Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Established in 1SG9. W<iL 40.No. 120 Published Three Times a Week, ffaesday, Thursday and Saturday. .Entered as second-class matter $msu 9, 1909, at the postoffice at Or cageburg, S. C, ander the Act of Congress of March, 1879. p , 1 Ska. L. Sims, Editor and Proprietor. $C8. Izlar Sims, - Associate .'Editor. Subscription Rates. S?e Year.?..81.50 Biz Months . .75 Qme Months_.40 Remittances should be made by 4beck, money order, registered let ters, or express orders, payable to Who' Times and Democrat, Orange fcarg, S. 0. "Dignified silence of Mr. Taft heals | discord in the party," pipes up thei New York Herald. The Herald fired off its squib too soon. In all of this Republican hubbub ?what has become of Courtelyou? He seems to have'gone in a . hole and pulled it in after him. A. good many standpat congress men are dropping out of the fight for a renomdnation, which shows that) the trend is strongly towards Democ-1 racy. ? ? Now that the candidates have been thinned out to a stand, the people can more easily make their choice as to who they want to fill the dif ferent offices. The question as to who will be governor Is still unanswered, but the people will decide the question when they vote again next Tuesday week. So prepare your ballots. Teddy Is In his glory. He is at the head of the greateest free show now on the road, and it draws like a sticking plaster. He is threatening the big corporations and trusts so as they will ante up a good campaign fund when the Republican fatfryer calls on them. The Canadians in the great Wes tern provinces are uprising against the protective tariff, which they rightfully claim make big. profits for the manufacturers at the expense of the farmers and the public in gen eral. The result of protection for special interests is the same in Can ada as in the United State. The Republican politicians, from Big Bill and Teddy down, will try to befog the tariff issue with a great mass of details and figures which but few people can understand. Plain facts would give away the whole pro tective theory, and show the prac tical injustice of taxing all the peo ple for the .benefit of the few who are protected. "Corporations," says Roosevelt, *'are not entitled to votes and are not entitled to the ownership of any publio man." Certainly the idea seems to be growing in the public thought of the nation, but Roosevelt seems to have changed his mind, since he got on his knees to Harri man and implored him for that cor ruption fund to carry the State of New York. Sometime ago a woman in one of our inland cities lost a pet dog by death. Her grief was indescribable. The dog had a most elaborate funer al, lying in state and buried in a favorite spot in the garden. The services of a band were sought, to play funeral dirges, but the members balked at playing over a dead dog. How such women escape the fool killer is a mystery. A panic occurred at Narragansett Pier the other day when the consta bles raided a fashionable gambling ^resort and arrested a number of wealthy society women. The names of the women were not published be cause of the "shame and mortifica tion" it would give their families. But the women did not care much about the shame of gambling, with them the shame was in being found out. Reecntly Montenegro with its less than 250,000 people became a king dom, and its ruler, Nicholas, with the approval of the great powers, became a full-fledgeed king. Kings and other rulers come cheap these days, and at first sight the idea of a little mountainous country, smaller than many an American county and with a population scare ijy that of a first-class American city, becoming a kingdom seems rather ridiculous. "Scant and diaphanous" were the words used to describe the costume of a Russian countess at the bare foot dance given by her before New port society. In other words it was a dress which no modest woman would have worn, neither would a self-respecting company of people have tolerated it. Yet there are peo ple who envy Newport society and would do anything to get into it, which shows that there is no account ing for tastes. From the clash of discordant ele ments within political parties and be tween the parties themselves will surely come progress along several lines. Anything is better than inac tion or apathy, because when such a condition prevails unscrupulous bosses and selfish interests reap their harvest of ill-gotten power or wealth. Noise and tumult are not pleasant but, like a thunderstorm, they clear the atmosphere, and the political, so cial and economic atmosphere has ?been sadly in need of it for some lime. ' Republican Scapegoats. , This seems to be the open season for Republican scapegoats, and ev ery Republican patriot Is gunning for one or more. In olden times, scapegoats were driven into the wil derness and the weight of the sins ?they bore presumably caused them to perish. In these modern times out political scapegoats are driven into the- political wilderness as a mani festation to the people of the virtue and integrity of the drivers, or as an example to others to keep in with the powers that be. The open season for gunning for Republican scapegoats is 