Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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8ttt %w.mn& ?mnmt PUBLISHED TWICE-A-WKEK Tuesday and Friday. Vol. 40.No. 5tI "Entered as second-class matter fan. 1, 1908, at the postofflce at Or angebuxg, S. C, ander the Act ot Pongroas of March 3, 1879._ ?so. L. Sims, Editor and Proprietor, fag, ialar Sbns, - Associate Editor. 1 Babsaription Bate*. ftae Tear...$1.50 Us Months. ? ? ? ? ?75 Months.. ... .... .40 Advertising Rate?. Transient advertisements $1.00 per inch for nt imertioa and 50 cents for each subsequent A**tC-n ? . _ t ' Badness Notions 10 oents per lino for first ?aertion and 5 oents per line for subsequent aextions > Ob??ariea, Tributes oi Reepect, Notice of ?snnkii, and aH notices of a pe Bonal />r politi Jnsit?ire are charged for as regula;?iVerti?e Special Notices, entitled Wanted, Lost, end, Far Rent, not exceeding twenty-five word*) one lime, S5 oents; two times 5C cents; three tha?, 75 oents and four times $1.00. Liberal contract made with merchants and others who wish to run advertisements for throe months or longer. For rates on contract advertising apply at the office, and they will m cure fully furnished. . .? Beaiittanoes should be made by checks . aoney orders, registered letters, or express or te?, x?yable to The Times and Democrat, Oraneebure;, S. C. Taft will continue the policy of Roosevelt of hurting the trusts with hot air. The man who believes that the trusts will be hurt by Taft is indead simple minded. Has any one yet seen the Taft prosperity wave that was predicted if Bryan was defeated? The Times and Democrat still be lieves in the principles of t Democ racy, and so does the people of the South. All this talk about breaking the "Solid South" originates wjith people ?who expect to get a crum from the Taft table. Bryan may never be President, hut our country is better and greater because of the fact that he aspired to the high office. All this hue and cry about pros perity returning is being raised by the Republican educational bureau at Chicago and New York, and is ail balderdash. fThe wonderful Teddy who occu pies 'the White House assures us that the South's representation in Con gress will never be interfered with. We knew that all along. The Times and Democrat is as full of fight today as it was last Tuesday when our glorious and matchless leader went down in de feat. Truth crushed to earth will rise again. It will be noticed that nearly all the ^prosperity talk fixes January 1 as the date on which it will be in full blast. Don't throw up your hat until that date comes and the pros perity wagon is in sight. Boss Murphy says Tammany was true to Bryan. We will believe this ?when he satisfactorily accounts for the immense gap between the vote tor the Democratic National and State tickets in Greater New York. The Republican publication bu reau is trying hard to fool the peo ple by sending out prosperity re ports. Unfortunately the prosper ity is nearly all predicted for the luture. The country needs it now, .so why postpone its arrival. Our farmers will please notice th Taft's election has not helped the price of cotton. We believe that coc ton will go up later, but the election of Taft will have no more to do with it than the sneezing of the man In the moon. But keeping it off the market will. y Teddy has at last iet the world know what Taft believes in a relig ious way. Will Teddy not take the American public into hio confidence and tell them what he and Taft know about, that Panama Canal deal, and how much each of them got pu of it? ^ The Columbia State is a Democrat ic paper after our own heart. It is not Demorratic in spots, but is Democratic all over and all the time. Our contemporary deserves great credit for raising that fund for th* Democracy in this State. It was r. noble work nobly performed. If we believed in the tenets of the i Republican party we would vote the J Republican ticket. We have a thous and times more respect for the maa who votes according to his honest convictions than we have for the po litical coward who pretends to be a Democrat while at heart he is a Re publican. The Democratic party in the South has entirely too many traitors in its ranks. Men who pretend to be Dem ocrats, but who never loses an op portunity to abuse its leaders and predict calamity in case it should elect its candidates. All such men should go where they belong. No doubt they would if Taft would give them a good fat office. "No man," said Lord Bacon, "sees worse days than he, who yet living, doth follow at the funeral of his own reputation." Tom Watson, the chief assistant Republican of Geor gia, must now realize the force or this observation as he contemplates the