Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

Sit* Simtfaa? ?mmvti. ttpUBBMD TWIGB-A-1?EE& Tuesday and Friday. Vol. 40.No. 57. "Entered as second-claa) matter 1, 1908, at the poatofflce at Or .ssssbnrg, 8. C, ander this Act of Congress of March 3, 1879._ rl*ma. Li. 81ms, Editor and Proprietor. 'Fob. Islar Sinn, - Associate Editor. ' subscription Bate*. Qee Tear.fl.50 |ptw Months. .. .75 Months..40 Advertising Bates. Transient advertisementa $L00 per inch for test insertion and 50 cent* fox each subsequent lomxtion Soataess Notices 10 cents per line for first ? tessrtion and 5 cents per lice for subsequent Obituaries, Tributes of Respect, Notice of Thank*, and all notices of a personal orpoliti aal nature are charged for as regular advertise* Special Notices, entitled Wanted, Lost, -Found, Far Rent, not exceeding twenty-five > words, one time, 35 cents; two times 50 cents; C three time*, 75 cents and foci times $1.00. Liberal contract made with nuironants and j others who wish to ran advertisements for ; three months or longer. For rates on contract advertising apply at the office, and they will to oarexolly furniabed. * gecdttanbea should be made by cnecks tnosey orders, registered letters, or express or -ttecs, payable to The Times and Democrat, Oraneebursr, S. C. More people would find time for helpiDg others if they were not so busy helping themselves. Fat Crow has turned evangelist, and will now,devote his t'me preach ing to m?jn who has always been bet ter than he Ii. The Greenville News says Sena tor Tillman is a creature of the news papers. This is a mistake. Tillman won his way in spite of the news papers, as no man was over fought harder by newspapers than he was". The New York Sun says Mr. Roosevelt has an overwhelming ad vantage over any respectable antag onist because of his "complete free dom from any sense of personal ob ligation in re?pect of tne truth. The Sun knows Teddy. Some people love to talk of the great good they would do if they only had the money and opportunity, and because they have not ':he pow< to do great things they refuse to o the little acts of goodness of which they are capable. Th?re is something wrong when a man grows rich and physically well cared for but starves his intel lect and heart. It is along the high er lines men should make the most progress and they can do ':hat with out neglecting the other. The growth of "dry" territory ir the country is simplifying the army canteen question. Gen. Fred Grant states that so many army posts are* now in "dry" territory and that so f many of the new recruits are tctal abstainers, that it is doubtful if the canteen matter will be revived. Radically diverse views on national education make the pathway of the English government exceedingl;. thorny. If it ere not for the ex istance of a state church most of the difficulties would vanish and educa tion would be settled on much the same basis it is in this country. The editors and correspondents of the great dailies have at last decided not to let the Duke of the Abruzzi marry Miss Elkins. We are sure the lady must be deeply grateful to them for ending her suspense and in leav ing the vay open for her to wed some good, sensible American if she so chooses. Stately mansions filled with costly furniture embellished with rare works of art do not constitute a home. They may be found in many a home but they do not make it. Love, confidence, helpfulness?these are the essentials of home. With these one may or may rot have wealth, but without them home does not exist. A qoung woman over in Savannah irefciently changed her name three times in three hours. At 12 o'clock she was Mrs. Roxie Spaldl:ag, at 'ten minutes after 12 o'clock hiving been divorced from her husband she be came Miss Roxie Phillips and at 2 o'clock she became Mrs. Roxie Mar tin by marrying John B. Martin. That is a hard record to beat. The Christmas edition of the Columbia State, which wsb issued Sunday week ago, was a magslflceut. piece of newspaper work, e.nd we aro sure that it was appreciated by the thousands of readers of that excel lent journal. The foTty-four pages contained much Interesting reading matter and advertisement*. Wo ..