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Established in 1880. fjd 40.No. 120 ffefcBabed Three Times a Week, ^aasday. . Thursday and Saturday, am ? 1 t-Btatered as second-class matter Smb. ?i 1900, at the postoffice at Or* eESeburg, S. C z ander the Act of Otagresa of March* 1870. -?-i 95a I?. Sims. Editor and Proprietor. J its. Iziar Sims, - Associate Editor.] i* Subscription Raten. Tew. 69z Months. 89U90 Montha. f Remittances should be made by ilirrlr, money order, registered let ters, or express orders, payable to Ene Times and Democrat, Oraage targ, 8. O. The man who is constantly suspi cious of others is probably not above ' suspicion himself The Spartanburg Herald says Or angeburg keeps' on making a noise like a growing town." (What a lot of misery in human li?e might be avoided if people were only more considerate of each other. The one who is constantly doing little acts of kindness and love can always be depended upon to do great things when the emergency arises. Wonder how many Republicans fend hear Republicans in Orangeburg County received a copy of John G Capers' lily white Republican party letter? ?Look out for the short chaage ar tist Such rascals follow in the wake of all big shows. So look out Cor them from now on. Don't change money for any stranger. The Herald, published at Griflln. Ga.., gives notice that it will accept a few frying size chickens on sub scriptions. Frying size chickens ov ?r here in South Carolina is scarcer than silver dollars. Several terrible accidents have al ready happened'in October. If it is fcept up through the month, the re cord will be an awful one. Let us in Orangeburg County be careful so as we will not contribute to the record. " fPeople should steer clear of the narpies that follow .big circusses over the country. The management of the circus does not know anything more about these people than you do. They are thugs and should be shunned by all. Senator E: D. Smith is quoted as saying that cotton this year will sell ?for a higher price than it has. sold <or since the war. We hope the Sen ator is right, and that the high pride will home at once, while the farmers nave their cotton. ?If Capers want some newspapers to back up his lily wbite movement there are a few so-called independent newspapers in the State that might be induced to get down on bis side Of the fence if he can convince them that it will pay them to do so. ? The murder of young Williams, of Columbia, by a lot of thugs that were riding on the circus train from Co lumbia to Augusta should be a warn ing to all people to have nothing to do with the hangers on of circusses. They would murder you for a dollar or less. Wonder if Capers sent any of his lily white Republican party letters to any of our Congressional nomi nees. He does not care bow a man votes in the State election so loug as he acts with the Republicans in rational agairs. Two of1 our con gressmen did that partly. The Independence League of New York, wbose vote Hearst had bar gained to the ticket nominated by Roosevelt, seems to have some meu in it who are really independent, as the league by a large majority has refused to ratify Hearst's bargain with Roosevelt and will run a ticket of its own. ?How self respecting men like John Temple Graves. Clarence .1. Shearn. and others, can do the bidding of a man like Hearst, has alway been a mystery. It must be a great strain ou their nerves to hold themselves always in readiness to believe and advocate just exactly what their po litical weather cockniaster believes and want advocated Such political slaves can have no inbuence with a free people. The man was a pessimist and therefore wrong who said that "man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward." While, in all truth, there is much trouble and disappointment in every life yet it will not compare with its joys and realizations. And the sum total of joy and happiness in. almost every life would in crease steadily if people would ?but put more of cheer and resolu tion iuto their speech and action. fWonder. why all this fuss is be ing raised about Bryan and his re fusal to vote for a certain candidate oa the Nebraska State ticket? Bry an is a private citizen and has the right to vote for who he pleases Some of the very people who are now denouncing Bryan, ouly a few weeks ago wanted to hang us for criticising a congressional candidate for violat ing his ante-election pledge. Bryan has violated no pledge, he is no can