Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Established in 1869. VoL 40...No. 17 Published Three Times a Week. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Entered as second-class matter Jan. 1, 1908, at the postofSce at Or angeburg, S. C, under the Act of Congress of March, 1879.' Jas. L. Sims, Editor and Proprietor. Jas. Izlar Sims, - Associate Editor. Subscription Rates. One Year .813 Six Months. _:" Three Months. .. .401 Advertising Rates furnished ou .-application. Remittances should be made by i checks, money orders, registered let r ters, or express orders, payable toj The Times and Democrat, Orange burg, S. C. Judge D. E. Hydrick, who has just been elected Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, is a native of Orangeburg County, and we all feel proud of him and the great record he is making. Business men of all classes that need help are looking about for in telligent, industrious, well-behaved, gentlemanly boys. A boy of that kind is laying a good foundation ior success in life. It is stated that the value of the lumber products in Michigan since 1849 has been fifty per cent greater than the output of gold in Cali fornia, yet, how little we think of the product of our forests. All this talk about Japan going to war with this country is fudge. Roosevelt fudge at that. She is in "no position to fight anybody and be fore many more years will have to try it over with Russia. In Springfield, 111., the home of Lincoln, there is to be given a big banquet on the occasion of the cel ebration of the one hundredth an niversary of the birthday of that great American. The negroes have been barred from participating "In this banquet. _ * We were in error in saying Pre-* siding Elder Dargan sanctioned the building of Hebron Methodist Church with a donation from the town of Livingston. We should have said Presiding Elder P. F. Xilgo, who was on this station wjben the matter first came up. Too many young people depend on their father's money taking them through this world, and their moth er's prayers making everything all right for the next. These things are all right, there are other things that young people need in the bat tle of life besides money. Yesterday was the one hundredth birthday o? Abraham Lincoln. His assassination was one of the greatest calamities that ever befell the South. Whatever else may be said of.^him, Lincoln was a good and true friend of the South, and had he lived we would have been spared the horrors of reconstruction. A man in a neighboring town, who took a city paper in preference to a country paper because he got more paper for the money, was attracted by the advertisements of a fire es cape which would be forwarded on receipt of $2. He sent the cash and in a few days received a copy of the New Testament. Try and make a live, enterprising place out of your home town, and when working for its institutions or speaking of the town and country remember you are accomplishing all the more for yourself. Don't be foolish enough to idle away valua ble time predicting failure and there by decrease the value of your prop erty. There should be no faction in our little city. There should be a mu tual interest in the prosperity of our people. When we see indifference to the well being of its citizens, we see a town all wise men shun. Suc cess and failure are each a part of life and often those who have made the hardest fight are vanquished ia the race. When we get at the bottom it is doubtful if there is a millionaire in the country -who has observed the golden rule in the amassing of his fortune. Hje has lobbied, legisla tion; he has beaten the people out of franchises; he sold impure food, he has inferior goods In the market; he lias sold at extortion prices; he has paid stprvation wages. A young woman in Gibson City, III., has resigned her iposition as teacher in the public school for the purpose of going as a missionary to Africa. Why should she go so far when Chicago is so near, and where there are more heathens to the square yard than there are in .Af rica to the twelve square miles? Why not start on the heathens at home? Here is a tabloid sermon from the Richmond. Va., Advance which is worth pasting in your hat: "De structive criticism is easy. Any jackass can kick. It takes a real man, one who thinks, for construc tive criticism. The chronic knocker at any and all persons, for reason or for no reason, will have as much influence as a bellowing bnll. If he is heard in patience he should give thanks to the people's sense of humor." More Manufactories Needed. You may take the dullest and most prosaic town. and erect within its borders a busy, thriving manufactur ing institution, where largo numbers of workmen are employed, and a new life is at once imparted to the place. The, dull