'always just before election; their hides have more political value at that time, especially if the portents of the elec tion indicate that it will be close 'and doubtful. The summer capital at Beverly seems to be the head quarters for the scapegoat hunters and such eminent statesmen as Can non, Aldrich and Ballinger, and goodness knows who besides the dire exigencies and sins of the party may require, have been selected as the living sacrifice. tAn' evidently inspired dispatch from Beverly sent out by the Asso-i ciated Press on August 12th tells the tale of woe and the probable fate of the scape goats. There is a strik ing similarity in the plans of the Ad ministration to the Jewish Ceremon ial, described in Leviticus. The scapegoat therein described bears all the sins of the people, and is sent by the .hand of a "safe man" into the wilderness where there are no I people. Senator Crane seems to be the "safe man" in the ceremonial now under way, but there must be grave doubt whether those selected can bear a modicum of the sins of the Republican party. It will be necessary to hear from the Colonel and Pinchot and Garfield before de ciding on the efficacy of the vicari ous sacrifice. Perhaps when it come to the pinch neither Cannon nor Aldrich nor Bal linger will want to be the goats. They may suggest that other Repub licans could play the part better. All of those selected as goats show signs of insubordination. Uncle Joe says he is "fit as a fiddle", and ex pects the Republicans of his district to reelect him; and the Republican caucus and not the Administration will decide whether he shall bo re elected as Speaker. Senator Aldrich, at the request of the "safe man," has made a statement that brought on more controversy with Senator Bristow, which indicates that this goat business may be carried too far and that he is still an alive political entity. Ballinger, here may be found the real and only scapegoat, will gladly leave the Cabinet after the majority of the committee of inves tigation has given him a coat of whitewash. The "safeman" will es cort him to the wilderness in his whitened garb, a^tar first parading him through the Western States as the real goat of the Administration. These are the plans of the Admin istration, but perhaps the popular ap petite for goats will not be appeased by the Taft banquet and will demand more scapegoats before election day. It is quite within the realm of prob abilities that in casting out these goats to the ravening wolves, that are politically termed "insurgents," the demand for the play to be repeat ed will be so insistent that only President Taft and the "safe man" will be left to tell the tale. A Political Certainty. ?It may not be a bad guess that Teddy has stirred up all the Repub lican rumpus to force President Taft to carry out "my policies", and the new policy of making a goat of Cannon as a peace-offering to the I Insurgents is one of the results. But j during the hot weather, the silly season is predominant and most any thing goes that a smart correspon dent can invent or allow someone to stuff him with. The only thing cer tain up to date is that the victorious Insurgents have forced the minds of the Republican leaders into the be lief that something must be done in the way of a change of policy from the old rut. Both Beverly and Oys ter Bay statesmen show strong in dications that they are scared at the evident trend away from Republican ism. Both seem willing to make a scapegoat of Cannon, but he won't "stay put" in the wilderness. ? Son in-law Longworth, after a long In terview with President Taft, tries to bind the sins of omission and com mission upon that old goat Cannon, which he would hardly have done without a tip from the President and the approval of Teddy. Thus far, it is possible that Beverly and Oyster Bay are in unison. But the Bever ly statesman is reported to be hug ging the standpat VicePresident Sherman to his bosom, while reports from Oyster Bay strongly indicate that Teddy has relegated him to the goat class, or even worse. Teddy's Sharp Game. There is a guess going around that Roose\elt will do nothing to prevent the Sherman standpat-gritiT from having full control of the New York Stato convention and making a platform and nominating candi dates that will inyRe defe'it. Such a Republican catastrophe would play into the hands of the Colonel by al lowing him to dominate the organ ization in 1912 and select a delega tion to the National convention that ho would control. And so wo might go on with all the guesses that are going and yet arrive at nothing cer tain beyond the fact that the rival Republican factions are making hor rible faces at each other, and are quite ready to take goats of anyone who does no agree with them. The fickle wind is stable compared with the daily news from the. headquar ters of the Republican statesmen. The Elephant himself stands with dejected look and takes orders from no one, and the rank and file of the Republican outfit are divided into rival camps. Educating the Porker. "There are only a few trained pigs In this country, but the scarcity of porcine talent is not due to lack of in telligence, as many persons are in clined to think, but