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PAtahliKhed in is<ss). Published Three Times Kaeli ---Week. Ob Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday. - ?Emeretl as stt-ouil-class matter ,en fenoar* ID, 1909, at tlie post office OS Orangoburg, S. C., under the Act 8f Congress of- Marchi 1*579. $*tt. L. SI KUitor and Proprietor. Jas. iziar siiMN. ? - Publisher. . Subscription Kales. One Year ......... $1.5? 6!x Months. .7"? Thiw Months. . A'l I-1 Remittances should be made by reg fetered letter, cheek, money order or express artier, payable to The Times and Democrat, Orange hu rg, S. C. The Times and Democrat wishes ?every one of Its readers a very Mer ry Christmas. The Times and Democrat hopes that no little stocking will be misled hy Santa Claus. The Times, and Democrat hopes that every child will be made happy by a visit from Santa Claus.' I ? The Times and Democra'i hopes that no man will (mar the Christmas pleasures of himself or family by get ting drunk. The Times and Democrat wishes that every man, woman and child ?will have'one of the pleasantesi Christma^s this year they ever spent. I The Times and Democrat invokes Cod's blessing upon these homes that have been saddened since last Christ mas by the death angel taking away some lined one. The Times and Democrat wishes that every dollar that has been spent for Christmas whiskey had been put in a fund to help the poor and needy ones of the county. What is the use of getting sourea in life? It does no good to anyone, least of all'to the man who gets sour. We all love-the fresh cheerful laugh of the child, why not keep it in after.years. The Times and Democrat hopes that no accident or tragedy will oc cur during Christmas to mar the festivities of the season that should rcal.'y mean, "Peace on earth and good will to men." j When it conies to revising the tariff .every man who has been elect ed to Congress as a Democrat should be made to tee the mark, or get out of the party. There is no place in the party for traitors. The Times and Democrat freely and heartily forgives all its enemies for any wrong that they did it, or tried to do it, during the past yeir, and wishes them a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The Times and Democrat wishes a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year to all who helped it along during the past year by ?ividg It advertisements and oth erwise contributed to its success. ? The Sparantaburg . Herald says about sixty thousand dollars was sent out of that city during the past two weeks for whiskey. Spartan burg is the headquarters of the Anti Saloon League for this State, but It makes a very poor showing, if the Herald's figures are correct. It is folly for Democratic leaders to talk about redeeming campaign pledges if they do not put men in office who can bs trusted to redeem those pledves. Standpat Democrats are just as much out of harmony with the misses as standpat Repub licans are. The first national test of a rehabil itated Democratic party will come in the election of United States Sena tors in New York, New Jersey and Ohio. If the men elected in these three States cannot command puo lic confidence their election will be a serious blow to the Democracy. In New Jersey progressive Democ racy has found a voice and a leader in Wood row Wilson. The New York World says only a man of the high est couraje at' I honesty would have taken his political life in his hands as Mr. Wilfon h:s done in fighting the Senatorial ambitions of James Smith, Jr. Should the three great States of New York. New Jersey and Ohio send Democratic Senators to Washington whe are in sympathy with the peo ple instead of the corporations, the Democratic probability of electing their Presidential candidate in 1912 would be greatly Increased. The Democratic leaders are mak ing an hon?3t effort to deserve pub lic confidence. Champ Clark ha3 called a conference of the Demo cratic Representatives-elect for Jan. 19 to select a Ways and Means Com mittee to begin preparations for hon est tariff revision. No Democrat who Is opposed to tariff reform all along the lino should attend this confer ence. W7hen the