didate, and is a free man to do as fee pleases. CS1.50 .75 .40 Passing; of the Negroes. .That the negroes will disappear from the face of the earth within nine generations, is the conclusion of Dr. Henri Bogart, of Indiana, in an article in the September Medical Summary, after a study of the vital statistics for Indiana. The doctor says, "A careful and-exhaustive com pilation and tabulation of vital sta tistics for two years has convinced me that the end is near, and that the end of the colored race in the United States is so nearly in sight that half a century will have elimi nated the nice question as to politi cal or racial significance." The Indiana statictics as given by Dr. Bogart show, that the tubercular | death rate among negroes is 490.3, while among whites it is 174.2. In the vital statistics for Texas, which has just been published, it is shown that the whites furnish two births to one death while the birth rate among negroes scarcely exceeds the death rate. Dr. Bogart shows that in Indiana, In 19G9, there were 948 births among negroes against 2,09J deaths, and he states, "the skrink-J age in the birth rate is so palpable as to be discernable from month to month." He also calls attention to the fact that the dying out of the negroes is recognized by that most cold blood- j ed of businesses, life insurance, the j old line companies having barred negroes absolutely. The Texas sta tistics show a fearful infant mortali ty 25 per cent, of the deaths among negroes being babies be tween the ages of one and five years. The Greenville News says these fig-1 ures may be startling to those who | "get their information always from others, but to any man of the South who walks the streets with his eyes open they present nothing he does not already know. The News then goes on to say that "the rapid passing of the negroes is as perceptible as the shortening of the days in the fall of the year Not only are there fewer negroes 'seen, but an able-bodied negro is', becoming a noticeably rare thing. I Of; all sickly,. weakly, beraggled. 'starvelings and invalids take the ne ! groes seen on the streets of any j Southern city or the cowering black |and yellow people that face a police magistrate at the regular morning I sessions of his court." We have no-1 ticed these same conditions among many of the town negroes ourselves. ,'Both Dr. Bogart and the State Health officers of Texas, comment ing on the Texas statistics, agree in attributing the direct cause of the high mortality among negroes to consumption. It seems not only that Jthe negro is more susceptible to the (contraction of consumption, but his power of resistance to that .dread di Isease^is far less than a white man's, the Texas Health Officer finding that a negro succumbs in from two to five j years, while a white man prolongs Jthe bafctle from seven to twenty Years. Dr Bogart attributes the ne groe's liability to consumption to the hook worm. He also assumes that the negro j has never been able to hold his own outside of a tropical climate. The ' News takes Issue with this statement of Dr. Bogarfs and calls his atten tion to the fact "that the negro did hold his own. and multiply rapidly land produce a magnificent manhood for two hundred years in the South I of the United State ? but with a white man to take care of him, as. the white man takes care of his horse. ? Further, if he had taken the trouble to question his medical bre thren of the South he would have learned that old physicians declare they never saw a negro consumptive till after the negroes were freed. (The News says the passing of the negro is seen, however, not only In the negro's miserable health, but it is startlihgly proven in economics, and then goes on to show that while workmen are fast pushing the negro aside in many of the callings and taking his place. The News con clude by saying that "the farm and i open country life will prove the ne groes physical and moral salvation if he would get in his natural ele ment." The report of the census l.on the negro, in the face of the above discussion, will be awaited with interest. If it agrees with the facts given above, the negro race in America is surely doomed. Political Ciiaugcs Signs- multiply that politics in this country are iu a state of flux. This doubtless causes many disquieting* among the professional politicians and throws party machines somewhat out of gear. It also puts many a can didate upon the anxious seat. But for all that such