to.their pure cuss edness," says a veteran pig trainer. "A pig is not only smart, but, as any farmer who has tried to drive a num ber of them down a road or from one pen into another will tell you, they have also a fair amount of intuition. They know instinctively what you want them to do, even before you give the order, and they bend every effort toward defeating you. Perhaps it is the very contrariness of their nature that makes them so interesting for me to teach. I have trained all kinds of animals, but I would rather train a pig than any of the others. "Pigs are nowise ignorant as the? appear. Take a little fellow of three or four weeks and a puppy of the same age, and the porker will be 'way up in the fourth or fifth gruae of his educa tional process before the puppy is out of the primary class. I have known pigs intimately for 20 years, but I have yet to see one lonely for human com panionship. They rather like to be petted and sometimes they grunt ap preciatively, but they never come jumping up into yo'ir lap or nosing about begging for a pat on the head. "One of the first things to impress upon an amateur pig is that you will not under any circumstances run after him. Of course, you are to take care that the inclosure is not large, so that when he runs he will not be lost. 'Pay no attention to him whatever when he scrambles away. That will surprise him considerably and you have gained one point. Go on training the others, and after a while go quietyl and get the runaway, and, two chances to one, he will stay this time, especially if there is some food in the reward."? Leslie's Weekly. Protect the Toads. Writing of Dr. C. F. Hodge, biologist of Clark University, who is shortly to publish an important work on bird life, a correspondent of the Boston "Transcript" says: "What Burbank is to plant life, Dr. Hodge bids fair to become in bird life. He has already domesticated on his own premises the rutfed grouse and the bobwhite. with a view to ul timately adding them to the National list of domesticated species. When you consider that for 400 years not an animal has been thus added, his work assumes epoch-making import ance. . He believes that many most useful wild specieB may be domes ticated; and thereby render incalcul able service. "The toad, for Instance, the enemy of the slug, introduced by Calla Thax ter into her 'Island Garden' as its only salvation, is already half domesticat ed. ' With its voracious appetite for injurious insects?80 or more already listed in its dietary?the toad may lay claim to being a true philanthropist Dr. Hodge estimates that the school children of the United States?20,000, 000 unused forces?if taught to utilize this one species, might save to their country nearly half the cost of their own education. As it is, the destruc tion of this useful species goes on un checked?ignorance being the prolific cause of folly." A Bank Note Curio. "Yes, I collect queer bank notes," said the receiving teller. "I've been doing it for years. You know there are some very odd things written on bank notes sometimes." He pointed to a dollar bill hung in a frame of black ca.-t on the wall. "Read that," he said. "And I've got queerer ones than that in my collection." On the bank note was written in a feminine hand: "You nave robbed me of all the rest, and or my soul also. May this burn your hand when you touch it. May all you ouy with it be accursed. You have the last. Are you now satisfied? Murderer!" The collector sighed sentimentally. "Think of the tragedy," he said, "that may lie hid behind those simple little phrases, eh?"?New York Press. "The Intellectuals" is the name by which a number of commuters who travel daily between their summer homes and New York are known by their fellow travelers. They make what they call "a white horse pool" every morning. They sit with their faces close to the windows, looking for white horses along the line of the road. The man who guesses nearest to the number encountered gets the pool. The news of the day and other subjects which interest the ordinary mortal have no claim for them, and they seem to derive much entertain ment from their style of gambling.? New York Tribune. Italy has a graduated income tax as well as a direct tax on land and houses. Small incomes are exempt from taxation. The minister of finance estimates that the income tax for this year will amount to about $-)!),G?0,?00, while the laud tax will bring in $3(1, 000,000. Not That Kind. "These pajamas are good stuff. You'll never wear them out." "No. They're hardly suitable for street wear."?Cornell Widow*. Technical Objekt en. "You may take the witness stand, madam,'' said the lawyer. "Where is the stand, sir?v demand? ed the austere mal von. adjusting her eyeglasses. "I see irothiug but a chair."?Washington Star. The Times und Democrat?The Paper Whose Circulation is no Secret Druggist's Mistake Fatal. At Richmond, Va., John, about three years old, son of David T. Wil son, died Sunday from the effects of carbolic acid given by mistake for castor oil on a prescription filled by a local druggist. The child lived --1 hours after taking the dose. The Times and Democrat Is Ready to prove all claims made of its circu lation. One-half Cent a Word Found Notices Free. Boy Wranted?to learn printing trade in this office.. Must have common school education at least. Apply Thursday. AVatned?To buy good and gentle horse or mule. Do not want to pay too much. J. N. Hall, R. F. D. No. 5, Orangeburg, S. C. 2* Lost?One double case gold watch between Five and Ten Cent Store and Dixie Restaurant. Initials on hack "A. M. K." Liberal reward if returned to this office. 