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BRUTAL MURDER -COLORED MAN SHOT TO DEATH WHILE ON HIS WAY HOME. Charles Davis Assassinated While Walking Up the Southern Railway Track Just Above Branchville. One of the most brutal murders that has even occurred in the Branchville neighborhood took place on Friday evening when Charles Da vis, colored, was shot to death while walking up the railroad track, on his way home from work. Davis had been in the employ of the South R-E-H-A-S-H(?) -XYZ era railway for the past fifteen years ?and for many years past he had been acting as engineer at the coal chute in Branchville. He did not live In town, But lived about three miles above town, close to the railroad, and every evening after his work was over he would go home to spend the night. Fri day night he started home as usual and had got within about one mile of his home, about one-quarter mile below the residence of Mr. Art Bruce and within a few steps of a road crossing, when te was shot to death. There was a whole load of buck shot fired into Davis, striking him just above the right nipple and pen etrating his right lung, a wound which the doctor said was sufficient to prod"ce instant death. A very peculiar incident in connection with the murder was the fact that Davis was shot with a load of small shot in the back, just opposite where the load of buckshot entered the body 'in front. The assassin planned the murder well, for the body of the dead man lay on the railroad track between the rails, evidently put there in- order that the train might run over the body and conceal the crime. An old colored man named Allen Davis crossed the railroad track later at the road crossing near where the crime was committed and saw what he supposed to be the body of a man lying on the railroad track. He im mediately reported the find to Mr. Art Bruce, who investigated the mat ter with the result as told above. Mr. Bruce went to branchville at once and reported the matter to Magistrate Dukes and the magis trate had the body removed from the railroad track and guarded until a coroner's jury could be summoned and empaneled and view the body. The next thing, then, was to try to find out who the murderer was and while the officers did not have a igood clue, suspicion pointed to .a colored man, Mood Reed, who liv ed in the same neighborhood as the deceased, and who In times past has had some trouble with the deceased. Unexpectedly Mood Reed went to Branchville about midnight Friday night and bought a ticket for Den mark and the suspicion pointed so strongly to him as being the man that did the shooting that it was de cided to have him arrested. The officers at Branchville imme diately telegraphed to the police at Denmark, and had the susptcted man arrested and carried back to Branchville. The testimony taken at the Inquest, which had been held by Magistrate Dukes, was not suf ficient to warrant the court in hold ing Reed. He was therefore turned loose. The coroner's jury was not dismissed but adjourned until a fur ther call of the court. The coward ly murderer Is still at large, but it is to be hoped that he will soon be captured and made to pay the penal ty for his dastardly crime. The crime of assassination is getting en tirely too common in this section, and the dastardly cowards who are guilty of them should be run down. Mayor's Court. The first case before His Honor Monday morning wa3 that of San ford Wicks, charged with selling liquor. He plead guilty and got $40 or 20 days on the public works, at such labor as he could perform. Sanford handed up 40 bones and was released. O. W. Blackstone was next up. He was charged with being drunk and disorderly on Saturday. He plead not guilty, but after hearing the testimony, Mayor Dukes thought otherwise and he was given $7 or fifteen days. Allen Jamison, next up, was charged with being drunk and dis orderly. He put up $5 bail and then forgot to appear. This being the case, the town appropriated his five. They Caught Him. It may be true, as Dr. W. H. Brown says, th?. Orangeburg police Is too clow to catch the small-pox, but he must admit that the police Is all right when it comes to nosing out illicit whiskey and getting the parties who has it in charge behind the bars. The police is right not to catch the small-pox, but we hope they will continue in the good work of catching all the illicit booze that may be landed in Orangeburg. Opened Up Saturday. The dispensary was opened up Sat urday afternoon about half-past five o'clock, and in about one hour three hundred dollars worth of liquor was sold. Most of the purchasers were negroes, who seemed to have on a terrible thirst. This is the first time any liquor was sold by the dispen sary since it was closed on Tuesday. August 3. and the long drouth had made many very thirsty. Daughters of the Confed?