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ItEfje Billon ijeialb. Establishwl' April 181)4. A. B. JORDAN. Editor. The Dillon Herald is published at the County Seat of one of the richest agricultural counties in the State. It is the official orgau of the county and goes into 90 per cent, of the homes in the county in which It is published. The office is equipped with linotype and mod- I era, high speed pressee. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ? $1,50 1 per year or 75 cents for 6 months. Subscriptions for less than six months will be chareed at the rate of 15 cents per month. All subscriptions are payable in advance. ADVERTISING RATES may be had on application, and advertisers may feel assured that through the colums of thiB paper they will reach all of Dillon county, a part of Eastern Carolina and contiguous tjrritory in North Carolina. Obituary sketches, cards of thanks, communications espousing the cause of a private enterprise or a political candidate, and like matter, will be charged at the rate of 8 cents per line. Contract advertisers will not be allowed to exceed their space at same rates or advertise anything foriegn to their regular business without extra charge. Advertisements to occupy special place will be charged for according to position desired. COMMUNICATIONS, unless they contain important news, or discuss brvefly and properly subjects of real interest, are not wanted; and If acceptable in every other way they) will be rejected unless the the real name of the author accompanies the same, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. DFLDON. S. O., AUG. 17. 1011 Fore ward. The editor asked the writer tb grind out a little editorial copy this week in his absence. As he has returned I do not want him mobbed or even subjected to the necessity of disavowing any views expressed below I publish this1 prefatory word. From prudential considerations the writer is also leaving town before publication. Pursuit would be useless. G. R. Pettlgrew. Poor Mississippi! And so Varadman the unshorn,' the wild woolly one, he of the i seal 'arpaint, has broken i ' States Senate at I 'tansas, who, af eruptions thgt tion, t)ut i lybody, has iecess .apure u have a kinof pSuch men taken seriously only in-so-ia* ?ey are symptoms. They reveal an abnormal state of mind in our people that is to be deeply deplored. When Barnum said that the American people liked to be hum-! bugged he uttered a truth that had a wider application than he knev. j Their complacent credulity as to the fake freaks of the dime museum is as nothing compared with their gullibility before a fantastic political freak. The ma" or the small boy who raises the cry "Stop thcif!" and sprints down the street will have an Immediate following. It matters not that there is no theif; there is at least the excitement of the chase. So it is with the spook-conjurer? your calamity howler. Like the "Pled Piper" he attracts those who employ others to think for them and leads them where he will. We are nothing but grown-up chil-1 ren alter all?with thia difference: when children the spooks chused as; now we chase the spook. But the result is always the same?general demoralisation. Vardaman's spook is the Black Peril?a renaissance of Reconstruction! Don't laugh! Mississippi ".wallowed it whole, and asked for more. They sent Vard. to the Senate to tell them all about it in Washington. John Sharp Williams defeated him a few years ago by a narrow margin ? say the skin of his teeth approximately ? but like Banquo's ghost he won't stay down ? so long as he can see ghosts! Of course the valiant Vard. will; stand between his beloved state j and the Black Besom that threatens! Hie has his war-chariot prepared, and indeed crowned his campaign by appearing therein in the sun-bakod streets of Meridian (or was It Jackson?) attired in. speckless white, chariot and all,1 "propelled" by one hundred and sixty white oxen?sans spot speck or stain. "Vote for the White Chief" was the tegend on the banner that relegated "Excelsior" to the rear car. ' V What followed? Seemingly every-! ody In Mississippi. It was a verbis