The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, May 27, 1909, Page 2, Image 2
Established in 1869.
YoL 40. .No. 27
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Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
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Jan. 1, 1908, at the post office at Or
angeburg, S. C, under the Act of
Congress of March, 1870.
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Jas. Izlar Sims, ? Associate Editor.
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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!).
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All stock left with us for feed will
have the best attention and care.
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