Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Established in 18?9. VoL 40 No. 09 t ublished Three Times a Week. Tuesday, Thursday und Saturday. Entered as second-class matter lau. 0. 1909, at the postoffice at Or ongeburg, S. C, under the Act of Congress of March, 1879. ?fas. L. Sims, Editor and Proprietor. Jas. izlar Sims, ? Associate Editor. 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. 0. Those Turkish revolutionists- who were hung in batches of thirteen by. the government had good; reason to think 13 an unlucky number. In electing Congressmen mi- Sen ators to represent them the- Demo crats- should be careful to send' men who will be sure to vote right on t&e tariff question and not desert to the Republicans. One of the Dukes of Newcastle was chareged with losing half-an hour every morning and in spending the rest of the day in a vain attempt to catch up with it. He has many Imitators in those who havng no sense of punctuality or the value of time waste valuable hours and then, too late, seek to recall them. The Newberry Observer says "Con gress arranged to give a consider able number of senators and repre sentatives a free trip through Eu rope on the pretext of examining the waterways of the old country." Rut money can't be had to send an ageut to Europe to look after the interests of the cotton farmers of the South. , Mr. Bryan advises Democrats to j stay in their own party. The Au-1 gusta Chronicle says "this might be j easier if Mr. Bryan would not insist I upon making the Democratic party the- personal political asset of one man." Will the Chronicle please tell u3 how Mr. Bryan makes the Derao oratc party the "personal political asset of one man?" ' Some writer in a magazine 'said a short time ago that this country was re-entering upon the puritanical age. We eculd not help but think that he was more than half right when we read some of the bitter things said by some people^ in the discussion of the liquor question about some men and newspapers that honestly differed with (nem. J Congressman Lever says the tar iff question is not settled, and that it "will be settled in th& inter est of the people by the Republican party, and If there is to be a genu ine revision of the tariff, 'it must come through the Democratic par ty." If Congressman Lever had of voted like he talks he would ho a great deal stronger in his district than he is. It is only nonentities and angels who have no trials calling for a dis piay of courage. But most people live between these two classes and know by manifold experience that' courage is in constant demand. If courage is not forthcoming defeat is certain, but if it asserts i'tseir vic tory is sure and each victory strength the character and makes life more purposeful. The readers of The Time* antf Democrat can always count on get ting news while it is news, regard less of what it costs in trouble or expense. We have been compliment ed on all sides for our admirable election news ipuujished yesterday morning, only twelve hours after the poles closed. If you want to keep up with the procession you will eith er have to subscribe for The Times and Democrat or borrow it. All kinds of inscriptions are found : on tombstones, but the words. "She J was always happy." found on au old stone in a New England graveyard ' have the merit of brevity and cheer- I fulness. The woman of whom this j was said must have been a born \ optimist. Anyway she took the right view of life and got the best out of it, and her epitaph is at once a text \ and a sermou from which many might well learn. In Sunday's State it is reported that one prohibitionist, and a minis ter, too. calls another minister who favors antiprohibition in certain counties a "Judas Iscariot:" and still another prohibitionist calls a dispen sary auvocate a "wild, rampant bul ly," although he has not the pleasure of the "bully's" acquaintance. We fully agree with The State that, evi dently these prohibitionists do not believe In temperance in speech. The Florence Time* says it seems "a very peculiar thiug thai an ex cursion from one prohibition town to another should develop a drunken riot and tree for all fighi. on tho train as did the excursion from An derson to Augusta recently, n-hile the excursion from Florence to Colum bia run by the Coast Line a Taw days ago was a most orderly affar. It does make a man scratch bis head pretty lively to decide whether ft is best to regulate or outlaw a traf fic that seems to be demanded. Yet every man who is anything of a man at all wants to'do what is really best for his fellow mad." Subscription Rates. One Year Six Months .. Three Months .75 .40 Lessons of the Election. That fifteen of the twenty-one counties that voted on the liquor question Tuesday declared