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PUBLISHED TWICE-A-WEEK Tuesday and Friday. Vol. 40..No. 57. "Entered as second-class matter tea. 1, 1908, at the postoCice at Or ?ngeburg, S. C, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. gaa. JL. Sims, Editor and Proprietor, fee Ixiar Sims, - Associate Editor. Subscription Bates. One Tear.., Sis Months. .... Ztaree Months. Advertising Rates. Tiacsient advertisements $1.00 per inch for first insertion and 50 cents for each subsequent twnrtlon Business Notices 10 cents per lino for first hsaitlon and 5 cents por line for subsequent lamlloas. Obituaries, Tributes of Respect, Notice of Tl?a*^ and all notices of a pe.son?l or politi od nature are charged for as regular advertise Sunhb ?peoial Notices, entitled Wanted, Lost, Vmbm, Far Bent, not exceeding twenty-five words, one time, 35 cents; two times 50 cents; three timoe, 75 cents and font limes $1.00. Iibsral contract made with merchants and Othem who wish to run advertisements for three months or longer. For rates on contract advertising apply at the tfficj,and they will fee ?Nf ally, furnished. Bes?ttances should be made by checks noaey orders, registered letters, or express or ihn, |?yable to aHB Times and Democrat, Oraneeburg, S. C. The Augusta Chronicle seems to nave gotten the Georgia Democra cy at work for Bryan at last. The Republicans must be more .scared than ever. Roosevelt has just issued another certificate of character to Taft. I Taft will be the same kind of a trust buster that Roosevelt has been should he be elected and that^is the reason all the trusts are for him. Hearst knows better than to ex hibit his menagerie in South Caro lina. Our people know him to be a fraud of the first water, and they refuse to be fooled by him. By odds the greatest political farce that has ever taken the road in this or aoy other country is the Hearst-Hisben-Graves aggregation, which is now performing in Geor gia. They do say that Little John Tem ple Graves put on an extra strut when he walked out on the platform to be notified of his having been se lected by Hearst as the tail end of his presidential ticket. A whole family was killed by gas in New York the other day, and the Augusta Herald says in view of the fact that Hearst is about to turn Jose his Independance league or ators in this state, Georgians should be careful." The Greenville News says "that the white voting population of South Caroiina is growing is shown in the size of the vote polled in the second primary election, the number of i ballots cast being over 110.000. This is the heaviest vote ever cast in South Caroliha. It shows too, that the people are taking a more lively int e esi in the exercise of their suf froge." The suspension of the trial of Jones, charged with murder at Un ion, on the ground that he had been refused bail by Judge Hydrick, aid that an appeal from Judge Hydrick's order was pending in the Supreme <^ourt, is one of the most absurd tilings ever done by a Judge in this or any other State. Is it any won <dei: that the people have about lost all respect for the courts? In a recent speech Mr. Taft said: "I wani to say to the men and women of this country for I want to interest the women on these questions, that the election of Mr. Bryan would be a menace to the confidence which is necessary to the conditions on which prosperity rests." Such talk as this shows to what straits the Re publicans are reduced to for argu ment against the Democratic can didate. Speaker Cannon in a public speech said Bryan had made a mil lion dollars selling '-wind and ink." Bryan responded by asking Cannon what he had been selling, to whom and what he got for it." Bryan's rejoinder can be appreciated when it is known that Cannon entered Congress twenty-five years ago a poor man and he is now worth mil Hons of dollars. Bryan wants him to tell how he saved so much money on a yearly salary of $5,000. MR. D. A. Tompkins, a highly successful and conservative business man of Charlotte. N. C, and a writer of national reputation on eco nomic subjects, in an interview in the Charlotte Observer endorses Mr. Bryan's plan for bank deposits. Mr. Tompkins says that Mr. Bryan's speech upon this subject "appears to be as able an effort as that gen tleman ever made and at the same time one of the best expositions of the subject that has yet been offered by anybody." $1.00 ... -.75 ..40 Negroes Not Wanted. Many deluded negroes in this sec tion of the country are under the impression that the people of tbe North and West are fairly yearning for them to make their homes among them. But such is not the case as the facts will amply prove. It appeared likely to