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St? ?te and ?tmm*t PUBLISHED TWICE-A-WEEK Tuesday and Friday. Vol. 40. . ..No. 45. Kntereu becond-ututfu matter Jan. 1, 1908, at the postottic? at Or ?ngebnrg, S. C, under the Act o! Congress of March 3, 1879. fa*, l. Sims, Editor and Proprietor. Pa*. Izlar Sims, - Associate Editor. Subscription Rate?. On Tear...?? :..fl.50 ?ix Months. . .75 Three Months.. ..? -.ji w-? ?? .i-..40 Advertising Rates. 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Are we going to fight Cipriano Castro and his plucky Venezuelans just to make a Roosevelt holiday and rake in votes for Taft? Such seems the dire probabilities. Some time ago President Castro took such strenuos actions, in carrying out his notions of the square deal, as to hurt the pocket nerve of some American trusts with business int erests in Venezuela. The Roose vels administration butts in, refuses to accept arbitration of some of the claims, and resorts to its customary bullying tactics. Castro's strong point is that the Americans aided a rebellion against the established government of the country. Such, in general and large, is the cause of the quarrel. Of course Cipriano Castro is known to be a man of few if any scruples, and pre cisely the sort of obnoxious individ ual that almost every one would en joy seeing thrashed?if there was any cojor of justification in admin istering the thrashing, Fortunate ly, at this time there is no justifica tion for trying to punish the dough ty little president. It is probable that the incident will not become much more complicated or unpleas ant than it is now. The United States has recalled its minister and Venezuela has after waiting some time retaliated by recalling her rep resentative at the court of Theo dore. And there the very pretty lit tle quarrell stands. Neither* coun try has recalled its consuls, so that we may maintain whatever commer cial relations we have with Vene zuela. Castro has proved himself as shif ty in the cabinet as in the field of Mars. He is a good fighter, as alert at dodging taxes as a New York millionaire, quick to take offense and to resent it, has the bravery of a toreador, and is altogether the spectacular sort of fellow that shows up well upon the vaudeville and grand opera stage. He made a really beautiful "play" the other day when Sleeper, our representa tive, demanded his passports. Ho had his minister of alien affairs in form Mr. Sleeper that, as there was I absolute and perfect peace between | this country and Venezuela, no) passports were neccessary. Exceed ingly adroit. When the Venezuelan minister informed our State Depart ment of his recall, he did not ask for transports. It is exceedingly unfortunate, if we really wish a scrap with Castro, that in almost every point of the controversy he has the right on us. We are defending the claim of a de sorter from the French army and a man of utter disrepute, because he claims to be an American citizen; we are defending the claims of an American trast that tried to over throw the Castro regime; we are de manding that Castro set aside the | rulings of the highest courts of Ven ezuela; and we are demanding that arbitrations into which we willingly entered be reversed in our favor. With our conscience corrupted with these injustices, it would be a sad day whoa we entered upon a war with Venezuela.?The State. In a DiUVrent Way. Now they say Taft intends to en force the Roosevelt policies, but in a different manner, That is he will use smokeless powder and the new style of noiseless gun. This involves confession, of course, that all the panic and business depression was caused by the explosive methods of the owner os the republican party. But then what policies are tolbe en forced by Taft should he win? Such laws as democrats demanded from 1896 down and helped republicans enact which constitute the only tan gible policies, must be enforced by Taft because his o?th of office would require it. though a man of his adjusting disposition might try to suspend some statutes unduly oppressin? contributors. He can not enforce those marvelovs Roose velt policies which congress would not permit to be enacted into law. The vm ?fcndy tbo subject th" hisy>u rin.i in me 11 > .s_-.v.i pohcj chatter.?Pittsburg Post. Close to Anarchists. That political party which figures every four years in a small way and delights to call itself Socialists, re sents with scorn the imputation that they have anything in common with the anarchists. They declare that they are for law and order