8-18-3 Agents Wanted?Boy and girl agentB to sell 24 packages of The Shur win Polish for us, and receive a ?beautiful Camera or Doll Free. Write todoy. The Breaker Supply Co., Box 25, St. George, S. C. 3m* Cypress Shingles for Sale?40,000 all heart No. 1 Shingles ready for prompt shipment at $4.10 f. o. b.' Cope. Also several thousand No. 2s at $2.25. Klttrell & Reed, :Cope, S. C. 5-14-tf. l>y payment of a small portion of the price in cash, a desirable, med ium priced, modern home, well located in the City of Orangeburg, can be purshased. For further particulars, call at or address this office. w8-20-tfc Wanted?Improved farm of 100 to 150 acres on public road within three miles of Orangeburg. Any one desiripg to sell advise fully regarding place, location and price. Frank E. Smith, Orange burg, S. C. 6-30-tf. I For Sale?I offer for sale two choice cotton plantations between Neeces and Springfield. Wolfe's new rail road will run through the place. Much of the land is well improved with good buildings. Iwill sell in a body or cut to suit purchaser. Easy terms. P. A. Gleaton, Neeces, S. C. 7-28-10* Wanted?Cosmopolitan Magazine re quires the services of a representa tive in Orangeburg to look after subscription renewals and to ex tend circulation by special methods which have proved unusually suc cessful. Salary and commission. Previous experience desirable, but not essential. Whole time or spare time. Address, with refer ences, H. C. Campbell, Cosmopoli tan Magazine, 1789 Broadway, New York City. I WHY OUR PATRONS LIKE OUR SPECIAL PREPARATIONS ALSO: something about King's Chill and Fever Tonic. [ Ovr Laboratory medicines are made in the "Wannamaker Way" which means attention to details. No re cline is given out unless it has been rue roughly tried ad its merit prov en. We don't experiment on our fiade. WE BELIEVE THAT OUR PRESCPIPTION DEPART MENT IS THE BEST IN THE STATE. We want you to find out. With a tair price on everything we sell we can give you the best materials. 7.hat is good .business and godd common sense. All our men ars o.perienced graduates too. KING'S CHILL AND FEVER TONIC, One of our best products. A real life renewer and elegant for preveet iijg those terrific chills of malarial teevers. We can say this is the best prescroption we know of. Made in the "Wunnamaker Way" If You Have CHILLS and Fever? BUY THIS. 5oc cents the bottle G. X Wanna maker M'f'g Co. Orangeburg, S. C. Bagging and Ties Cotton Sheets Reservations and orders taken for a short time. Jute Bagging with ties at 33c per bale in 100 lots F. O. B. Anderson, S. C. Bag ging sewed and patched. ! Standard Cotton Sheets 80 x 80 inches at 17c in lots of 50 or more. Oranoeburor "The Wilson" Cor. W. Russell and Bronghton Good meals, comfortable rooms, baths, artentive, intelligent service, at reasonable rates by the day, week or month, regular boarders, Ladies or Gentlemen, will find here many of the comforts of home. Dinner a Specialty MRS O. K. WILSON, Proprietress. New Goods Are Now Fast Coming in and in fixing your boy or girl for college it will pay you to see our line. You will want a new Kimo n a for C ollege. We are showing a full new line in Outing and Duckling fleece. Our line of sheets, sheeting, spread?, pillow cases and blankets is com plete. It will pay you to call and inspect this line before you buy. If you are going lo buy a sweater for school we can show a line from $ 1 to $6.50. New cuts and collars. Now as to coat-suits and skirts we have jus* received a shipment and will be" glad to show you the very newest in them. Styles the very newest and prices the very best. i ? ? All of our new shoes for dress and school have come in. For la dies, girls, men, and boys. [Moseley's Phone 165-L Beware of Fakirs AND Ask Yourself a few Questions If a Btrange man who claimed to be a Doctor knocked at your door and asked you if any one was sick and if you wanted his Berviceo, wouldn't you say "no thank you, not you." But Bend post haste for your regular family physician? When your watch Is broken, do you give it to a peddler to repair? No. You take it to some reliable Jeweler who guarantees his work. If you are particular about thess things why not be so with your eyei7 When they need glasses? Have then, examined aDd correctly fitted, witb the proper lenses and framei, by ? competent Optometist and Optician, who Ib permanently located here la this city and who guarantee! lat isfaction. Jno. T. Wise JEWELER AND OPTOMETIST. 