Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Established in 1869. Pabliahed Three Times Each Week. 9a Tuesday, Thrrsday and Saturday. Sintered as second-class matter cn feuuury fi, 1009, at the post office ?I Omngehurg, 3. 0., under the Act .if O?ngre is ol March, 1870. las. L. Si 318, Editor and Proprietor. Sas. Izlar Sims, - - Publisher. Subscription Bates. dmt Tear.. . . . $1.50 JBx Monte?..75 Ihne Mon ths.40 Bemittanres should be made by reg istered letter, check, money order or nqpress order, payable to The 'limes m? Democrat, Orangeburg, S. C. Lorimer ought to be known as the "jack-pot" Senator, as some sort of scheme lilie that was used to get him elected. The Spartanburg Journal volun teers the information that while some mer. borrow trouble others buy It by the bottle. The seating of Lorimer as a Sen ator Is ac.other good argument why United States Senators should be elected by the people direct. Then "jack-pot-," would not be potent. This is the season of the year when all the 'base ball clubs are pickiug winning teams. But as the days go by, the winners fail to pan out, and the fans are cussing long and loud. A Northern'Democratic paper says Senator Elailey of Texas should take care lest he slip over the inch or two between himself and the growing sen timent that the party should dis charge him "for the good of the ser vice." The Times and Democrat thinks the best way to help the poor chil dren of the State to an education is to build up the country schools in stead of erecting ornamental build ings of learning that can be done without. Why ?8 It that whenever the Re publican party "gets in bad" there is always a Democrat?or Democrats? to let down the windlass? Put the Republican party in a hole, and we * always have Democrats heading the rescuers, Why? Five nitates in the union have de clared for woman suffrage. The thing Is gettir.g to be rather alarming, isn't it? asks the Anderson Advo cate. May be so, but they will vote right, as a certain deposed mayor out in Seattle will no doubt testify. The Buffalo, N. Y., Enquirer, in speaking of the Lorimer scandal, wants l.o know "why should 'the ablest man on the Democratic side' make It his business to plead for two days to save the Republican senator whom several of the ablest Republi can senateors say should be turned out?" Senator Root, in his speech in the Lorimer scandal, challenged the Senators to deny that in their hearts they know "the whole movement of the corrupt and venal crowd that fol lowed I.orimer's agent Browne to the vote, ought to be treated as no valid basis fcr a seat in the Senate." That was a porer. The Spartanburg Journal is right in its prediction that the country will not be satisfied with the method by which the senate defeated the direct election of senators. It was done by putting on an amendment which it was known would cost the measure enough votes to defeat it. The Sen ate wili rectify the wrong when the new Democrats are sworn in. When the noble spirit of Zach McGheo took its flight to the unseen world, this old world was made poor er. Zach McGhee's place can never be fille L Some one else can take up his everyday work where he left off, but he had another work that no oth er hands can take up. It must go undone, and mankind is poorer De cause the only one who could do it has gone from among us. Walter T. Reckling, a young man of Colimbia, appeared before Judge Copes and asked for an annulment of a marr iage he had entered into with Alma Williams, on the ground that he was intoxicated at the time of the marriage and that the woman took advantage of his condition. Such cases us this are becoming too com mon, ?.nd some way should be found to put a stop to them. The Journal says "four old vet erans, W. H. Kerr, magistrate at Greenwood; James Rogers, magis trate at Ninety Six; W. W. Purdy, magistrate at Verdery; W. P. Dev lin, magistrate at Bradley, have been removed, not because of incompeten cy or malfeasance in office, but sim ply for the reason, we suppose, that they did not vote for Mr. Blease." Surelj' the Journal must be mistaken. Has not Mr. Biease always professed great love and admiration for the old Confederate veterans? Every time anything is said about our socalled higher institutions oi learning, some one chips in with the demagogical claim that they are do ing a great work for the poor boys and girls of the State. The New berry Observer recently grew elo quent on this subject, devoting sev eral sticks of comment to a little four 'Ine squib that appeared in The Timen and Democrat. Can The Ob serve:* name a real poor boy or girl from Newberry county who has been educated at our socalled higher In stitutions of learning, who would net have been educated had it not been for them? , The Loriraer Scandal. By 'he aid of Democratic votes, Loriiiivr who bribed his way to the United States Senate, has be? 1 given his seat by being copiously white washed in a great speech by .Sena tor Bailey, who forced a vote in the case at this session of Congress. Had the case gone over to the next session of congress, when the new Democratic Senators would have oc cupied many of the seats now held down by the stand pat Republican friends of Lorimer, the vote would have been different. Instead of Lori mer being given the seat, it would have been declared vacant and