in a way, hut that they would make sweeping changes in the existing or der. They deny most emphatically that they are anarchists, and the vehemence of this denial has drawn a cons iclei able number of more or less harmless cranks (into their ~auks. The nomination of a boy under the constitutional age, who is serving a 25-year sentence for manslaughter, to be President of the United States shows more clearly than words can express, the true inwardness of the Socialists. It shows that if they had the power this magnificent structure which... we call goernment would topple' and the end would be chaos. This last act of insanity has put the Socialists beyond the pale. They are no longer e. titled to respect due the misguided and ' .eble minded. They hae proved to be far worse than that.?Greenville Daily News. Fires Started by Moths. Moths and flames are universally connected yet few people suspect that dangr could arise therefrom The insects are of such frail struc ture that generally they get destroy ed before it Is possible for them to inflict injury and it is hardly credi ble tnat the wings wouW ignite and retain the flame long enough to en able the moth to fly to its surroud ings. That however has occurred. The moth was a very large one, and its wings must have been very dry, so that when it flounded through the flame It set fire to one wing and darted on to a curtain nearby which at once flared'' up. It is possible that many summer evening fires in the country could be attributed to a source of this kkind. It is notor ioas that r:yr.tevious fire often arise at sunset in the hot months.?Strand Magazine. Wise New Yorkers. The spectacle of New York reluc tantly falling in line with the pro gressie politics of the rest of the nation has again been presented at Denver, eben as it met the eye of close obsrvrs of the Republican con vention in Chicago. Gray boomers and Johnson boomers sought in vain to secure the aid of New York in the effort to defeat William Jen nings Bryan for the nomination. Charles F. Murphy, the Tammany boss, was the object of their solicita tions, but Mr. Murphy, after re maining reticent for a long time, fi nally voushsafed the information that unless he could be assured of enough delegates to actually defeat Bryan on the first ballot, his men would be for the Nebraskan. And there were not enough anti-Bryan delegates to keep the great Com monr out of the place. This is all the more remarkable when it is re memebered that in the Demochatic convention it requires two-thirds to nominate, while in the Republican convention a bare majority was suf ficient. While it seems that New York is being to some extent forced in both parties to take a back seat, even on the bandwagons, the Empire state wing of the Democracy' is wise. They are willing to defeat Bryan? they are anxious to defeat Bryan? but they are not anxious nor are they willing to oppose Bryan and then have him successful. They do not care to be rated as opponents of a successful candidate, if they can see in advance that he is going to be successful. As one newspaper man expressed it, they are willing to defeat Bryan, but they are not willing to almost defeat him.?Spar tanburg Herald. For Young Men. Young men who start out in life with the fond expectation of some day becoming President, should take note of the vast possibilities open to them when the term is over. Mr. Roosevelt will go to Africa to hunt liens. The bid of one dollar a word for all he may write of the trip and all expenses, made by Collier's has been raised by the Saturday Evening Post and McClure's. Under these contracts it is possible for the Presi dent to make his present salary look very small.?Greenville Daily News. Profanity. Tbo Washington Herald says: Us ing profauitv is merely a mark of an inability to rise to the demands of com mon sense. It is not only a habit that does violence to the fundamen tal principles of morality, but it is intensely and extremely silly. Noth ing but afool will become continually profane. It is one American hab it that >i'M'ls only degradation, and thatserves no tangible good purposes rhe man who wastes his time and that of his acquaintances using "cuss" words is a very undesirable citizen?one everybody is eure in ime to wish to aoid as much as )OSSible. The Wise Investor. It is one of the incidents in the rreat law of compensation that hard imes bring saner Investigations than s poss1' 'e duri ig Vooni times. There ire decenni*.!;? ?