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8b* ?im?$ and ?tmmti. Established in 1809. Vol. 40.No. 6? Published Three Times a Week. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Entered as second-class matter Jan. 8, 1008, at the postoflice at Or angebnrg, S. C, under the Act of Congress of March, 1879. Jas. L. Sins, Editor and Proprietor. Jas. Izlar Suns, - Associate Editor. Subscription Rates. One Year.$1.30 Six Months.75 Three Months.40 Aavertising 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. "Wouldn't it be a good idea if we could only legislate virtue iuto peo ple?" asks The Chattanooga Times. Heaven helps those who help them selves, but some mer. judging from their inaction, want heaven or their wives to do all the work. Some people live their life ac cording to a set of rules, others' gov ern theirs by principles. Results show which is the better way. When men decide what they will not do it clears the way iu large measure for the proper performance of what they intended to do. A poet >"ang that "Money brings friends." There is no doubt about it. nor of the further fact that the loss of money scatters them. What a power in life are the lit tle kindnesses, courtesies and thoughtful considerations that peo ple display in their social inter course. President Taft has apparently consented to the iniquitous Aldrich tariff in return for Mr. Aldrich's sup port of his own particular mongrel pet, the corporation tax scheme. The moral delinquencies of the idle rich and the business delinquen cies of the criminal rich show that some good old-fashioned righteous ness is sorely needed in some quar ters. With their suggestion of going up 2"i,000 feet in a balloon and other plans for signalling to Mars some college professors are getting talked about a good deal and iu addition get. their pictures in the papers. Perhaps that is what some of them have been seeking after. The Czar and Kaiser have met, had a pleasant time, and parted, and now the quidnunces are prophesying ?J1 manner of things, not one of which, in all probability, will come to pass. In recent years monarchs have Often met each other and in spite of dismal forebodings the world has gone on all right, and it will doubtless continue to. The corporation tax scheme origi nated by President Taft and passed by the Senate was gotten up to head off the income tax. It will tax the corporations a small amount, but it won't take a copper from the "male factors of great wealth." as Teddy rails them. An income tax would have imposed a tax on them.and that is why President Taft und the Re publican leaders killed it. From the evidence given at I he Gould trial it would seem that it takes about one hour to properly ar range the hair of a so-called society woman, and several more hours to dress her f-or company. Certainly fine feathers ought to make line birds, yet we venture to say that a woman thus furbished and gowned wRh so much care does not present nearly as pleasing an appearance as the woman who with far less expendi ture of time and money is becoming ly dressed, for in her case there is a naturalness that attracts, while with the other there is an artificiul ness that may dazzle but does not piease. Hogarth's celebrated cartoon of the "Rival Doctors" is well known but most people have thought Hint, such an exhibition of professional jealousy as is there depicted, while it may have been possible in the eighteenth century, would !>e impos sible in this enlightened age. But it is recorded that recently two doc tors of Peoria, 111., called to attend a woman suffering from strychnine poisouing quarreled as to the remedy to be employed and that while they quarreled the poor woman died in agouy. Truly professional ethics and professional prejudices are even yet a strange compound and respon sible for a good deal of haini. It is often said that everyone is more or less superstitions. Probably that is so, but. it is to be hoped that it is less rather than more. Hut the credulity of many people due to their superstition makes them the easy prey of clairvoyants, mediums and other charlatans without num ber. Not long ago a woman gave a promisor}' note for $30,000 to a m< di am who represented that with thai amount in her possession she could avert a great danger threatening the woman and which danger had Ween superuaturally revealed to her. If the credulous woman has been dis illusioned by the loss of so much money it is a Rood thing, but it was an expensive experience. Turn the Traitors Out. Whatever merit a Democratic plat for may hereafter possess, or how ever faithfully it would be carried out should the party be given the power to enact legislation comport ing therewith, it will be held up to ridicule with telling effect by Re publican speakers and writers?and not without ample "eason. The stronger its "planks," the greater its insincerity will appear. Au hon est man, even though misguided, al ways commands respect; but an in sincere man, however brilliant, is hopelessly handicapped in an effort to gain the confidence of his fellow men. The same is true with politi cal patties. So long a? those "r?nresenta tives" are in congress or are permit-1 ted to participate In the party's counciles, the Democratic party will be