re ferred back to the people of Illinois. (Bailey knew this, and for some reason, known only to himself, he espoused the cause of the corrupt Lorimer, and, discrediting the Dem ocratic party, to which he claims to belong, be fought to have the case decided by the present Senate, which is composed largely of Lorimer's friends, so as they could give him a good coat of white wash, as well as the seat which he bought in the United States Senate. No impartial man can read all the testimony in this scandal without comini to the conclusion that by bribery and cor ruption in the Illinois Legislature was built up the majority vote which placed Lorimer In the Senate of the United States. "In the flood of words poured out to obscure this simple issue we have had Lorimer himself describing the youthful friendships with "Hinky Dink" McKenna and "Manny" Abra hams which, he says, explain why fifty-three Democrats in the Illinois joint legislative session voted for a Republican as Senator. We have had the sinuous sophistrj of Mr. Bailey that seven votes proved cor rupt do not vitiate Mr. Lorimer's ma jority," is the way the New York World puts it. Against this calcu lated hysteria, against this amazing exhibition of Senatorial cynicism in the presence of confessed corruption, we would recall to the public the damning evidence brought out be fore the investigating committee 01 the Illinois Legislature and the courts of that State. That evidence tells you how Browne, the boss, and Abrahams, the bell-wether, led fifty-three de serting Democrats into the enemy's lines just at the agreed-apon time when the Republicans deserted their own candidate for Mr. Lorimer; how one member was bought with patron age, as corruptly as if cash were used; how Holtslaw deposited his $2,500 bribe-money in his own bank; how White, Link and Beckemeyei confessed to taking bribes; how the "jack-pot" was divided in St. Louis ?first $1,000 each to the faithful and then a later dividend of $900; how perjury was clumsily essayed to hide the proof of bribery; how Browne carried a large sum of mon ey in "a blue belt around his waist," how bribery was so known and so notorious in Springfield that it had become a cheap joke to dozens of degraded men. Read the extracts we make from the evidence on the. third page. Bought Like Sheep. The New York World says that 'Senator Bailey has advanced the ar gument that seven men proved cor rupt should not vitiate Lorimer's ma jority. That majority consisted of 108 votes in a total of 202. To sup port the argument Mr. Bailey does not restore the corrupt Democratic votes to the Democratic column, where but for corruption they would naturally have belonged, but wipes them out altogether, leaving 101 to 94. "But no man in his senses believes that there were only seven men cor rupted. Fifty-three Democrats voted for Lorimer; but only forty-eight Republicans, until at the last mo ment seven more came o^ sr. Nobody can read the voluminous testimony describing that pandemonium of leg islative debauchery at Springfield without disgust that any man should rise in the Senate of the United States to utter excuses for such a sordid market of votes and of con sciences. "And we are asked in the sight of the whole world to accept a Senator from Illinois whose credentials reek of the most shameless fraud! It was the old familiar arithmetic of corruption by which Lorimer's vote was figured out?Addition, Division and Silence. And the silence has been broken until the whole country rings with the scandal. Will the Sen ate dare seat the "receptive candi date" who at Springfield held daily counsel with the buyer of votes, the agent of the "jack-pot," the wearer of the blue belt stuffed with bank notes?" "I Amuse Myself." In a certain French play a member of fashionable society is asked how ; he spends his time. His reply is, "I I amuse myself." That just about ex 1 presses the attitude of the rich fash ; ionable society in this country, or any country for that matter. Its mem bers have no conception of lif--? but I to have a "good time." They love I to spend money they do not earn, I eat and drink the costPest food and 'wines, turn night into day and i?rat jify the lowest tastes. Put such a life i of dissipation fails to satisfy and if : long continued it produces any amount of unpleasantness and sense I of failure. And this because all through the process there has been operating The law Of diminishing j returns." Of course it is only fair I to state that there are members in j the rich fashionable society who do jnot so live, but they are rare excep tions. The South is not cursed yet with that brand of society, for which we should be duly thankful. On the Safe Side. It is a very easy thing to prophesy, especially if one takes the precaution to place the fulfillment of the proph ecy some centuries hence, because in that case no one now living will then be on earth to 6how the truth or falsity of the prediction. Very re cently a noted dSvine said that in 25? years time this country would have half the population of the earth. But as an offset to that glowing pic ture some scientist, specialist, or other, gloomily predicts that in 250 years everybody in this country will be insane or feeble-minded. As a matter of fact neither prophec had any real basis upon which to make his forecast, each