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Something In the Wind Now, why not blow your self off to an annual sub scription to this paper ? m 9 ? n Mnltn no difference If be Is a boun' ^ "? "J * * 1 ? m ? mW7W e^ ^ ^ '?^y ? - - * * . 1^,1 M f ..?_ . __ .M ^ . 'V? fOf^qwt twltfl' my WWf ^?^'-^?rouiiffig #**?*' '-S|P^y^v'T'.: ;;The most talked of piece of llter Huie today in the "Hobs' 8oB?;,'f which h?? 1U origin end greatest popularity In the state of Missouri. Though doggerel, and hound docker el et that, it ban touched a chord in 4||jr- heart of the people, because of the fact that It is a genuine "hu man interest itory." appealing to universal experience and world-wide sympathy. / What more familiar or more hu man than the feller who "comes to town" with his dog following him ? the dog, man's best beloved and most faithful and devoted friend, { Dr. Orr, the evangelist, sfid in a sermon In Newberry tast summer ( that there comes a time in every! boy's life when he loves bis dog c^ore than be loves father and moth* er and everything else in the world besides; and this kind of love for the dog stays with some boys, es pecially with those who remain boys in Intellect even after they have reached man's full stature and phy sical strength. And the meaner and mangier and the more no-account, and onery the dog, the greater the mutual affection that exists between dog and master. , I have been a boy myself ? a couiw try , boy ? and I have owned many dogs of many kinds ? bull, flee, cur, mongrel, setter, pointer ? and hound and 1 loved the hound the best of all. It may have been because of his, bugle notes as he trailed tb* "molly-ootton-tall"; or because be was hated and persecuted, most of $11 by the cook and other wpmen folks for bis predatory habits about kitchen and tarnyard; or because! of bi* plaintive, pitiful howls wfcen struck by cruel hands, or even if he is struck at; for the bound Is a humble dog, and bis feelngs are ea silly hurt. At any rate, no one who travels thru the country and notes the number of dogs that swarm a bout the humble cabins of the poor can doubt tot a moment that the hound is the favorite among all the breeds of dogs. The "setting" of the "song/' iSi therefore, most lifelike and true to human nature. One can see In his "mind's eye" the gawky, shuffling countryman from the backwoods- ? with his brogan shoes and Qlouch bat and blnp overalls upheld by ? i in i > ii i i ?iifri for each othar. The hound is m ost probably "yal tor"; or If not "*nl~ ler" nil over, hi* underside to of Utat favorite eok>r, Now and then "Row- flnds^bblt track* ton days old in the saad by the foadsid* and "strikes a trail" and "opens his master urges Urn on with "who opee." But the chase la ?oon aban doned, for thla aort of hound w a* never known or expected to catch anything, and they resume their **f, to town. ? Aa they reach the pub lic square the miaerable, uppish town cure of low degree, go yelp ing and anarltng and snapping at the country dog, aa If they would rend him to plecea. .V lie tncka hla talf between liU legs and hangs hla head and seeks for protection close to the heels of hla raaater ? a pic ture of abject humility and fear. When he enters a store the proprie tor and the porter and the clerk all give the atrange dog' a kick; tho ba town boy heave* a stone at him, and the town loafer "sicks" \the town dogs on him In hope M get ting up a dog-fight. | After enduring this aort of thing! for a time, the dog's master gets* tired of it; then he gets mad, and" proclaims that it has got to "stop." And he means H too, and the next feller that kicks the dog Is liable to get into serious trouble. The master of the dog thinks enough of a thing la enough. - Poor dog! Pitting symbol of the great mass of the people, who have been kicked around for Jo these many years by the ^rested Inter? eat s," the tariff barons and the high "protection" of the KepubUepA par ty. And now they are tired, of it; their spirit Is aroused, and they aay with earnestness and loud acclaim that it has got to "stop." The picture changes, though the lesson if the same: The big bumpkin of a schoolboy, dull of comprehension and slow to learn, gets many a whack from the teacher, who makes no allow ance for his natural dullness. Af ter much patience and long sufferlrg he geta tired of being "laxtiLQied" around and rises in rebellion, as Tom Calhoun did at the old Wads worth school after being beaten day after day by "old Man CoMttjffU/' [ the teacher. 