struggling under a burden which it can not successfully bear. What assurance to the country can it offer, under such circumstances, that its I ante-election declarations are more than idle promise designed alone to influence votes? What well in I formed voter will regard such ap peals as anything but an insult to ' his intelligence? And, without a de claration of principles?a statement j of intentions?just prior to- a j national election, what a sorry spec tacle a party would present through out the campaign, and what a crush ing defeat it would suffer at the polls! j Senator Bailey, of Texas, who was 1 mixed up in a Standard Oil scandal . sometime ago, now presumes to ridi cule the argument, that platforms are ! binding, and in the same breath, with apparent pride, claims the authorship of the lS9t> Democratic platform. Could anything be more inconsistent? An honorable and consistent senator would have resigned his commission rather than repudiate his party's'plat i form in such an emphatic manner, even in a less crucial period of that party's career. But Bailey does not I seem to be built that way. His j course shows that when a fellow ; starts on the wrong road he is very ' apt to continue to walk in it. Tho proper course to pursue, and the only one that can be followed with reasonable hope of success, in 1 the effort to relieve the Democratic j party of this stigma which has been i thrust upon it in such cowardly m?uner, is for the rank and file to take the matter in hand and retire the traitors?do it with the minimum delay and maximum emphasis. Un til those men cease to be actively I identified with the party, every Dem ocratic paper 5n the land should publish their names, as voters for a duty on lumber, in parallel columns with that portion of the Denver plat j form which was thus so ruthlessly j violated by them. All honor to the I Republican "insurgents" in congress who voted for free lumber; in doing so they are understood to have trans gressed no specific promise. "Tliat Odious Steal." The Democratic national platform last year contained these sentences: "We welcome the belated promise I of tariff reform now affected by the Republican party, . . . but the people ! can not safely trust the execution of j this important work to a party which j is so deeply obligated to the highly I protected interests. . . . We favor immediate revision of the tariff by the reduction of import duties. Ar ticles entering into competition with trust-controlied products should b-; 'pitied vpou the free list. . . . We ' demand the immediate repeal of the 'the tariff on pulp, print paper, lum . her, timber and logs." In the house of representatives 40 Democrats voted against, free lum ber. In the senate 17 Democrats did the same. Thus a specific de j maud of the Democratic platform was defeated by Democratic voters. Dem ocratic votes also defeated free hides and free iron. For the first time i in 50 years Democrats this sprng ? have had an opportunity, with the aid i of progressive Republicans, to give effect to their pretense of principle. This shameful record shows how [ basely they have acquitted them selves. i In their platform the Democrats say that Republicans can not be trust ed, who now will trust, the Demo crats? They say they favor immedi ate reduction of taxation; within the iast CO days 102 of the 171 Dem ocrats in the house have voted re peatedly against reducing taxes and IT of :;2 Democrats say they favor the free list for articles' entering into competition with trust-controlled pro ducts; lumber, hides and iron are all j controlled by trusts. They specifi cally demand the immediate repeal of the tariff on lumber and they make haste only to fasten that odious steal upon the country for another decade. These are political sins for which punishment is certain. They affront decency and good faith. They re veal a degradation in our political life which almost passes belief. They put the Democratic party on trial not' for its principles but for its honesty, j Errors of judgment may be defend ed and excused, but perfidy finds no apologist anywhere. A political party thai is false to itself is false also to the people, and the judgments which they inflict are final. These comments are from tho New York World, but they are just. Warns Its Party. Many of the Republican papers are j talking right out in meeting about | the way the Republican leaders are dealing with the people in the mat ter of tariff revision. Recently the .St. Albany Messenger, a Republican paper published in the rock-ribbed Republican State of Vermont, served . this notice on the leaders of its par-j ty: "And the whole situation simply amounts to this, that if out of this long-continued and earnestly insis-! tent popular demand for a states manlike revision of the tariff the Republican party is to offer the peo ple a stone when they have asked for bread, then the election for con gress in 1910 and the election for the presidency in 1912 will tell in unmistakable terms how the indig nant people of this country rebuke the leaders that have been faithless to their interests. And the Republi can party can thank Aldrich and his associates for its humiliation. There need be uo demagogery about such talk as this, no appeal to prejudice, no