a molten, seething condition has its hopeful features. It shows that people are thinking, that there Is a wholesome dissatisfac tion with some things, and that out of it all will come purer politics, a curbing of rapacious power, and greater benefit to the people. Any thing is better than the stagnation of indifference which gives unscrupu lous men the opportunity to further their own selfish ends. One striking fact in the present political situation i? the rapidity with which both leaders and followers of similar thought and aims in the two great parties are drawing close to each other. So evident is this that there is a wider clevage between the two opposing elements in each party than between anyone element and its corresponding element in the oth er party. Does this presage a readjustment or realignment of parties under new names to supersede the old. or does it mean that the weaker element in each party will be absorbed by the stronger? The next few years will probably solve the question Postal Saving Rank.s ?Postal savings banks opened Oct. 1st. Whatever may have been the conflict of views as to their desira bility they are aow an accomplished fact and doubtless will be a boou lb a large number of people who from timidity have hidden their money in clocks, under trees, below the kit chen floor and in other places rather than deposit it in banks. The sav ing instinct. does not seem to be so pronounced in America as it is in many other countries and if the postal banks develop that instict it will be*a good thing. In Great Brit ain 10,000,000 depositors have over $700,000,000 to their credit, an aver age of $70 each. France comes next, with 4,000,000 depositors and is fol lowed by Russia, Germany. Japan and many other countries. All this indicates industry, thrift and confi dence. CLASSIFIED COLUMN One-half Cent a Word Found Notices Free, For Sale?Jersey Milk Cow and Calf. Apply to G. W. Smith, Midway, S. C. 9-29-6* Wanted?To rent a good farm, must be good for cotton, and healthy country. I know all about farm ing. Address P. O. Box 4. Branch ville, S. C. 9-17-6* Wanted at. Once?First class shingie sawyer to operate a Gibbes Mill. Write or phone W. D. Reed. Cope, S. C. 10-4-3* Setter Puppy Lost.?Strayed from ..Orangeburg a black and white Setter Puppy, about nine months old. He has a big black spot on the back. Finder will please not ify M. G. Salley, Orangeburg, S. C. Land Sale.?See me for a bargain. I offer in adjoining tracts of 106 and 92 acres with dwellings and barns together or seperate. The3e ilands: are on Limestone and are fine for cotton and corn. E N. Scoville. 9-29-tf. i>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 For Sale?Two gentle family-broken horses en account of buying an automobile with which to do my practicing. Will sell my horses at a bargain. Dr. D. J. Hydrick, Hy drick Building Down Town. Apply at office and residence. 9-17-tf. Wanted?Improved farm of 100 to 150 acres on public road within three mileB of Orangeburg. Any one desiring to sell advUe fu'iy regarding place, location and price. Frank E. Smith, Orange burg, S. C. 6-30-tf. A. M. Carrian, Hair Dresser?Asks the patronage of all who would like to have work done along her line. Prompt attention is given to orders through mail. Switches 75 cents a piece. Puffs ten cents a piece. Curls, 30 cents a set. Phone 166J. Residence, 163 Rail Roau Ave., Orangeburg, S. C. 10-1-1 m* Good Farm for Sule.?830 acres land bounded north by Edisto River. 125 acres open land, 430 under fence. Fine cotton, farm a;?d stock raising. Good dwellinB and out building3. Healthy all year round. Price reasonable fo~ cash. Apply H. N. Stokes, Round, S. C. Colleton County. 10-6-4* Surburban Building Lots?-Located at Russell Street Place. High and dry. Healthiest locality to be found in this rapidly growing city. Easy terms. Pure water. Fine Southern view. Best neighborhood. Telephone, electric current and toity water accessable. Write, iee or phone Frederic F. Pooser, Or angeburg, S. C. 10-4-tf Ship your calves, hogs, sheep, lambs, etc., to The Parlor Market, Augus ta, Ga., 1018 Broad Street Summer Boarders Wanted?Rates $7.00 to $8.00 per week. No con sumptives taken. Mrs. Wade Har rison, McAlpin House, Saluda, N. C. Farms for Sale in North and South Carolina and Virginia. Ask for large list. State your wants. R. E. Prince. Raleigh, N. C. South Georgia.?Illustrated book ley descriptive of this finest farming section of the South sent free by