in favor ! of prohibition does not surprise us j in the least. In fact, the result was Lexactly ass yu'edicted |several days j before the election by The Times and ! Democrat. When the fifteen coun i ties voted out whiskey on Tuesday, I that made thirty-six counties in the State dry by the vote of the people, and left six wet- There is no questionJ?it what a large majority of the white people of the State are in favor of prohibition, and with Alabama, Georgia and North Caroli na in the dry column we have pro hibition in South Carolina under the most favorable auspices. It Is now left to the people whether they will make It a success or let it prove a failure. We must not depend al together on the officers to enforce the law, but every citizen must do his duty and hold up the hands of the authorities. We agree with the Columbia Rec ord that "the most significant feature of the situation is (the fact /that only in Charleston' county was there anything like organized advocacy of the dispensary, under disinterested leadership. The- dispensary system ?State and county?during the last sixteen years has gradually put the liquor traffic more and more under the ban in South Carolina, and there are .today few. men possessing capac ity for leadership, with the oppor tunity to lead, who care or who dare to stand up and advocate the sale .of whiskey under any law." The adoption of the dispensary system in South Carolina drove from the State the wholesale liquor interests, which, in States where it still has a foothold, is the worst enemy to prohibition, a9 it always fights hard to retain its hold. Prohibition had no such formidable foe in South Carolina, which was one of the ben efits derive 1 item the dispensary sys tem. We think the Record is entirely right when it says "prohibition has a stronger hold in South Carolina today than in North Carolina, Geor gia or Alabama, its 'neighboring States. And why? Because in these other States .prohibition has been forced on communities against their will, and in consequence the law is not observed in the anti-prohibition centres, the larger cities. But in South Carolina prohibition has won its way step by step, county by coun ty, through the will of the people solely, every community having the opportunity to select;. There being no wholesale liquor interests to ex ert influence in local elections?as there was in the other States men tioned?the expression of the peo ple's will has been untrammelled, under the Brlce act the Carey-Cath ran act and the compromise act of 1P09." The Record contends that "by reason of this condition?the ab sence of the wholesale liquor influ ence?the necessity does not exist? as the prohibitionists said it did ex ist in Georgia, for instance?to en act a State prohibition law. In Georgia, under the local option sys tem, while a large majority of the counties were dry there were large liquor interests in the cities which, it was asserted, exerted strong in fluences of an unworthy character in local option elections throughout the State. This is not the case, and has not been iu South Carolina, where under the several local op tion laws of the last five years coun ty after county has gone dry until now not more than a half dozen re maiu wet." This position is well taken. It might do more harm than good to pass a State-wide prohibition bill. Charleston was the only coun ty that gave whiskey a substantial majority. We believe that in a short time all the counties in the State, with the single exception of Char lestion, will vote whiskey out vol untarily, which would be better than forcing a prohibition law on them against their will. The Record goes on to say that "the lesson for the prohibitionists ! is obvious, and it will be very strange if their sober-minded and sensible leaders do not see it. Local option has been in this State the strongest I ally of prohibition?making prohi j bition, where it is voted, 'a force and not a farce.' To pass now a S'.ate-wide prohibition act will be to lose in reality much that has been already gained in substantial bene fit, swapping off the substance for I the shadow. That may be splendid, but it is not practical." What the Record says, we believe is true, but j the prohibitionists are now flushed ! with victory, and it is doubtful if j they will stop to consider the ques tion in the practicable way the j Record presents it. But we really beleve that the best interests of the counties now wet. as well as those of the State at large would be best subserved if the few remaining wet I counties were allowed to vote out I whiskey of their own accord, which we believe they will do at the very next opportunity they get to vote on fthe (liquor question again. Then we would have a State dry by the direct