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Established in 1869. YoL 40. .No. 27 Published Three Times a Week. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Entered as second-class matter Jan. 1, 1908, at the post office at Or angeburg, S. C, under the Act of Congress of March, 1870. Jas. L. Sims, Editor and Proprietor. Jas. Izlar Sims, ? Associate Editor. Snbscription Rates. One Year.....$1.50 Six Months.75 Three Months.40 Advertising Rates furnished on application. Remitances should be made by checks, money orders, registered let ters, or express orders, payable to ?The Times and Democrat, Orange burg, S. C. The News and Courier seems to have Taft on the brain. Some people talk by the pound and live by the ounce so great is the dif ference between their words an acts. To see the opportunity is one thing; to seize the opportunity and wisely use it is another. Many do the- first but .the number who do the second is relatively small. Most people may, with advantage, cultivate humbleness, but not the "Uriah Heep variety. Nor does hum bleness mean going around with a timid and tamely submissive air. It is far better to help a man when he is falling than to wait until he is down. It does not cost him so much in effort, courage or anxiety to regain his place in the world. To postpone the doing of some kindly act to an indefinite future rarely amounts to anything. The only sensible plan is to do kind acts and say kind words as we pass along. If we want to spoil life for our selves and be a source of misery to others we need only to be selfish. Think only of ourselves and of what people think of us and all joy and peace goes out of our life. In several criminal cases recently in different parts of the country the offenders have b"en found guilty and sentenced. This fis a healthy sign that juries are getting proof against seutimentalism and that the law will take its course. How much is a man worth is us ually answered in dollars and cents, but that gives no real idea of a man's value. A man is worth just so much as he maues himself by his charac ter and by the value of the things in which he concerns himself. Some men, however talented, and accomplished, never succeed in life while others no better endowed men tally or educationally, win success in everything they take hold of. Perhaps the reason lies in the fact that those who fail have no snap while the others have. With the socialists singing "The Internationale," the monarchists, "Vive Henry Quarte." and the radi cals, "The Marseillaise,' the French deputies must have had quite an im promptu and varied concert at their riotous session the other day. Doubtless it was all very exciting, but scarcely edifying. Without unnecessary delay the kidnappers of the Whitla boy wre found guilty. That with the heavy sentence imposed ought to have a salutary effect upon others inclin ed to steal children for a ransom. The crime of kidnapping is so hei nous that scarcely any punishment is too severe for these guilty of it. A dispatch from Washington says Senator Rai ley made a speech of some length towards the close of the Senate session, in which he express ed the opinion that the enactment of the pending tariff bill would see the disintegration of the Republican party. Such a thing might happen if the Democratic party did not have so many men in it like Bailey. George Meredith, the celebrated author and poet, who died the other day in England, never attained the popularity enjoyed by Thackery, Dickens, or George Eliot. While his productions appealed to the cultured few they were lacking in the style that meets the popular taste, and like Swinburne's poems the> often struck a p ssiiuistic note as to the here after. Doubtless there is something fasci nating about the idea of communi cating with Mats, but it is doubtful if even the most enthusiastic dreamer if even he most enthusiastic dreamer really believes in its possibility. As an academic proposition it is enter taining and people may indulge In ail kinds of speculation over it, but the obstacles in the \v.:y ate too great to lift it into the realm of prac ticability. Webb Simmons, a young white man, has been convicted of murder and sentenced to be hung at Ander son. Simmons gave as an excuse for his crime that he was insane from drinking blind tiger whiskey with cocaine in it. Dr. Parker, of Charleston, testified that the whis key contained a large quantity of cocaine. Anderson is a dry county, but Simmons was drunk when he committed the crime. Caught Red Handed. With tne payment of over $2,000. 