triumphal march. White Suemacy was saved, also vindicated .mornings to suit the taste) and I the Shaggy One got there. Wu it the oxen or the aaeea that elected the White Knight? Whet would you think of a man who iboaM etation himself in the; middle of Main street, flourish a red shirt, and give a whoop for Wade Hampton? That will do. Thank you. We all honor Hamilton and his heroic followers?but that fight is won! The war is over. Hampton is dead and so is the issue as far as politics is concerned. There lives?a memory that can never die, and we do not want it desecrated by demagogues! Add local color and that is about what Vardaman did in Mississippi; and countless thousands accepted and acclaimed him as the very thing they had been wanting and waiting for, looking and yearning for, lo, these many years! They got him; and he got the U. S. Senate; what will he do with It? Presidential Perplexities. The tariff question has a very unpleasant habit of kicking back when one tampers with it. even with the best intentions. Our history has demonstrated this more than once, to the discomfiture of aspiring politicians and the embarrassment of political parties. Fearing, no doubt, that his countrymen in their absorption in business and baseball would forget this historical fact, President Taft has decided unselfishly and vicariously, to give a brand new demonstration of this back-action, tripleexpansion, party-paralyzing idiosyncrasy of the Tariff Terror. His motives were good and his plans well made. Disregarding the advice of the "stand patters" of the party he adopted the Reciprocity founling in a fatherly way that was most commendable and proceeded to coddle and fondle it into a state of animation and vigor suggestive of the infant Hercules. Thus far all went well and everybody was well and happy (except T. R. and Senator LaFolette) and the future looked bright as a picnic party when dinner was announced The paternal Taft was blushing with modest pride over his accomplishment, ("and 1 did It all by myself, too, while Teddy wasn't looking!") the Canadian fostermother was all smiles and giggleB, and Uncle Sam jerked his chin whiskers with a chuckle of approval. Diit alas for the vanity of human hopes! Mr. Taft's very humanity precipitated his extremity, and his extremity is the democratic opportunity. No sooner was his generosity noised abroad than two other foundlings are placed at his hospitable door seeking shelter and nurture. We refer, of course, to the Wool Bill and th e Farmers' Free List Bill, which the democratic hou*.* thinks ought to challenge the pity nnd paternal instincts of the President. Now it must not be inferred tliu-. there is anything malacious in i'u^ action of the Democrats; far from it. The President had been so srenerous ii proffering the Reciproci...- program that they determined to reciprocate ?in a missionary spirit?by v.'ferhig him a nice little surprise p.-ty in the form of the two tariff bills aforesaid. This is practical reciprocity ? the President't pet principle in practice! A pretty predicament in which to place a philanthropic president! (P's for dinner!) Here are two sharp, nicely polished horns of a dMemma: one spell oblivion; the other political ruin t it the portly one exercises the veto power and repudiates the | wailing orphans, they do say your Uncle Sam will shut off the White House coffee and otuer provisions; if he follow up his pioneer tariff policy by adopting the youngsters he will lose his present lucrative job, just when he is in the line of promotion with a promising future before him! And it all comes to about the same thing In the end! It means?what does it mean? Ye shades of private life! That is no place for an expanding statesman who has become accustomed ? acclaimed ? to the other things! With that comfortable and cumulative stipend of; 175,000.00 plus the pin-money perquisites pertaining thereto, the President, by taking in dress-making and washing, could keep a horse and buggy, go to the circus1 and ' have cottage pudding three times a week for dessert. It is hard to forego, renounce, and re- | linquish all right, title and interest I in such luxuries in the prime of1 life and portliness. It is likewise hardy?yea harder?for a fat man j to have such a prospect to wreath* ! with during the hot season. Here j is the vulnerable point In the Democratic armor* simh ' blooded Indifference to human suf- j fering is deserving of the gravest censure on the part of law-abiding | and respectable citizens. It all comes of starting a cru-! 