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Zlx people ' ? WEEKLY SB\YSPAt?l*R. ?? ' '?' * """T ' ' '? ' "TWa"** 4 F^ILY NEWSPAPER. _ i '? ^ :-<- ox,'' ? A MKRCM A*t? f?fct*S??A#,*R. I -' ? ? COUNTRYMAN'S NEWSP^ER. . ? i A NEWSPAPER FOfc . //' SELtfcii AND Rt'VKR. ' T?E PEOPT>E*tf NEWSPAPER. 1 v ? , TUE BEST ADVERTISING ?> MEDlI'M IN KERgllAW COUNTY. AjI - fUBLlSHKp EVERY THURSDAY, . <" * ? " ? ? .W. A SCHROCK, publisher. M ??? '' v? ?? SPBSCRIPTIOH, $1.60 PER AIRlll. ?aiti<tc?, SC., Sept. l4tli 1005. THE COTTdlf QUEBTIOK. /Vt the meeting of the Cotton Growers Association, held at Asheville, on the 7th iust., the /CUll was sent out to the farmers in the dottott belt to hold their eot ,ton for a minimum price of eleven cents at their home markets. ?7*hta figure is based on middling Uplands. In the action of the committor in recommending this price, we ?ail ?ee nothing to condemu. It seems to us that With the very patent assurance of a small crop, ^eleven cent minimum is low teflougii. It is certain that there jffill have to be sold a large yolurae of cotton under that price, as a great number of farm ers owe debts which they arc in honor and by contract, compell ed to pay out of the first cotton picked} ginned and baled. Squally true Is it that these farmers are in pressing need of provisions, clothing aud other ^things. This being the ease, we ??nnot possibly expect that price fjt elevfctl cents hefore Octooer 15th, at least, unless the bulls get the upper hand of the bears iu the speculative market, and Jforce prices up abno r m a 1 1 y. ?This, as we all remember, was $oao when Sully forced the price ?o seventeen cents. It is hardly probable however, that we will pver another. Sully, so the ttbove may go for what it, is worth <5The strangest tiling to us in the .present cotton situation U the iact?that wlitle the Govern inent refkorts of the condition of the .Crop showed a falling off of near ly three points over the month previous, and that the New York and Liverpool markets have ruled fairly steady since, the Jopal markets broke from thirty to forty points the next, day af ter the publication of the govern ment report aud have stayed ^jroke. We questioned one of oui buyers on the subject, and he in formed us that it was expected <tho Government report would .show a OH or 00 average instead of the 751 reported. This expla nation was honestly given, but ! it proved clearly to us, til the light of subsequent develop jnents, that the firms our buyers represent aro In a Class of their own, and do not depend upou New York and Laverj>ool mar kets 4-o make their prices. In other words, it would seem ?hat thero is a syndicate of buy ers who pay no attention to the ruling prices oil the great ex changes, but are powerful enough to make their own, especially at JLhis season of the year. Mpoed the day when we will either have no cotton exchanges, and rto secret combinations of ^capitalists, or fair play in both. THE PKACK MAKKK 'flic above caption gives the }atost title of "the world's first citizen," bestowed upon him by some of his fawning admirers. This, Of coiirso in honor of bin great victory in hoo dooing the Japanese envoys into agreeing to, what all tho world thinks, a disgraceful peace. Tho title ftowovor, seems to have been somewhat prematurely bestowed if we can roly upon press reports fbat come to us from the land of ?he Mikado. Peacp reigned at Portsmouth, N. 11., upon the siguing of the UuQsevolt treaty, but the Japa nose ptople it appears, couldn't poe it that way, and by way of ex their disapproval l)ay? I begun to burn Christian churches ami- Mission houses, a%d to stone Americans, and J Japanese? also whom they have flp idea had a baud iiiy the treaty 'business, as Well as ou general principles of disapproval. Tokyo, the capi tal Of Japan has beeiT declared Under martial law, aud general j disorder reigus. ; The intent of the disaffected populace is to force the Etttperor to repudiate the Jreaty, and to continue the war to its then in evitable ctfticl union. That con clusion would mead the utter de feat of Russia ou land as well > as on sea. We dou't know but ; that woUld.be ttie proper thing > to do. It wouldn't take long, as tliey have good fighting weather out there, and. Lane v itch, even wilh his big army, Would not be a mouth-full to the pugnacious Jups. 