\>? gratulavte our coatemporary on Its Christina* edltloi. In a pistol duel oa the mala street of Wytheville. Va., Saturday, Chief of Police Walter McClstocfc, asd E. A. Cregger were killed. MeClla tock shot Cregger to death after he himself had been mortally wounded, and the two bodies fell near each other in the thoroughfare. Two families plunged Into the depth of woe simDly b?.CRiipe two men let their temper get the best of them. Mrs. Lenora Lake, of St. Louis, one of the leading temperaace lec turers of the country, who spoke at a big no-ll-cense rally In Lynn, Mats., last week, nearly created a paait among 2,000 ardent teajporanfe re formers when she ??nncstieed from the platform that ahe had changer her mind altout d:ink being the worst evil of the country and de nounced bachelorhood as being worse, and bachelors as bting worse than "hellions who ma drink dives." Mrs. Lake must he a grass ?aide w. Christmas Bells Are Ringing. Throughout the Christian world the Christmas bells are ringing, and their glad ntotes, whether by the hanks of the Thames, or Tiber, or Rhine, or Potomac, or Neva, tell the same story of peace, goodwill and joy that was heard by the wonder ing shepherds on the star-lit plain nearly two thousand year ago. The world haa been slowly learning the message, but it is learning, for in spite of wars and rumors of war) peace continues to gain victories. Not nearly so often as in the days of old are disputes settled by the sword with all the sad accompani ments of bloodshed, misery, bereave-1 ed homes and ill feeling. Instead | a few diplomats meet and calmly con sider the situation, compromises are made and an agreement reached to the great relief of the nations con cerned, and without the shedding of anything but- a few drops of ink. Yes! the message of Bethlehem is changing the lives of nations even as of individuals. With ever in creasing assurance we can say with our great American poet: I heard the bells of Christmas Day) Their old, familiar carolB play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth good-will to men! Nearly everybody, old and young, wherever the story of the Christ child is repeated, looks longingly] forward to the great festive day. Homes are the brighter for it, and the holly, mistletoe, laurel, spruce and pine with which we decorate our rooms reflect some of that bright ness in their cheery red and glos sy green. With ail the members of the family, from the little child which with wondering eyes gazes upon the mysterious, white-bearded Santa Claus to the venerable grand sire whose head is silvered by many winters, gladness and hope reign | supreme. . It is the day beyond all other days for the family reunions, and the gifts which the members give each other are the fitting of ferings of affection. Happy is the home in which on Christmas Day and every day of the year, peace, joy and love find their abiding I ( place. I j Stands Up for Jesus. Judge Peter S. Grosscup, of the United States Circuit Court of Ap peals contributes an impressive ar ticle to the December number of the North American review, entitled "God, Man and Immortality." The article is in effect a reply to the article by the late Governor D. H. Chamberlain, entitled "Some Con clusions of a Free-Thinker,' which appeared in a recent number of the Review. Judge Grosscup con tends that materalistic theories of the universe, such as Haeckel's, being mere deductions from facts scien tificlally ascertained, have no more claim to be regarded as scientific than a spiritual theory of the uni-1 verse deduced from facts which are also, scientifically ascertained. That the material resources and forces of the world were placed in the world .by a designing intelligence! he thinks, is almost convincingly sug gested by the fact that these re sources and forces are of no practi cal value except to man, and that man has been endowed with the abil- j ity to discover and use them for his advantage. In concluding his paper Judge Grosscup says: "I have excluded from this paper every consideration based on revelation of faith. I have dealt with the subject as if there were no inspired Word?as if the world knew nothing of a Son of Man. who at the same itme was a Son of God. But I do not wish it to be under- j stood that this Jesus of Nazareth i. not to me a sufficient foundation on which to rest, in abiding security, my belief in the world to com3. When I turn over in thought the words some great man uttered to his contemporaries?a Cromwell, ai Washington or a Lincoln?and then reflect what those words and that man subsequently accomplished, a