civil war came on the population of the United States was a little more than thirty-one million. Today, the population is more than ntnety-two millions. This tremend ous growth, which has taken place since the war, and within the mem ory of a single generation. Is an in dication of what thi3 great nation is destined to be :.n the future. Pic ture it two hundred years from now, ll you can. Steady Growth of Socialism. ?Under the rule of the Republican party socialism has, grown* rapidly in the -United States. The name of the socialist party first appeared upon the ballot in, the United States in 1888, when it polled 2,068 votes. In the twenty-one years which have since elapsed it has progressed stead ily, until its vote in 1910 was sur prising. It will be some time be fore all'the figures for 1910 are available, but it is known that the vote scored a large increase all.over the country. In New York it grew from 3S,000 to 65,000; in California from 1 5,000 to over 60,000. It is probable that this year's total reached the million mark. Milwau kee elected the first socialist con gressman on Ncember S. The thoroughgoing socialist boldly declares that the earth and the full ness thereof was intended, not for the making of dividends, but for the satisfaction of human needs. His program is frankly revolutionary, though he prefers the ballot to the bullet a6 a means to the end. While the avowed advocates of socialism have worked with wonderful energy and persistency to promote the growth of their cause, they are by no means entitled to all the credit for what has been accomplished. The socialist has a partner who is work ing overtime to convince the world th~t there is no hop^. save in revo lution, the Omaha Daily News. The socialist's partner is no other than our old friend, the Standpatriot ?that, is to say, the contented con servative who, hardened by fa; years, insists that "all's for the best in the best of all possible worlds." This man stands stubbornly in the face of ail progress. He consistent ly opposes every human aspiration for better things. For money, he asks more and more; to men, he con cedes less and less. He demands higher rates for railroad service. He resists all attempts at the regulation of public service corporations. He regards the Wisconsin pro posal for government railroals, docks and steamships in Alaska as unspeakable heresy. He insists on higher rates upon all necessities of life every lime the tariff is revised. With hundreds oT thousands of chil dren ffoing to school every morning without their breakfasts, he declares that our trouble is not "high cost of living, but cost of high living." He i3 fighting now for a kind of "open shop" which would crush labor un ions to the dust, leaving the work men to deal In his naked individu ality with organized dollars. He says men shall work when and where he pleases for what he chooses to give them, or that they shall starve, with their women and chil dren. The standpatriot is the great est asset of socialism. If he has his way, the earth will be owned by fewer and fewer, the many will be more and more completely exploited ?and the revolution will come the surer and the sooner. The growing strength of socialism in every elec tion for the past twenty-two years means jnsr. this: We are going'for ward. Most of us would prefer to progress by evolution, but if the standpatriot continues to standpat long enough and hard enough he will probably succeed In giving us revo lution instead. Changing the Calendar. The Swiss federal council has rie cl'ed to call an international confer ence for the purpose of straighten ing out ce,,fairi twists and irregulari ties In the calendar. It Is proposed, among other reforms, so to change the present method of reckoning that all the months will beg'n on the same day of the week. The plan is co make every normal year consist of three huniied and sixty-four days, divided into tour quarters snd ex actly fifty-two weeks. In eJL"*? Quar ter there will be two thirty-day months and one thirty-one-day month. New Year's day will be made an undated festival and a tim ilar festival will be inserted between the:last day of June and Llt-j first of July,, the purpose of th's* being to provide for the extra iay that now comes :n leap years. The Atlanta Journal says there have been only two momentous changes of the calendar in the world's" history. Julius Caesar found the method of measuring the years topsy-turvy and complex. It was !