vote of its people and not by enactment of a legislature, which 1 would ensure an honest effort in every county to enforce the law. Robbing the Consumer. In discussing the tariff question In the Senate. Senator Aid rich, who is the high priest of protection, a system that indlrecty taxes the peo ple of the United States for the ben efit of "the Interests" out of bil lions of dollars, frankly admitted that the wool schedule was the back bone of the whole thieving scheme. In no other schedule in the whole tariff will be found so much involu tion as in that relating to wool. The high tariff advocates are divided l>etween looking after the interests of the man who raises the sheep and those who manufacture the wool. This country grows from one-eighth to one-tenth of the total wool grown in the world and it uses between one fourth and one-fifth. The total wool grown in the United States is 300, 000,000 pounds a year, while the consumption is about 500,000,000 pounds. The wool grower asks heavy pro tection?it ranges from 100 to 134 per cent, depending upon the grades ?because he said he wanted to in crease his flock and be able to furn ish it all. The manufacturer wants the same protection in the way of manufactured wool products so that he may manufacture, first, the wool grown in this country and then, if tnere is a deficit, bring the raw wool in from other countries in its nat ural state and not in manufactured fabrics, thereby giving employment to a great number of men and wo men. That is the reason advanced by Senator Warren, himself a heavy sheep owner, why there should be high protection. This program has resulted in transferring millions of dollars from all who wear woolen clothes to the handfull of men in New England who manufacture the wool into cloth. This is made plain by the statement that from 1879 when the Dingley law went into effect, the number of sheep increased in this country 48 per cent, and their value' increased 215 per cent. In time, one would expect that naturally we will grow all the wool we need and that then the in fant industry, being fully developed we can have free wool. But Senator Warren warns us that this will never come to pas3 because the foreigner insists upou selling jwcol at half what the American wool grower gets now for his. This well illustrates the deadfall that the protectionists have arrang ed. We can tax ourselves for years while the herd owners are' increas ing their flocks and their clip, but they will always ask for protection because wool in the world's markets brings only half what they get for it under the tariff we levy. It is a well recognized principle of econo mics that the surplus of any pro duce taxes its price. Thus there is a great deal more cotton, wheat, corn, rye, oats, etc., raised in Amer ica than is consumed here. Their price is fixed where the surplus is sold. Duties on these products do not affect the price the grower re ceives. Thus we have the anomaly pre sented of the wool grower mourn fully demanding that we give him high protection in order to stim ulate his industry, while at the same time he says that it isn't desirable that the production of wool shall exceed the needs of the country. Because the grower gets so tremen rous an advantage given him, the manufacturer demands his share of the graft, and the people who have to buy these woolen goods are taxed out of all reason on the clothes they wear. It is said that a suit of clothes that now costs fifteen dollars could be bought for ten dollars if it was not for the high tax levied for the benefit of the wool grower and the manufacturer of the cloth. This same ratio holds good all through the woolen schedule. In the name of justice and common sense, why should eighty millions of people be taxed for the benefit of a few thousand? We fully agree with Congressman Lever that if there is to be a genu ine revision of the tariff, It must come through the Democratic par ty. This being the case, the people ought to see to it that no man is sent to represent them in Congress who will desert to the Republicans and help them put a big tax on the necessaries of life In direct viola tion of his campaign pledge and the platform of the Democratic party, which alone can revise the tariff In the interest of the consumer. KING EDWARD'S SUMMER DIET. Horace Fletcher, the food scientist and dietary reform er, brings from Europe the news that King Edward of England has adopted his ideas on eating as a means of com bating the summer heat. "It is wonderful," he said, "the change which lias oc curred in Europe, and espe cially in England, in the past six or seven years regarding summer die t. "I found that everybody is dieting today. King Edward is the strictest of them all. ''His majesty today