addressing W. L. Glessner, Augus ta. Ga. Wanted?Men to take fifteen dajn practical cotton course, ac.'ept good positions during the fall. Charlotte Cotton Company, Char lotte, N. C. Latest Fiction?Our little booklet, "Books of the Month" contains a brief synopsis of all the latest books. It is free. Write for it. Sims Book Store, Orangeburg, S. C. For Stile?Up-to-date Georgia Peath Farm; thirty thousand crates this year. Also improved Georgia farms and farm lands. Write for par ticulads. H. F. Strohee'<ei Mueoti, Ga. Wanted?to buy your hides, skins, tallow, wool, beeswax, etc., at hig-hest market prices and settle ment sent promptly. Telephone 1820. Wilse W. Martin, Colum bia, S. C. Cut this out?It may not appear again. How gamblers win, at slot machines, cards, dice, etc., by se cret systems. Get wise. Circular free. Ham. B. Co., Box 1617, Hammond. Ind. Wanted?Men and ladies to take S months Practical course. Expert management. High salaried por tions guaranteed. Write for cata logue now. Charlotte Telegraph School, Charlotte, N. C. Wanted.?Men to take thirty days practical course in our machine shops and learn automobile busi ness. Positions secured graduates $25.00 per week and up. Char lotte Auto School, Charlotte. N. C. Male Teachers Wanted for good vil lage and rural schools. If open to offer write for special enrollment offer. Can place you at once. Southern Teachers' Agency, Col umbia. S. C. Wanted Salesmen?A few more hus tlers on our new Standard Atlas. New census soon available. Splen did opportunities for money mak ing. Excellent line for ex-teach ers. Write The Scarborough Com pany, Charlotte, N. C. Mississippi Delta Lands.?Why toil your life away on the poor farms your grandfather wore out? Comp to Mississippi Delta where one can grow more than ten can gather I have what you want at the right: price and terms. Come or wriU W. T. Pitts, Indianola, Miss. For sale?Milch cows, Jerseys, and grades of good breeding, register ed jersey male calves. White Col lie dogs, (registered). Also ser vice from a registered, beautiful white Collie Ten ($10) dollars guaranteed, Bronze turkeys, and Tammouth hogs. Address M. R> Sams, JonesvIUe. S. C. In Order to Introduce my high grade Succession Flat Dutch and Wake field Cabbage Plants to those who have not used them before I will give with each first order for a thousand plants at a $1.25, a.dol lars worth of vegetable and flower seed absolutely free. W. R. Hart, Plant Grower, Enterprise, P. 6., S. C. Live, energetic men can. secure fine paying contract with an old time life insurance company in the fol lowing counties: Richland, Lex ington, Falrfield, Chester, York, Cherokee, Union, Mewberry. Sa luda, Greenwood, Abbeville An derson, Pickens, ? Oconee, Laareas, Spartanburg and Greenville. Ad dress Thos. C. - Walton, General Agent, P. 0. Box 277, Anderson, S. C. Wanted?Every man, woman and child in South Carolina to know that the "Alco" brand of Sash Doors and Blinds are the best and are made only by the Augusts Lumber Company, who manufac ture . everything in Lumber and Millwork and whose watchword li "Quality." WrI/e Augusta Lam-, ber Company, Augusta, Georgia for prices on any order, large c small. Georgia Farms For Sale at Bargain Prices.?South West Georgia Farms are veritable Gold mines and every man that has the mon ey or the energy can own one. Decatur county offers more to the progressive farmer, merchant or manufacturer than any other sou thern county. Decatur county has more fine roads than any counly in Georgia. We have some of the finest and most productive land In America. We will sell you any size farm you want at terms to suit any kind of pocket book. A profitable crop of some kind can be grown In Decatur County every month In the year. Just think of a 600 acre tract of fine level land with cliy subsoil lying on one of our fine roads within seven miles of one of the most progressive towns in Georgia with 200 acres under cultivation and 400 in fine Pine Timber with excellent im provements, artesian well, etc., at $20.00 per acre on terms that will almost pay for itself. Get busy and own a Decatur farm and you will soon be rich. We will pay all expenses to and from Bain bridge to any one purchasing a farm from us. References. First National Bank or Bainbridge State Bank. T. A. Ausley. Bain bridge. Ga. The question?what hat looks best on my head? By paying us a visit and trying on a few of our derbies or soft hats you'll be able to quickly tell just which will look the best?for we've all the blocks Dame Fash ion dictated for this season?and they're all of excellent quality and values. Stetson Hats $3.00 Renneker & Riggs Always a Dollars Worth for Your Dollar "Hot Tom" THE PROHIBITION DROHE. K cast* a glass as all Groom. ? 