<e who ordained that three yearr. O'lt of every four should consist of thre*. hundred and sixty-five days and thst the fourth, or leap year, should con tain three hundred and sixty-six days, lie based his method on the compu tation that a year was about tlsree hundred and sixty-five and a fourth days in len:rrh. As a matter of precise Tact, huw ovor. the you- is threy hunOred an.! sixty-five days, five hours, forty eight minutes and forty-six seconds in lenvth, so that the year Caesai established was eleven minu'?-< an 1 fourteen se-onus too long. Th's ap parently trivia] deference aumiutcl in the cou-se of four hundre" y.v^rs to more tlnn three days, so thi.-. iim? was litera'ny getting out of joint. To meet this dilliculty. Pope Gregory, the thirteenth, in 1582 inaugurated a reform by dropping ten days and ordering October the fourth to be called October the fifteenth. This is the calendar under which we have sin-c ma le engagements and done business. It was not adopted In England until 1752, becauae of that country's then anti-Catholic sentiment. When parliament finally ordered the cban?e in dates, a mob gathered and cried out, "Give us our eleven day3," for they believed that somehow ^r other they had really been robbed of that much time and pay. Ths present effort to perfect the calendar still further will be watched with world-wide Interest, and though it may meet some oppo sition, it must ultimately succeed. Where Danger Lnrks. Under the above caption The State voices our sentiments exactly when It says: "Jame3 Smith, Jr., comes into the open as a candidate for Unite 1 States S3nator in New Jer sey?James Smith, Jr., of "sugar tariff" fame. Thornton, protection ist, ha3 been elected Senator from Louisiana. McLean of Washington, the most dlstinguishei "seasonal" Democrat in the country, is a candi date for Senator in Ohio. Subter raneous efforts are proceeding >o. elect to the Senate In New York a Democrat of tender disposition to ward vested- interests, and William A. Clark of Montana,'fully as willing if not so able as Allrlch to extend aid to trusts and monopolies in dan ger from legislation designed to ben efit the people, is slated for Senator. "After the expiration of the pres ent Congress, the Republican major ity in the Senate will be reduced to eight. The reduction has been caused by resentment of the American peo ple against privilege fostered by the Republicans. Recent Democratic successes recorded the popular re buke of the Smiths, McLeans, and all of their ilk not le33 than of the Atdriches and Scotts. "A Senate Republican by a major ity of elJht or ten and having eight or ten "protection" Democrats or half-breed Democrats complacent to the Republican money syndicate will disgust the American people and drive them to seek relief at the hands of the La Follettes and their asso ciated "insurgents." "The question is whether the Democrats shall win the confidence of the country by deserving it or sur render the country for a long term of years to a Republican party con trolled by "insurgents." Nobody wishes a government dominated by a coalition of standpat Republicans and other standpatters disguised as Democrats?" Nothing But Whiskey. "Nothing But Whiskey"'would be an appropriate sign to hang in front cf 104 Kennedy place from no.v un til Christmas. The Southern Ex press company has obtained permis sion from Mayor Lee to open a "whiskey depot' at that place, and |old boozo is roiling in and being de livered by the wholesale. Fully a half carload was delivered yesterday. From early morning until closing hour at night three men were kept busy making de?vorics. In packages I of from five gallons down to out quart, they were handing it over the counter as fast as. the thirsty one3 could attach their signatures to the delivery book. And even after this all-day run, fully a thousand gal