new belief attaches to their truth and wisdom. And so it is also when I turn over in my mind the word given to us by this Jesus of Nazareth. He was born of parents who, but for Him, would have lived and died < a mere carpenter and his wife. He never set foot outside a province of j the Roman Empire that in its day, was as little taken notice of by the rest of the world as is one of the small isliands of the Philippine Archipelago. "And he passed out of this lif-.i unmentioned in any writings of His time, for the mention by Josephus is probably an interpolation. But His life and His Word have divided the world into two; everything that hai come after Him is His; everything that shall come after us increasing ly His. More than all the other forc es of civilization, more than the com bined lives of the world's great men, His life and His- Word hav* remade the world. Why should not I, turning back, as I often do, with a new faith to the words of the world's great men who have done great things, turn back to the lif and the words of Him, who not only has done great things, but has re made the world, with an abiding faith in their inspired truth?" What a grand country this would be if all of our high officials would take a stand for Jesus as does Judge Grosscup, and not only stand for Him, but follow in# his footsteps. We commend what Judge Grosscup says to every one who reads this paper. Remarkable Fact of History. It seems almost impossible for two half sisters, daughters of the same father, to die one hundred and seventy years apart, but such is one of the remarkable facts of history. Sir Stephen Fox, the grandfather of Ohas. Jas. Fox, at one time Secre tary of Foreign Affairs of England, married in 1654, and had a daughter born to him. in 1655, who died the same year. Finally his wife and all his children died. Being left alone, | and in order that his great wealth 3hould remain in his family, Mr. Fox remarried in old age, and the youngest child of this marriage was i daughter born in 1772. She lived ;o the remarkable age of ninety ;ight years, dying In 1825, making ;he period between the deaths of he two sisters one hundred and ;eventy years. It was possible for )liver Cromwell to have seen the ddest daughter and for the young ish to have seen Queen Victoria. Che iciest imaginative novel writer :ould hardly invent a more remark ible story, which goes to show that ruth is stranger than fiction. TILLMAN PRIMING UP. May Make Speech That W?l Stir Up the Animals. Washington, Dec. 17.?Senator Tillman is beginning to look in good form again. His trip abroad seems to have done him good, but his closo friends say he is not yet in trim. There is a feeling prevailing around the Senate that he will have some thing interesting to say in a few days, and it may be about the Pan am? canal. As was said today, if the Senator does decide to speak his mind about the canal he will throw a rock or two that will displace large volumes of water. No man in the Senate can draw a larger crowd than the gentleman from South Car olina. Gen. Carwile Dead. Edgefield, S. C, Dec. 17.?Major General Thomas W. Carwile, of this place commander in chief of the South Carolina division of the Con federate Veterans, died suddenly at his home this afternoon at abou 1 o'clock.' ? President of Haytl. Port au Prince, Hayti, Dec. 17.? Gen. Simon, leader of the last revo lution in Hayti, was unanimously elected President of the republic by the Haytien congress. * Special Notice. We, the undersigned Banks of the City of Orangeburg, S. C, do here by agree to close our respective places of business Saturday, De cember 26th, 1908. The public generally are reques* ed to take notice and govern them selves accordingly. The People's Bank. The Planters Bank. TV"' Jrangebunr. Edisto Savings Bank. Farmers & Merchants Bank. Trespass Notice. All persons are hereby forbidden to hunt or in any wise trespass upon my. lands in Poplar township. MRS. C. L. C. RUSH, Creston, S. C. t i"?mn*0EUB0iis" Selection of cr.ndy is severally tryioir on the buyer, but if yon knov tTio several reputations of thedifTerent brands, thesupcrior reputation and quality utStccre'a leaves no room for doubt, or cvc-.ifi.r liexitation. The innTedioi:b*aro tbsolutely pure, and the care riven each indinc3ualp:ocelninanjfacturocnihtind!in(TrcJultu in a ennay as attractive as it is wholesome. Seldbyal'Drucclstsar.dCo&fectiuEirs. 