many dirty lies he told on Bryan! during the campaign and his own repudiation by the people of Georgia at the polls. Why We Were Beaten: We are told that the Democracy lost in the recent Presidential elec tion because the people of the North were afraid of Mr. Bryan. We do not believe this contention at all. Bryan was defeated simply because he was supported by the Southerr people and his election would have interfered with the thieving trusts. In other words, the people of the North have determinled that the Southern people shall have no part in the management of the nation, and therefore they have determined that the Democratic party shall not prevail. Gray, Johnson, or any oth er candidate ncminatcd by the?o mocracy would have been defeated the same as Bryan was. The result four years ago proves what we say. The Democratic party then yielded to the senftiment to nominate a "safe and sane" candi date. Judge Parker, of New York, a most excellent man was nominat ed. He was a conservative candi date, and was in touch with all the interests of the East. He stood in with the rich folks and enjoyed their confidence and was not unpopular with the denizens of Wall Street. When the sterling character of the man is considered Mr. Parker was an ideal candidate, judged from an anti-Bryan standpoint. And yet he was defeated even worse than Bryan was in the late election. He did not carry a single Northern or Eastern State. This year the Democratic parly went West and selected a more rad ical candidate in the person of Mr. Bryan, and yet, in the face of the most favorable conditions for Dem 'ocratic success, he was defeated almost as bad as Judge Parker was in 1904. Doesn't this, look as if the solid North had banded as closely as it possibly could against the Demo cratic party, it makes no difference who its candidate may be. All the East' wants from the South is her money, and when they get this they have no further use for us. They do not propose that the people of the South shall have any hand in running the government, and there fore they defeat any kind of a can didate (the Democratic party may nominate for President simply be cause he would be friendly politi cally to the South. The Republican party was orga nized in a spirit of opposition to the South. It continually made war upon Southern institutions and Southern civilization until it brought on the war. After that struggle it put the ignorant negro and venal carpet-bagger in power in every one of the Southern States 'to oppress their citizens and humiliate them for daring to defend their rights. The North or the East has never held out a helping hand to the people of the South, and they never will. Yet in the face of this, Mr. Taft ask ed this section to divide in favor of principles they did not believe in and in favor of men who have neve* shown us any consideration. If we had nominated Governor Johnson or Judge Gray this time, does anyone believe that they would have received any better treatment than was accorded Judge Parker and Mr. Bryan? For forty years the South has allowed its northern, as sociates to select the candidates for President and Vice President. It has shown a thoroughly national spirit, and unselfish, and patriotic motive throughout. And yet everything that she touches has been repudiated by New York and New England and by the larger States of the middle West. Yet we are told that the Solid South Is a thing of the past and that our people will fleck to the Republi can party. We do not believe it. *We do not believe that the people of the South will ever become Re publicans to any great extent. Twice in the last five years we have been ignored and beaten with the big stick, and now we are invited to get up, rub our bruises and fall in with the party that clubbed us. Some few who may expect to gain by it may accept the invitation, but the rank and file of the people will re main true to the party which stood by them in the dark days of the reconstruction period. Clark Howeh's Spiel. The day after the election the At lanta Constitution, under the cap tion of "No Longer a Voting Ma chine." said: "In Tuesday's election the Southern States began the writing of their political declaration of independence. The result means that the time has passed when a resident of one of these States must buy his social security, often, perhaps at the price of his political conviction. That Southern vote which, in the firm belief, wrench ed itself away from sectional and political traditions?and it was a large one?was significant. It means that the South is no longer to be kept as a voting machine, as a slice of country to be depend ed on to go solidly Democratic though the heavens fall; as a mere tail to