play to the galleries. If the events of the past seven or eight years have clearly demonstrated any thing at all to the intelligent com prehension of the great mass of American voters, it is the greatest obstacle to the triumphant states manship and wise administration of I government of the Republican party has not been obstruction of political : opponents from without, but the : short-sighted stubbornness and ar j rogant greed of the 'interests' with in." i These warnings will all he un heeded. The leaders of the Repub j lican party have fooled the. people Iso often that they think they can j fool them to the end of time, and it does look like their confidence is well i founded. Papers like the Messenger will , be found right behind the Re publican leaders when election time comes, helping them to fool the vot ers. Such papers talk big between elections but when voting time comes j around they do all they can to keep the voters in line for the Republican machine. It is hard to say which is the bigger hypocrite, the Repub lican leader or the paper that abuse ; them between elections and help them fool the people on election day. I The Charleston Evening Post says ! "Senator Aldrich has the merit of j frankness, at least. He does not go i in for cant to any great extent. The I making of a tariff that will benefit his clients, the great capitalistic in terests, is his business, and he takes little enough pains to hide it. The protection of these interests from any menacing legislation is his par ticular charge." SOME GOOD ADVICE. A Farmer Tells How to Get the Most From Cowpens. "In just the proportion that we in crease the acreage of the cowpea, in that proportion will the soils of our section be increased in fertility," says Mr." A. L. French, a successful North Carolina farmer, in the Pro gressive Farmer. He then goes on to say: With us, it ususally follows a win ter grazing crop that has beeu sown on corn stubble, but we are not averse to turning a good sod of clo ver and timothy, and often do this, plowing the sod in the late winter. Then as soon as the corn crop is planted, we start to harrowing the pea land. And the deeper the plow ing is done and the better the seed bed is prepared, the better results we obtain in the pea crop. No crop we have tried will respond better to good treatment than will the pea crop. We usually prepare the land well with the disc, Acme, and spike tooth harrows, sow the peas broad cast by hand and cultivate them in with the spring-tooth cultivator. Then level the land with the smooth ing harrow. On our best land we generally use three-fourths to one bushel per acre of good clean Clay peas and a peck of Amber cane seed. This makes the i best combination for cow feed of any thing we have ever used. On the thinner fields, where we sow the peas for soil improvement primarily, we use the pea alone, broadcast, one bushel per acre. Then where we want the crop to be grazed by hogs we put the peas in rows two feet apart. We plant these with our two [ row corn planter. When we have grown a crop of j peavines that will make as fine a j finality of hay as we have ever been I privileged to feed, we make hay of . it, every acre, as we have never been able to figure out the economy of j making manure direct of peavines, ; when every ton of pea hay is worth fifteen dollars when fed to first-class cattle or sheep, and the manu rial value of the product, reduced very little by being passed through the animal. When we can make hay of peavines at a cost of from $1 to $1.50 fier ton and return the manure back to the land for 2r>c per ton. we be lieve it is good business to do so rather than to plow under the crop in the raw state and just bury $13.25 with each ton so plowed under. Doesn't the proposition look reason able? So we put the big six-fool mower into the pea field when the pods are getting brown, let the hay lie in the swalh until thoroughly wilted, then rake into good sized windrows and leave until pretty wel! cured. If the weather continues fair, bunch and haul to the barn at once, but if rain threatens, cock up into large, high cocks and leave them alone until the weather clears, when the cocks are taken a- rt. sunned and aired and sent to uie barn with a rush. Mr. Ericson's Old House. Go see it, it's a beauty. It stands out among all its neighbors, because rhe coloring is so bright and clear. Mr. Ericson painted with L. & M. Paint and says it cost 1-?, less than ever before. He bought only 12 gallons of L. & M. Paint and 9 gal lons of Linseed Oil to mix with it. This made 21 gallons of pure paint, and cost only $1.20 per gallon. It's as handsome as the fmest in town. J The L. & M. is sold by J. G. Wan- j namaker Mfg. Co.. Oranceburg. S. C I -. Starch will be prevented from "sticking" by putting a pinch of salt into it. If beauty is but skin deep the beauty doctors must practice skin The Rusting of Iron. An American pbysl ist. Dr. Cush rann, announces that the rusting of iron is really due to electricity. He has found that the first attack on the metal is made by hydrogen in the form of exceedingly small particles, but not, as the text books have taught us, by oxygon. This is in agreement with the modern theory that many substances Vibcn they are dissolved in