*racy, Mrs. J. A. Berry, seceretary of the Paul McMichal Chapter, U. C. D.. requests us to give notice that the chapter will meet Wednesday after noon at 5 o'clock at the residence of Mrs. Fred Wannamaker. A full attendance is requested. THE COTTON MARKET. There Has Been a General Upward Tendency in Price. For tone cause or another, the drift of cotton prices most of the time have been upward. Many of the crop reports have been unfavor able. Texas has sent complaints of dry hot weather. Some crop guesses from that State are very much small er than they were recently. Exces sive heat is supposed to have caused imucjh shedding. | In Georgia and Alabama shedding is said to be gen eral, owing to hot, dry weather, and there, as in many other sections, the plant is said to be one to three weeks late. A rumor that the National Gin ners' report would put the general condition at only 64 per cent, has had some effect. It was in line with a very general expectation that the next government report, now so near at hand, will be bullish. That it will show some decline from the August condition of 71.9 per cent is taken for granted. Last year the September condition was 76.1 per cent, on a crop of say 13,500,000 bales. In 1907 it was 72.7 with a yield of 11,375,000 bales. In 1906, a September condition of 77.3 per cent meant 13,511,000 bales; in 1905 one of 72.1 per cent resulted in 11,346,000. In 1899 and 1900 it was 68.2 to 68.5 and it fore told a crop failure in each case, 9, 346,000 to 10,383,000 bales and in 1902 it was down to 64 per cent with a yield of 10,728,000 bales on an area of 24,275,000 to 37,114,000 | acres for these three years as against present area o fsomething in excess of 32,000,000 acres. The average September condition for 10 years is 73.6 per cent, and this year it may fall well below 70. The question is whether such a con dition has been or has not been dis counted in the present price. Opin ions on this vital point are, as may be imagined, diametrically opposed. There is no doubt about the crop be ing very short this year, and a good price should be realized by the farm ers. But it all depends on how fast or how slow the crop is put on the market. Receipts at the Ports. Receipts at ports Saturd'y 8,965 Same day last year .... 6,764 Same day year before .2,784 Receipts since Sept 1... 10,708,597 Same time last year .... 8,416,985 Same time year before .. 9,772,250 Cotton Quotations. Columbia, Aug 28.?The following are the quotations for cotton in this market: From 11 3-16, to 12 5-16 for highest to lowest grades. Houston, Aug. 28.?Cotton steady, middling 12 3-8; receipts 3,953; shipments 3,175; Bales 321; stock 25,010. ' Augusta, Aug. 28.?Cotton steady, midding 12 5-8; receipts 523; ship ments 300; sales 404; stock 4,160. Memphis, Aug. 28?Cotton steady, middling 12 1-4; net receipts 5; gross 245; shipments 1,255; sales 100; stock 7,412. Galveston , Aug 28. ? Cotton steady; middling 12 3-3; receipts 4,790; sales 100; stock 32,339. New Orleans, Aug. 28.?Cotton firm; middling 12 3-S; receipts 157; sales 325; stock 42,019; to France 125; tc the continent 2,000; coast wise 239. Mobile, Aug. 2S?Cotton firm; middling 12 3-8; receipts 22; stock 1,708. Savannah, Aug. 28.?Cotton firm; middling 12 3-16; receipts 3,772; sales 3,177; stock 18,660. Charleston, Aug. 28.?Cotton nominal; receipts 74; stock 955. Wilmington, Aug. 28. ? Cotton nominal; receipts 25; stock 199. Norfolk. Aug. 28.?Cotton firm; middling 12 3-8; receipts 48; stock 2,500; coastwise 415. New York, Aug. 28.?Cotton qui et; middling 12.90; sales 275; stock 80,041. New York Futures, Open Close. January .12.40 12.51 March.12.44 12.56-7 May.12.46 12.57-8 September. 12.39-42 October.12.39 12.45-6 December.12.42 12.51-2 Tone of local market, steady, pay ing 12 cents for good middling. Receipts at Orangeburg. Saturday.70 bales Monday.3 bales Mado Good Time. Several days ago possibly the best running time ever made by any auto mobile between this place and Char lestion was made by MessrB. W. S. Barton and T. R. McCants in their Buicks. The cars made the trip, going down, in exactly four hours running time, and coming back in four hours and fifteen miuutes. Those in Mr. Barton's car were him self, his wife, Earnest Kunkerpiller and sister; in Mr. McCants' car, him self, his sons, Philip and Robert, and Mr. D. C. Hayden. Attend the Educational Rally. The educational rally for Orange burg county will be held in the court house this morning at half past ten o'clock. There will be sev eral excellent speakers, among whom is Gov. Ansel. Every one is invited to attend the rally, which is a most important and nteresting occasion. The court house should he crowded to overflowing. Be sure that you are there. A Pleasant Occasion. At Springfield a party of young people was entertained at the hos-1 pitable