certain citizens of Chicago, residents of Gage Park, that a colony of forty-two negro families was to be located in their neighborhood. The negroes were refugees from the lawless citizens of Springfield. Illinois, and they natur ally sought refuge in another city of the same State' that so promptly land effectually protected their brethren from the mob in the capi tal. Aut the white residents of Gage Park rose as one man and de clared that the negroes should never never be admitted to that choice [residential locality. Robert W. Schulze, a game war den of Gage Park, is quoted as a representative of the people by the [Chicago Daily Tribune, a rabid Re publican organ, as saying that "the first negro that shows his face around here will w?sh a dozen times he had never heard of Gage Paak See those shotguns there. Every body out this way has one of those, j And what's more, everybody knows J mighty well how to use his gun. Will we use them? You just bet we will. We don't want negroes] here, and we are not going to have them. Ic wont be a case of tar and feathers for us. We wouldn't take that. We'd simply?well just wait till one comes." The Daily Tribune says Schulze, 1 the game warden, was not the only | citizen of Gage Park that^was op posed to the negroes coming there and then quotes a dairy farmer who went even further than Schulze did, as saying "we won't stand for them here. There is no reason why they should come here and if they do there's going to be more trouble than there was in Springfield. Theres nothing for a "nigger" to do in this place and we can't stand for any riffraff. What Schulze says about shotguns is right we'll use) them." Tnat is what we call plain talk, and we would advise the ne groes to steer clear of Gage Park. Nor was Gage Park the only place | that did not want the negroes as citizens, The voice of Brighton | Park also is raised loudly against the invasion of negroes and the prospect of social equality. The sentiment of that region seems pretty fairly expressed by one of The Tribune's correspondent, who writes to that paper: "As a residence of the south side, and one acquainted with conditions there, especially with reference to the colored invasion, 1 wish to give a few reasons for the intensely bit feelings which is engendered against the negroes, and which if allowed to continue, will most assuredly lead to an uprising beside which the Springfield riot will be a child's game. "The average white man will not accept the negro as a neighbor. The negro knows this fact, and he knows also that, once a family of his race is located in a neighborhood, prop-j erty values begin to fall and the neighborhood becomes a negro ter ritory. Restrict the negro to negro ] quarters, keep him in his proper place, and the conditions may be better. Otherwise prepare for a far worse riot than that at Spring field, and that in a short time." This is the reception given to the negroes who fled from the Spring- j field mob by the people of another j Illinois city, and there was nothing left for them to do but move on. So they continued their journey until they reached the hideous South where they are made to ride in jim crow cars and debarred the ballot box, but where they can live in peace and happiness as long as they behave themselves. This ought to convince the negro that his best white friends are the people of the South. They know him and he knows them, and he knows that he is allowed to live in peace and work out his own destiny quietly if he is industrious and hoes his own row. Roosevelt's Duplicity. Our great trust-busting President has let up on another trust that he pretended to be very hot after for something over a year. He has dis covered all of a sudden that the said trust was not a violator of the law. It seems that the eyes of the President was opened to the great wrong he was about to inflict on an innocent corporation by one William Nelson Cromwell, attorney for Mr. E. H. Harriman, the great railroad magnate, who raised $200,000 for Roosevelt in 190-1 to corrupt voters in New York and save that State j for our trust busting President. Mr. Cromwell is high up in Republi can circles and is a member of three important Republican campaign committees. Put on them no doubt so as he could Iook after the inter ests of his master. To show how ef fectually he is serving him it is re ported that he has already succeded in squelching the suits that were brought against Harriman's rail roads. Recently there appeared in the Chicago Record-Herald, a Republi can organ, a special dispatch from its New York correspondent, who among other thing said, "The most interesting feature of the day was a report