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PUBLISHED XWICB-A-WHHK Tuesday iaMl Friday. VoL 40. V.No, 57. ciiiwr?a au second-class matter im. 1. 1908, At tdio jwstofflce at Or ngsburg, 8. C, under the Act of flangreM of March 3, 1879,_ gas. JL. Sims, Editor; and Proprietor. gm. fialaii Sims, - Associate Editor. ..: Subscription Bate*. Ctee Tear.$1J? fife Months. ?75 Kteee Months.40 Advertbdng Bates, i Timosient advertiieraenta $1.00 per inch for tet insertion and 50 cents for eaohsabaeqoeat taertion ' \ ? . *_ Business Notices 10 oeats per line for first Issaction and 5 oeats per line for subsequent faasttioss OUtoadea, Tributes of Bejpect, Notice of jfcssaSj and all notices of a peuocal or pobts ?alaatuio aze charged for ae regular adrertise Gsecbil Notices, entitled Wanted, Lost, fand, Far Bant, not exceeding twenty-five jTorda, one time, 35 cents; two tunes 50 cents; three timaa, 75 o?nt3 and four times $1.00. Liberal contract made with merchants and 00??? who wish to nm advertisements for tftuee months or longer. For ates on contract advertising apply at the office, and they will , n CBrafo?y furnished. fiemittanoes should be made by checks sjoasy orders, registered letters, or express or fera, paynble to the Times, and Democrat, . Oraneeburg, S. C. ? Senator Evans or Senator Smith. Which is your choice? Every Democrat should go to the polls and vote for Mellichamp. Josh Ashley seems to have a cinch on Anderson County. He has been again elected to the Legislature. The question as to who furnished the money for Grace to go round .and fight Mayor Rhett is still unan swered, ?-:- r The friends of both.{Eyans and Smith are doing some good work for their respective candidates in this county. The Kansas Republicans have de clared for a law guaranteeing bank deposits, and;thus repudiates then Presidential candidate. Cansler has been running for Railroad Commissioner a long time and at last he is almost in reach of the prize. Will he get it? The United States Government should take steps to protect Augus ta, Ga., from such another disaster as overtook that city last week. The Fort Mill Times savs "men who refuse to pay their honest debts will drop a coin in the church plate and imagine themselves Christians." Do not fail to go out to the polls next week and put in a vote for Mellichamp and help duplicate the handsome vote given him in the first primary. The city of Augusta has been hit hard by the flood, but phoenix like she will rise from the mud, and be a more prosperous and beautiful city than ever. j'l If Charleston had been united on Rhett like Orangeburg is on Melli champ Rhett would be in the ;ond primary with a good chance of 'being the next Senator. In its editorial column The State says Ansel's majority in Richland County is over 450, while the official report of the vote published in the same paper puts it at 396. We hope our cotemporary is not ashamed of the correct figures, OUR ci.i.u.iii.it- Ajt ?iicl.tri p. is the best qualified ior dtaie bu^una.cii dent of Education of the two can didates in the field for that office and he should be nominated by a handsome majority. We hope such will be the outcome of the primary nevt week. A Georgia paper says politics is not its hobby and it is not attempt ing to save the country by urging the election of any man; that this country is greater than any political party and is bound to prosper. Just such foolish notions as this that has enabled the trusts to run the gov ernment through the Republican party and rob the public The most interesting campaign expense account filed was that of Cansler of Tirzah who includes nine baths, at twenty-five cents per bath, three of them half or tub baths. Mr. Cansler also includes every shoe shine on the campaign, pressing his pants one time and $1.00 given to the blind. His total expense ac count was $221.05. In Charleston Blease was fought hard by all the newspapers, and yet he carried the county by over 900 majority. In Columbia The t State fought Blease bitterly in every issue for months before the election, and yet by a reversal (of 200 votes he would have^had a small majority in Richland County. The results in Charleston and Richland Counties -does not indicate that the great daily ] Vipers of the State have the power ful influence that is usually imputed j to them. " The Real Lesson of the Freshet. The people of the Carolinas and Georgia have had a distressing but impressive lesson on the necessity of adopting a measure of safety and economy by the acquisition of the Appalachian forests with a view to their preservation and to the safe guarding of the waterways of the south. Congress has .been urged to make a small appropriation for the purpose of purchasing these forests before it is too late. It was pointed out among other things that unless something is done within the next few years there will be no forests to preserve, and the area of bar ren and unproductive land which