what itself would be an unflyable Northern Democratic kite. The South will not contin ue longer a mere voting machine. Tuesday practically demonstrated that. True, it is still solid, but the veneer is dangerously thin. It will no longer content itself with just the crumbs that fall from the Democratic table. W7hat the South needs is a few doubtful States; then it will be in a po sition to demand and get some thing." The Constitution *ls edited by Clark Howell. who has no political influence whatever in Georgia. This was' amply shown in his race for Governor two years ago against Hoke Smith. In that election Geor gia Democrats repudiated Howell by almost unanimously nominating Smith over him fo'r Governor in the primary. Out of over one hun dred ard fifty counties, he carried less than a half dozen. Since that time he has been considerably dis gruntled, and his yearning for a white Republican party in Georgia as Indicated in his spiel as above quoted will surprise no one who is familiar with his political history. If he thinks the time has come for a white Republican party in GeorgU, and he wants one, there Is no law tj prevent him inaugurating it. We think this would be a great deal more honorable than to be masque rading as a Democrat while at heart he is a Republican. After the above culmination his own self-respect should suggest to him the propriety of resigning the position of National Democratic Commitfeieman from Georgia, which was given to him as a reward for his services in helping the Brown Dentpcratic fadtion to ,elect that gentleman Governor of Georgia: At that time Howell had not seen the new light. Some Democratic Gains. The returns of the late presidential election when studied a little will show that while the Democratic par ty suffered defeat in the election of a President it made substantial gains in Congress and in some of the States. The Democrats have gained nine members in the House certain and possibly more. They have lost no senators and gained one, and pos sibly another. They have elected Governors and will control the leg islature in several States that now have Republican Governors and Leg islatures. Bryan carried Colorado, Nebraska and Nevada, all three of which were carried in 1904 by the Republicans. In some of the most important States in the Union tremendous Re publican majorities have been ma terially reduced, and a certain teu dency toward Democracy has been developed and demonstrated. More than that, there are real achievements to be noted in some of the State elections, which are not without important bearing upon the national situation. The most inter esting appear in Ohio,' Indiana and Nebraska,. Although Taft carried his own State by 50,000 plurality, he fell 200,000 short of the majority given Roosevelt in Ohio four years ago and the Democratic State ticket was, at the same time, elected by a safe majority. ' But that is not all. There Is a possibility that the Democrats wi.l control the Ohio Legislature, and if they do they will choose a Democrat to succeed Foraker, in the United States Senate. That will be the first time in many years that the State of Ohio is represented in the Senate by a Democrat. Indiana, which went for Taft by the small plurality of S.000 votes, elected a Democratic Governor and the Legislature will be Democratic on joint ballot and will elect a Democratic Senator. Nebraska, besides voting for Bry an, elected a Democratic , Governor, and, pos#lj|ly, has a Democratis Legislature. In Nebraska the Dem ocrats elected five Congressmen out of six and in Indiana eleven out of thirteen. We have four new Democratic Governors in four grertt States of the West. So all is not lost. Let the Democrats keep their powder dry and work for victory, which at least will perch on their banners. Will Keep Our Powder Dry. In reviewing the result of the late election, Henry Watterson, the able editor of the Courier-Journal say.-, "The result shows that we over estimated the spiritual and under sized the material hearts and minds of the people. They were deaf alike to precedents, to reason, and to eloquence; for nothing could surpass, as nothing has ever equalled the per sdnal canvass of Mr. Bryan, its wonderful lucidity and power of statesmen, its splendid Intellectual and physical endurance; its unans werable argument. "Nor did Ignatius of Loyola sweep through the world of incarnate evil, bearing the cross of Jesus to tri umph, with greater force of inspira tion and truth than did the heroic son of Nebraska traverse a land gap ing with curiosity, but too busy over its work and play to consider any danger to the immortal soul of its constitutional fabric. "Old-time Democrats will wait and keep their powder dry. If they