'i*liat army destroyed, or captured, Russia would find it impossible to gather another* and the Japs could then - de mand peace on their own terms* without the intervention of Presidont Roosevelt, or rttly other person or persous. Was the situatiou reversed, Czar Nicholas would not hesitate for a moment to repudiate the treaty, and for the restoration and pres ervation of j>eac? within Ills own dominions, we cannot see that the Mikudo of Japan would l>e guilty of a serious breach of bad faith in repudiating the Portsmouth * treaty. The Japa nese. Emperor's family is a pretty large one* but as a man's tirst duty is to look after the in terests of his family, we would say to the Mikado, repudiate that treaty, and the opinion of the world, go bang. i?OULTItV. What kind or breed of poultry do yoil keep, dunghills, cross bred*, thoroughbreds, or just plain chickens, a bleed of your own? If you have nothing' but duug liills, you are standing strictly in your ot? n light. The breed ing of this class of fowls for pleasure, is a rank failure, for there is no pleasure in looking at a variegated lot of scrubs. As a profit winner, the dung hill is no good. This has been proved so often that the remark is hardly necessary. Kill out the dunghill. * Do you raise cross-breds? If so, you are nearer the light. But what cross have you? Did you select the best specimens of your home Hock, and then cross for eggs, or for meat, using the selected pen entirely for breed ers? Did yoti purchase a few eggs of some good breed, and then turn the chictcens raised from them loose among your whole Hock of scrubs? If so, you are still in the shadow, for like peo ple, low company will cause the better to deteriorate. Have you a pood strain of thoroughbreds? If so, are they of the proper breed? In other words, are they of the breed that thrives on your place. All thoroughbreds are good, but some varieties do bettor in some localities than others. If you have a breed of your own, selections from scrub stock that does fairly well, common flense will tell you that the time and care spent in making this breed is almost utterly Wasted, when by expeuding very little money, you cotild now have 011 your yard a flock that would be a pleasure to the eye, as well as a source of greater profit. We havo had a number of peo ple to denounce thoroughbred poultry. Said they had tried them, and they wouldn't do, Tile trouble with these people is, that they either secured inferior parent stock, with weak consti tutions, or they did not give them the proper attention. A iuan will take all kinds of care af a flue cMt, Calf, or pig. Why not a flock of fine poultry, the greatest money-makers of them all. Arch. Absent mimlrrincHH. "A woman put her baby's drrty clothes iu tbe cradle and the baby in the wanhtub. She didn't discover her mistake till the chiid cried, when she pinned Its left log to the lino as she hung it out to dry. A man, about to go for a ride, clapped the middle on his own back. Ho didn't discover his mistake till he became ex hausted with trying to mount himself. Another man put his dog to bt>d and kicked himself down stairs, He didn't discover his mistake untill ho began to yelp and the dog l>egnti to snore. A doctor put a foe iu a patient's hand and took the medicine him self. He didn't discover his mistake . until the pntient grjt well anU he bepame ijf. " The Commercial Club Meet* to I>b*euiM Am AnuexHtton or Klrkwood. < On Monday nixbt of last week lire Cmomeroal Club vae% for the ptfrpose of discussiug the annex' (?iron of Kirktrood. The followr ing business was tben transact' ed. The Clnb was opened to free discussion of the question of an naxation of Kirdwood. Mr. L. A. Wittkowsky stated the legaV status.