which circulated in the best circles to,the effect that a govern ment attorney was authority for the statement that the suit of the gov ernment against the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Companies for violation of the Sherman act had been definitely dropped, and that the prosecution, after many confer ences and thorough consideration, had arrived at the conclusion that it would be unable to make out a [case against those roads. Formal announcement of this determination would, it was said, be with-held un til after election." Hon. J. E. Lamb of Indiada. a member of the Democratic national advisory committee, commenting on this statement, says, "In view of the fact that this statement is published in the Chicago Rocord-Herald,1 which is supporting Taft and Sher man, however much it may astound the general public, may he consid ! ered authentic. Those suits against j ; Mr. Harriman's pet railroads werej I ordered to be brought by the admin [ istration something near a year ago J with a great flourish of trumpets, and it was generally believed that | the administration was in earnest, and that the department of justice would obey orders. Now that Mr. Harriman nas promised to be good and his special attorney. Wm. Nel son Cromwell, has been appointed a member of the Republican nation al advisory committee, and has con tributed $50,000 to the fund of that committee, it seems that the prose cution has after many, conferences and thorough consideration, arrived at the conclusion that it would be unable to make out a case against those roads." Is the conclusion ar rived at an honest one, or rather is I not the conclusion the result of the ) changed attitude of the Harriman railroads to the Republican national ticket? Is the fact 'formal an nouncement of the termination of this litigation would, it was said, be witheld until after the election' corroborative proof that a new deal had been struck between 'My dear Hartman' and fomebody represent the United States Government? These are questions that will be thoroughly discussed and considered by the voters until the November election." The South and Republicans. "Candidate Taft advises South ern Republicans to cease to be a mere orginization of political pie seekers and to make efforts to in duce Democrats to join the Repub lican party. In the first place Southern Republicans, those who are active in politics, would have little or no interest in political affairs if the hope of office were elimitated. That part of Taf t's ad vice, therefore, will not be taken says the Nashville American. "As to seeking recruits among the better element of the Democracy, that has been attempted, and it h3s failed. Why should any Southern Democrat desert his party and join the Republican party? Certainly there is nothing in the character or record of the Republican party as it exists in the South to induce any self-respecting Democrat to desert his own party and join a party of malodorous memory. "The South has had experience with Republicanism. The experience has been costly and the memory of it bitter. Why should it abandon a party that has been comparative!^ clean, capable and honest and join a party that has misgoverned when it has had a chahce to govern; that it for a long time catered to the worst elements, and that is now making some efforts to be respectable be cause It has discovered that it pays to be respectable^ "The Democratic party has always been respectable. Why should any man decide to desert it for a party that suddenly makes profession of respectability? It is easy enough to make professions and promises. The apprehended thief and robber is apt to do that. Then what can the Re publican party point to in the South that is to its credit and that it can point to as argument why it should be honored and elevated above the Democratic party?" hieing <>:; Bryan. Hearst seems to be willing to stoop to any thing dirty to injure [ Bryan. When he was in F^g-iand some months ago he published a statement that Gompers had sent him a cablegram asking him to sup port Bryan. Gompers promptly de- j nied sending the cablegram anp pro- J nounced the statement that he had asked Hearst to support Bryan a lie. Hearst did not produce his ca blegram or undertake to prove that Gompers sent it. He knew that he had lied when he claimed to have received any such telegram from Gompers. Later he published an affidavit from some obscure source to the effect that Bryan when a member of Congress had referred to the work ing men as common beggars. This bears the imprint of a lie on its face, Hearst circulated this lie for the purpose of trying to fool the work ingman into hostility