77ns same shoe in our "Autograph' 'Brand, $2.50 -S3.00 Is Qoddyear Welt Seved: In oar College Woman's Walking Shoe, S3.00-S3.50~S4.00. it equals the bestcastommake. s a Southern Girl Shoe Hade Especially For Yon. Ybq may be real fussy about your foot wear?you may have a real hard foot to fit ?your ideas of style may be very plain and ordinary, or you ?.may like an elaborate shoe? perhaps you have a tender foot or some pet spot that has to be favored ? in any event, go to the nearest Craddock dealer and let him fit your foot. THE SOUTHERN GIRL $2.00?SHOE?$2.50 r m ? > is made in all leathers, all widths and sizes, on broad, easy lasts, on narrow lasts with high insteps, with high, low and medium heels, high arch, low arch, etc., etc. We include the best styles in our nobby patterns, and also make a number of hoes along plain and simple lines. With each go< s ihe best of leather, honest making, long wear. So*? the line at our dealers' store in your town. Look for the Red Bell on the Box CRADDOCK-TERRY CO., Lynchburg, Vau E. N. Seoville. We sell the celebrated raddock'Terry Co., Shoes for Men, Ladies and Children. See their advertisement in this paper. The original guaranteed "Holeproof Hosiery." Each pair guaranteed for 6 months. Come and see them in the fall styles and weights. You see them advertised in all magazines and papers. Ladies Tailor Made Suits. You are cordially invited to visit this store and inspect the new Fall styles and samples. Garments made to order and satisfaction guaranteed. The prices are extremely reasonable. We are now showing a large line of new fall dry goods at % prices that are attractive. N. Seoville. 4?e?o??o??<i?o<XMX)aeoo?<?e?oo?>eo??????e????ce?o????a INSURANCE!! FIRE, LIFE, BURGLARY, TORNADO ALSO SURETY BONDS Written by H. C. Wannamaker I represent companies that's know to be good. Give me some of your business. WHY WILL YOU Let Wife and Children carry the risk any long er? Be a Man give them the protection you should to day. Did It Ever Occur to You That neighborly sympathy for the widow is good; but the company's draft is better? Write, Phone or call on ZEIGLER & DIBBLE, Agents for the Equitable Life, New York. Don't Be Humbugged Have Nothing But an Equitable Policy October We are always on the lookout for good things for our custo mers. Have just received by express 2 dozen ladies black silk under skirts, well made, a special $2.50 value. Will sell these at a very low price $2.89 This is realy less than you can buy the material for by the yard. Our line of ladies extra skirts are the talk of Orange burg, they are the newest designs in Panamas and Vail les $3.50 to $12.00 Look at these when you need a ready made skirt A special lot of fine silks for waists 50c to $1.00 WHY OUR PATRONS LIKE OUR . SPECIAL PREPARATIONS ALSO: something about King's Chill and Fever Tonic Our Laboratory med'cines are mado In the "Wannamaker Way" whle'i means attention to details. No ro* dine it given out unless it has be^a rue roughly tried ad its merit prov en. We don't experiment on oar fiade. WE BELIEVE THAT OUR PRESCRIPTION DEPART MENT IS THE BEST IN THE STATE. We want you to find out. With a lair price on everything we sell we can give you the best materials. 7'hat is good business and godd common sense. AH our men art 0. perienced graduates too. KING'S CHILL AND FEVER TONIC, One of our best products. A real lite* renewer and elegant for preveet ir.g those terrific chills of malarial i reevers. We can say this is the best I prescroption we know of. Made fa The "Wannamaker Way" If You Have CHILLS and Fever?* 1. UY THIS. 5?c cents the bottle J. G. Wanna maker MTg Co. Orangeburg, S. C. Bargains in Land. 900 acres, Sumter county, Ga.; 700 acres in high state of cultiva tion; all level red land of best grade; 2 story 8-room residence, large bams and outbuildings. Plenty of tenant houses. One of the best bar gains in Georgia. Easy terms. 80 acres in limits of good town, 10 room modern residence, hard wood floors, steam heat, large bams; 4* room tenant house. $6,000 1-3 cash. Write for list SOUTHERN LAND CO. Americas, Ga., Cuthbert, Ga* or Thomanton. Ga. "Drink "Hot Tom" FT "TOUCHES THE SPOT." jj I esats a ?lata at all Gsecaza. ?.