^ Dr. Diftin uioVed that Mr. W. L. DePa^s be made chairman of committee to cauvass with a view of ascertaining if a majori ty of freeholders of Kirkwood arc willing to annex, which was carried. Mr. DePass appointed, as a committee to act with him, Mr j T. J. Kirk land, together witn a committee appointed by city council, consisting of Mayor Carrison and alderman P.T. Villepigue, this body will ur?et and determine what terri tory it is desirable to incorpo rate, and they will then pro ceed to secure consent of the freeholders of said territory, with a view of ordering an elec eion upon the subjcctof annexa tion. Mr. Kirkland stated the old marks and lines upou the for mer boundary of Camden. Mr. DePass moved that the Commercial Club go upon record as favoring annexation of Kirk wood. Same was carried aud ordered . Tlic AnierUran Circus. W. Andrews* at Grand Rapids, Mich., at a recent toast, got off the following appeal to the Fillipinos: "You Fillipinos don't know what you are missing by not wanting to beeomc citizens of this grand country of ours. There isn't anything like it un der the sun, You ought to send a delegation over to see lis ? the land of the free ? land of tine churches and 40,000 licensed saloons; Bibles, forts aud guns, houses of prostitution; million aires and paupers; theologians and thieves, liberalists and liars, politicians and poverty. Chris tians and chain gangs; schools and scalawags, trusts and tramps money and misery; homes and hunger; virtue and vice; a land where you can get a good Bible for fifteen cent and a bad drink of whiskey for twenty-five; where we have a man in congress with three wives and a lot in the peni j tentiary for having two wives, where some men m ke sausage lout of their wives, and some want to eat them raw; where we make bologna out of dogs, can ned beef out of horses and sick cows, aud corpses out of the people who eat it; where we put a man in jail for not having the means of support and ou the rock pile for asking for a job of work; where we license bawdy houses and fine men for preach ing Christ on the street corners; where we have a congress of 400 men who make laws, and a su preme court of nine men who set them aside; where good whis key makes bad meu and bad men make good whiskey; where newspapers are paid for sup pressing the truth and made rich for teaching a lie; where I professors draw their convic tions from the same place they do their salaries; where preach ers are paid $25,000 a year to dodge the devil and tickle the ears of tile wealthy; where busi ness consists of getting hold of propei ty in any way that won't land you in the penitentiary; where trusts 'hold up' and pov erty 'holds down;' where men vote for what they do not want for fnar they won't get what do want by voting for it} where 'niggers' cau vote and women can't; where a girl who goes wrong is made an outcast and her male partner tturiKhes as a gentleman; Where women wear false hair and men 'dock' thoir horses' tails; where tile political wire-puller has displeased the patriotic statesman; where men vote for a thing one day and cuss it <104 days; where wo have prayers on the floor of our na tional capital aud whiskey in the cellar; where we spend $f>00 to bury a statesman who is rich and *10 to put away a working man who is poor; where to be virtuous is to be lonesome and to be honest is to be a crank; where wo 6i* ou the safety-valve of energy aud pull wide onen the throttle of conscience; where gold is substartcfc? -the one thing sought for; where we pay $15,- 1 000 for a dog and Hfteen cents a dozen to a jxx>r woman for mak ing shirts; where we teach the ?untutored' Indian eternal life from the Bible and kill him off with bad whiskey; where we put. a man in jail for stealing a loaf of bread atld in congress for stealing a railroad; where the check book talks, sin walks in broad daylight, justice Is asleep, crime ruus amuck, corruption permeates our whole social and political fabric, and rhe devil | laughs, from ths street corner. Como to us, Fillies I We've got t he greatest aggregat ion of good things and bad things, hot thing* and cold things, varieties ami colors, ever exhibited under one tent. " Workday 3?or Tke OrplMM*. A recent movement set cm foot by Howard 1a Crumly, of the Decatur (Ga.) Orphans Home, is likely to be of very considerable service in the near future to our orphan children. The proi?o Vitfon is that every man, in the State, every woman, every child should set apart Sept. 2U (Satur day) of this year, the proceeds of his lafrur on that day, or what ever he^cap make, if he be not in business, to the support of the orphans in the institution he loves best. In this State Pres byterians will work for Thoru well Orphanage, Clinton; MetlJO dists for the BJpworth Orphan age. Cnluiubia; The Baptists for the Connie Ma*well, Greenwood. Send ftfotnptly on the Monday following, the sum made or rais ed, to the institution of your choice. The help coming in at that time, will, tide over these institutions till the Thanksgiv ing and Christmas days, Send it be it little or much. There are about six hundred orphans in these institutions, and there are others besides. The Lutheran Orphanage is at Salem, Va., the Heorett Orphanage is at Atlanta, Ga. Draw^our check or money ordor in favor of the Institution you prefer atid toail it to the address given above. It's Now Up to Kansas. A corn year in Missouri means much to tlife world. This is a coru year. Editor Painter, of Carroltdn, relates an incident of the yield, showing the size of the ear in his county. An eu terprisiug farmer, wishing to utilizo every foot of available space, planted corn on the road bed of an abandonod switch, which lay parallel to the main tracks. A few nights ago a high wind blew dowu one of the stalks across the main track. The fur sighted engineer of the through train approaching discovered what he thought was. a huire boulder in the way, and hailed the train at a distanco of several huudred yards. The obstacle proved to be an ear of corn, which according to Mr. Painter, required twenty men to remove it. Ker*liaw County Medical As Moclatiou. The meeting of the Kershaw County Medical Association ou Sept. 12th, 1905, proved to be a very interesting one. The President read a paper on mat ters of interest and importance to the association. It is to he regretted that every member was not there to hear it. The paper was referred to a committee to bo acted on and reported at the next regular meetiug In Cctobor. We were pleased to have with us Dr. E. R. Zemp, of Knoxville, Tenn., who was unanimously elected an honorary member of the association. The paper read by the Essayist for this meeting was Traumatic Tetanus, which proved to be a very valuable paper on account of its report of two cases of Tetanus which developed symptoms^ out of the ordinary type. After the read ing of the paper it was discu ssed by the association. There were sevoral matters of importance attended to by the association which was referred to committees and will be report ed at the next meeting. This together with other features will make the next meeting a very interesting one. All members are roquested to be present. Heulali Correspondence Wanted A subscriber in a neighboring State, who formerly livrd 111 the Beulah scction, would like for some of our subscribers in that wection to write us the news from there occasionally. In this j request we join. " I "God Bless The People." So says a Colorado subscriber in a recent letter. We thank our friend tor his kindly fooling, and hope that we have many subscribers on our list who will cordially echo the wish, "God bless The People." STATEMENT OP THE CONDITION OF TUB Gommerclal Savings Bank and Trust Company, ? CAMDEN, S. C. ? At the close of biMineM Aug. 81, lUOfi. KEHOUROES. Loan.* nnrt Discount*, |1I2,IM.08 ('null on hnnd .mil ilue by Hanks 1.300.01 Furniture and Fixtures S?r?,-4 |."i.r>2 ftttH, 870.04 LIABILITIES. Capital $23,000.00 Undivided rroflt* 05,070 20 Deposit* 4 1 Hill* 1'nyable M, 000.00 ? l?8,"?70.