should despair, if they should break apart, the country would be exposed to political anarchy leading the rad icalism and excesses of every sort to practical irresponsibility on the one hand, unregenerate debaucherv backed by resistless force on the other hand. "We may be a power for good, though beaten, and in opposition. Seven millions of voters are never to be despised, in case they hold to gether. Many States remain to in. The constitution of the United States has not been abolished yet, nor in stitutional freedom, nor wise and up right administration, and these are still worth fighting for." The Truth About Georgia. Some of our good Democratic friends were very much worried over the returns form Georgia, which -xt first indicated that Bryan had re ceived very few more votes than Taft in that State. They were needless'y alarmed as the correct returns will show. Bryan's vote was 73,606 as against 41,268 for Taft. This gives Bryan a plurality over Taft of 32, 638, which is not so bad when it is known that a great many negroes in Georgia are qualified voters, and of course they all voted the Republican ticket. Taft, Watson, Debs, Chapin and Ilisgen, all of whom opposed Bryan as candidates on different Presidential tickets, received a com bined vote of 60,115. against. 72,606 votes for Bryan, which gives him a clear majority of over 12,000 against Taft and all the other presidential candidates. In addition to carrying the State for Bryan, the Democrats carried every Congressional district by good majorities. In the face of these figures we see little cause for Democrats to be alarmed or the Re publicans to be overjoyed over the result in Georgia. Most of the Re publican gains in the State among white people was in Savannah and Atlanta, and was confined to men who have made a little money and those they coy/Id control. The great bulk of the white people of Georgia are as staunch Democrats today as they ever were, and they will remain so, too. . The Assocfcteu Press. We feel that the general pub;ic will join with us In expressing the warmest admiration of the excellent manner in which the Associated Press handled the news of the great national contest which has just come to a close. It is in times like this that the magnitude of this grea,t news gath ering association?the vigilance, ac tivity and resourcefulness which it has at its command?become most conspicuous and we realize that it stands absolutely without a rival in the collection and dissemination of news. The smallest and remotest pre cinct was as much under its hand and eye as the great centers of pop ulation, and the lightning calculators who consolidating the votes on which hunig the destinies of a nation, no sooner finished their work than it was flashed throughout the country. Those who assembled in the Court House on the night of the election to read The Times and Democrat election bulletins will bear cheer ful testimony to the correctness of the above from the Atlanta Journal. The Times and Democrat received its bulletins' from the Associated Press, and the many who heard our bulletins read had an excellent op portunity to observe the rapidity and accuracy with which this great news gathering association work. The completeness of the service has beea complimented by many. Why They Kill. Answering a paragraph in which we said "The blind tiger whiskev sold up in Newberry county must be fearful stuff if we accept the conten tion that drinking fs the cause of most murders," the Newberry Ob server says, "It may be true that drinking is the cause of most mur ders; but the murders, or homicides, that have occurred in Newberry county have not come from blind tiger whiskey; they have been in nearly every instance the result of gambling, and have been confined exclusively to the colored population, many of whom do not hesitate, drunk or sober, to shoot each other in a contention over a quarter." The same can be said of several kill ings that have occurred in the last year or two, which fully confirms the Observer's statement. Mr. Clark Howell, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, says the reT suit of the Presidential election means that the time has passed when a resident of one of the Southern States must buy his social security at the price of his political convic tions. We do not know about Geor gia, but over here the social security of a man is determined more by the character of the man than by his political convictions. The Atlanta Constitution says, "What the South needs Is a few doubtful States, and then It will be in a position to demand and get something." Btft it will not get from the Democratic party a nomi nation to the TIce Presidency for the Hon. Clark Howell, whose name