIRE, LIFE. BURGLRAY, TORNADO ALSO SURETY Written t>;y H. C. Wannamaker, I represent companies tha know to be goo. Give me some of your business. % 9 FIRE SALVAGE SALE! WE HAVE ABOUT $3,000 DOLLARS worth of DAMAGED Goods SAVED FROM OUR RECENT FIRE, WHICH WIE "WILL IPTJT MONDAY FEB. 24TH COMMENCING at 9 o'clock. WE HAVE SECURED THE STORE RECENTLY OCCUPIED BY MRS. DECHIAVETTE. THESE GOODS MUST BE DISPOSED OF IN TEN DAY'S WHICH CONSISTS OF DRESS GOODS, RIBBONS, LACES AND NOTIONS. CASH AND VALUE WILL NOT BE CONSIDER ED THIS STOCK MUST POSITIVELY GO IN TEN DAYS. Remember the date of Sale. Monday Fell. 24th At 9 O'clock.