monotony of the past gives way to the sound of the steam.whis tle and the clangor of the shop. The street no longer look deserted. People move with an active restless ness in strange contrast to the times when no manufacturing was carried on in their midst. The liveliest towns that we have in this country are those wholly devoted to manu facturing. The dreariest towns, where dry-rot is visible on every hand, are those wherein no work shops are to be found. Manufacturing towns-are not only more active, but as., a rule they are prosperous, as well as being far more enterprising and affording bet ter social and commercial advant ages. The typcial manufacturing towns are to be found in New Eng land, in fact the Connecticut river may be said to be lined with them. It is invigorating to the mind, as well as to the sight, to travel through these towns, which justly may be termed "bee hives of industry." An air of thrift and enterprise is every where displayed. The proprietors of the industrial institutions, the tradesmen, the artisons and other citizens exhibit every outward in dication of that contentment and happiness which arise from a prosp erous condition. There is a reason for this?a so cial as well as a business reason. First, the presence of workshops- and factories in the midst of a commu nity is in itself a source of activ ity. These institutions drawing to them daily their scores and their hundreds of workmen, bring life and activity, not for a week* or a month, but as long as they are in opera tion. But in towns purely commer cial, or in lazy, seaport towns where the bulk of the male portion of the population is at sea, there is a too perceptible lack of life and anima tion. This can be better observed than described. But to one stand ing in a manufacturing town at the morning hour, at noon, or at night, when the workmen are wending their ways to and frcjm work, there need be little said to prove whence the vitality of the town arises. i Ought to Know. Richard A. Canfield, one of the Jig gamblers of his time, puts the gaming proposition in unique form. "If you play with a gambler long enough," he says, "he is bound to win your money. He can't help but j get it. When you play with me in round numbers you put up $100 and against that I put up $90. Now fig ure how long you can keep doing this. You may win my money now and then, you may break me tempo rarily, but as long as you play against me at the odds of 100 to 90 in the end I'll have your money." Canfield ought to know. He, is reputed to have made $5,000,000 in the gambling business. It is said he has not personally touched a card in twenty years. He instructs the business of his establishment to sub ordinates and relies with mathemati cal certainty upon the returns. Can field puts it very plainly. If you go into the gambler's game he has one hundred chances to your ninety, ten chances to your nine. If you stay in the game long enougn?and the majority of the players do?he will get your pile. It is simply science, skill and luck pitted against absolute certainty. The end is known from the beginning. That is where the average man who gambles makes his fundamental mistake imagines that good fortune will beat-the> law of mathe matics. He bets on the theory that good playing and luck will enable him to overcome the stubborn fact that ten is one more than nine. Can field says what everyone ought to know: When you go up against the gambler's game you go up against a dead sure thing. The gam bler's game is not "game of chance" at all. Chance has nothing to do with it. It is financial robbery done Scientifically. Gambler Canfleld's frank statement wiM have little ef fect, however. There will always be the man who fancies he can change nine into a bigger figure than ten. Away With the Carp. The South Carolina legislature has a bill before it "to provide for the patrolling of the Savannah river from Augusta to Savann/h with a launch, $75 a month for the patrol man and $600 for the boat, also $20 for the gasoline each year." The Augusta Chronicle says: "Gentlemen, you can save this $1, 520 a year by tabling the bill. It is not the wicked people of Augusta who are keeping the toothsome trout and succulent bream from your fam ishing up-country counties. TJncJj Sam's scientists did ?it all. They came down here and dumped millions of German carp into the Savannah, and that beartly outcast has almost exterminated our native game fish. Charge it up to Washington; and if you want to do something practical, petition the government to bring back the army from the Philippines and put thnm to catching the carp out of the Savannah at a bounty of a dollar a head, the scientists to eat all caught. In this way we will ob tain some sensible return for our large military appropriation, and will get