is constantly increasing, will have reached an extent which will be positively appalling. Millions of dollars a year will be saved if the government could be placed in charge of the only remain ing hardwood forests now in the country. "And yet the most important as pect of the question is the preven tion of just such floods and freshets as those which have recently devas tated the entire country tributary to the Piedmout escarpment," says the Atlanta Journal. "In the course of the arguments in favor of this measure the rapidity with which the Savannah river is filling with silt and sand and the increasing degree ' with which the territory through which it passes it becoming subject to inundations was specially pointed out. The testimony of experienced engineers who are familiar with the situation was quoted in order to arouse the general public and induce our members of congress to take action. It was shown that unless something was cone at once, just such a disaster as that which has come upon Augusta was inevitable. These earnest warnings were ignor ed, except by a few who realized the gravity of the situation, and now the truth of everything that was said comes home to us with tremen dous force. "Conservative estimates place the financial loss in Augusta alone at two millions of dollars, 'White valu able lives have been lost there and elsewhere. There have Jfeen other losses incident to wrecks and delays on the railroads, the destruction of bridges and growing crops; thou sands have been thrown out of em ployemenl and yet other thousands have been made destitute. The cause of this disaster is as easy to determine as a mathematical propo sition. The wanton destruction of the forests has leit the uplands bare of vegetation, and there is nothing to break the terrific force of the wa ters generated in a period of unusual rams. They come rushing down the mountain sides and the tributary creeks, swelling the rivers and inun dating the lowlands through which they pass. Gathering force and vol ume as they advanfce, l&ey sweep away the>ich deposjtts of soil which it will take generafeops' -.^) . supply again. They leave ""these' deposits in the bed of the rivers and creeks so that the next overflow is all the more certain and all the more dan gerous. $ i "And yet year after year we sit idly bv and watch this work of de struction going on. We literally in vite a repetition of just such a cal amity as that which has made Au gusta desolate today. Strange as it may seem, our own members of congress?taking the South as a whole---have been more indifferent or more hostile to this preventive !nwtt>'i ' >':'?*? .;r:y . . c. 11.01 . Ik? O' ' ? y. ; i i. il must be added tne special hostility of the speaker of the house, who, for reasons best known to himself, has constantly opposed the appro priation. How much longer must this condition of affairs exist? The president of the United States has made this question the subject of special and earnest reccommenda tion, and he has taken the initiative in calling special conferences for the purpose of forwarding the move ment. The urgency of the situation ha9 been painted in the most graph ic light. "And yet nothing is done, until we have the cold reality driven home by a deluge which has inundated a city and made thousands of citizens in two states desolate. It would be impossible to over estimate the ne cessity of taking action to prevent the recurrence of these freshets. The way to do it is known of all men who have given the matter the slightest consideration. It has ta ken a fearful example to arouse us to the need of action, but if the disaster through which one of our fairest cities is now passing should mark the turning point the exper ience will not have been entirely in vain. It is the patriotic duty of the people of the south to get behind this movement more earnestly and insistently than ever and to demand that the forests shall be preserved and that the whole question of 1 waterways shall have that careful consideration and prompt attention which a perilous situation de mands," Blease Never Hod a Chance The Columbia State asks: "Did the report of tremendous anti- Ansel sentiment in Orangeburg have po tency enough to Ifeep one Orange burg paper neutral in the guberna torial race, and cause auother to in cline Blease-ward at the eleventh hour." The Times and Democrat being the paper referred to in the above paragraph as being neutral, we would say that we could see no use in kicking a dead lion. We knew all the time that Blease had no more chance of carrying Orangeburg County than he had of carrying South Carolina, and not having any personal scores to settle with Blease as some others evidently had we saw no reason for going into hys terics over his candidacy as some of our esteemed cotemporaries did. A paper that is as jealous of its own fair name as The State is should not be so swift to impute improper mo tives to other newspapers. Can't