to Bryan, but he will fail as the working men have caught on his tricks. This lie was such aclurnsy affair that even Hearst saw it would noc be believed by any one, and so he had to invent anoth er. ! So a few days ano he made the statement that Bryan had re quested him to support him in this campaign and that in 1912 Bryan would support him. Bryan prompt ly proneunced this statement a lie This settled it, as no on? would take Hearst's word against Bryan's. But this will not put a stop to Hearst's lies. He seems to recognize the fact that he is a political failure and has become reckless with his tongue. He will not hurt Bryan as he is too well knownlfor any of his lies to be believed by any one. Hearst is a renegade as well as a liar. About to Quit Hearst. The Augusta Cronicle's Atlanta correspondent says a split is brew ing in the Hearst party over in Georgia. The correspondent says it is reported that Bernard Suttler, state chairman and heretofore chief spokesman for Hearst's movement, is about to throw the movement overboard and desert the ship. The trouble was caused by a scarcity of funds. Hearst has not shown an in clination to turn his bank account ovor to his Georgia representatives. In fact, it is said, Hearst has taken the stand that the adherents of the party in Georgia should be suffici ently patriotic as to finance their own campaign. At this the leaders, who at the beginning had big campaign funds in prospects; have held up! their hands in holy horror. Hearst's indifference to the party's need in Georgia is said to have been due to the bad impression he had of the state leaders. He had not been in clined to permit them to squander his money chasing political rain bows, and they threaten to quit him and give up the fight. Attention. Dimness of vision, blurring of let ters, eye-strain, eye-pain, and bead ache, and also very close or arms length reading, call for the attention of the optician. M. J. D. Dantzler, M. D., Optician. ' 9-15-tf. ' Elloree, S. C. Declaration of Intention to Apply for Charter. State of 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 Willow Telephone Company; the Capital stock of said aorperation to be five hundred dollars, and the number of shares into which the same is to be divided to be twen ty of the par value of twenty-five dollars each, with principal place of business at Williams Siding, South Carolina, to Springfield, South Caro lina, and the nature of the business it proposes to do is that of a general telephone business and such other business as may be consistent with it Charter. U. P.. Williams, C. H. Williams. O. T. WrTTTams, Hoard of Corporators. Sept. 12, 1908._9-15-11. Wanted. I want to rent a five or six room dwelling house in the city of Orango nurg. H. D. Sharperson, Principal j of Sunnyside Colored School. Please answer to St. Matthews, S. C. 9-4-5t? J Do You Hun a Gin? If so, you can have your Machin ery put in first class condition, by| sending it to me. I can sharpen the gins at your house, but Brush Build lugs, Bresting, etc., is best to come to my shop. Drop me a card and have your work done before the rush comes. All work fully guaranteed. Money refunded if not perfectly sat- i Esfactory. L. W. Pooser, C-27-2mo. _Cameron, j The Charleston News and Courier I is offering upon extraordinarily liberal terms several clubs of high grade monthly magazines. They are positively the greatest money-saving clubbing offers ever put out by any newspaper in South Carolina, and are naturally attracting attention all over the State. All propositions are open for a short time only to new and old subscribers. Write the Ma gazine Department, Tin; News and Courier. Charleston. S. C. at once for full particulars and prices. Some of the Magazines represented are: The Outing Magazine. Bohemian Ma gazine. Human Life, Paris: Modes. Spare Moments, Mothers' Magazine, National Hone' Journal and the l'n clc Remus Magazine. Splendid Magazines may be secur ed very cheaply in connection with The Weekly News and Courier, as well as The News and Courier and Sunday News. For example, a years subscription to The Weekly News and Courier and :i years subscrip tion to six standard magazines will cost every old and new subscriber only $2.50._ Wanted. Position by experienced Bookkeep er and Stenographer. Would prefer a position with bank. Can give good references. Address Position care Times and Democrat. 