being moved, prob ably, by his temperament and imag ination. But anyway we all hope the preacher and not the specialist may be right. Closer Trade. It will be a good thing if closer and more extensive trade relation* between this country and the nations to the south of us result from the recent' Pan-American commercial conference. There is certainly great need of it for while Germany and Great Britain are rapidly developing their South American trade and their ships are found in nevery porh the United States commerce with the Latin republics is small and her ships are found in every port the trouble usually with these confer ences is that they arc marked more by social functions and eloquent hue empty compliments than by that which is practical. It is very pleas ant, no Joubt, ? to exchange good wishes and enjoy hospitality but something more tangible is required for the expansion of trade. To the Democratic Voters of Or angeburg County. At the suggestion of several of my friends, I hereby announce that I am a candidate for Judge of Probate and Special Referee. Should you see fit to entrust this office to me I Leg to assure you that I shall use my best efforts to discharge the duties of this important position carefully and ef ficiently. Yours very truly, L. K. Sturkie. For Judge of Probate and Special Referee. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Judfe of Probate and Special Referee for Orangeburg County, made vacant by the election of Judge Robert S. Copes to the Cir cuit Bench. Andrew C. Dibble. To the Democratic voters of Orange burg county: I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Judge of Probate and Special Referee of Orangeburg coun ty, and pledge my best services to the people if elected. Edward B. Friday. NOITCE. W. S. Barton, Jr., the Orangeburg County Business Agent, offers' rare bargains in the following: Red May Wheat, Blue Straw Wheat, Undamaged Appier Oats, Simpkins Prolific Cotton Seed, pure to name. ? Aud as for bargains in fertilizer materials such as: Kanit, Hardsalt, Muriate of Potash, Acid Phosphate, Fish Scrap (Domestic and Foreign), Tankage, Nitrate of Sod*:. Cotton Seed Meal, Peruvian Guano, 2tc, well such bargains cannot last long. Do not delay or perhaps you will regret it. Any local union that desires It will be paid a visit by the County Business Agent, W. S. Barton, Jr., if the local Union will notify him to that effect, stating the date and hour and place of its meeting. Also office No. 11 Court House Square for Rent. W. S. BAB TON, JR. Notice to Creditors. All persons holding claims against the estate of. the late Thomas G. Kemmerlin will present same prop erly verified and all persons indebted to said estate will make payment to Idella E. Kemmerlin, Executrix, or to Bowman & Bowman, Attys. 2-25-4. A STEADY DRAIN. Sick Kidneys Weaken the Whole Body?Make You 111 and Languid. Sick kidneys weaken the body through the continual drainage of life-giving albumen from the blood into the urine, and the substitution of poisonous uric acid that goes broadcast through the system, sow In.? the seeds of disease. Loss of al'ouman causes weakness, languor, depression. Uric poisoning causes rheumatic pain, nervousness, nausea, cricks in the back, gravel and kidney stones. The proper treatment is a kidney treatment, and the best rem edy is Doan's Kidney Pills. Great Orangeburg cures prove it. George J. Dexter, 22 Orange St., Orangeburg, S. C, says: "I used Doan's Kidney Pills and they bene fitted me in a short time. I was both ered by too frequent passages of the kidney secretions, and I also felt weak and nervous at times. Procur ing Doan's Kidney Pills at Dr. Wan namaker's drug store, I began the'; use and was soon rid of my trouble. I have not had need of a kidney rem edy since then. I give Doan's Kid ney Pills the credit for my cure." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name?Doan's? and take no other. Worked Too Well. "You should ride a horse." "Can't afford it," said the appreci ative person. "But it will give you an appetite." "Perhaps. But it will do the same i thing for the horse." Quite Pretty "I am not ashamed of my latest book." said the author. "Of course not," said the local critic, "I noticed its gilt edges and the beautifully colored frontispiece." LIFTED BY WHIRLWIND OUT OF SIGHT "Tarry here. I pray thai." Experiences of Elijah the Prophet* II Kings 2:1-11?March 5 "Enoch walked with God and he was not."? Genesis 5.*2{. AfOBHE Bible tells of three notable A men who disappeared ? God took them. One of these. Enoch, we are told, did not die. Another of them. Moses, we are told, died and was buried. Of the third one, the special subject of our lesson. it is not stated whether be died or not. But it is our understanding that he did die. The heaven to which Elijah was taken by a whirlwind was the aerial heaven. In which the birds fly. His taking away after this manner was to order to complete the typical fea tures of his life, as we shall see. That neither be nor Enoch went to heaven, in the sense of passing into the heav enly or spiritual state and into the presence of God, is clearly testified to by Jesus, who declared, "No man hath ascended up to heaven, save he who came down from heaven, even the Son of man." (John 3:13.) Although of Enoch it is declared that he was trans