eats only the simplest of food and just enough of that for health. He abstains largely from fatty meats and starchy foods and holds to a diet chiefly of vegetable foods, which do not heat the blood.'' When asked what his meals cost in summer Mr. Fletcher consulted Iiis expense hook and staled that HIS FOOD FOR THE PAST FIVE DAYS II AD COST II IM S.'j.OS. It consisted of twenty six quarts of milk, $'?.0S, and twenty boxes of crackers, $1. This expenditure, he stated, provides food for two grown persons anil two meals for live hungry children. King Edward sonn times follows this diet, he s?vs. According to Hotelier. THE IDEAL FOOD F<> Ii T II K HOT WEATHER IS MILK AND CRACKERS, and he declnrcd further thai a healthy labor ing man could supply himself with plenty of good, nourish ing food for 11 cents a dav. CLASSIFIED COLUMN One-half Cent a Word Found Notices Free. GilK-tte Razor Blades on sale at Sims Book Store. Housekeeper Wanted?For a family of four children; medium sized house. Apply to A. F. Horger, Jamison, S. C. 8-10-3w-pd For Sale?1 complete set of Watch maker's tools, also watches and clocks. Can be seen by calling at 14 Saint John street, Orange burg, S. C. A. D. Powers. 200 Acre Farm For Sale?Situated two miles from the court house on public road. For particulars call on or write Carolina Sales Agency, Orangeburg, S. C. (At Times and Democrat Office.) 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?One hundred bushels Toole Cotton Seed, raised in Qr angeburg County. This stood a high test at Georgia Experiment Station last season. Ayers & Wil liams, Orangeburg. S. C. Second-hand School Books Wanted? If you have any school books used during the last session In the pub lic schools that you wish to sell, bring them to Sims' Book Store. They will give you cash. For Sale?My place .In .Cowcastle Township on the Georges Station road,7 five miles from Bowman, containing 246 acres. Parties in terested cell on or writa me. T. M. Riley, Bowman, S. C, 2t Domlnick, of Neeses, S. C, pays IS cents a dozen for eggs. Chick ens wanted. Will sell folding bed springs at $1.50 each. Buy your furniture from him. Men's, la dies' and chidren's slippers mark ed down to cost. Owing to ill health and conseqeut enforced absence from the city, a minister of Orangeburg will sell his horse at a bargain. This is a Kentucky mare, past six years old, and as sound as can be In every particular. May be seen at Bryant Brothers Stables. Notice to Creditors. All persona holding claims against the estate of John P. Simmons, de ceased, will present the same duly proven, and all persons indebted to said estate will make payment to the undersigned on or before the twentieth of September or be de barred payment. ADA V. SIMMONS, Administratrix of estate of John F. Simmons, deceased. Raysor & Summers, 4t-sat Oraugeburg, S. C. Call to Creditors. All persons having claims against the estate of W. Russell Mclver, de ceased, are hereby required to prove their respective demands before the undersigned at North, S. C, on or before September 14th, 1909, or be debarred payment. J. D. JOHNSON, Executor of W. Russell Mclver, de deased. Took ft Seriously. A little girl once visited the famous brothers Grimm, the fairy tale writers. The little girl knocked at the modest Grimm door, and William Grimm open ed it. "Are you," she said, "the person who wrote these pretty tales?" And she showed blm under her arm a copy of his immortal book. "Yes," he answered, smiling; "I and my brother. We wrote them together." "And you write this story about the clever little tailor who married the princess?" "Yes?oh, yes!" said William Grimm. "Well," said the little girl, -it says at the end of the story that whoever doesn't believe It must pay you a mark. Now, I don't believe that a princess ever, ever married a tailor. I haven't as much as a mark, but here is a penny, and I will pay you the rest as soon as I can." One of Them. "There will be a meeting of the board," said the preacher, "at the con clusion of this sendee." So the official brethren of the church gathered around the pastor after the benedic tion was pronouueed. Among them was a stranger, whom It was neces sary as delicately as possible to re mlud that his presence was not need ed. "I bog your pardon," said the stran ger. 'T understood this was to be a meeting of the bored, of which I claim to be one." New Life Saving Apparatus. A Scotchman has Invented a new life saving apparatus which Is capable of throwing a line naif a mile. The invention consists of an air gun five feet long, and it is intended that it should be carried by ships to enable them to throw their own life lines In rase of oiucrgenry. OOOOOOOOOOOOO O0O000O000O000O O 0 O 0 0 READ THE 0 O o 0 COTTON REPORT 0 (> 0 0 ON THE 0 O 0 O FOURTH PAGE 0 0 0 0 0 OOOOOOOOOOOOO 000000009000000 COMPARE ES! WITH THOSE WHERE YOU ARE NOW BUYING AND SEE IF ITS NOT TO YOUF. ADVANTAGE TO TRADE WITH US. Granulated Sugar .5#c lb. Light Brown Sugar.5c lb. Rice.7}?c, 10c and 12c qt. Coffee (Green) 10c, 12c and 15c lb. Coffee (parched and ground.... .15c, 20c, 25c and 35c lb. Meal, very best.25c peck Grist, very best .25c peck Flour, 12-lb. sacks.... 