even with these senseless scientists, and re-establish, over numberless fish dinners, with the proper accomplishments, our old time-honored entente cordiale." South Carolina is to be congratu lated on the elevation of Judge D. E. Hydrick to the Superrae Court. He is true and tried, and will make one of the best judges that ever sat on that august tribunal, The Hartwell Sun. thinks that the woman who gets up and builds the fires in the mornings should be al lowed to vote. And the man who allows her to make the fires all the time should be disfranchised. A subscriber writing to an ex change from the far West is certain ly a fine specimen of a brag. He says: "This is, indeed, a wonderful country. Every hamlet is a town, every town a city, every farm a ranch, every barnyaTd a corral, ev ery mound a mountain, and every man a liar." Circuit Court Sale. State of South Carolina, County of Orangeburg. In Common Pleas. Annie L. Oliver, Plaintiff, against Daniel Hesse Keit, et al., De fendants. By virtue of the judgment in the above stated case, I will sell, at pub lic auction, at Orangeburg Court House, during the legal hours for sales, on the first Monday in March, 1909, bfeing ithe first day of said month, the following described real estate: All that certain tract or parcel of land, situate, Jying and being in and adjoining the City of Orange burg in the county of Orangeburg, in the State afri-esaid, containing forty-four (44) i.c-es and bounded on the north by lands of John S. Rowe, on the east by lands of M. B. Horger, M. O. Dantzler and es tate of A. Webster; on the south by estate lands of Danial Hesse Keitt, deceased, and on the west by the Columbia road. TERMS?Cash, the purchaser ov purchasers to pay for all papers and all taxes falling due after the day of sale; and in case the purchaser or purchasers fail to comply with the terms of sale, said premises will be resold on the same or some subse quent salesday, on the same terms, and at the risk of the former pur chas.;,* or purchasers. ROBT. E. COPES, Judge of Probate, as Special Referee. February 9th, 1909. Circuit Court Sale. State of South Carolina, County of Orangeburg. In Common Pleas W. S. Barton. Plaintiff, against George Jenkins, et al., Defend ants. By virtue of the judgment in the above stated case, I will s?ll, at pub lic auction, at Orangeburg Court House, during the legal hours for sales, on the first Monday in March, 1909, b?ing the first day of said month, the following described real estate: All that certain tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in Goodbye township, Orangeburg coun ty and State aforesaid, containing one hundred and forty-two acres, more or less, and bounded as fol lows: On the north by lands of Jesse Way, deceased; on the east I by lands of D. D. Funchess, deceas ed ; on the south by lands of Rowan Felder and on the west by Four Holes swamp. TERMS?Cash, the purchaser or purchasers to pay for all papers and all taxes falling due after the df- of sale; and in case the purchaser or purchasers fail to comply with the terms of sale, said premises will be resold on the same or some subse quent salesday, on the same terms, and at the risk of the former pur chaser or purchasers. ROBT. E. COPES, Judge of Probate, as Special Referee. February 9th, 1909. Circuit Court Sale. " State of South Carolina, County of Orangeburg. In Common Pleas. H. D. M. Ott, et al., etc., Plaintiffs, against William Summers, et al., Defendants. By virtue of the judgment in the cbove ftnted case, I will sell, at pub lic auction, at Orangeburg Couit House, during the legal hours for sales, on the first Monday in March, 1909, being the first day of said month, the following described real estate: All that certain tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in Middle township, Orangeburg coun ty and State aforesaid, containing fifty acres, more or less, and bound ed on the north by lands of John Little and of the Bowman Land and Improvement Company; on the east by lands of John Little; on the south by lands of William Nix and of the Bowman Land and Improvement Company and on the west by lands of John Little. TERMS?Cash, the purchaser or purchasers to pay for all papers and all taxes falling due after the day of Bale; and in case the purchaser -jt purchasers fail to comply with the terms- of sale, said premises will be resold on the 6ame or some subse quent salesday, on the same terms, and at the risk of tne former pur chaser or purchasers. ? ROBT. E. COPES, Judge of Probate, as Special Referee. February 9th, 1909. Call to Creditors. All persons having claims against the estate of Cato Livingston, deceas ed, are hereby required to prove their respective demands before the undersigned at Orangeburg Court House, S. C, on or before February 25th, 1909, or be