lons were on the floor last night, ac cording to a gentleman who is good on estimates. From the counter in the front of the storeroom to the rear wall, with a very narrow passageway between, the firewater is scattered over the floor. One of the men at the sub |station stated that more whiskey was. delivered yesterday than at any time idurlnr the holidays last year. A conservative estimate of the money that will go out of Spartanburg foi whiskey this week and next is placed ; at $00,000. The above from the Spartanburg .Herald will convince the most skepti cal that prohibition does not pro hibit in that quarter of the State. But the same story comes from all over the ?tate. The same state of affairs exists right here in Orange burg, and other towns In this county. It Is estimated that over one million dollars has been sent out of the State during this month for whiskey. It only shows that the people will have whiskey regardless of any law that may he passed. Antiquity of Christmas Day. The earliest mention of the 25th of December as ? Christmas day is found in an ancient catalog of church fevtivals about 3-54 A. D. And it is surprising to see with what alacrity the date was received and the nativ ity celebrated throughout Christen dom. It seems as if the world had been waiting for this festival of di vine and human childhood, and was ready to welcome it at once with songs of joy. In the year 360 it was already celebrated in Rome by vast multitudes thronging the churches. Twenty years later Antioch had tak en it up with great popular enthus iasm. And in little more than 30 years from its earliest suggestion, the observance cf December the 25th as ? the day of the nativity had become i the universal practice of Christians. File Comfy Claims. All persons holding claims against the county should file them in the 'office of the Supervisor on or before ? the first day of January. M. E. Zoigler, Clerk. Notice to the Public. The Bakery Store will bo closed on .Monday and no wagons will he running. But any one desiring I bread can be found at the Bakery, I corner Clover and Rc.ilroad Avenue. I The Oran?ehnrg Steam Bakery, Notice. Confederate soldiers and widows of Confederate soldiers wishing to make application for pensions will meet Mr. .1. C. Pike. He will be Jn I the Auditor's office every Saturday i in January to ftii out bianks to come j before the board at Its meeting the first Monday in February. Municipal Notice to Dealers in Live Stock. Office of City Clerk and Treasurer, Orangeburg, Dec. 20, 1910. The S'rrset Cuininlttee ot City Council, Alderman Sain, Chairman, having been authorised to purchase two mulea for the use of the city of 'Orangeburg, you are hereby notified that the committee will be at "Cot ] ton Yard," St. John street, at 11 o'clock, a. m., December 31st, 1910, for the purpose of inspecting such mules as may be offered them for sale. Minimum weight of mules desired, 1100 pounds; age from five to seven years. I By order of the Cor^m't^e. L. H. Wannamaker, C'ty Clerk and Treasurer. LLAiMrlbll lUMjflft onf-hoir o-ut a Wort '.Money to IjpimI?We are *<n position to negotiate loans on improved real estate in Orangeburg City and County. Glaze & Herbert. tl Wanted?to buy 1000 bushels corn on the ear, buyer to do the haul ing. Address Corn, care Times and Democrat. ? 12-15-2. Wanted?A white man with family to run a two or three horso con tract farm. ' Apply at once. Paul A. Gleaton. ? 12-17-10* jWc have just received a carload o: fine cyprus shingles. All heari. $5.25. Primer, $4.25. Dixie Lum ber Company, Orangeburg. S. C Tor Sale?Two ! ?e-roogt dwellings in the city of Orang^turg. For further information apply t.c Stiles ?R. .Mellichamp. For Sule or Trade?Fifteen or twen ty head horses and mules. Also 1,000 bushels ear corn fjr sale cheap. Apply Green-Brabham Co., Cope. S. C. 12-15-2 WttiileU?lmpiuved taiLu ?! luu l> 15(1 acres on public road wlthn three mlleB of Orangeburg. Am one desiring to sell advise fu'i.< regarding place, locat'ou . an. price. Krank E. Smitb. Orange burg. S. C. M??