-ion, more or less vhen all AmericaQb think they arc wing to get h sudenly. \ ho., ipeculate rathei than invest. Aftei hey have philosophically taken .heir osses they are qu5 e willing to look >ver the field for something "eon lervative." In fact, we may take he history of investsments for the , last twenty-five years, and discover that those who have invested on a 4 per cent basis are generally much beter off than they who have Stri en to make high interest, not to mention synicate profits and fanci ful appreciation of values. PpUSl \f!vrrfi::;:2. Cpur> adrcrtL! U'-e a nhrt winded horse, never wius the race. Just as well move your store every three months as to io that kind advertising. People may not need what you se l ;ust now. but they will sooner or later, and if, when they do want it, they don't And your ad where they first saw it they natural ly conclude that you have quit busi ness. What a salesman is to your business, just such is your ad. Each sells your goods and you can"not prosper without both. Protectionalism, in its last analy sis is socialism. If our President and our Congress hae become too meddlesome the cause may be direct ly traced to the Socialistic protective system. The Republican party has created the Socialistic movement, and it will be destroyed by that movement. The Democracy has op posed it, and will throttle it. Senator Foraker has accepted the invitation to open the Republican campaign in Ohio at Youngstown in September. If his late speech at Cincinnati is any criterion in which he gave the evidence that Republi can policies have produced the pan it, the Republican managers must waut to beat Taft as well as the State ticket. In spite of the arduous efforts of the sunshine club there are, accord ing to the official reports of the American Railway Association, some thing like KoO.OOO freight cars still idle. That means $350,000,000 of in terest bearing capital that is earn ing nothing and yet constantly de preciating. Congressman Littlefield, of Maine, declares that "the way malefactors of great woa'tls have escaped is gro tesque." No wonder Littlefield has declared his intention of resigning from Congress with ideas so strange ly at variance with his President and Party. That RepuhHean policies have pro duced business panic and depres sion is shown by Bradstreet's re port of 7,560 failures in the first half of this year with total liabili ties of more "than double any year since 1897. The banks have discovered that if they join one of the Currency As sociations the law makes no provis ion for voluntary withdrawal from such Association and some of the big bankers therefore refuse to participate. Maine Republicans in their plat form declare for Mr. Roosevelt's "strenuos efforts for the betterment, of conditions." From all accounts Teddy will have to renew his stren uous efforts for even in Maine the voters are getting tired of present conditions. There are many better writers than President Roosevelt, yet the magazines are falling over each other to pay him more than one dol lar a word for his impression of the Dark Continent. The Taft chairman has to be ac ceptable to the trusts, the railroads and other corporations that are ex pected to 'furnifh . the boodle. The price of beef would indicate that the Packers Combine do not fear the Republican plan of trust busting. West Point Examination. I will hold an examination of all applicants for appointment to the United Slates ML'tiary Academy, on Friday August 7th, 9.30 a. m., at Columbia, S. C. Fro mthis examina tion, I shall select my appointee for the vacancy now existing. The following are the qualifications of the candidates required by the War Department: "No candidate shall be admitted who is under 17 or over 22 years of age, or less than five feet four inches in height at the age of 17, or five feet five inches in height at the age of 18 and upward, or who is deformed or afflicted with any disease or infirmity which would render him unfit for military ser vice, or who has, at. the time of pre senting himself, any disorder of an infectious or immoral character. Candidates must be unmarried. Each candidate must, upon re porting at West Point, present a certificate showing successful vacci nation within one year; or a certifi cate of two vaccinations, made at least a month a part, within three months." Trost? who desire to take this ex amination should write me for per mission to do so, and also for fur ther information with respect to the examination. It is required that each applicant shall have been an actual resident of i''is District one year prior to the dai* of this