was presented to the Denver con vention by the Georgia delegation," says the Charleston Evening Post. Bryan's matchless oratory, the magic of his name, the purity of his life, the sublimity of his character will give him a place In the history of this country attained by few men. WHAT CAUSED THEIR DEATH? Mysterious Death of Three People in Washington City. Washington, Nov. 6.?Overcome by the fumes of a gas of unknown origin, three persons of the family of Clarence L. Bremerman, a ste nographer in the library of Congress, were asphyxated in their home, 1,309 -st street, Northwest, this city today. The dead are: Mrs. Heba Cutts Bremerman, 34 years old; Cutt Bre merman, 18 months old, her son, and Mrs. Helen Catherine Bremerman, 58 years old, her mother-in-law. When Bremerman returned home this evening he noticed his infant son apparently asleep in a crib in the dining room. He called to his wife, and received no reply, went in to the kitchen, where he found hi.-, wife and mother lying dead on the floor. Bremerman detected a strong odor of gas, but was unable to locate its source. The coroner, the police and a num ber of physicians who were called in, were unable to determine the exact nature of the deadly fumes. An autopsy over the body of the younger woman will be held tomor row. ? CONSTABLE KILLS NEGRO, Who Attempted to Outrage a Penn sylvania White Girl. Uniontown, Pa., Nov. 5.?While attempting to arrest Jesse Rice, a negro at Riverside, near here, last night, Constable Brown shot him dead and was hlmseuf fatally shot in the abdomen by the negro. Nevas Brown, a son of the officer, was also shot In the arm by Rice. Two months ago a warrant was issued for the arrest of the negro on a charge that he had committed an asualt on a young white woman at Masontown. Rice, however, dis appeared, and yesterday Constable Brown, of this place, learned he was living at Riverside. The officer went there to make the arrest and the shooting followed when the negro offered armed re sistance. ? J T JLJ J-d j., j STEVENSON WILL CONTEST. Democratic Candidate for Governor of Illinois not Satisfied. Chicago, Nov. 6.?The election of Governor Chas. C. Deenen to serve another term as Governor of Illinois, will be -contested by his Democratic rival, according to a signed state ment Issued tonight by Charles Boeschehstein, chairman of the Dem ocratic State central committee. The statement follows: "I am convinced that with a co~ rect count and an honest canvass Adlal E. Stevenson has a plurality of the vote cast in the election last Tuesday for Goveronr of Illinois The demand for arecount will be made upon the Legislautre as pro-; vided for in the statutes." Governor Deenen's plurality is es timated at from 23,000 to 26,000 Ben H. Atwell, secretary to Chair man Boeschenstein, explained that errors in the count had already been discovered in several precincts and it was calculated that if only three ballots in each of the 4,000 voting precincts In Illinois were taken from Deenen and given on recount to Ste-{ venson, the latter would be found to have won the election. * BRYAN CARRIES GEORGIA. Got Over Thirty-two Thonsand More Votes Than Taft. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 5.?Complete returns from 139 of the 146 counties in Georgia give the following results in the presidential election on Tues day: For Bryan, 73,606; Taft, 41,268; Watson, 17,514; Debs, 767; Chafin, 4S3; Hlsgen, 83. This shows a total of 133,238 votes and gives Bryan a majority over all of 9,632. Bryan's plurality over Taft is 32,638 votes. Not over a half vote was polled. Had all the voters turn ed out Bryan's plurality over Taft would have been near 80,000. The Democrats elected every Congress man by good majorities. * TERRIFIC EXPLOSION. A Mine Is Wrecked and Four Men Entombed. Benton, 111., Nov. 5.?An explosion at the mines of Col. W. P. Bond, three miles west of Benton, late to day wrecked the shaft and as a re sult four shot firers are entombed. So terrific was the explosion "that a car and pieces of railroad track were hurled from the bottom to the top of the shaft, more than 600 feet, demolishing a steel tipple. It is impossible to reach the firers, and their fate is unknown. A large force of men is trying to ctear away the wreckage, but the work is pro ceeding slowly. * CASTOR 3 k For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Sip 7/^^"" Signature of U?^w7&?<?^' WANTED TO BUY. Five hundred bushels Appier Seed Oats. I. M. Pearlstine & Son, 201 and 203 East Bay St., Charleston, S. C. _ Attention. Dimness of vision, blurring of let ters, eye-strain, eye-pain, and head 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. 