000 to the United States government on account of frauds on the customs revenue, the American Sugar Refin ing company now turns to face a suit by New York City to recover $50,000 alleged to be due for water stolen from the city's main|. It was found some years ago that sev eral water pipes ran into one of the trust's refineries, whicjh were not metered, one of them being a ten inch pipe. The company has offered to settle for $74,000, but the city declines to consider any settlement under $250,000. As in the case of the customs frauds, the high officers of the com pany deny any knowledge, yet it dose not appear in either case that the thievery benefitted any one ex cept the company. There .rs ob viously rascality in the management somewhere, and it is in order for the company to assist the govern ment in locating it through crimi nal prosecutions. Otherwise the the country will conclude that some of our trusts are no better than highway robbers among the people and sneak thieves around the public treasury. When a trust like the American Sugar Refining Company is caught red-handed in cheating the govern ment or a municipality and is found guilty and sentenced to pay a fine, its members try to escape a criminal action by throwing all the blame of the thievery upon their employes. It is encouraging to learn that this plea will not hold in the case of the above company for the government intends to bring a criminal suit. The Sugar Refining Company de frauded the government of the duty on 75,000,000 pounds of sugar and the city of New York of a vast sum for water it had surreptitiously tak en and it is only right that the prin cipals who thus cheated and stole should receive adequate punishment. To them a flue of a $-1,000,000 is no punishment, but hard labor with in the walls of a penitentiary would be. Must Get Rid of Them. We publish in this issue an inter esting talk on the tariff by Senator Smith, who gives it as his opinion that the Democratic party must, re pudiate the men who vote to tax the people for the benefit of the trusts, or lose the confidence and support of the people of the coun try. In commenting on Senator Smith's statement the Florence Times says it would be far better to repudiate the backsliding Demo crats, as the Democratic party can live without them, but it seems to be a very questionable matter wheth er it can live and carry that load through the next campaign. The Times goes on to say that the Democratic party must either stand for the people or for the corpora- j tions, and if it stands for the cor porations we do not well see how it can crowd the Republican party off j the platform, it does that work far | better than we could do it. The principles of the party will be clear cut in the next campaign. The pres ent tariff fight will crystalize the nucleus of the party and if it stands clear and strong for no protection to anybody, the right to buy and sell in open markets, it will have sup port that it has never had before. Senator Smith knows what he is talk ing about and can see about as far through a mill stone with a hole in it as anyone we know of. Taft seems to be looking through the same bole in the stone some himself. There will be new lines in the next campaign, and those men who love the name, and nothing but the name, of the Democrats, will have to hunt some other cover. We have no use for men who will stand for "a share of the stealing" just because there is going to be stealing. We insist on having men who will stand for no stealing at all. Then if we get whipped again, we will, at least, have the satisfac tion of knowing that we were right and have nothing to regret. Porter .Military Academy Reunion, j A feature of the commencement celebration of the Porter Military Academy of Charleston this year will be a reunion of the alumni of that institution at a smoker to be given on the evening of Thursday, .June 10, at the Academy. An effort uas been made by the committee in charge of this event to reach every former student of the Academy with an invitation to attend the smoker and renew old associations of school days as well as to hear some account from the present administration of the flourishing condition of the old school and its bright prospects for a largi-r career, but it is realized that many of them have not been communicated with, because of in-j complete address lists. It is ear nestly desired that ever; former stu d' nt of the school, whether during its earliest days as the Holy Com munion Church Institute, or under its later name-, the Porter Academy, and the Porter .Military Academy, who car. will attend the smoker on the 'Veiling of June IOth and this method is taken of urging those who have not received direct notification from the committee to communi cate at once with Mr. C. .1. Colcoek, Porter Military Academy, Charles ton, their purposi to e. present