1 ' V r ^ 80 Uw fl~t (?wfcy P"?>llc. rtow to perceWe, slower to act, are At last seeing bow they have been tbe ttll&r TBS~tfr-Or~*+ high tariJtt and trupt magaate lor so long; and now their dander la ?p and they declare It must cease. "Make* no difference If be la a houn', - fyj They gotta quit kicklu' my dawg aroun' ". "Makes no difference If I am * fool, 8he's gotta quit lammin' me With that rule." So, that's the Democratic "war song" for 191i, Tbe people are wanting to alng It. if Woodrow Wilson, wltb bla predelletlon for tbe Presbyterian psalmody, cannot raise tbe tuno and lead tbe choir, then we will turn the matter over to Champ Clark; be can slog tbe aong all rlght^ for he is from Mis souri.- -w. if. Wallace in the New berry Observer. KKKHUAW OOUNTK IIOMM4 FOB OA MB. Proposals are larked from pur cbawrs for ninety - five thousand dollars (96,000) of non-taxable Coupon Bonds to be' Issued by Ker shaw County, bearing date, May 1, 1^12, payable twenty years from date, Interest at five per. cent (5) 'payable semi-annually. Purpose of 'issue to refund maturing Railroad aid bonda. Bids to be opened 12 M., Wednesday, April 24th, 1912. No bid for lesa than par and ac crued interest will be accepted. Ceritlfied check for one thousand dollars ($1,000) iuubt be filed by each bidder. Eight reserved to re ject any and all blda. Address, M. C. WEST, County Supervisor, Camden, 8. C. March 19, 1912. Notice. Tbe Camden Motor Co. are sole agenta for the Harley-Davldson Mo torcycle In Kershaw County. FINAIi D13CHAKOE. ? > ? i ir -'1 v- ? . ?, Notice la hereby given that one month from this date ? on Saturday, March 30, 1912, 1 will apply to the Judge of Probate for Kershaw coun ty for a final fliacharge as Admin istratrix of the estate of B. B. Cureton, deceased. All parties having claims against said estate are hereby notified to present them duly attested on or before that date or be forever barr ed. Sallle W. Boy kin, ? Administratrix. March 1, 1912. lmo. dry weather. Farm wor* Is tm WV behind and lh? roads In worse ?**l ditlon than ever was kuown to this section, but with a few weak* of dry weather the farmer* will catch W* ~ J We have much slckneba. Mr. H. H. Evans, Sr., had a stroke ef pa ralysis laat week and is very low, From hU great age thefo is no hope of bis getting well* We all feel aad that so good a man ft* near hit end Mrs. I. T, Wataon la very 111 and has been so for sometime. Others sre on tixe sick list, but not of *o-, rlous natures. Mostly from cold. The washing up of the bridges near Camden abuts us off for the time being. Many spoke of going to hear Dr. Wharton, but the bad road make It almost impossible, especial ly traveling by night. Peach and other trees are bloom ing which proves that Bpring Is near. A negro fight occurred here Sun day caused from whiskey. Some got fines and jail sentences for their rowdyism. The mall carriers from here are hardened with whis key orders tor negroes. Why these people loVe it so la a mystery ? near ly all of them drink and they will sell anything they have tor whta~ key. The amount of money sent out of this state tor whiskey is large, and the trade has grown to big proportions. There seems to be no way to prevent it and when low down white men run blind ti gers and encourage the sale of il licit whiskey to debauch the coun try you can't expect negroes to be temperate. Law or no law, *the tem per of the law abiding people is such that they will not tolerate the whiskey rowdies o#, the public high ways as they have done* but to the credit of Kershaw since the dispen sary has been abolished we have seen no rowdyism between the Pls gah section and Oamden. We hope It will cpntlnue so. For Rent. 59 acres of land known as the De Saussure tract just Baat of South ern railroad. Oood corn and cotton land, also splendid truck farm. Rents reasonable. N. C. Boy kin, Agent. ^ For satisfactory work use Zemp's \ 9&& A. ? - nam? of fe been Jfi Km* W. V i. ' -4. . ? v'X ' V rmmm& ,r mm ? ''" i'-'M y ? V' :????:?-? 'w^&SSfci Wmm mwm CONSISTING OF Latest Merry-go-Round, Ferris Wheel, Largest Snake in Captivity, Electric Theatre, ? V i r C : v .. ? ? + . VSlto ki -v ' v.Ta . jfltiff i - : r*1 -*s . A ? ' A V ' ?- ?.C Twelve the WdrldSI