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 A it is possible to compound from the highest grade drugs, -jd the services of an experienced Pharma cist you will send your Doctor's Prescription to J. G. Wannainaker M'f'g. Co. Tax Notice. Office of County Treasurer, Orangeburg, S. C. Tax duplicates will be open at the Court House for the collection of Taxes from October 15th to the 31st day of December, 1908, as follows: State tax .5%' mills County tax .3 . ' Road tax .1 ;? ' Constitutional school .... 3 ' District No. District No. District No Total .12% mills Special Taxes Mills S.D. District No. 10_.2 * . District No. 11.2 District No. 12.2 13.2 18.4 2 20.4 District No. 21.2 District No. 22.2 District No. 23. 2 District No. 23..2 j bistrict No. 26.3 2 District No. 27.1 District No .28.3 District No. 33.3 District No. 34.3 3 District No. 36.4 2 District No. 37.2 District No. 38.2 District No. 40.2 District No. 41.'_-.4 District No. 42.2 District No. 43.3 District No. *4.3A ... District No. 46.3* District No. 47.1 District No. 48.4 District No. 55.3 District No. 64.3 District No. 65.2 2 Disticrt No. 68.4 District No. 70.4 2 district No. 71.'.3 District No. 72.3 District No 74.4 District No. 75.2 District No. 78.3 District No. 83.3 Commutation Tax for the years 1909, payable from October 15th, '908, to 1st March, 1909. A. D. PAIR, Treasurer. Orangeburg Co., S. C. Oct. 1st, 1908. Now Is The Time to get a HAY RAKE at COST. I am not going to handle hay rakes any longer and will sell stock on hand at cost. A fine lot of one and two horse wagons at greatly reduced prices. CALL AT? L. E. RI LEY'S For Sale. 43 1-4 Acres of land one and a half miles from city limits on Stage Road. Address Drawer K., Orange burg, S. C. SPECIAL NOTICE. WE HAVE MADE A SPECIAL PURCHASE O* .2REMELY STYLISH AND UP TO DATE Coat Suits and Skirts We DON'T WAIT UNTIL AFT ER ELECTION?SO HERE THEY ARE. A BIG SHIP MENT BOUGHT AND ALL HERE. YOUR PARTICULAR STYLE IS HERE?YOUR SIZE, TOO? ?COME NOW. EVERY SORT THAT GOOD TASTE ALLOWS, FROM FAN CY GREENISH GRAYS AND* BROWNISH COATS TO THE MORE SOBER BLACKS, BOTH SMOOTH AND HERRING BONE WT3AVES. MATERIALS FOR SKIRTS OF FINE PANAMA AND VOILS. SIZES OF WAIST BANDS RANGE FROM 22 to 32 INCH ES, LENGTH FROM 38 TO 42 THE VARIETY ASSURES THE RIGHT SKIRT FOR EVERY WOMAN. PRICE FROM $4:50 TO $12.50. THE PRICE IS RIGHT; IN FACT, MUCH LESS THAN YOU PAY IN THE BIG CITIES. OUR CUSTOMERS TELL US THIS. THE SUIT PRICE RUNS FROM $15.00 to $30.00. KOHN'S EMPORIUM, MAIL ORDERS OUR HOBBY. GENTS CLOTHING CO. WISHES TO THANK THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL FOR THEIR LIBERAL PATRONAGE DURING THEIR VERY SUCCESSFUL SPEC IAL SALE, AND TO NOTIFY THEM THAT THEY HAVE NOW ON HAND; A COMPLETE LINE OF NEW GOODS TO OFFER AT VERY* LOW PRICES. OWING TO THE DULL TIMES WE PURCHASED A LINE OF GOODS AT VERx LOW PRICES AND WE ARE GOING TO* GIVE THE PUBLIC THE BENEFIT OF THESE PRICES. WE INVITE YOU TO CALL ON US AND INSPECT OUR STOCK OF* NEW AND UP TO DATE MEN'S AND BOYS' CLOTHING, HAIS,. SHOES AND FURNISHINGS. WE HANDLE THE FAMOUS STETSOV HATS IN ALL STYLES. EDWIN CLAPP SHOES AND ALL OTHER. GOODS THE BEST THE MARKET CAN AFFORD. WE SELL SOSd GUARANTEED TO LAST SIX MONTHS OR REPLACED WITH NEW" ONES. DON'T DELAY; CALL Ar ONCE ON THE BENTS CLOTHING CO. 56 "W ETJSSELL ST.. GEO. R. BOWMAN AND O. L. CRUM, Managers. Selection of candy is generally trying on the buyer, but if you know the several reputations of thedifTercnt brands, the3uperiorreputation and quality of Steerc's leaves noroom for doubt, or even for hcaitat ion. Tho ingredientsiarc absolutely pure, and the care given each individual piece in manufacture anil handling results in a canny as attractive as it is wholesome. Sold by all Druccists and Confectioners. 3 Manufactured by L1TTLEFIELD & S TEE RE CO., Knoxville. Tenn. EXCLUSIVE AGENCIES ('RANTED. MONTHLY STATEMENT OF THE DISPENSARIES IN ORANGEB?RG COUNTY FOR THE MONTH OF OCT. All Stock is Given at Consumers' Prices. Dispensaries at Springfield, S. C. Elloree. S. C. Branchville, S. C. Livingston, S. C. . Orangeburg, S. C. Total Invoice Including stock on hand first day of month. .$ 3.973.58 . 6,393.00 . 4,798.30 . 5,282.40 . 14,373.91 Total sales. $ 1,378.25 3,826.75 2,760.20 2,543.10 11,461.74 Total .$34,821.19 $21,970.04 Operating expenses of each dispensary. $ 74.55 96.27 103.19 73.50 243.65 $591.16 Inv. breakage. $ 8.45 10.10 9.75 13.30 31.32 $72.92 Consumers. Stock on hand last day of month $ 2,567.07 2,556.15 2,027.40 2,726.00 2,SS0.85 $12,757.47 State of South Carolina, County of Orangeburg. Personally appeared J. G. Smith, T. R. McCauts, L. A. Carson. Members of the Orangeburg County Dis sary hoard, 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 4th day of November, 1908. J. H. Claffy, N. P., S. C.