water are dissociated into ions, or minute parti cles smaller even than atoms, all car rying electrical charges. Even pure water contains a certain number of these. Acid impurities multiply the hydrogen ions and strengthen them in their corrosive effect upon iron. The action is purely electric and involves an exchange of the electric relations between the hydrogen and the Iron. By immersing the Iron, In a concentrat ed solution of chromic acid and then washing and wiping it. says Dr. Cush man. the metal is rendered passive, so that it becomes capable of resisting electro chemical attack. This, if true, remarks the Circle, means that a meth od bus at last been found for protect ing structural iron work and machin ery. Centrifugal Force. There arc more phenomena in cen trifugal force than the mere power to keep articles upright. A soft iron disk revolved rapidly will cut through heavy armor plate. Even a disk of cardboard revolved rapidly in a lathe will behave like sheet metal. A report of German experiments states that the cardboard can be no longer bent, and if struck witli a hammer it emits a sound like that from bronze. Even pa per acquires quite unusual properties. An eight inch disk of good paper, per fectly circular, was placed on the shaft of an electric motor, and when rotated at the motor's highest speed it easily sawed through cigar box wood. Cen trifugal fon t; may give many other cu rious effects. For example, a small chain may be fitted as a closed ring on a rotating drum and in such a way that it can be slipped off when the drum reaches its highest speed, and the chain will then roll on a table like a solid ring and bounce up like a hoop on striking the ground. Substitute For Glr.ss. Tectorium, a substitute for glass, Is prepared by applying a varnish to a finely meshed iron wire fabric. The varnish consists principally of good linseed oil, in which the vertically hanging wire fabric is repeatedly dip ped up to as many as twelve times. After each dipping the thin layer of oil Is dried in warm air. The fabric thus obtained is exceedingly flexible, strong, impermeable und very well adapted for skylights, greenhouses, etc. A Twelve Ton Meteorite. The United Stntes government has given permission to Horace G. Herold to remove a twelve ton meteorite which he discovered in the Washing ton national forest In December. 1907. This is said to be one of the largest meteorites In the world, if not the largest. Many people with chronic throat and lung trouble bfve found com fort and relief in Fotey's Honey and Tar as it cures stubborn coughs after other treatment has failed. L. M. Ruggles, Reasnor, Iowa, writes: "The doctors said I had consump tion, and I got no better until I took Foley's Honey and Tar. It stopped the hemorrhages and pain in my lungs and they are now as sound as a bullet." Lowman Drug Co.; A. C. Dukes. A candidate stands on his party platform and his opponent jumps on it. Foley's Honey and Tar not only stops chronic coughs that weaken the constitution and develop into con sumption, but heals and strengthens the lungs. It affords comfort and relief in the worst cases of chronic bronchitis, asthma, hay fever and lung trouble. Lowman Drug Co.; A. C. Dukes. Notice of Discharge. On August 5, 1 909, I will file with the Judge of Probate for Orange burg county, S. C, my final account as guardian of the estate of Maggie Viola O'Hrine, nee Reed, and will thereupon ask for my discharge as I such guardian. JAMES \V. REED. July 2, 1909. Notice of Final Discharge. On the twenty-first (21st) day of July, 1 ft09, we will file our final account as executors of the last will and testament of Robert W. Jewett, deceased, with the Judge of Probate for Orangeburg County, S. C. and will thereupon ask for Letters Dis missory as such executors. ANNA BELLE JENKINS, ELIZABETH JORDAN, Qualified executors of the last will and testament of neuen W. Jew ett, deceased. Juno 15th, 1909. 6-17-4t letters of Administration. The State of South Carolina, County of Orangeburg. By Robert E. Copes, Esquire, Pro bate Judge. Whereas W. G. Se;ise made suit to me, to gram him Letters of Ad ministration of the Estate of and I effects of Mrs. Mary F. Sease, de ceased: These are therefore to cite and ad monish all and singular the kindred and Creditors of the said Mrs. Mary F. Sea.---, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Orangeburg ('. Ii., on July 2 1, 1 909, next after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Ad ministration should not be grauted. Given under my hand, this 9th day of July Anno Domini, 1909. (L. S.) RODT. E. COPES, Judge of Probate. NEEDS AT THE HARDWARE SHOP. Again we call your attention to the best we can get for your hard- j ware needs. That is why we run the successful business we do. We get what you want. Look over these very necessary articles: Screens?Door and window. Refrigerators that are good . Water Coolers. Fishing Tackle. Guns and Ammunition. Sporting Goods. Oil Stoves. Plumbing Experts. McCormick Implement Agents Hardware from A to Z. Then make a bee line to the best place. J. w. 9 "The Hardware Man/' ORANGEBURG, S. C. THE WEATHER WHEN COOL CLOTHES COUNT. Let us sketch why you should buy your needs here. 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