4*de or movement in the right direction (without putting on automatic bomb-proof brakes in advance) when you don't mean to go all the way. A little reform, like a little learning, is a dangerous thing. Drink deep?or throw your dipper away! And your true reformer will not only drink, but J: plunge into the spring, "sink or swim, curv'vc 01 perish," and ho : will disdain the use of a life pre- | server. Does Billy Taft measure up to this standard? We fear not; oth-, pear and his present dilemma would pear and his present dileina would prove to be more apparent than real. In modern experience, with despotism and persecution excluded, a reform seldom reacts against the reformer if he be sincere. But it will either reform him or destroy him. It would either mould and 8h".pe him into its spirit and semblance or reduce him to the ranks; he must conform to the new order or die with the old. The creator must be greater than the creature or it will rend and ruin him. The little rivers and streams feed the ocean only to be submerged and ; swallowed up in its vast expanse the ocean creates the clouds, the wonderful water works of Nature to have them serve as her har maids in the perpetual replenishing of the wealth of waters. We do not believe that Taft can make good in the role of reformer. He is not big and broad and bold | enough. He is a dabbler? a dilettante?in the reform business, ; and will lose all because he is not willing to risk all. The reformer who hesitates is lost. Roosevelt played reformer with niore success than his successor will i ever achieve, not because he is a I better man but because he is a stronger. Perhaps his was not a! more definite moral purpose than I Taft's, but it was more daringly i and aggressively displayed. His day was longer than Taft's will be be-' cause, being a consummate noliti-! clan, he knew how to exploit such powers and virtues as he possess- j ed to the utmost. His sheer strenuosity diverted attention from the i weaknesses that are now apparent to all. He knew as Napoleon knew, as Cromwell knew, but as few other men have ever known, how to capitalize every force in his favor and neutralize opposing forces with! or without the camp. He fiddled so loudly that you could ! hear nothing else, as Nero must have fiddled while Rome burned. | Taft's tune is thin and weak and ; it has few variations, (What a con-i trust to that of his predecessor!) | and he is not much at fiddling j anyhow! He fears a discord no; les. than a new tune. And be-1 sides the weather's too hot for a fat man to fiddle in, future or no future. Would Sell Her Finger. Chicago, Aug. 11.?Mrs. Minnie Oherrin says she will gladly sacrifice the index finger on her right hand in order to give her six-year- 1 old daughter, Isla, a musical education. The buyer of the living finger, if the transaction is culminated, will I be Mrs. Reginald Waldorf, of Phila-I delphia. Mrs. Waldorf's index finger on the right hand was injured I' by a cut from a rusty nail. Blood poisoning resulted aud the finger vas amputated. "There is but one)' ta?ng that can restore your hand to '1? former condition," said the sur- j geo * who amputated the digit. "Softe other woman whose finger will t't and who is willing to sell her finger mogt be found. The new finger can be amputated and grafted on." So an advertisement was published in the Philadelphia papers inviting proposals for a 'Inger. Mrs. Oherrin saw the advertisement and wrote that she would . make the sacrifice. "Are you willing to have your finger cut off to buy the education I for Isla?" was asked. "Why certainly," answered Mrs. j Oherrin. "Haven't 1 made every other sacrifice a mother is capable of mak- 1 ing for her? 1 would be the hap- j piest woman in the world if this1 can be done." Notice 1 have a few hundred copies of the latest publication of the U. S. I Agricultural Yearbook, (1910.) Ii will send a copy to anyone requesting It. J. E. Ellerbe. For Sale. 4 04 acres of land in Robeson county, 1 V& miles of R. R. and church; 25 acres in high state of cultivation. 