8-M-3t. JL XUJUJLTJUJU -l"} i./wu. 18 OUR S( PAPER BY PROF. WIL Beggarly Salaries for Teachers. The services of a.bank cashier, of a book keeper, of a carpenter, and a school teacher have a maricet value. The market value of these services is based upon what the employer feels that the employed is worth to the business. What value have the peo ple of South Carolina put upon the services of a white school teacher? Last year the State paid an average salary oi $267, a year, or $45.S7 a month for a little less than six school months in the year. This salary is lower even by the month than the wages of an experienced dry goods salesman, or a competent stenogra pher. By the year, the salary of the teacher does not compare with that of the unskilled carpenter, or plasterer, or bricklayer. Almost every town of 2,000 people in the State pays, by the month, higher wag es to its policemen than to its women school teacners. Men teachers are paid a little better, but beggarly salaries have run almost all the men out of the schoolroom. "As will be seen by the various figures I have given, either men or women -working in the cotton mills and exercising less patience are readily making more money than the average public school teacher."?; August Kohn, in The Cotton Mills of S. C. Is it reasonable to expect the ser vices of competent men at $00 and $70 a month, and competent women at $;j? and $4 0 a month, for a few months in the year? The answer in-1 volves a very simple question in economics. It has cost either per son from four to six years in time, and from $800 to $l.r,00 in money, to prepare himself to teach. And if either is fitted to teach, his prepara tion fits him for something decidedly better pecuniarily. If neither if fir ted to make more than $2G7 a year in some other vocation, he is on the high way to penury Why do our people pay no more for teaching? Is it due to poverty? There was a time when that explan tion could have been given, but not i so now. We have on every hand too many evidences of plenty and even luxury to accept any such excuses now. The real explanation is hard to admit. These salaries represent the vlauotion our people place upon edu cation. "By their fruits ye shall know them.'' Our people, rate the education of their children when they employ teachers, somewhat as they rate their land when they visit the tax lister. Our people are well able to pay better salaries, and they will pay better alaries only after they have come to appreciate the value of better teachers and better schools. Many of the praises of good schools are mere lip-service. Incompetent Teachers. To dis discuss this feature of our schools is very distasteful, but it must be done, and done fearlessly. Every well-in formed person knows that our schools are burdened with a host of incompetent teachers, persons fitted neither by nature nor by training. Such teachers waste the money of the children, ruin the children themselv es, and discredit teaching itself. They know nothing about what to teach, and even less about how to teach, i ime and again I nave sat in scnooi rooms wntching the blind blunder ings of teachers plodding through recitations without ever getting hold of a teaching fact or a teaching prin ciple, until my very heart ached in sympathy for the children who had to endure it all. Yet I have gone out from just such scenes to be told with in three hours by some patron that in that school they had a fine teach or. The travesty of such teaching is br,d enough, but when the patrous are pieased with it, it becomes pathe tic. I can put my finger on the nam es of dozens of white school teachers who could not to-day pass an ex amination in the eightn grade in the Columbia city schools. Yet to these incompetents are entrusted the edu cation of children, and the people are satilied, and are paying to them the children's money. I know teachers by name who go to their schoolrooms day after day without having studied a single les son they are supposed to teach. Some of them do not own a single book that tney are attempting to teach. Mow (tan such a teacher succeed? If he has in him'nothing of the stu dent, how can he expect to inspire a pupil with the zeal of the student? To such a teacher the name of Spen cer and Arnold and Mann are but sounding brass and tinkling cymbals. Some teachers and some patrons bank largely on the teacher's exper ience. Experience is an excellent thing when coupled with other qualifications, but. when divorced from them, experience is to teach ing precisely what it is to the practice of medicine?it kills as often as it IHOOLS. i NO. 2. I .MAM H. HAND. W cures. Scholarship, studio iisnoss, train ing, and energy are all necessary to the highest success in teaching, hut j there is another Qualification which I far outweighs all these combined? manhood: The personality of the teacher i: the first consideration. Is the teacher able to take hold of the life of a child and guide him upward to the limit of the child's capacity? Is the teacher's life worthy of being reflected in the life of every child he j teaches? If not. he*is incompetent. [Will your teach.