debarred payment. RORT. E. COPES. Judge of Probate as Special Referee. Feb. 1, 1 909. Money to Lend. We can make some loans upon first class security upon reasona ble terms. Call upon or write to the under signed, stating amount wanted and security offered. WOLFE &. BERRY, Attorneys, 1-19-4L Orangeburg, S. C. " Do you know of any woman who ever received any benefit from taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound?" If any woman who is suffering with any ailment peculiar to her sex will ask her neighbors this question, she will be surprised at the result. There is hardly a community in this country where women cannot be found who have been restored to health by this famous old remedy, made exclusively from a simple formula of roots and herbs. During the past 30 years we have published thousands of letters from these, grateful women who have been cured by Lydia EL Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and never in all that time have we published a testimonial without the writer's special permission. Never have we knowingly published a testimonial that was not truthful and genuine. Here is one just received a few days ago. If anyone doubts that this is a true and honest statement of a woman's experi ence with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound write and ask her. Houston, Texas.?"When I first began taking Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound I was a total wreck. I bad been sick for three years with female troubles, elironic dyspepsia, and a liver trouble. I had tried several doctor's medicines, but nothing did me any good. " For three years I lived on medicines and thought I would never get well, when I read an advertisment of Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound, and was advised to try it. " My husband got me one bottle of the Compound, and it did me so much good I continued its use. I am now a well woman and enjoy the best of health. , * "I advise all women suffering from such troubles to give Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a trial. They won't regret it, for it will surely cure you."?Mrs. Bessie L. Hicks, 819 Cleveland St., Houston. Any woman who is sick and suffering is foolish. surely not to give such" a medicine as this a,',trial. Why should it not do her as much good as it did Mrs. Hicks. Bankruptcy Notice. In the District Court of the. United States, for the Eastern District of South Carolina. In Bank ruptcy. In Re. L. B. Fulmer. Pursuant to order of court herein, I will offer for sale" to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Court House, Orangehurg, S. C, at twelve (12) o'clock noon, on the 23rd day of February, 1909, the follow ing real estate of? the said L. B. Fulmer, bankrupt. All that certain lot or parcel of land situate in the county of Orange burg, in the corporate limits of the town of Springfield, measuring on Orangeburg street, forty-two (42) feet and extending back two hundred and eight (20S) feet, eight (8) inch es, together with the building there on. ?ALSO? All that tract, piece or parcel of land situate in Springfield, contain ing five add three-fourth (5 3-4) acres of land, together with the dwelling house thereon, the same butting and bounding to the north by Dr. T. A. Jones, to the east by William Rice, on the south by J. G. Foy and L. A. Phillips and on the west by Miller. ?ALSO? All the right, title and interest of the said L. B. Fulmer, being an un divided interest In and to a tract vl land adjoining Springfield, con taining ninety-eight (98) acres, more ar less, the interest of said L. B. Fulmer therein being about twenty (20) acres, situate in Goodland township, butting and bounding north by lands of Mary Ann Miller, 2ast by lands of C. S. Phillips and A. C. Fulmer, south by lands of L. A. Phillips and estate of Mrs. Jones and West by lands of S. J. Holman, being subject to the life estate of Mrs. Mary Ann Miller and subject Turther to a mortgage upon said property for the sum of one hun dred and thirty-five ($135) dollars and interest. Terms of sale?Cash, purchaser to pay all taxes payable in the . year 1909 and $10 for papers for each lot. Sale subject to approval by the Court. W. L. DOUGLAS,. l-23-5t Trustee.. JWfi have had made for us "The Marchaht Music Co." Piano by a fifteen million dollar Piano Cor poration, the largest in the world, especially for persons in moder ate circumstances who do not feel able to spend four or five hundred dollars for an instrument. We are selling these pianos for $250 and back them with our guarantee. Wc beg to announced that we have been appointed special rep resentative in lower South Carolina for the world renowned "Knabe," that has stood the test of South ern climate for over forty years. We are carrying three makes of rceoznized standard Pianos and four makes of recognized standard Organs. We have two thousand satisfied sustomers and we can satisfy you. No concern operating in this State can better our prices or terms and we ask that you let us figure with you on your con templated purchase. HEMarchant Music Co ( RANGEBURG, S. C. f FIRE and TORNADO j Notice to Creditors. AIL persons having claims against the estate of H. D. A. Burke, deceas ed, will, present the same duly prov en and all persons indebted to 3afd estate will make payment on.or be fore the fifth day of March, 1909, or be debarred payment thereof, to Raysor & Summers, attorneys, Or angeburg, S. C, or to the undersign ed. ??