100 acres can be easily cleared. Several thousand feet of pine timber on the place situat- j etd on public road and R. F. D. ; route. Will sell at once for $2,-: 500.00. Wesley J. Brltt, Liumberton, N. C.; 8-17-p i Citation. Whereas, H. Q. Berry has made, suit to me to grant him letters of! administration to the estate and effects of Stephen F. Berry, deceased, these are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the. kindred and creditors of the said| Stephen F. Berry to be and appear at the probate court to be held on ; the 26th day of August, 1911, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon to show cauee if any they have why the said letters of administration should not be granted. Given under my hand and seal this 15th day of August, 1911. R. A. Brunson, Judge Probate Dillon Co. 3-17-lt | CLASSIFIED COLUMN j .V. fVVV1IVVMU7HltllMWWMWM>luu'' Mr w /p^v ^ t\ W ATKINS, THE AUCTIONEER ?If you have a farm, lots, horses or anything else to sell, WatklnB is the auctioneer to get. He Is an experienced auctioneer and kuowB how to get the worth of anything. Sale of horses, mules and anything you have begins promptly at 2:30 every Saturday. THE BOOT BLACK DEPARTMENT will give you good work at il. K. Cottingham'8 barber shop. Good shines and satisfactory work. Call for Beck, the boot black. WANTED. ? BY RELIABLE I'ARty, a good driving horse for 30 or 60 days for his keeping. Guarantee best of attention. Apply A. S. K., Herald. 8-3-3t BETTER! PURER!! CHEAPER!! 1 Wesson Cooking Oil, 90c. per gallon?12c per pound. W. W. Owen & Co. BETTER! PURER!! CHEAPER!!! Wesson Cooking Oil, 90c. per gallon?12c per pound. W. W. Owen & Co. 5 or 6 doses "666" will cure any case <tf Chills and Fever. Price, 25c. WANTED. ? PURCHASERS FOR late maps ot South Carolina,; showing Dillon county, popula-j tion of towns and cities, rural' routes, etc., 15 cents each at The i, Herald Book Store. BETTER! PURER!! CHEAPER!!! Wesson Cooking Oil, 90c. per 1 gallon?12c per pound. W. W. Owen & Co. | PURCHASER WANTED, FOR FINE | plantation in Sumter county, S. C., containing 485 acres ? 2501 under cultivation?balance wood- j! land. Healthy locality, fine water. Several tenant houses, good school and churches near by, half mile from depot. Fine crops growing on it now. Adjoining lands can't be bought for $100 per acre. Price of this to quick purchaser $65 per acre. Terms easy, 140 acres under wire fence. Possession given January 1st, 1912. H. S. Cunningham, Bishopvllle, S. C. 7-14-4t Parson's Poem a Gem. From Rev. H. Stubenvoll, Allison, ia., in praise of Dr. King's New I Life Pills: "They're such a health necessity, In every home these pills should be. If other kinds you've tried in vain, USE DR. KING'S And be well again. Only 25c at Evans' Pharmacy. A Peep Into His Pocket. would show the box of Bucklen's Arnica Salve that E. S. Loper, a carpenter, of Marilla, N. Y., always carries. "I have never had a cut, wound, bruise, or sore it would not soon heal," he writes. Greatest healer of burns, boils, scalds, chapped hands and lips, fever sores, skin eruptions, eczema, corns and piles. 25c at Evans' Pharmacy. 5 or 6 doses "666" will cure any j case of Chills and Fever. Price, I 25c. A nice new line of stationery at the Herald Book Store. Fine pound paper and envelopes to match at the Herald Book Store. Come and see for yourself our fine line of stationery at the Herald Book Store. FOR SALE ? ONE NEW FOUR McCormac mower and rake for sale at a bargain to quick purchaser. Applv to J- H SnillroR milnn 8-17 ' " * ! FOR RENT. ? ONE FOUR^ROOM house near business section. Apply quickly to Herald office. (X)TTON SHEETS BY THE THOUsand at Wheeler Hardware Co. WE NOW HAVE A FULL EINE I of automobile supplies. Tires j and inner tubes a specialty. Wheeler Hardware Co. CHICHESTER SPILLS DIAMOND BRAND ?5^ IF J LADIES J Aak 70-r for CHI-CHBS-TBR'S A DIAMOND BRAND PILLS ia Rro and/j\ I Gold metallic boxes, sealed with Blue\t#> Ribbon. Task ho othm. Rg> ?f your V/ briK1it and a?k for cki.OBEB.TSB S V DIAMOND BRAND PILLM, for twenty-firo years regarded at Bert. Safest. Always Reliable. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS timb puprym/u prp worth tr1bd Cwtn I nPitnC tkstbd Master's Sale. Under and by virtue of a decree i of the Court of Common Pleas for nm?- ?- " " ' iwu tuumy, a. *j.t in tne case of Ed Hill, plaintiff, vs. C. R. Uzzle, defendant, the undersigned will sell at public auction before the Court House door at Dillon, S. C., on September 4, 1911, within the legal hours of sale. All that certain lot of land in Dillon cqunty, State aforesaid, at Holmesville, S. C., bounded as follows: Beginning at the corner of Ed Hill's lot. running North fifty feet; thence one hundred and fifty feet to Carolina Northern R. R., (within forty-five feet of Ed Spivey lot;) thence southwest the Carolina Northern R. R. to Ed Hill's corner; thence with Ed Hill's line to beginning. Terms of sale, cash, purchaser to pay for paper*. A. B. Jordan, 8-17-3t Master. iOiisin I MBfe' / |pm^LA?P^ - y <;,?*? ^^BfiP^TVyj'V-^ ^|f^ ^ BjSra/ Knowledge of what t ?- F^P^pK^ is proper and in Wf good taste is shown in a gift of l 1 jkdTVA'.w a. T WVU Chocolates and Bon Bons Enclosed in a box of rich simplicity the candy, by its delicious and delicate flavor, delights the recipient and assures her of the good taste which prompted the giver. * Belle Mead Sweets are made of the purest ingredients?even' possible carc being taken to insure their purity and flavor. Each piece of confection has an cxclusiveness that at once suggests perfection in the art of candy making. 1 * Put up in attractive sealed packages?always fresh, as they are made and shipped to us the day our order is received. EVANS PHARMACY Dillon, S. C. r'- < > > > > > > ;> > ;< :< > -i > < >: > > < > I J ?VERY man should! 1 ^j^tarif|r||j carry a reliable? | 1; 1\ watch. For trains must | caught, engage- t t I I1 nients kept, and busi- | * i ness attended to on t 1 J schedule time. Carry a % x^kw waltham! ! WATCH I * < < ^ $ and be a schedule man. The Waltham is the most ac- % * curate and reliable of time-pieces. It is the preferred t * watch on all the great railroads. > t * 1* - * * "It's Tims You Owned a Waltham" * * i * We are headquarters for Waltham Watches. Com- < V plete assortments in all grades and styles. See 'is * * about a Waltham. 2 * i vjc also carry a nice line of Diamonds,Gold Jewelry ? < t * X and Sterling Silverware. ? * % ! Bell & Jordan, Jewelers t * / 1 ... * {??><? > > J? > >< >< ?> > ** vv% ?.* ' **! > ^*5* ! *5?<??8??!*?fi? ?J ?s* 11 HI 1111 IIMI m ?? ? MI? FOR SALE S283 acre farm; 125 acres in cultivation. Soil is flowery loam with clay subsoil. hand lies Slightly rolling and is self drained. JJ3.000.00 worth of pine timber owl place. New seven-room house, pack house, tobacco barns and out buildings, stalls and etc. Three miles of railroad town. Situated in Marion and Dillon counetis. A very fine farm at $55.00 per acre. HOO acres; 300 under cultivation, two miles from railroad station, good house and out buildings, soil is flowery loam with clay subsoil. Price $11,000.00, part cash balance to suit purchaser. 125 acres; 18 acres in cultivation, balance timbered. Good house and out buildings; soil is gray loam. Three bourse farm can be cleared. Price $1,(MM).00 A No. 3 llrick mill, fully equipped with all necessary appliances for the making of brick Ten acres of land go with the mill. Splendid clay. 1 .oca ted near N. & S. C. R. R. I vocal demand for brick good. Mill has capacity of 20 to 25 thousand per day. Will v sell at bargain. Money to loan on Real Estate for term years at 6 per cent, interest. P. D. Real Estate Agceny Mull ins, South Carolina They last a lifetime. They're Fireproof?Stormproof? I Inexpensive ? Suitable for all kinds of buildings. For I further detailed information apply to Local dealer. or cortwright metal ^ roofing company no. 50 n.23rd -st phil.fdelphi a . pa. V ' i *