8 Manufactured by LITTLEFIELD & STEERS CO.. KnoxviUe, Te;in. EXCLUSIVE AGENCIES GRANTED. FERTILIZERS. See M. 0. Dantzler before you buy. M. O. Dantzler* announces to his Guano friends that he will call on them in the interest of The Coe-Mortimer Company soon after the New Year. Kindly wait on nie before you buy your fer tilizer materials for the coming reason, as I will have some of the. choicest, most consentratcd plant food to offer you. NAMELY: NITRATE OF POTASH, DRIED BLOOD, FINLEY GROUND TANKAGE NITRATE OF SODA, MURIATE OF POTASH, THOMAS PHOSPHATE POWDER (which analyses, by the Wagner method, over 13 per cent of Available Phosphoric Acid and 35 to 50 per cent of Lime.) Also all of the Standard grades in mixed goods at right prices, if they desire to buy such. The Coe-Mortimer Company refused to handle the Peruvian Guano offered them this season for good and sufficient reasons. I thank my friends for their confidence In my Guano judg ment in the past and will certainly not offer them any material in the future that I think is not for their best interest. M. O. Dantzler HOLIDAY BOOKS AT HALF VALUE Our tremendous purchases of Xmas Books have just been opened up and arranged for your inspection, and we must say right here that while ye thought we had reached the limit in bargain giving last year, our present stockt irts a new mark that we think will stand for some time COME JIND SEE. W"e will not attempt to tell you here what wc hav^ to offer, as it would be futile. Only a visit to the store can give you any idea of 'the feast of good things we have prepared for you, and as an inducement for an early call, we have selected from our vast stock twenty of the handsomest volumes we couM find, and shall sell them, while the stock lasts, at 60 CENTS PER VOLUME These all books that should bring at least a dollar a volume, beautifully made up, finely illustrated, and are especially appropriate for Xmas presents, and those who are fortunate enough to get some of them will be able to make their Christmas money do double duty. The titles are: Satan Sandersen By Hallic Erminic Rivea Rosalind at Red Gate By Meredith N cholson The Honour of Sa>?lli By S. Leverc Leats The Masquerader By Katherine Cecil Thurston The Patriots By Cyrus Townsend Brady The Princess Maritza By Percy Brebner The Fifth String By John Philip Sousa The Golden Horseshoe By Robert Aitkln Lavender and Old Lace By Myrtle Reed The Romance of Terence O'Rourke By Joseph Louis Vance Hearts and Masks By Harold MacGrath Half a Rogue By Harold MacGrath Beverly of Graustark By Geo. Barr McCutcbeon The Lion and the Mouse By Charles Klein A Six Cylinder Courtship By Edward S. Field Susan By Ernest Oldmeadow The Right of Way By Gilbert Parker Barbara Winslow By Elizabeth Ellis When Patty Went to College By Jean Webster Haunters of the Silences By Cbas. G. D. Roberts S5L Elmo, Illustrated ? ? By Augusta J. Evans Sims Book Store. GIVE A FOUNTAIN PEN FOR CHRISTMA: The Wirt is tho oldest Fountain Pen manufactured in the world. The gold pens are of the very best tliat can be made?to suit any hand. The cases or reservoir holders are of the purt'.st and most highly finish ed hard rubber?strong and beauti fully made. The mountings, ivhere used, are of the best, and in designs from th<? hands of the most skillful artists. The pen is durable, jt is practical. It wil work one time as well as anoth er and work always. Tho demand of the hour requires the very best; this pen is offered as such, din-ct from the manufacturer. Only those who have used a good non-leaking fountain pen can appre ciate its advantages. Each year ha.s emphasized the necessity of a foun tain pen that the business mun, la dies und the traveling public may carry in any position, in the hand bag and in the trunk. Every part is as indistructible as the hard rub l>er. Simply places the cap over the gold pen end, screw properly to place* and yau have sealed the ink in the barrel. I-onditionally guaranteed. This n. uns your money buck when not satisfied. SIMS BOOK STORE. In Order To Further Reduce Our Big Stock We Will Continue Our Sale Till Xmas Eve This means a saving to you of from 20 to 30 per cent, if 1 you need anything in our line of Dry Goods, White Goods, Underwear, Hosiery, Shoes, Coats, Suits, Skirts or Mattings. It will pay you to get Our Prices before buying. Remember the place * The Orangeburg Dry Goods Company.