lated that he should not see death, it is noc stated that he was translated to heaven. Where he now is no man knows. The object served in the translation of Enoch probably is to show by and by that it was quite possible for God to have main tained our race f N~ in life perpetual ly?that only be cause of sin was it necessary for A (1 ;i m and his family to die; that when sin a n d death shall be abolished by Messiah during bis Kingdom, and when the willing and obe dient of mankind shall have been brought to hu man perfection again, they will never need to die. Elijah a Type of tho Church As Melcbisedec (a King and Priest at the time) represented or typified the Church ir glory, so Bible students un derstand that Elijah, the Prophet, typi fied or represented the Church in the flesh?this side the vail?from Jesus to the present. Thus, long after Eli Jab's death God, through tho Prophet, declared to Israel, Behold, I send you Elijah the Prophet before the great and notable day of the Lord, and if he do not turn the hearts of the Fathers to the children, and the children to the fathers, then the earth shall be smit ten with a curse?a time of trouble such as never was since there wus a nation.?Malachi 4:3, G. John the Baptist, as the forerunner of Jesus in the flesh, typified this greater Elijah (the Church In the flesh), the forerunner of the Messiah of glory. As John the Baptist did not succeed in bringing the people into harmony with the fathers (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, etc.), so likewise the Church in the flesh, as God foresaw, has not been successful in bringing peace to the world. As John the Baptist's failure with Israel was followed by the overthrow cf their national polity in A. D. 70. so we believe, the failure of his antitype, the Church in the flesh, to bring In harmony and righteousness, is by Di vine intention to be followed by the world-wide trouble which will humble man and prepare the way for the es tablishment of the Messianic Kingdom. Caught Up In a Whirlwind Many Christians have not noticed that there Is not only a difference be tween the heavenly salvation, which God has provided for the Church, and the earthly restitution (Acts 3:19-21) ,_^ which God has jjjBjgBll^Efc provided for the world, but addi tionally there are :" two distinct classes of the Church brought ?i to our attention in the Bible. First, we have the faithful Royal Priesthood styled "The Body of Christ," of which Jesus Is the Head. These have the promise that they shall sit with Christ in his throne and be Judges of the world dur ing the Messianic Kingdom. The oth er class of saved ones on the spirit plane the Scriptures designate a "great company, whose number no one knows." (Itev. 7:0.) These will serve before the Throne. Chariots and Horsemen of Fire Having located Elijah as the type of the "ulect" class, Bible Students are inclined to consider Elisha as probably a typical character; nlso a representa tive of the greater spiritual class, the antitypical Levites. The various instances in which Elijah suggested to Elisha that ho should tar ry behind are supposed to represent the trials "and difficulties in the path way of the Church here, which will suggest to the "great company," Liie Elisha class, that they continue not to follow their more zealous brethren of the Flijab class. Elisha receiving the muntlc. One of Marie's Epigrams. Marie Dressier is famous for her epigrams. An actor at the opera house was recalling one of her just ly famous bits of repartee. Miss Dressier was inviting her friends to a birthday party. "There'll be a birth day cake, I suppose?" some one ie marked. "Yes, there'll be a cake, never fear," was the reply. "Ana candles, of course?" went on the al leged wit. "My friends," said Miss Dressier, "this is to be a Urthday party, not a torchlight procession." m M ARCHANT PIANO The BEST Piano. SCALE ..,.BEST ACTION . \_BEST TONE.,.... BEST MATERIAL A [ . BEST CONSTRUCTION. BEST DESIGN. BEST FINISH.BEST DURABILITY . . BEST 53 East Russell St.. Orangeburg, S. C. <S> * i Treatment [of Customers?BEST. Are You a Customer? If Not, Why Not? PHONE 59 Your office wants. If it's used in an office we can furni h it and at the right price. Service prompt. Pi ices reasonable. SIMS BOOK STORE. Orangeburg, 5. C. : Theato To-days Program ?THE PREACHER'S WIFE" (Vita graph.) A drama in which the unyielding prejudice of self-instituted morals eanio near wrecking two lives, and is corrected by the Rebellion against them of a young wife. This is a great picture that teaches the harmful influence and effects of intolerance and narrowness of the self-righteous. -AND SHADOWS AND SUNSHINE (Lubin.) A touching drama of every day life in rnvhich the superannuated clerk, dismissed from employ because of age, finds the sunshine at last. CAROLINA SPECIAL, High Class Electrically Lighted Train Between Charleston and Cincinnati. ?...VIA? Southern Railway. In Connection with C, N. O. & T. P. Railway Beginning January 2. 1911. Consisting of Combined Baggage and Stroking Car, Fiist Class Coach, Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping Car, PuLman Ctseivaticn Sleeping Car and Dining Car Service. SOLID BETWEEN Charleston and Cincinnati. ON THE FOLLOWING CONVENIENT SCHEDULES: WEST-BOUND NO. 7. 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