at the gathering. The cost, of Lite smoker will be defrayed by subscrip tion of those attending, it being es timated that two dollars from each will amply suffice to cover all ex penses of the entertainment. The indications are that there will be a considerable number of the "old boys' at the smoker ana a very in teresting and delightful evening should be passed. What School Closing Means. This is the season of the year when in most places the schools are clos ing for the summer vacation, when teachers and pupils will have .. much needed rest and relaxation for a few I weeks from the monotonous school 'duties. The "commencement" of schools and colleges are a reminder that thousands of young people are i being graduated and sent out to enter upon their life work, hopeful and sanguine of the future. We hope that every one of them will make a great success in whatever they un dertake. To many young people there comes i the temptation in the last year of ; school to let up a little on their i studies because of the fee ling that as the end is so near it does not mat ter. For more than one'reason this is a mistaken idea. The last year s work should be the fitting crown of the work of previous years. Then, too, the last year in school is to be considered in its relation to the fu- j ' ture. In most cases a young man passes directly from, school to his life work. As the word "commencement" in dicates his life is not closing when he leaves school. It is really open I ing before him with all its possibili ties, and if fullest succes is to attend that life he must be adequately equipped. This means that the young person must finish well at school in order to commence well and continue weil in the business or profession which he enters. It is not slipshod but thorougn work that I wins. FROM A MICHIGAN FARMER. Says Plenty of Work on the Farm for the Unemployed. A contributor to "The Pilgrim's Scrip" in the June American Maga I zine writes: "I have just read the article* en ' titled 'Looking for a Job' in the ! April number of your magazine, I am greatly interested in the prob lem of the unemployed from the other side. I do not wish to say that the author of that article does not know what he is talking about; he knows the condition of the laborer of medium ability in the cities far better than I. But when it comes to a question of daily bread, and clothes to wear, I should like to asK why the problem we are facing in the country is never considered. "I am living on a four-hundred acre farm in Southern Michigan, in a small village five miles from the railroad. There is plenty of work on our farm for from two to six men all the time at a dolalr and a quarter a day and board. I have been advertising and searching for I months for a girl or woman for gen eral housework. Our work is not heavy. We have everything pos sible in the way of labor-saving de vices. I am willing to pay four dol lars a week with board and room. We want help, just plain, ordinary men and women, who will work ten hours a day and do what they are told to do. They don't even have to think for themselves. And I am stating the case of practically all the farmers around here. There is plenty of work with good wages and low expenses in our little village here for at least twenty-five of the 'unemployed.' "I believe, moreover, that the case is very nearly the same all over the countrv outside of the cities and manufacturing centers. Everywhere young men and women are rushing to the towns to take positions at the came wages as the country ?fters, with living expenses more than doubled. We have not the five-cent theatres, we cannot give the wild, bohemian life they furnish. We are nearer to the sources of life, and it is harder for each of us to shift his own personal responsibility. We have actual places in the world to fill and we gain, for responsibility h not all loss, a greater dignity and self-respect. Best of all the man who is willing to work is always sure of three good meals a day and a place to sleep. The necessities of life need never take more than a relatively small part of his earnings. Why do not some of the 'starving unemployed' seek work outside of the cities." * MEX KILLED BY HAIL. Stones Ten Pounds in Weight Fell in Texas. A dispatch from Galveston says hailstones that are said to have measured nearly a foot and a half in circumference and ranged in weight from 7 to 10 pounds, fell in southwestern Texas for nearly an hour a few days ago. and eight lives are reported lost. The number of live stock killed is given anywhere from 500 to 2,000 head. James Carpenter, while searching for horses, was caught in tue storm and killed by the hail. So far the bodies of several .Mexicans have been found in different parts of the Uvalde and La Salle counties. There were ranch employes who were caught out on the ranges. Telegraph and tele phone wires are down for miles. Searching parties are out looking for bodies and checking the loss of cattle. The storm was most severe in Uvalda county, where the greatest damage resulted. U is estimated that the loss to crops and farm prop erty will aggregate between $200. 