examination. Each applicant should have his physician examine him according to the rules laid down by the War De partment. I sugggesi this i:i order lo save the applicant the expense of taking the examination if his physi cal condition does not meet, the re quirements. Very truly. A. F. Lev. r, Lexington, S. C. For Kent. The little cottage No 23 Green St. 7-13-ti Apply to C W. Prescott Land for Sale. 345 acres of land fronting on Col umbia and dtage roads, 2% miles north of city, for sale. For further Information applv to Sifiy and Frith. Orangeburs, S. C. 9-26-tf. CONGRESS CALLED. ON TUBERCULOSIS TO MEET IN WASHINGTON. South Carolinians to Take Part in Meeting?Delegates From All Over the World Expected. Dr. C. F. McGahan of Aiken is president of the committee that is to arrange for South Carolina's par ticipation in the Internatonal Con gress on Tuberculosis to he held in Washigton from Septembber 21 to October 12. Dr. J. L. Dawspn of Charleston is the secretary of the committee and others on the list are Or. Robert Wilson, Jr., of Charles ton, Dr. C. F. Williams of Columbia, secretary of the State board of health, and J. A. Hayne of Greenville. Gov. Ansel is one of the vice presidents of the congress. There is th~ greatest interest taken in the meeting by all of the South Carolina physicians. The congress on tuberculosis, which is to he held in Washington, meets every three years, and this is the first time it has come to this country. The last meeting was held in Paris, France, in 1905, and three years before that the gathering tool: place in London. It is not likely that the congress will again convene In the United States for a great many years, as the honor of 'entertaining it is eagerly sought by the coun tries abroad. ( Preparations for the gathering are engaging the attention of every enlightened nation. The white plague is no respector of persons or of races. It is limited to any quar ter of the globe, and the common ground on which Europe, Asia, Afri ca and North and South America are meeting is the belief that this disease may be ought under as complete control as smallpox, plague, yellow fever and other infectious diseases have been by wide-awake peoples. Committees of arrangements for the congress have been organized in [every State in our own land. In I every section plans are being per fected for representation in the con gress. A number of the foregn gov ernments have already announced to the state department at Washington the names of their official delega tes; while others have acquainted the secretary general of the con gress with their plans for participa tion in the congress and in the great exhibition that will be held in con exhibiticn and the congress a:'1 to be hoased in the Natio.ial museum, adjoining the Smithsonian. Thn ex hibiton promises to be practically a world's fair on the subject of tuber culosis. It will show what is being done around the globe in .he fight against tuberculosis, from Alaska down to the Cape of Good Hope, from the steps of northern Russia to the diamond fields of South Africa. Every State in the Union Is ex pected to be represented in some way at the congress. The governors, of 40 States have authorized the | secretaries of the State boards of health, the heads of institutions, or I other officials, to arrange for par ticipation in the gathering. In a number of States, traveling exhihi- 1 tions Mat show Hie conditions In the respective States, and the meas ures that have bbeen taken to correct them, have been on view in the home States during the winter, and will be -Hspkiyed in the exhibition at the congress in Washington. Municipal Notice. Council Chamber City of Orangeburg, S. C, June 23./190S; Yo All Concerned. By resolution'of th<' Ci*:v Council adopted at a meeting of t":kir body held June 12, l :>i>v;, f am instructed to notify all properly owners and householders adjacent to the sewi r ic:e system on Russell street between Church street and Rail Road aven;ie. that nil connections with the sewer itre system between raid points must >e made before September 1. 190S; aid that on account of the con ? mplated 'mprovments on Russell street, no :ounectious will be permit ted after the above date until further iction shall have been taken !. he City Council. By order of the City Council. Very respectfully, L. H. Wannamaker, City Clerk and Treasurer. 'SUNNY JIM" ON THE JOB. -Skidmore in Boston Traveler. MAIL ORDERS A SPECIALTY A Great De partment Cov Or ering Every one of the oth er Depts., In s Emporium. . The simple convenience and per fect satisfaction which attends the Mail Order method of purchasing goods from tin's complete Store has made such strong appeal to hundreds of our o':.