50 East Russel St., Orangeburg, S. C Hundreds of satisfied Customers in this County. Ask them Dear Madam : We wish to call your attention to a silver polish which we are selling. In our long experience of more than forty yetrs in the jewelry busi ness we have never found any pol ish to equal it. It comes in the form of a paste, and very slight rubbing removes the tarnish from the silver almost in stantly, and t-'uc beauty of it is that it never scratches. Wc use it extensively in our bus iness and think so highly op it that we will readily refund the purchase price to any dissatisfied purchaser. Ask for SILVER CREAM? the best silver polish in the world, Price 25 cents. Respectfully, H. SP AMR & SON. "Drink "Hot Tom" IT "TOUCHES THE SPOT." 5 cents a glass at all Grocers. Peruvian Guano A mixture of Peruvian Guano, Nitr at e of Soda and Potash, Wonderfully Quick! Cheaper than Nitrate of Soda?and we are informed by our customers that last year it gave better results. The supply is limited? order now. Peruvian Guano Corp., CHARLESTON, S. C. It. P. DUKES. SPECIAL ACENT. A REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF THE , POWER OF ADVERTISING *t ?% riTHOUT recognizing It, most of ua VV arc more lullueuccd In our daily, inti mate life by the power of advertising than by the editorial powor of the news paper wo read or by the power of the pulpit of the church in our midst. There are hundreds of things we do, of things we buy to wear, to eat, to use that wo lean toward Instinctively and we never knew It was advertising that first took us by the hand and led us in that direction. Thea there Is tho bold, forceful, convincing ad. that takes right bold of us and waltzes us uround to the butcher, or baker, or can dlestick maker and makes uh dig right down in our jeans for the two bits tho ad. calls for?and we give up without whimper. This is interesting business and the powor of it becomes more real when we can see actual instances of its working. A year ago a prominent Southern Mann facturing concern made a contract with a list nf the leading dally papers of Virginia. West Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina to advertise their product. They used liberal space three times a week and as a result the retail merchants who were handling this Hue increased their sales thirty per cent, for the year. Oll'haud this statement seems a dry busi ness feet. If you will analyze it you will see it contulus several lessons. Tho first and most Important lesson is one for the retail merchant. Thirty per cent. Increased sales without effort on his part is all in favor of handling advertised merchandise. Tho retail dealers In the four stales referred to who enjoyed a thirty per cent- Incroaso in sales of Tho Craddock Shoe did so at no expenso to themselves, as the Craddock-Terry Co., the manufacturers, paid for the advertising and shouldered the responsibility. The r?? tall merchant who traded in a line of unadvertised shoes lost a thirty per cent, profit which he would have enjoyed If he* had been handling The Craddock Shoe. There is a lesson here for other manufac turers in the South. Craddock-Terry increased their sales thirty per cent. In the territory where they advortised?on the lines they advertised. They made only a normal increase in the lines they did not advertise and in the terri tories where they did not advertise. Any manufacturer of a meritorious arti cle can do as much if he will advertise it Judiciously and "keep everlastingly at it." Tho success of the Craddock-Terry adver? Using proves that Southern papers are pro fitable mediums for Southern advertisers. It proves that Southern people read their papers. It proves that these papers have un influence in their several localities. The year before Craddock-Terry com menced to advertise in Virginia, West Vir ginia, North Carolina and South Carolina their annual sales of The Craddock Shoe amounted to 118,000 pairs in these four states. The year Just closed, July 1st, they sold In tho same territory, aided by advertising, very nearly 15-1,000 pairs of Craddock Shoes, or an Increase of thirty per cent. This should convince Southern shoe mer chants that this Is Die most popular bne of shoes sold in the South. It should convince them that tho Craddock-Terry Co. is tho kind of llrm to tie to, energetic, resource ful, militant. The Craddock advertising is convincing the public that The Craddock Shoe is tho shoe to buy. This line showing should convince South ern manufacturers that the South Is a fertile held for publicity and tbat the Southern nowsPapers are the key to tho situation. \ V&i \\ \\'S Ifyou ?o not see thetn write and 1/ .? \VKVV$ >V'-':! *-r.d you,o..r caialca fully jfi'r-. ? ?Mw B tliustrau?cr and ''escnomjr Ines? ?U J 1 * V^fi?n$ idealhors?eoliarsthat.ire*ivinsr / i /armer:: thr.ur.;:at:> of dollars / \" \ wljP? annually. They cure sore necks fri and shoulders aud do away with ? I mm bames, sweat pads and straps. They can bu adjusted co lit and f.e draft is in the correct place. But the main thi:itr is they do away with sweat paris which scald and pro duce sores. Thousands in use. Won't wear out?last for years. E. M. DEERY FURNITURE Neeces, S. C. CO., m m f ?EVERYTHING IN I^VVe have built up a reputation for making prompt ship./ ments that we arc justly proud of. ^Wc arc located near all freight depots and can get goods in at the latest moment. -jCall us up over long distance phone, telegraph or write us. Express shipments are given special attention by us, COLUMBIA SUPPLY COMPANY, Columbia, S. C.