home of Mrs. Rosa Stroman i Friday night by Col. John R. Stro-! man in honor of the visit of Mr. I and Mrs. James Loften of McClel- ] lansville, Mrs. Lofton being a niece ? of Col. Stroman. The young peo-1 pie were chaperoned by Mr. . and Mrs. C. M. Pender. BROWN; STILL IN JAIL. Former Bondsmen Have Come Off His Bond in Two Cases. As was stated in Saturday's Times and Democrat Dr. W. H. Brown, the general manager and apparent owner of the Edisto Social Club, was ar rested Friday afternoon for storing liquor in violation of law, and was committed to jail in default of bail. It wlU be remembered that the Edisto Social Club was raided on Thursday morning by the police and a large quantity of liquor was seized and carried off to the city guard house, where it was locked up. Dr. Brown was present at the club rooms when this raid was made, but he declined to unlock the lockers in which the whiskey was stored, and the police had to break them open so as to get at the liquor stored in them. A large quantity of whiskey and a small quantity of beer was seized, and as it was stored by Dr. Brown in violation of law, Chief of Police Fischer swore out a warrant on Fri day afternoon for Brown's arrest and he was committed to jail In default of |500 bail. This was the third case made against Brown.. In the former two cases he was out on a bond of $500 for each case. As soon as his bondsmen in these cases heard of his arrest on the third charge they came In and requested that their names be taken off the bonds, which was done, and now Brown has to give three bonds of $500 each before he can get out of jail. The bondsmen who came off of Brown's bond were Messrs. T. B. Antley, Henry Ayers and Ben Hutto This leaves Brown high and dry in jail on three charges. Brown may not think so, but there is considerable Itrouble ahead for him before he gets clear of the law. As stated above, there are three cases against him. The first was an appeal from Mayor Dukes, who had found him guilty of selling liquor illegally. He was out on a bond of $500 in this case, Mr. T. D. Antley being the surety. The next case was that of the United States for retailing whiskey without a li cense. He was out on bond in this case, too, Messrs. Henry Ayers and Ben Hutto being the surities on the same. Then on Friday the city had him arrested for storing liquor. He failed to give bond and was put in jail. As stated above, bis bonds men in the first two cases have come off his bonds and he will now have to give three bonds in the sums of $500 each, or remain in jail. WILL COST TWO CENTS MORE. The Price of Registering Letters Will Be Higher. A Washington dlspaljch says It will cost ten cents instead of eight cent9 to register a letter as soon as Postmaster General Hitchcock puts the present plan of the Depart ment into an official order. This will be done, it is thought, in the near future. The special committee appointed by Hitchcock to investigate the regis try system met with him Saturday morning and the necessity of an in crease was discussed. Another meet ing will be held today. Registry officials from a dozen of the largest post offices of the United States will be invited to attend. The Postmaster General is author ized by law to charge a registry fee as high as twenty cents if it be comes necessary, in order to pre vent a deficit in the system. It is understood, however, that the fee will not be increased more than two cents. In 1874 it was reduced from fifteen to eight cents, but it was increased to ten In the following year. The fee was again reduced to eight cents in 18S5. This reduction, how ever, did not increase the amount of registered business, and the reve nues of the registry system fell be hind, the Government losing several million dollars a year through Its operation. ? Cotton in Bad Shape. The Columbia State has compiled reports from all over the State as to the condition of the cotton crop, which show that the drought of the last week has caused the cotton crop to deteriorate from 15 to 25 per cent?that is the consensus of opin ion In every section of South Caroli na aa reported by the correspondents of The State from whom dispatches were received. The hot days with dry winds and cool nights are caus ing the plant to drop its leaves and forms and growth is checked. From two or three counties the reports are still favorable, but with them ex cepted the dispatches are uniformal ly of discouraging tenor. Cotton Crop Damaged. A special from St. Matthews to The News and Courier says the cot ton crop has been severely damaged by /the drought, now /prevailing. There Is no longer any doubt about the field being greatly reduced. This V.1J1 make four successful years with short cotton crops in this section. A change In the present system of farming will be brought about from necessity or many will