-rf Sbi?uti'"g .Match?On Monday, Dec. 26, beginning at 10 o'clock, at the store of W. S. Lee, Jr., ai>out six miles from Orangebur:4 on the Ninety Six road. There will -be about 20 turkeys, 50 chickens and five er six small bogs. The public Is invsLtid" iL'-y-.r> Summons f?r Relief. The Stale of South Carolina, County of Oraugeburg.?Court of Common Pleas. Hennetia Kirkland, James E. Kirk land, Emma L. Johnson, Hertha Kirkland, Talula E. Johnson, Hat tie E. Bland and Ida M. Williams. Plaintiffs, against Samuel Kirkland Charley Kirkland, M. Margaret Stokes, Mary E_. Hartneu, U. H. Moss and Robert Lide, Defen lants. Copy Summons. Fur Reliei. (Com plaint Served.) To the E'eftndants above named: You are hereby summoned and re quired to answer the complaint' in this action of which a copy is 'heru-. wii.li served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said com plaint on the subscribers at tneir of-' fices, Nos 21-23 Court House Square, Orangeburg, S. C. within twenty days after the service hereof, ex ' elusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the com plaint witbin the time aforesaid, thi plaintiff, in this action wi.l app.> to the Court for the re.ief demaudeu in the complaint. Glaze & Herbert, Attorneys for Plaintiff. November 14, 1910. To the absent Defendant, Charlev Kirkland, who is a non-resi lent, am. whose place of residence is unknown, or if he be dead, to his heirs at la^v. and next of kin: Take notice that the, com plaint and Summons in this action, of which the foregoing is a copy, was filed In the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Orangeburg County, Souci. Carolina, on the fourteenth day ?)! November, 1910, and that the said Summons is herewith served on you by Publication thereof as provided by law. Dated, November 14, A. D. 1910. 11-17-6. Glaze & Herbert, Plaintiffs Attorneys. Nos. 21-23 Cour: House Square, Or angeburg. S. C. Reward. Description of Albert Johnson. | alias Jack Johnson, alias Black Jack, "anted for murder In Orangeburg county, committed about November ? 4th. 1910: He is about 23 or 24 years old, quPe black, 5 feet, 7 or $ inches tall, stout build, broad face, limps when he walks as If one leg was shorter than the other, fresh cut ou leTi si !e of neck. Will pay ?2Ti.00 for his arrest and delivery in any jail in South Caro lina. Hp claims to have come from, North Carolina. A. M. Snlloy, Sheriff Orangebiirg Co.. 3. C. .V.the. Notice is hereby given that I will burg County, on December 3flfli. | 1910* and will thereupon nsk for my I file my final account as Executor of tht last will and testament of .1. Mor gan Brickie, deseased. with R. 15. Copes, J:idge of Probate for Orane? AI1 ptrsens holding claims against said estafe will present the same and all perso.is indebted to said es tate make payments, to the under signed at the law office of J. S. Sal ley Esq.. on or berore the 29th day of D:vember, 1910. tnhn \T nrl(.lr]e. Executor of last Will and Testament discharge ss Buch Executor. Notice of Discharge. I On the 16th day c" January. 1911, T v.-JM file with the Ju.-Ige of Probate jfor Oran?eburg County, S. C, my j final account as Guardian of the es ?t?te of M. P. Brady, minor, and will thereupon ask for my discharge as c.uch guardian. P. F. BRADY, Guardian of M. P. Brady. December Kth, 1910. Notice to Trespassers. All persons are warned not to hunt on any of our lands. Wm. C. Wolfe. Marvin B. Horger, Lucius B. Wolfe. <3 Conklin's Self-Filling Foun tain Pen is the grift cf gifts for ell who write?the women folia as well as Ihe men folks. Filled instanliy by dipping in any ink and pressing Cresccnt-Fillcr. No mussy dropper-filler, no pumping, no parts to unscrew, nothing complicated. No inky fingers or soiled clothing. Self-Filling Fountain Pen is a veritable marvci of convenience and will prove a source of satisfaction to the user every day for years. Writes with wonderful smoothness and ease No other fountain pen so good. Ciiva Ihe best in Xmas boxes. .?