Stand Tart, Capt. William H. Robertson, for thirty years a leader in the Republi can party at Danville, Va., and who is presidential elector on the Repub lican ticket from the fifth Virginia district, came out in a letter last week repudiating Taft and announc ing his intention of supporting Bry an. He gives as his reason for leav ing the party that Taft is a Unitar ian. He says: "All the money in the world could not induce me to vote for a man who does not believe in Jesus Christ." He speaks of Bry an as b< iog a Christian gentleman, and appeals to all Christians to sup port the Commoner. There are many others who will take the same view of Taft as Capt. Robertson does. They won't vote for him be cause they look upon him as an un believer. Everything seems to be coming Br.\ an's way this campaign, and we b-li ^ve that he will be land ed in the White House by the people as result it. The Thirty-Cent League. Recently ttie New York Tribune said, "Won't somebody contribute 30 cents lu Mr. Bryan's campaign?" The Indianapolis News, detecting in it the sn<'er of predatory wealth, used it as a text for an editorial which has greatly stirred the West. The Columbia Record says in an swer to the Tribune's challenge which was insolently meant to ex press plutoci acy's contempt for the party of the common people, there immediately began to be organized throughout the West Thirty-cent Leagues, a movement that has since extended to the East. This is to be the answer of the people to those who have been plundering them, and it will prove effective. Their thirty cent contributions will outweigh the thousands contributed by the trusts to maintain their position for carry ing on their schemes of systematic robbery. The Columbia Record advises "the people everywhere to answer the sneering question of the Tribune by organizing these leagues. Here in the South where so many have but little to give for campaign expenses they would arouse enthusiasm and create a fund that would offset the contributions of the money barons of the other party. -The thirty-cent gifts of the struggling masses would have somewhat the potency of the widow's three mites as compared with what the rich out of their abundance cast into the temple chest." "Whatever becomes of the lea ' - ?v> fV? V ? vj, "it .-iip-hr :o ?liH.v' ? i?. L ? r> m ? >? ^tJh"J 'L ' - *'-Ul- ?V.l. M -l> j ? are going to devote to Other parts of the campaign for there is in the episode one of the most signifi cant signs of the time. It shows that the people?the common peo pie, who were, ridiculed by the first unconscious proposition?appreciate the situation. That they realize that the predaceous wealth and power of the country that have so long written its laws, especially those for the benefit of wealth; that have administered the laws, are gathered in solid phalanx behind the ruling p<?rty. Spread the news of the Thirty-Cent League. Let thirty cents answer thirty millions." "Betsey Killed the B'ar." In speaking of the defeat of Blease in Orangeburg County The State says: "It has been suggested that the utter failure of certain influences to bind and deliver the Orangeburg vote is due largely to the foresight of a former congressman from that icounty, Dr. J. W. Stokes, who so earnestly championed the free rural delivery service that it was first ex perimented with in South Carolina. Voters away off on the farms of Or angeburg are keeping in touch with affairs of the times." The State in the above paragraph implies that it is the Betsy that killed the b'ar in Orangeburg county in the late primary. The idea the State evidently wishes to convey is that the "voters away off on the farms of Orangeburg are keeping in touch with affaire of the times" by reading tne State. W might accept this explanation of th result of the vote in Orangeburg County if the State's home city ano county had not come within 39b votes of going for Blease. If tht State ha?? such a powerful influence ?A'cty from hi.mi; aa to coii^e ur angeburg to defeat Blease by over 900 majority, surely it ought to have been able to matte a better showing in its home county, where it can reach nine-tenths of the voters With out the aid of the rural delivery ser vice, than it did. We fear the State compliments itself too highly when it claims credit for causing Orange burg county to vote against Blease. We do not believe our coternporary changed a vote in Orangeburg County. Heii- to Millions Stole Automobile. ? Robert Eyer, heir to an estate of $2,000,000, was jailed in Allentown, Pa., last" week, on charge of stealing an automobile belonging to Drrr*aimer J. Kress, a fellow member of the Allentown Automobile club. The car was located in Philadelphia, where Eyer had ordered it to be sold for $1,000. * Father Shot "Mystic Doctor." Because his eight-months-old son died despite ancient incantations and primittive remedies applied by Chas. Rose, Antonio Greco laid in wait at the McKeespart (Pa.) car barns and winged the laborer doctor. Produced $1,000 Because of a Joke. Charged with passing counterfeit quarters, which they claim was a joke, Luden P. F. Tull, of New York, and Richard W. Meacham, of Day ton, O., have entered $1,000 bail each at Detriot, Mich.,, * For Sale or Kent. One store, dwelling and lot on the main street of Rowesville, S. C. In the business part of town. Apply to W.. M. Edgeman, 9-7-4* Rowesville, S. C. For Sale. Mason Porcelin Lined Fruit Jars, with extra caps and rubbers; can make prompt shipment at low prices; send us your orders. I. M. Pearlstine & Sons, 201 and 203 East Bay St., Charleston, S. C. Land For Sale. 84 acres of LMd North of Or angeburg and wiffctt thirty mnutes drive of the Court House, 100 acres upon cly sub-soil, remainder wood land. Will sei as a whole or in tracts. Apply to L. P. Zeigler, 7-31-tf Neeces, No. 2. S. C. Declaration of Intention to Apply For Charter. South Carolina Orangeburg County. The undersigned petitioners, here by give notice that after legal notice of this Declaration, they will apply to the Hon. Secretary of State for a Charter for The Morgan Milling C<.'any, composed of Reese H. Ki( !gan, J. T. Corbett and Frank White, all of Springfield, So. Ca. That the cash capital' of said cor poraton shall be not less than Twelve Hundred Dollars, with the right to increase same to Twenty-Five Hun dred Dollars. That place of business shall be three miles east of Springfield. That the purpose of this company shall be ginning cotton, sawing lum ber, grinding corn and a general milling business. That the number of shares shall not be'less than Forty-Eight, of a par value of Twenty-Five Dollars each. 8-ll-4t B. H. Morgan, J. T. Cornett, Frank White. FIRE INSURANCE Not cheap insurance but in surance that insures you against nil loss by fire or lightning. ! i :<-j.r?Mv: s:i?rs!l mu i uitis Ii .??}"?!.*?. ? ' hn ?. !? to assess the policy hol?iers 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 $1,000,000,000 in losses. Country duellings, barns and outbuildings, together with their contents all written, and I have satisfied customers in every sec tion of the count,". Improved gins insured and al so cotton on plantations. Office with J7ESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO., next door to Dr. J. G. Wannamnker Mfg. Co., where you will find me from ? a. m., to 8. p. m. OHce l^icpl ? ue No. 21. Residente fU 1812. W. K. SEASE. ROPPS COMMERCIAL CALCULA TOR?Will prevent mistakes, re lieve the mind, save labor, time and money and do your recokon ing in the twinkling of an eye. A ready calculator and business arithmetic. Sent prepaid upon receipt of thirty cents in stamps. Sims'>$ook Store, Orangebnrg, S. C. Land for Sale, 346 acres of land fronting on Col nmbla and stage roads, 2% milet north of city, for sale. For further Information apply to Sifly and Frith Orangeborg, S. C. 9-26-tf THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. Lesson X.?-Third Quarter, For Sept. 6, 1908. THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES. Text of the Lesson, I Sam. xxxi. Vomory Verse, 6?Golden Text, Amos iv, 12?Commentary Prepared by Rev. D. M. Stearns. ICopvrisht, 1003, by American Prtas Association.] Notwithstanding Saul's assurance in last week's lesson that he would not any more attempt to harm David, Da vid felt it to be wise to get out of his reach, so he and his GOO went into the land of the Philistines, to Achish. king of Gath, who gave him Ziklag as.mV own town, and he dwelt there a year and four months. When Saul heard that he had gone to Gath he sought no more again for him (xxvli. 1-7). Da vid's strange conduct before Acbish in chapter xxi, 10-15, his now seeking ref uge with him and yet lying to him. all show us at least this?that God finds the best of man but very poor mate rial and has great occasion to exer cise contlnaal forgiveness. There is but one perfect man in all the Bible story, and we must learn to see Jesus only. In chapter xxviil we have an In stance of consulting spirits and what came of It We know that this sort of thing is all of the devil and is an abomination unto the Lord (Dent, xviii, 10-12). but in thin case the woman got more than she expected, and Samuel was allowed to appear with a message to Saul which he bad not expected and which certainly had no comfort for him In It There Is no use in saying that the work of mediums and so called spiritualists is all humbug and sleight of hand. No doubt much of It is. but whatever Is real about It is the work of the devil, and we have no rec ord of God ever interfering as He did In the case of Sflmuel. The Philistines gathered their ar mies against Israel, and David and his 000 went out. with them, but the princes of the Philistines insisted that they return, and David yielded to the entreaty of Achish and returned, only to find tnat the Amalekites had invad ed the south and had burned Ziklag and had taken captive all those