be forced to quit. Diversification of crops and more home, fertilizers : are the crying needs of this coun-1 try. Gov. M. F. Ansel. Gov. Ansel will arrive in this city this morning on the Southern train from Columbia to attend the educational rally, at which he will make one of the addresses. On be half of our people we extend, him a warm welcome, and hope he will have a pleasant visit to a county and city that gave him a handsome vote every time he has asked their suffrages. I VALUE OF k NAME i __ - i . WHY GEN] HOBT. E. LEE REFUS TO SELL HIS FOR BIG SUM. A Lesson That All Young Men Should Learn the Action of This Great and Good Man. Possibly many of our readers have heard the story we are about to relate before but it is one that will bear repeating many, many times, and pondering over whenever en countered. We commend it to our young men, who came up since the Immortal Lee passed to his reward. Reference is made- to the story told of Gen. Robert E. Lee, by Thomas Nelson Page, in his biography of the great Southern leader. Affter the war, many offers of places of honor and fame came to Gen. Lee, but he refused them all, except one?he finally accepted the presidency of Washington College, at a ridiculously small salary, ac cording to present-day standards. When Gen. Lee was approached on one occasion by a representative I of a big insurance company, and of fered the presidency of the company at a salary of $50,000 a year?which was a great deal more then than It is now?he declined the offer, giving as his reason the fact that he was unfamiliar with the work of inst ance companies. "But, General,' said the Insurance company's representative, "you will not be expected to do any work. What we wish.ie the use of your name." "Do you not think," said Gen. Lee, "that if my name is worth $50,000 a year, I ought to be very careful about taking care of it?" Thus ended the story. As the Spartan burg Herald says it gives a vivid insight into the character of the man who gave up a most bril liant cai'eer in the United States army, in order that he might cast his lot with the people of his na tive State. It would be a difficult task to find in this day and genera tion a character so large. The men of the present are too much scorch ed and shriveled and warped in character by the glamor of gold to make such sacrifices as were made by this simple, unassuming gentle man of the old school. They are too eager to hoard mon ey, without too much regard for the manner in which it is hoarded.' Is not this the reason that there are so Jew examples of (incorruptible public servants now In the land? Is not this the reason there are so many public servants who are wil ling to leave their posts and go up and down the land, making money out of the reputations' they have established as statesmen, orators, /mud-slinjgers and other sorts of monstrosisies during their public careers? But no doubt there will be found in the future, as in the past, many such characters as that revealed by the telling of the above incident. If they are less conspicuous, it is because real, genuine character worth does not seek the spotlight of publicity, as the |sham article does. When it is conspicuous it is incidental to its real object. Many of us would profit by study ing the characters of such men as Lee, and paying less attention to some of the characters that hold at tention at the present time by rea son of their "rugged" oddities.. THRIVED ON ALLEGED POISON. Advertised Rat Killers Proved to Be No Good. Prof. David E. Lantz, expert at the bilogical survey, at Washington, has been conducting experiments tj test the efficiency of rat poison. He went to a rat cage at the survey and where he should have found, ac cording to the advertisement, two dozen dead rats, he discovered that the occupants were very much alive and squealing with hunger, the sure enough exterminator having but served as an appetizer. Prof. Lantz ha? carried on sev eral like experiments with these rat>, who have eaten so much poison tha: nothing short of strychnine and bichloride will give them even a passing pain. The rats in question constitute a large majority of the two families born last May. In spite of the many posionous doses which they have taken, twenty-four veter ans, hale and hearty, are still game and looking for more. The food which proved to be such a tonic to the rats was advertised in the fol lowing terms: "This food iB the greatest inven tion of the age. After eating it, and he must eat it, if he has a chance, the biggest and boldest rat will lie down to a dreamless sleep. Re sponding to the insidious power of the food aB it passes through his arteries and Into the caplliaries of his system, the tissues harden and the body of Mr. Rat becomes imper vious to the attacks of decompo sition. The body of a rat killed by Ithis