>r measure up to this standard? Why are so many incompetent .teachers emnlcyed?. Tltere are sev eral reasons. The one mos: obvious is, that such I ?cliers can be had cheap. Most pcojdc wish to keep open their sei? ds reasonable length of time, and the pittance in the -i.hool treasury will not. employ a compe tent teacher for long. Hence, a plug, as the horse-jockey would'say, Is put in charge of ihi school. When ever a school board goes out to find a cheap teacher, it succeeds in get ting a cheap one in every sense. If a man go< s on the market with seven ty-five cents with which to purchase . dollar article, h>> need not bo sur prised to get shoddy. A school board need not expect to get. a $7f?0 teach er for $L'C7. Why will not a $1000) man teach school for $500? Simp ly bee.'!tie he has sense enough to! teach schock To-day in South Caro lina" any competent man teacher of two years* experience can get a nine month:- school at from $<i) to $100 a month. School boards are adver tising for s ich. Why should I be willing to te-.ich your school for $f>U or $60 a month for less than nine months? When corn is selling in the open market at one dollar a bushel, will 1 offer mine at sixty cents?if it is marketable? Does the school board hunting a cheap teacher catch the meaning? However, there are other and more serious reasons why wo have so many incompetent teachers. There is the daughter of the local trustee who must have some of the school fund with which to buy her clothes. What difference does it make if she has had no other education than that which she received in the very school she is going to try to teach? What difference does it make if she knows no more than some of her most ad vanced pupils? What difference does it make if she never saw an educa tional journal or a book on the art of teaching? What difference does it make if she is hut eighteen years old, and without a practlcle of ex perience in teaching or in life itself? Then thee is poor widow Smith's daughter. The mother is poor and the daughter is in poor health, per haps. Really the community owes both something, and the district school is the easiest charity to be low. The uneducated daughter can somehow drag through the recita tions, and manage to keep the big boys inside the school house. She get the school, and the people solace themselves by thinking that they have done "a mighty good thing." Then, again, there is Mrs. Drown, 70 years old. No one ever accuser uer of being educated, or in any Othci way of being fitted to teach school, but she taught school just before the war, or just after the war. Some enemy to competence advocates her election, remarking that "She is a mighty good teacher;I went to school to her forty years ago; in fact, she Iarnt me about all I ever was larnt." Mrs. Drown keeps the school house open most of the time for six months, draws $150 of the defenseless chil dren's money, and the community feels tranquai over its act of pious gratitude. I hope that I am not misunderstood in this last example. I am glad to know that some teachers ul seventy years of, age. educated and vigorous, are able to do effective work, even in the com mon schools. Old age and misfortune should be gracefully remembered and cared for. but not at the ex pense of the education of our chil dren. Pensions should be paid out side the school house, not inside. There is yet a more serious reason of so many incompetent teachers? more serious, because they are here tinder the sanction of law. Hundreds of incompetent teachers are in our schools because of the vicious system by which certificates are granted and renewed. I disclaim any intention whatever of casting any reflection against, any set of persons, but under the present system wo need not hope to get rid of inefficiency among our teachers of the common schools. Let us face the facts: Teachers' certifi cates are granted by the county boards of education, composed of the county superintendent and two lay members appointed by the State superintendent upon the recommen dation of the county superintendent. The county superintendent must go every two years to ask the people to jvote for him. Many of the people who help to elect the superinten tendents expect a return of favors. These superintendents must sit in judgment upon the efficiency of ap plicants to teach school. We are some of these applicants? Sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, of men who helped to elect the county superintendent. Now, it