(U I, John T Markey, Cashier of the| above nmned Bank, do aolemnljr j?werr that the foregoing MtatciiMMit I* tn e and correct to the best of my know | lodge and belief. JoiinT. Mackky, Cashier. Sworn to before me, this, 31st day of A'lJfnsi, 11K>8. J. B. Wam.a vt., ft., h. J Notary Public* Attest Correct, C. J- Shannon, Jr. ) W, H. Hough > IHroetpri )V, Jf. I'ltnn. ) Clubbing Offer. Home & Farm and The People Both Olio Year For $1.50 The price ot "The People" alone. THE CASII must accompany the subscription, ADDRESS: W. ASCIIllOCK, Puh. THE PEOPLE, CAMDEN, S, 0. VAUGHAN'S GINNERY. / I hereby notify the public that I have rem6ved fl'oin iny old stand on Laurens street to 'otle just opposite the old Courthouse, where I am prepared to gin your Cotton to your satisfaction as usual. GINNIN PER BflLB $1.25 Hanging and ties furnirhud when requested at maWfet rates. Your patronage solicited, C. C. Vaughan. Teachers' Hxamina tion. The next regular examination for teachers' certificates in this j county will be held at the Court | House Friday, September 1">tli., bejjinninjr at 1) o'clock A. M. j This will bo the last examiha- ! tion until next May, and all whol oxjiect to teach in the public schools of this county had boiler note this fact. Those who hold certificates which have expired must also tttUo this examination unless you have attended a Sum mer School in this State or the j Summer School of the South i hold at Knoxville, Tenu., and ; have passed a satisfactory ex amination. W. H. TUUNKK, S;i^>t: JOd. K, ('j ii ? 1 AT ===^-=---^- -- ? * . The Famous Gilt Edge Store Fall goods rolling in. New goods of all kinds bought at the right prices and going to be sold as cheap as the cheapest. joods; at cost. % Clearing out summer goods. All light summer j Some rare bargains for our lady friends. Just received a beautiful line of Ladies Skirts and colored un der skirts in Mercerized and Silk. SHOES. SHOES. SHOES "Star Brand Shoes are Better." We have this celebrated line of Shoes in Men, Tjidirw and Children. Every pair Guaranteed to give satisfaction. ? Get our prices on Bagging and Ties. We sell the celebrated Ryder Wagon ? one or two horse, with wide or narrow tires. Thimble skien or Iron axles. W e are Agents for the Ladies Home Journal Patterns, a lull stock of these Patterns in stock at all times. OAIjIj AN11 SK10 I IK. The Famous Gilt Edge Store. P. T. YILLEPIGUE, Proprietor. A Great Fall. Z-'i We are all expecting a Good IAiM and Winlor Season, and tliis will inform yon that, I have A GRE/1T FALL AND WINTER STOCK OK DRY OOOI)S, CLOTHING, llATS and a Splendid Line of Ladies Goods of every desenpt ion, ail carefully ?selected by myself durin?; my recent visit to the Northern Markets. My V KICKS are AS LOW AS TliK LOWKST and the QUALITY or my (Jood l\Ql'A L to TH 10 I JUST to be found here. I also earry a choice line of KURNITURK and TRUNKS which I otter at Rock Bottom I'rices. YOUR UATRONAGK SOLICITED. RESPECTFULLY, D. WOLFG. On improved farm lands hi l\?T.?lia\v | (?oiinty. <>n loans np to $ I ,n<w, h per \ (tv|. On Minis over that amoiinl 7 per' (?rut. No < o.iimisftioM* charged. I?. A. AN' 1 1 1 koxvsky, < 'ninden, S. ('. or < I.. Winklrr, ?lo llroadwny, New York. Trcspavs Xol !<?<?. This will notify till eonrorned ; not lo trespass upon our land* in Lee county S. m any inn it - I ner whatsoever. huntinjr, lishinLr, ! driving. crussiii!.', or walking upon, 'l'his notice includes the j running of stock n t hit^c. Al!i pci'sonH violating this notice ill ! In- prosecuted to the exI'Mit of the law MllB. M. C. .IoHNSon. .). A. .!< >1 IN SON, ( ) . K . ?! i ? II N' ss N . Money To Loan General R c p a i i" S h o p T ('Olid I )( ' I A (Jl.'lHM'nJ lvf pJlir Shop. Can and <)?> rn/?Wo .vour v<*!i icit*. I iujr^y, Wap'T ('art iii^o or oilier vc.ltic'* /,'<?o/! as r.rvv Tins </oo M moderate cost. All of t.\ ?\vui*1< is turned out quickly and neatly. Unnjf it in. Shop almost in rear of llirseh Itrotliors and Co's. t. i;. Brown.