ijood may [lie .forever within the walls of your house without giv ing out the slightest odor. We will give $5 reward for any rat which, after being killed by this food, re mains in the walls of the house and emits bad odor." Mayor's Wise Action. If Dr. Brown did really make a proposition to Mayor Dukes about catching blind tigers, the Mayor no doubt was then having Dr. Brown's club watched, and thought it best to decline his offor until it was shown that Dr. Brown himself was not in the blind tiger busienss. If this is so, the wisdom of the Mayor's action in the matter has been veri fied. RURAL LETTER CARRIERS. Meeting to Be Held at Court House on Labor Day. ?Mr. Editor: Please announce in the next issue of your valuable pa per that the rural letter carriers of Orangeburg county are requested to meet at the court house on Labor Day, Sept. 6th, to re-organize the R. L. C. Association. I sincerely trust that every carrier in the county will attend this meet ing and join the association. Don't go back home without organizing, even If you have only enough car riers to elect officers. If every unor ganized county would organize on Labor Day with only four or five members this would give the State association an increase of nearly one hundred new members. Think of that and don't fail to organize under any circumstances. The. only way the 40,000 rural letter carriers of the United States can make known their wants and needs to the government is through the association as an organized body. This organization represents the car riers as a body of men who who are working in a systematic way for better service to the patrons, bet ter roads, better pay and many other things that will prove mutually ben eficial to all carriers. Just at this time the leaver is at work in South Carolina as it never has before?a tremendous amount of work having been done by zealous members of the association for an increase of membership on Labor Day, Sept. 6th. I am s'.ad to say that the carriers all over the State seem to be waking up to the neces sity for concert of action and are pledging their hearts and hands to the work of the association. Will you who are not yet members?will you not stand bravely by us in this struggle? We ask you to do noth ing that is at all questionable; we ask you to do nothing that is con trary to the will of the P. 0. De partment; we only ask you to simp ly join with us in presenting our needs to the P. O. Department and through it, to Congress. There is no other way to do this. This Is my last appeal to you be tween now and Labor Day. Let me beg you to give this matter your most sincere ethought during the next few days and then ask your conscience for a righteous judgment and whatever that verdict may be, I shall be satisfied. Sincerely and fraternally yours, THOS. E. WICKES, Pres. EDUCATIONAL RALLY. To Be Held at the Court House this Morning. Alljfeachers, trustees patrons, boys and girls and friends of education are urged to come out and hear these speakers Ion the great and vita subject iof "education. The meet ing begins promptly at ten thirty o'clock. Speeches will be made, one of them being Governor M. P. An sel, who will arrive from Colum program has been arranged. Welcome in behalf of the Coun ty Board. Hon. I. W. Bowman. Response in behalf of the Trus tees of the County.Hon. B. Hart Moss. Duties of Trustees, Hon. W. L. Glaze. ' Public Sen'timent In Education, Col.. John D. Cappelmann. Cooperation in School Work, Rev C. B. Shith. Cnsolidation, Rev. John A. Brim son. Rural High Schools, State Sup erintendent J. E. Swearingen. HAVE SUICIDE PACT. Tragedy Grows Out of Young Man's Lack of Funds. Long after Frank E. Williamson, nineteen years old, had shot his sweetheart, Florence Lillian Wood, on the doorstep of her Brooklyn, N*. Y., home it was learned a few c ays ago that the young couple hn, ? entered into a suicide pact because Williamson's lack of employment prevented their immediate marriage. Willamson who also Bhot himself and the girl are unconscious in a hospital where it is not believed that either can recover. The fact that there was a suicide suicide pact was shown in a letter left by Miss Wood to her mother in which she wrote that she had wanted to kill herself, but that Wil lamson had refused to permit her to take her own life. The letter which was written on August 21 explained the details of the tragedy as it occurred, and in It the girl requested that she be buried in a white dress and asked that her mother refrain from wear ing black for more than six months.