>' . ?? I? K. We Jnvile all who are anticipating buying an AU I OMOBIi E to call and S( e our New Hudson belore buying elsewhere. L. E. RiLEY. AGENT. "Complete Line." HOOKS. SASH and MI.INli?. UM' CHWKXT h-ih! PI .A ST KM ? let Our Price Hefore Ituylng. HAY. C<?l{N. OATS hiiiI ItlCi FI.or It. Our Ke^ij f??r H?r***s, Cow- ?i> ''hickens me made from clean ??f <raln. >*-r*-eh Supply of TIT It Nil' ami KL"I AH AC S A Seeds A I.KAI.FA *?' CI.OVKK. Ayers & Williams -CO TO~ BATES & DAFBY t. Matthews. -FOR HORSIS AMD MULES They handle ihe breedy kind. We nuaran'ee everything, and our <;uar antes means something. Notice ic Creditors. State cf South Carolina; Comity of Oraiigeburg. ? In Common ('leas. LessIe L. A vinger, etc . Plaintiff.. ? against E. S. IJaniiister, etc., De fendant. Ity virtue of the judgment in th?.? above stated rase, all persons having claims against rile estate of Adella Elizabeth Hann ist er. deceased, are hereby required to prove llic>- re spective demands before the under signed at Oransebtirg, S. C, on or before the 2Sth day of December. ID 10, cr 'JL- dsbarred payment. Robt. B. Copes. Judge of Probate, as special lleferee. December 6th. 19 10. Notice to Creditors. Statft or Squill Carolli-.t, County of . Orangebur.\?In Common Pleas. . Jf.cob C. Witt, Plaintiff, vs. Laura H. Milhouse, et al., Defendants. Pursuant to the judgment in the 8^'ove stated case, all persons hav ing claims against the estate of J. 0. Milhouse, deceased, are hereby re quired to prove their respective de mands befere the undersigned, at Ur angeburg, S. C, on or before the 3rd day of January, 1911, or be de barred payment. ROBERT E. COPES, Judge of Probate, as Special Referee. December 12th, 1910. id You Lose Your Wages The last time You were disabled thrcigh Accident or ickness? Why Let it Happen Again? \;> \-. ife or f?mi!y will have trcuble enough when you are an INVALID (through Accident cr Sicl.ne.<s) instead of a wage earner. Don't make their trouble greater through any neglect on your part. For Information Call On ZEIGLER & DIBBLE, 7ye irjsureipce Aep OIvANGEBURG, S. C. La FL. mm? The festive season is now drawing near and the thcugh's of one and all are drifting into the happy channel cf conferring pleasure to the hearts uf others. The ali absorbing question of ihc nexi ihiee v\eet<s is. What shall I give? This | roblem is easily solved by taking a look at the large and vari< d stock now shown to .vuch an advantage in my newly fitted i p store. MY thoughts are: What shall J do to help you in this busy time of getting ready for the coding Christmas seaton? I sim ply offer for your inspection a beautiful and great array of Christmas good?; Watches, Clocks, Lockets, Chains, La valieres, Rings, Pins, Cuff Buttons, Silver Purses, Thin.ties; gold and silver, Bracelets, and everything in the jVwt Iry Ime. Novelties, handsome Leather Hand Bags, Card Cases, Play ing Cards in cases, Wallets, Bill lJooks, Cigar Cases, J wel Boxes, Mirrors, hand pa'nted China, Cut Class, Silverware, etc. Something can be found to suit father, mother, brother, sister, husband, wile and last but not least, sweetheart. Prices are right and couitecus attention will be shown to all. Watch windows for display of new goods. JEWELLER and OPTOMETRIST 50 East Russell t.Orangeburg S. C. Our Motto This Year is-'* TA v3? F Y?r." Getting ready has kept us pretty busy for the last while back. We are going to be ibla to show ycu people our best-yet Christma display this year. It is going to be larger than before, and be'.ter selected. It is g-'ing to be more attractive, too, and in every way more worthy o your very best ii.terest. This ad is just to acquaint you with cur intentions. We are now prepared to print the word "READY," which means that everything is ready for you, down to the smallest item. If you will bring \ our wants in our line to us, we promise to let you do your choosing from a stock that will represent ihe latest thoughts in Holiday Jewelry. Don't forget to call. Orangeburg, S. C. ESTABLISHED l?OT. A Git EAT BURDEN. To buy a poor piano Is to put n burden upon yourself which you'r? sure to regret. Such an lntrumenfc Is an endless source of disappoint ment. Get the best. The Kranlck & Back p anos are the highest stand ard of excellence. Perfection, con struction, touch, tone and action, as well as beautiful in design and mod erately priced, too. Cash or Install ments. Guarantee with every one. THE MARCHANT MUSIC CO.