000 and $300.000. Tie- hailstones piled up in some places four feel high, and the temperature for sev eral hours was 40 degree*. Illing Herself. After dangling from the end of a rope for threi days, the body of Mrs. Louis Spefcht, 00 ytears old. was found in her apartment in Royal street, New Orleans, a few days ago. She had hanged hersi If while lone ly and brooding over financial re verses. When a girl is eighteen she Im agines that every love letter is the advance agent of a marriage certi ficate. It is a difficult matter to get a rep utation on the strength of what you are going to do some day. CLASSIFIED COLUMN One-half Cent a Word Found Notices Free. Wranted Pupils on the Violin?Miss Lula Kate Mewbourn wishes a few pupils on the violin at her home, 53 Amelia street. Reference, Henry Kohn. 5-22-8t For Sale?35 or 40 bu. Smiley Peas, delivered f. o. b. Orange burg, $1.25 per bu. Address R. F. D. Box 15, Jamison, S. C. 5-17-3t Wanted?A contractor to build a church at Jerusalem near Elloree, S. C. Call on Rev. A. L. Lesley, or Dr. A. C. Baxter for plans and specifications. All bids must be in by June 1st, 1909. Wanted?Every business and profes sional man to see our line of the celebrated "Shaw-Walker ' Filing Devices. Suit any business, large or small. Sims Book Store, Or angeburg, S. C. For Sale?1 double-box revolving cotton press, 2 (0-saw Vanwinkel gin feeds and condensers, 1 suc tion elevator system complete, 1 Lidel! .sawmill and circular saw, 1 30-h. p. Lidell engine, 1 40-h. p. Ret tubular boiler; only run two ginning seasons. apply to J. W. Smoak, Orangeburg, S. C. For Sale?One hundred bushels Toole Cotton Seed, raised in Or angeburg County. This stood a high test at Georgia Experiment Station last season. Ayers & Wil liams, Orangeburg. S. C. $l:J.73 TO MEMPHIS, TEXX., And Return vie. the Atlantic Coast Lino Railway. Account reunion Confederate Vet erans, June 8-1 0. Tickets on sale June 5th, Gth and 7th, final limit June 14th. By deposit of ticket with Special Agent at Memphis not earlier than June 9th nor later than June- 14th. and payment of fee of 50 cents at time of deposit, extension limit may be secured to leave Memphis not lat er than July 1st. For further information, call on ticket agent or write ? T. C. WHITE, G. P. A. W. J. CRAIG, P. T. M. Wilmington, N C. Attention. Company L, Third Infantry, N .G. S. C., attend drills of your company on every Friday night at S:30 o'clock and every Saturday after noon at 3 o'clock to prepare for en campment of Third Regiment Infan try at Aiken. S. C, on July 12-21 inclusive. All enlisted men must at tend these drills and the encamp ment. By order, CAPT. CLAFFY. C. J. INABINET, 1st Sgt. Take Notice. Council Chamber, City of Orange burg. S. C. May 4. 1909. ro all whom it may concern: The attention of the public is here by called to the following section of :he Revised Ordinances of the City of Orangcburg and notice is hereby given that its provisions and penal ises will be strictly enforced from ibis date forward: Section 05. It shall be unlawful for any person to ride or drive any inimal of any kind, to ride any bicycle, velocipede or wheel of any kind, or to drive or cause to be driv en any machine which may be pro pelled by steam, electricity or other motive power of any kind, on or through any of the streets or ways jf the city at a gait or speed great ?r than six miles per hour: and any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction before the Mayor or acting Mayor, be fined not exceeding thirty dollars, cr be sentenced to imprisonment, with or without labor upon the streets and ways of the said city not exceeding twenty days, for each and every offense. By order J. W. II. DI'KES. Mayor. Attest: L. H. WANNAMAKER, City Clerk and Treasurer. The State of South Carolina. County of Orangeburg. By Robert E. Copes, Esquire, Probate Judge. Whereas Amelia .T. Barrs made puir to me, to grant her Letters of Administration of the Estate of and effects of John J. Barrs. deceased. Th.es? are therefore to cite and ad monish all and singular the kindred and creditors 'cf the -said John J. Ban*, deceased, *hnr they be and ap pear before me, in the fonrt of Pro bate, to !??