would be an insult, to intimate that any honest county superintendent would violate his honor by granting intentionally an unmerited certificate, but it re quires no sagacity to see the unen viable situation of the superinten dent, in such contingency. He ought to be relieved of any such embarrass ment. It may bo appropriate to give the facts concerning a few cases of abuse in granting certificates. The writer knows of more than one teacher that holds a first grade certificate, but that has never stood any examination whatever, though not exempt by law. Another is the case of a teacher hold ing a first grade certificate for over ten years, but stopped teaching long enough to let her certificate expire. Later she returned to teaching, and on taking the examination failed to make a grade high enough for any certificate at all. Question: How did she get. a certificate, and why was it renewed from year to year with out examination? Some eounty boards have made such records for uprightness in granting certificates that any othei county board feels safe in renewing one of the former's certificates; while a few have made such ?uenviable reputation in grant ing these certificates that no other board is willing to renew a certificate issued by the former. These are un palatable facts. Many claim that good teachers are assured by accepting the diplomas of reputable colleges in lieu of examina tions. This plan is faulty. In our section of the country the term col lege has no definite meaning; there is nothing by which one college can be legally differentiated from an other. Therefore ail college gradua tes are accepted in the schools on equal terms. It is a fact well known jto all educators that a person may in the course of ten years not only fail. to improve as teaching grow.?. I better, but actually grow inferior. I Besides, some college courses offer teacher training, some claim to do so. while others make no claim at all. [Yet another defect must be taken into account: A student with very poor preparation may go through o fairly reputable college, taking only academic work, only to find himself lamentably ignorant of the common school subjects which he is required to teach. The best colleges and the pupils from the best colleges are the most willing to submit to examina tions for teachers' certificates. .The inferior college and its graduates are very much opposed to these examina tions. No further comment is nec cessary. The certification of teachers ought to be in the hands of a competent State Board, appointed to that office, and with certain well-defined quali fications. Still a man or woman may pass an excellent examination, but prove a dismal failure in the school room. Such can be eliminated only through a responsible and competent supervisor. Until some such plan is adopted, we may make up our minds to having our schools filled with in ferior teachers. Supt. Martin recom mended last year a beginning in the direction of reform in these matters, and the General Assembly showed a commendable willingness to takfe some action, but failed to do so. William H. Hand. University of South Carolina. CASTOR B? Pot Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Always BongM Bears the Signature of iVm. V. Izlar. J. Stokes SaUey. Fire Insurance. IZLAR & SALLEY We represent the The Home Insurance Co. Liverpool and London and Globe German American Continental . * Northern Assurance Phoenix and Georgia Home. The Strongest Combination fn the MONTHLY STATEMENT OF THE DISPENSARIES IN ORANGEBURG COUNTY I OK T1110 .MONTH OF AUG. All Stork is Given ar Consumers' Prices. Dispensaries at Springfield, S. C. . Elloree. S. C.. Ft. .Motte, S. C. . Bnmehville. S. C. Livingston, S. C. . St. Matthews, S. C Orangehurg, S. ('. Totnl Invoice including stock on hand first day o? month. . . . 4.042.C0 . . . 3,822.85 . .. 2,965.70 . . . 3,099.25 . . . 3.6S5.90 . . . 4,538.02 . .. S.S87.71 To; a Total $ 31,042.13 sales. S02.04 1.59 4.25 S60.45 I.7S9.90 1.129.51 2,292.03 6,435.93 1 I.H1I4.7 1 Operating expenses of each dispensarv $ 77.74 U 1.37 92.30 I 10.04 N7.ir> I2(;.32 206.69 7!H.r,i Inv. breakage. 9.50 :>.sr> 8.95 *.::o ...sr> ir>.r,o 28.80 s;:.sr> Consumers Stock on band last day of month $ 3,226.20 2.222.75 2.096.30 1,294.50 2,550.54 i;.^:;o.40 2,422.98 16,043.117 State of South Carolina, Count;; of Orangeburg. Personally appeared J. G. Smith, T. R. McCants, L. A. Carson, Members of the Orangeburg County Dis sary board, who being each duly and severally sworn, deposes and says that the foregoing statement is true and correct. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 9th day of September 1008. J. H. Claffy, N. P., S. C.