* Drank at the Club. Dr. Brown says all but two of the policemen of the city had taken beer and whiskey In the Edisto Social Club, of which he was chief cook and bottle washer. If this is true .these policemen may have been qualifying themselves as witnesses against the legality of the club. They may re ply to Dr. Brown from the witness stand, if there testimony should be needed to convict that gentleman of the several charges now pending against him. Dr. Livingston's Show. Have you seen the free show given by the Livingson Herl) and Root Remedy Company at the old cotton yard? If you have not, go out and see them tonight. They will hold them every night for the next ten nights. Open at half-past seven o'clock, and continues for three hours. It is all free, but is worth seeing. The show is clean and up to-date all the way through. NAMES OP THE WINNERS. Boys Who Won Scholarships In the Different Counties. The names of the winners of schol arships to the South Carolina Mili tary Academy have been reported to the State board of visitors by the various county boards conducting the examinations. The awards of schol arships will be formally announced at the meatlng of the State board next week. The winners are: Abbeville County?D. T. Hardin. Alken?Lewis Hutson, Joseph Brodie. Thomas W. Weeks. Anderson?Robert Pennell, A. P. Fant. Barnwell?Jamie T. Lazar, W. L. Clarke. Charleston?H. R. Bacot, J. E. Hannahan, I. D. Auld, W. H. Framp ton, F. W. Bonson. Cherokee?C. Schaife Patrick. Chester?J. B. Ferguson, Lindsay Thomas. Darlington?Roland Will. Greenville?T. Roy Reid, James A. Dew, Paul Carpenter. Greenwood?Frank Hodges. ?Kershaw?W. W. Mickle. Lancaster?Lawson R. Elliott, Charlmers King. Laurens?Milton A. WilSon. Lee?Wardlaw Perrin. Lexington?Williard Tyndall Ky sen, Geo. E. Frlck. Marion?W. Archie Rowell. Marlboro?Pon Meadors. Oconee?Lewis C. Harrison. Orangeburg?John Calhoun Cul ler. Saluda?H. F. Padgett, J. D. Ful mer. Spartanhurg?W. H. Hayes, D. L. Cannon, J. F. Ezell. Sumter?Peter Dwight. Williamsburg?A. Clyde Turbe ville, A. B. Hemingway, Jr. York?Carl C. Faris, C. L. Faris. THE ELECTION DECLARED. The State Board of Canvassers Throw Out Contests. At Columbia the State Board of Canvassers, after an executive ses sion of 15 minutes Saturday after noon announced that the protests from Charleston, Georgetown and Richland had been over ruled and that the contests from Florence and Aiken had been continued until Fri day. The results from the other coun ties were passed upon as submitted by the different county boards. The proceedings of the board Saturday morning was deadlocked because of Comptroller General Jones absenting himself from the room. A manda mus was secured from Associate Jus tice Hydrick late Friday and at 11 o'clock Saturday an order was issued by the associated justice compelling the presence of the Comptroller Gen eral at the meeting. After this the board got down to business and the arguments were completed at 3 o'clock, after which the board went into executive ses sion. The right of the bo?rd to pass upon constitutional question was decided in the order of Mr. Hydrick. Within an hour after the board made its ruling the dispensaries in Rich land county were reopened and did a rushing business till night fall. Other dispensaries reopened on Monday. * BLOODED JERSEYS. Wealthy "Farmer" Takes Unusual Care of $75,000 Herd of Cows. W. Kelcey Schoep, who is heavily interested in the Metropolitan Street Railway, of New York, and owns a 150-acre farm in Glendale, a suburb in Cincinnati, O., has purchased twenty-four coats for his $75,000 herd of Jersey cows. The two attendants, whose sole duties are to look after the cattle, place these coverings on them every morning to protect them from flies. The teeth of each blooded Jersey are brushed three times daily. This departure in dairy farming is said to result in better health and bet ter milk. In exchange for the tooth treatment and coats each cow has produced over two gallons of milk with a large amount of cream. ? Preety Steep Dose. Mayor Dukes gave old man Wicks a pretty steep dose for peddling liquor. He was up before the May or on Monday morning, and was giv en $4 0 fine or to assist on the pub lic works for twenty days. Know ing he would have to put in some good licks on the streets if he fell into the hands of Superintendent of Streets Ethridge, Wicks took the fine, and contributed that amount to the exchequer of the town. Un less Wicks has several barrels bid out he had better keep clear of the Mayor's court. A Card. To our neighbors and friends from whom we have received so many ex pressions of sympathy and deeds of kindness in our recent sad bereave ment and sorrow in the loss of our sweet boy, we wish to return our sincere thanks. Friends, we cannot express in words the great consola tion your kind words and deeds have been to us in this hour of great bereavement and sorrow. We thank you sincerely. Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Kennedy and Children. Doleful Weather Prediction. The Greenwood Index makes this doleful weather prediction: "The season so far is much like that of ISO:'.. That year we had much rain in i lie summer and in the last f August, dry weather began and con tinued all through September." We are now pinning our faith to the Dutch weather prophet. He says we will get rain in a few days. LOCAL NEWS ITEMS. PICKED UP ALL ABOUT BY OUR REPORTERS. What is Happening in the Country as Well as in the Cities and Towns. Agent W. S. Cooper went up to Columbia Sunday. Our subscription list is open at all times to advertisers. Rain is badly needed in nearly all sections of the county. Farmers, it will pay you to put good new bagging on your cotton. The Times and Democrat will pub lish the cotton market in every is sue. All subscribers who are in arrears j are earnestly invited to call and set tle up. Look at the label on yonr paper [ and if your time is out please renew at once. Orangeburg is one of the best 'markets In the State in which to buy goods. There will be a meeting of the Confederate Veterans Saturday, the 4th, at the court house. Have you registered for the city election? If you have not, why don't you do so at once? The dry, hot weather has caused cotton to open rapidly in all sec tions of Orangeburg county. Orangeburg ought to increase her cotton receipts this year several thousand bales over last year. Mr. A. J. Thackston, who has been spending the last two months in Boerne, Texas, has returned home. Orangeburg will ha.'o plenty of buyers of cotton this season, ami It ought to be a good market for the staple. That cool week in August was not more than three days long. It must come again soon and stay longer. To reach all the people of Or angeburg county advertisers should use The Times and Democrat to en sure results. Give us a trial. Mrs. J. M. Andrews, after spend ing four months at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Heaner on Whitman street, returned to Jacksonville last week. Orangeburg should be one of the best cotton markets in the State, and it will be if our cotton buyers will pay all that cotton is worth. According to the Dutch Fork Weather prophet we should have rain today. It is badly needed and we hope it will come without fail. It looks like that cool week in August has come back. If it has, we give it a pressing invitation to stay with us untli the first of Octo ber. Mr. A. C. Van Orsdell and his bride have returned from their bri dal trip, and are staying for the present with the parents of the groom. A notice was tacked on the door of the Edisto Social Club Saturday to the effect that it had been disbanded. We hope it will stay dis banded. Chief Fischer and his efficient force of police are after the blind tigers with gloves off, and they will make it pretty hard to get a drink when the dispensary closes. Mr. Roland LangsVon, of Chat tanooga, Tenn., and Miss Ohpie Langston, of Langley, S. C, spent Friday and Saturday last with their sister, Mrs. W. S. Cooper, and family. The police ought to take a peep occasionally on the side streets, and pick up an automobile driver or bicycle rider for violating the speed ordinance. It might save a limb or life later on. The fellow that Is hauled up be fore Mayor Dukes for selling illicit whiskey will come away looking like thirty cents. So if you are in the business quit before you are hauled up before him. Farmers, do not be fooled by the Hen h 3 paid by some places for cotton aud haul your cotton there expecting to get that price in cash. There is a big difference between a lien and cash price. Some steps should be taken to ensure a good supply of ice for Or angeburg. After people become ac customed to using it, ice becomes a necessity, and it is Inconvenient for them to do without it. The Ice factory broke down Mon day and everybody had to do with out ice. It was good that the hot spell was broken and the weather was cooler. It saved the people who use ice regularly much suffering. There will be an ice cream festi val at the residence of Mr. T. B. Harton's on Friday evening, Sep tember the 3rd .beginning at 5 o'clock, for the benefit of Wesley Grove church. The public is cor dially Invited to attend. The Orangeburg Dry Goods Com pany is now under new management and beg to inform their former cus tomers that they will at all times keep a full and complete stock of the latest and best goods. They also announce that they will have a full line of coat suits. No one in this community that we know of has anything personally against Dr. W. H. Brown, and if it was not for his unfortunate connec tion with a supposed blind tiger, he would have today the best wishes of all our people in any legitimate enterprise 'hat he may have en gaged in. The people of this com munity are fighting the illicit whis key business that Dr. Brown had the appearance of running, but they have nothing but sympathy for him I and his little family personally.