who had l>een left in it. Then David and his (?00 wept till they had no more power to weep: but. worst of all. Da vid's men turned against him and spake of stoning him. In this time of great darkness it is written that "Da vid encouraged himself in the Lord his God" (xxx, 6). Compare II Tim. tv. 16-18. The story of David's inquiring of the Lord, of his finding the young man of Egypt, one of the band of the Amalekites, and how he pursued them and smote them and recovered all Is told In the rest of the chapter. Fail not to notice in verse 24 the l:;w that those who tarry by the stuff are to share equally with those who go out to the battle, and let the home ones find comfort and encouragement Onr special lesson chapter Is the rec ord of the defeat of Israel by the Phil istines and Is summed up in verse G. in these words: "So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor bearer, and all his men that same day together." The Phillstlues' treatment of the bod ies of Saul and his sons when they found them among the slain on the battlefield the next day Is indeed a sad story concerning those who might have been the honored of the Lord. So also is the record of the burning of the bodies and the burial of the bones under a tree at Jabesh. What God would havp done for Israel had ttey relied on Him is seen in the words of Deut. xxxli, 30. "How should one chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight?" It was illustrated in David's victory over Goliath, and also the day that Jonathan and his armor bearer saw the power of God Oh their behalf (chapter xlv), and in every case where Israel-walked with God and relied upon Ilira. We cannot wonder at anything that might overtake Saul, but to see Jonathan among the slain and his body so ill treated does seem sad indeed, and we can heartily Join in David's lamentation in II Sam. 1, 25, 2G. Some might not be able to join so heartily In his kind words concerning Saul,' but -r :iM fcr.mr t'inr m rrs? ni>t tn tMnf: lived. It is wonderful how much good ma:, oe seen at such a time even in one's enemies. Wonld it not be well to see as much good as possible even in the worst people at all times and. while bating sin, love the sinner even as our Lord has taught us? While we know that all are by nature children of wrath and that in us?that is, in our flesh?dweileth uo good thing, In the sight of God (Bph. U. 2, 3; Kom. vil, IS) there Is much iu all, compared with others, that mi^ht be commend ed, aud thus by kind words they might be drawn to Him who is altogether lovely, who said. "Neither do I con demn thee." What a most glorious gospel It Is. this gospel of the grace of God, which makea known to ns a love as far exceeding that of David and Jonathan as heaven is higher than the earth! As to the condition of those who g? out from us, the Lord Him self has drawn aside the Tell In Luke xvi. As for the righteous, thoee who can say, "In the Lord have 1 Right eousness and strength"' (Isa. xlv. 24, we know that Mto die is gain" (Phil. I, 21, 23). We know also that no real evil can ever befall those who are truly the Lord's, for nothing can pass through the hedge or the wall of fire without His permission, and He is love, and such love Is always kind. Pound Pape AT v. . o. us v. bile Ihr. OUR STORE WILL BE AUTHORITY FOR THE NEW FALL STYLES. Our buyer, Mr. Sol Kohn, is now in New York City buying for the Fait Season. He Is inakigii a most discriminating search for the newest and most ul tra-exclusive of the Fall styles, and the scores of careful shoppers who are awaiting the Fall opening of the K?hn Store will be rewared by finding a splendid assortment of the season's very ewest effects. In coats, suits and waists, especially, we promise a revelation in ru'w style ideas. Every effort is being made to adhere to a standard of qual ity and style perfection which will reuder our assortments the style au thority for this vicinity. Mr. Kohn informs us that he has-been particularly fortunate this year and that our putrous will be extended some very unusual buying oppor tunities at the opening of the season. ? WAIT FOR KOHN'S FALL OPENING. f To the People of Orangeturg County. Times are hard,^ but made easy and pleasant by visiting and making your Fall purchases at my store. The largest line of^Domestic Dress Goods. Underwepr of every discription. 3 SHOES! il SHOES!! To PJease and fit every iMan, Woman and Chi'd in Orangeburg County, Every Pair fcoHd Leather and Guaranteed. minor's fAsrsz/oe CLOTHING, HATS, and FURNISHINGS Nothing can beat. We do nofc fair crinpetitiori in iheFe line ^ntnfl an-1 ?? t mv ? -i-'e- ev r lim.g told ibt c s*-. " ;.u-,.. uua. ^uutai tteU. To visit my store and fee the Great Display and txtia values ib to buy. Geo. V. Zeigler, Phone 1402 19 West Russell. APPLES FOR SALE By the barrel. In large or small lot s Address, J. E. HALL, Box 247 Waynesville, N. C. ! Shipment Just Received of rand Envelopes to Match SIMS BOOK STORE.