45c and 55c Flour, 24-lb. sacks . .90c and 81.05 Lard. .10c and 13c lb. Butter, very best.35c lb. Hams, very beet.15 %c lb. Picnic Hams, very best .... 11c lb. Boneless strip.17c lb. Cheese, very best.20c lb. Golden Grain Tobacco .... 40c lb. Kite Tobacco.40c lb. Schnapps Tobacco.40c lb. Brown's Mule Tobacco . . . . 32c lb. Rich and Waxcy Tobacco . .50c lb. Pride of Reidsville Tobacco, small package.65c lb. Pride of Reidsville Tobacco large package.53c lb. WE HAVE OTHER GOODS TO OFFER?THE ABOVE ARE ONLY A FEW OF THE MANY WE COULD tsfri i' ,. y ... .uuriiii. MENTION. B.J.MIXSON PHONE 275. The Jewelry House With A Record I 1807 to 1909. SPAHR'S Orangeburg has Been proud, and continues to be, of the Jewelry Service that SPAHR gives. Everything you want: Jewelry and Watch Repairing, Silver and Gold Watches, Diamond Rings, Ster ling Silver of various designs, Cut Glass. "Quaker City," Fobs, Chains, Lockets, etc. ESTIMATES ON ALL WORK CHEERFULLY GIVEN. MAIL ORDERS FILLED. Right at Our Finger Tips WE HAVE ALL THAT IS GOOD IN FURNITURE Just, received a car of Suiis and Odd Pieces. Prices to suite \ou. See our lino before you make any purchases. R. C. KING, 60-62 East Russell Street. It is not a sure thing that you could get Independently rich by re moving to Independence. "Good Things to Eat" CRAIQ & KENNEDY DOWN TOWN STORE (MARTIN'S OLD STAND) Is now opened for business. We carry & full 'ine of staple and fancy Groceries, Fruits and Vegetables. With 20 years experience In catering to first-class trade, we ore fnRy prepared to supply your table with the best goods on the mraket. Our specialties are Teas, Coffees, But ter, Cheese, Can Goods and Preserve*. Try our famous "Triumph" fan cy patent Flour; our own brand. The beBt Flour made. Young Kysen, Gun Powder, Oylong & Lannean'8 Blend Teas from New York. Lihby, McNeill ft Libby'a can Meats; Van Camps Soup's and Vegetables. CEREALS?Post Toasties, Corn Flakes, Cream of Wheat, Grape Nuts, De Prices Food, etc. Gilt Edge Butter and full Cream Cheese, fresh from Scott ft Co., Norfolk. Almoca, B. B. Blend, Bono, and other high grade roasted Cof fees, King & Co.'s Hams and Strips., Swift & Co.'s Hams and .Lard in tins. "Snow Flake" Gulfuss Bakery, fresh every day. Bread from Sparenburg; High grade Vinegars, Country Syrup and produce 'bought and sold. National Biscuit Co. Crackers and cakes in tins and packages, fresh every week. CIGARS, TOBACCO, FRUITS ANT) VEGETABLES. Craig& Kennedy PHONES 15 and 145. 1 THE PEOPLE'S BANK, * ORANGEBUG, S- C. 4 * O S # <?> # CAPITAL STOCK.$30,000.00 SURPLUS. 20,000.00 STOCKHOLDERS' LIA BILITY . 80,000.00 PROTECTION TO DE POSITORS .$80,000.00 D. O. Herbert.President B. F. Mnckenfuss.Vice-President J. W. Culler.Cashier A. T. Wannamaker... .Asst. Cashier DIRECTORS. W. 0. Crum A. M. SaUey J. T. Rickenbaker W. L. Glaze G. L. SaUey Hobt. E. Copes. D. O. Herbert B. F. Mnckenfuss H. C. Wannamaker. 4 per cent interest paid in Savings Department. Absolute security guaranteed to Depositors. *> O * * ? I ?> ? o FIRE, LIFE, BURGLARY, TORNADO % I INSURANCE!! t ALSO SURETY BONDS 9 A Written by I H. C. Wannamaker f i represent companies that's know to be good. Q Q Give me some of your business. 0 9+i The Edisto Savings Bank, OKANGEBURG. 8. O. C&plta).$100,000.00. Surplus. . . I3O.000.00. B. H. Moss, President. J. M. Oliver, Vice-President, F. S. Dibble, Vice-President. Wm. L. Glover, Cashier. DIRECTORS M. 0. Dantzler, J. M. Oliver, W. R. Lowman, W F Fairey B. H. Moss, T. C. Doyle, Sol. Kohn, J. W. Smoak Money saved is money made, and the way to save is to deposit your Eoney in the savings department and draw interest on the first days of January, April, July and October at the rate of four per cent per annum. This bank's absolute safety is best attested by its capita"! r-tock, its surplus and by the character and standing- of its oliicers and board of directors. Money loaned on good security. Wheels in the thoroughfares have sidered of any assistance in drinking largely become a thing of the past? ln the beauties of the landscape, not so with wheels ln the head. ?. , . . _, . . , . . She s not a pretty summer girl. Even of a person who la not good- * * " ? looking you may truthfully say, "He Yet somehow it would seem looks good to me." ; With all the boys she's popular?* Having a glass eye cannot be con- She doesn't like ice cream ?