-of-town customers that this Department has more than trebl ed its size in the past year. Filling orders by mail has become an exact science with us. Our Mail Order Section is as efficient as our regular Store Service. . Ybu have only to write us plainly what you want?enclose payment (if you are not n charge customer)?and the goods will be forwarded to you on the day your rder is received if the goods ordered are In stock. A GREAT TIME-SAYER. TRY lx. Kohn's Emporium, 15 Departments. All Connected With You By Uncle Sam's Mail De livery. 1 OF 2 things is inevitable, OLD AGE OR DEATH. A Standard EQUITABLE POLICY will make provision against both. It will protect YOU if you live, and will protect your family if you die. Now is the time to make such provision. TOMORROW MAY BE TOO LATE. ZEIGLER AND DIBBLE Special Agents Equitable Life. ORANGEBURG, S. C. CHIGORA COLLEGE GREENYILLE, S. C. Owned and controlled by the Presbyteries of the Synod of South Carolina. A high grade college for women. A Christian home school. Graduate courses in Hie Arts and Sciences, Music, Art, Expression, Gymnastics and Business. Large nnnd aide faculty. Beautiful grounds. Elegent buildings. Mo dern conveniences. Healthful climate. Location i:i Piedmont section, and hi city of 25.000. EXPENSES FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR. A. Tuition Board, Room .-.nil Fees.$183.00 13. All included in proposition (A) and Tuition in Music, Art or Expression.S20:J.OO to $213.00 The iM'Xl session opens Sept. 17.. For catalogue and information ad dress, , S. C BYRD, >). i>. President. ?am i. <. ST U In B My new stock of Rutabaga and Turnip Seed- i<, arrive July 5th. Bloonulalc Rutabaga, Cow Morn, Amber Globe, White Globe, Red Top. Flat Dutch and Snow Ball Turnips, Black Spanish Radish, While Spanish Radish, Autumn King, ami X. C. Buncombe ('abbaue Seed. BIBDS Amazon Fnriots (talkers) German Male Canaries, line trained sing ers. Bird Food and Supplies of all kinds. Yours Truly, S. H. CLARK. 55 RUSSELL STREET. iVm. V. Izlar. J. Stokes Sallcy, We represent the The Home Insurance Co. Liverpool and London and Globe German American Continental . ?i Northern Assurance Phoenix and Georgia Home. The Strongest Combination in the State. TBE DRUG STORE is the one place on earth whore it is unsafe to look for "Bargains." If you are satisfied with getting the worth of your money, the best Medicine it is possible to compound from the highest grade drugs, -d the services of an experienced Pharma cist you will send your' Doctor's Prescription to J. ?. Waanamaker MTg. Co. GEO S. HACKER & SON. CHARLESTON, S. C. Manufacturers DOORS, SASH & BLINDS. BALUSTERS, COLUMNS & ETC. WINDOW AND DOOR SCREENS. SASH WEIGHTS AND CORD. FIRE INSURANCE Not cheap insurance but in surance that insures you against all loss by lire or lightning. I do not represent small mu tnals witii no capital, who have to assess the policy holdiers to cover each loss, but ten of the oldest and strongest companies doing business, worth more than $100,000,000 and who have paid more than $1,000,000,000 in losses. Country dwellings, barns and outbuildings, together with their contents all written, mid I have satisfied customers in every sec tion of the county. Improved gins insured and al so cotton on limitations. Office with WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO., next door to Dr. J. G. Wannauiakcr Mfg. Co., where you will lind me from 8 a. m., to 8. p. m. Office 1??< pi? ne X?. 21. ) Residence .V 1S12. W.K. SEASE. Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup CONTAINS HONEY AND TAR Relieves Colds by working them out of he syst.im throu?h a copious and 'aealihy ction of the bowels. Relieves Coughs by cleansing th? mcous membranes of tho throat, chtsfi nd bronchial tubes. "As pleasant to the taste as Maple Sugar" Children Like It For BACKACHE?WEAK KIDNEYS Try jY/Ht's Kldnsy and Bladder Pills?Sura and Sam Sold by A. C Duk s, M. D., and A. :. Doyle & Co. THE BANK OF SPRINGFIELD. Jndlvided Profits.ili.000.C0 Capital...S-10,000.00 Officers. j, M. Minis, Prcsid :nt: Jno. McB. Beta. V. P. J. 3 Su.dh, Cashier;1 Edith PhilU . \<?t. Directors. L. M. Mim* Jno. Ber.n, Joe. A. . Berry, L. B. Palmer. W. P. Hut to, J. W. Jumper, H. A. Odom, T. L. Gleatoi, O. C. Sailey. AH business intrusted to us rc? elves careful, official attention. Leave your Surplus funds with ua ,t four per ceDt interest.