- w ? ? J. E. BURKE, A. G. BURKE, Qualified Administrators of estate H. I). A. Burke, deceased. February 4th, 1909. 2-G-4t j INSURANCE!! i City and Country I Risks ALSO SURETY BONDS. OLD LINE COMPANIES. APPLY TO Sis I MM] PHONE NO. 7. Notice of Final Discharge. On the sixth day of March. 1 909, the undersigned will file their final account as administrators of the es tate of H. D. A. Burke, deceased, with the Judge of Probate for Or angeburg county, S. C, and will thereupon ask for letters of dis charge. J. E. BURKE. A. G. BURKE, Qualified Administrators of estate H; D. A. Burke, deceased. February 4th, 1909. 2-?-4t .. For Sale. 213 acres of fine farming land, 13 9 acres in high state of cultivation, 50 acres clear of stumps. One nice nine room dwelling, 2 tenant house?, large barn, good stable and other outbuildings .located thereon, 2 Vj miles of wire fencing Also 26Vs acres adjoining the above tract, new four-room cottage, new barn and stable, and poultry yard and houses, and one-half mile from the town cf Elloree. S. C. Good reason for selling Apply to J. C. EVANS, Elloree, S. C. Money to Ix>nn. I have arranged to negotiate loans on improved farms at eight, per cent interest, with no charge except for papers. Payable in easy installments. 12-15-3m p. T. HILDERS RAND. Removal Sale! The Orangeburg Buggy Company has rented the Sales Stables and Buggy House recently occupied by Sheriff Sal ley, and. will in connection with their vehicle business run a first class Feed and Sales Stables. This will necessitate removal from tneir present quarters on Russell Street and in consequence the Entire Stock of Buggies, Wagons, Harness, Lap Robes, Saddles, Whips, and Farming Gears in order to save expense of mov ing is offered to the public AT COST! Wednesday, Jan. 27th, 1908 lOO Vehicles of Standard Makes and Styles. HACKNEY, COLUMBUS, CORBETT and other well known makes. One and two horse Hackney Wagons. ALL OUR STOCK IS BRAND NEW?NO OLD OR SHOP WORN STUFF All will go positively at cost. Remember the time. Our stables are now open to the public. Call and be satisfied. ORANGEBURG COMPANY ORANGEBURG, S. C. $300.00 WORTH OF VALUALE PRIZES TO BE GIVEN AWAY Ransdnlc, the Great Prize Giver, will commence another one of his fam ous Voting Contests?Feb. 1st ending Dec. 31, 1009. This is by far the greatest contest of any yet he has given. Note the following pri7.es and rules. FIRST PRIZE?One Guaranteed horse worth $200.00. SECOND PRIZE?One Shaft Wagon worth $40.00. THIRD PRIZE?One Hammer]css Gun worth $25.00. FOURTH PRIZE?One Set Buggy Harness worth $20.00. FIFTH PRIZE?One Set of Silverware worth $15.00. RULES: Each purchase of one dollar will entitle you to one vote, and the per son getting the grealest number of votes by Dec. :11st, 13.09, will gee. prize No. 1, the next highest will get prize No. 2, the next gets prize No. ?,, the next No. 4, the next No. .". Votes will lie given only when re quested and at time of purchase. No votes given for charge purchase*, or when accounts are paid. Votes when once cast cannot be changed to another person. On December 31st, the votes will be counted by a com mittee and those holding the largest number or votes will be awarded; the prizes as-above stated. REMEMBER?You have nothing to lose, but something to gain. J. C. RANSDALE DOING BUSINESS FOR YOUR HEALTH. That's one of the things we are doing business for, and of co?me Incidentally, to get a living. In buying oar drugs,&c we get those which are pare and patent, even though they often cost us extra.We buy them for restoring health?yours and aU our customers.' You may not he able to Judge the quality of drugs, hut our long experience en* ables us to discriminate. Trust us when you need medicine and your confi dence will never be mis" placed. THE DRUG STORE is the one place on earth, where it is unsafe to look for "Bargains." If yon are satisfied with getting the worth of your money, the beat Medicine it is possible to compound from the highest grade drugs, .'d the services of an experienced Pharma cist you will send your Doctor's Prescription to A. Calhoun D < v ( & Co. "THE POPULAR DRUG STORE."