-> held at Orangeburg C If., on May 21st, 1909, next aft r publi cation thereof, at 1 1 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they }\:w<\ why the said Administration shonid not be granted. Given under my hand, this 4th day of May. Anno Domini. 1009. (L. S.) RODT. E. COPES. Judge of Probate. Winter Cabbage Seed. The L. W. Dantzier winter cab bage seed for sale at PRESCOTT'S. Notice to Creditors. All persons having claims against the estate of Harry Woodward, de ceased, are hereby required to prove their respective demands before the undersigned at Springfield, S. O. on or before June 10th. 1909, or be debarred payment. J. McB. BEAN, Executor of the Will of Harry Wood ward, deceased May 11th, 1909. r. Vicente Santonl of the edical Faculty, Paris, Pe-ru-na in Hot Countries. Now Practicing i?i Ponce, Porto Rico, Says: The undersigned, Dr. Vicente Santoni, of the Medical Fac ulty cf Paris, prac ticing in Ponce, Porto Rico, certifies: "I have been using the prep a ra tion known as Peruna for sometime, for ca tarrhal diseases, al ways obtaining excel lent results. It is a good preparation and I will always use it in cases for which it is adapted." Dr. V. Santoni, Ponce, P. R. In some countries the atmosphere is a natural tonic. Low temperature, high altitude, with an atmosphere rich in oxygen, are invigorating to the people. Such people are vigorous of body, quick in action, and enterprising Other countrieo aro not so fortunate. High temperature, low altitude, little oxygen, and the'atmosphere naturally depressing. Tonics become almost a necessity of the everyday 1 ifo. A scientific tonic In a larg" degree mitigates the untoward effect of a depressing climate. A great many years ago Dr. Hartman devised Peruna. Its manufacture has been under his watchful care ever since. To make of it a reliable and safe tonic which could be taken any length of time without producing a drug habit has been the ambition of Dr. Hartman, That he has succeeded in bringing Peruna up to this high ideal is appar ent by the world-v/ide reputation which it has attained. Peruna is a tonic which is applicable in all depressing states of the sys tem. It may bo used by those recovering from acute ailments, or those who are depressed by climatic influences. Prescribes Pc-rti-na. Testimonial of Dr. Esteban Yidal f Rios, office Ponce, Porto Rico. Doctor of Medicine and Surgery of the Uni versity of Madrid, honorary member of the Faculty of Barcelona, C'ataluna, Spain. Has practiced in the hospitals of Pari? and has been admitted to the bar of Porto Rico. '?I certify that I prescribe Peruna, a remedy for pulmonary diseases, manu factured by the Peruna Drug Co., of Columbus, Ohio, U. S. A., and that I have been surprised by ?he quick, snre results and its good pharmacological formula.7' E. Vidal y Rioft. Ponce, P. R. EIGHT-INCH PATENT TENSION STEEL SPRING SHEARS. The shears are manufactured of the very highest grade steel, per fectly tempered and heavily nickel plated on a highly polished surface. The patent tension spring takes up all the wear on the rivet so that the cutting edge will never wear dull. A simple turn of the little thumb screw will adjust the blades to cut anything from the thinnest and most dedicate fabric to the heaviest ma terial. .Every woman who has has the exasperating and trying exper ience of attempting to cut with, a dull pair of shears will appreciate the value of this new invention. , ., The cutting edge on these she ars is indestructible and will nev er wear dull. They will cut anything and everything, from wet tissue paper to a heavy horse blanket. Note the Patent Spring. It docs away with reshnrpening entirely. Eight inches in length. TO ANY PERSON WHO WILL GET US THREE YEARLY CASH SUii SCR1RERS WE WILL GIVE A PAIR OF THESE PATENT TEN SION STEEL SHEARS Subscriptions May BeTaken from Old or New Subscribers. XotiVe of !>i-< barge. On June Nth. 1!'"!'. I will file with the .liiii.:.' of Probate; for Oranuebur? County, S. C my final account as Executor of the Will of Harry Wood ward, deceased, and wiil thereupon ask for my discharge as jjuch Execu tor. J. McD. BEAN. Executor. May 11th, 100!). 'TI S WRITTEN RIGHT H ZEIGLER & DIBBLE WROTE IT." Notice. We beg to announce to the public that we will run the sale and feed stables formerly run by the Wertz Mule Company, and we call special attention to our feed department. All stock left with us for feed will have the best attention and care. VERDERY & WERTZ. THERE IS A SENSE OF SAFETY AND SECURITY in the possession of Policies of insurance issued by Zeigler & Dibble, that proceeds from the fact that ample assets and ef ricient experience doubly guard interests im'olved. No other Policies can so surely satisfy. See us and get the Best In surance (if you have not already done so). Ze gier & Dibble, Orangebarg, S. X