The people. (Camden, S.C.) 1904-1911, January 17, 1907, Image 2
Ttbe people
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jtlamden, 3. C.. Jan. 17tli, 1007.
The Legislature, so far seems
to meau to do some kind of busi
ness.
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What kind of business? Make
,work, Play-wortc or real work?
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Real work of course. It is in
xxmcievable that the voters of
;South Carolina should have
.elected a set of nincompoops to
.represent them in the State Leg
islature.
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What does real work consist
jot? That is an easy proposition.
We expect every Legislator to
work for the enactment of laws
that will result in benefit to his
.constituents.
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What do we want? We want
.the lion law repealed. We want
that one mill road tax taken off.
We want the $2 commutation tax
reduccd to the original figure,
.or abolished altogether. We
Avaut our roads worked by con
tract. We waut the present
.Slate dispensary law changed
jnto a system of County dispen
saries, and we want a whole lot
of other things that wo are not
?going to get. That's easy, so
think over it reader.
THE LEGISLATURE.
The General Assembly of the
?>tate of South Carolina is now
iu session. The people will be
supposed to have forty fast and
Jfu rious days of legislation which
will be enacted, or attempted to
be enacted solely and entirely
in their interest. Simply as a
/natter of personal opinion, we
juay say that we are not looking
for great results from this ses
sion of the Solons. Our hopes
for the abolition of the Lien law,
the providing of a better com
;uon school and County govern
ment system, the passage of a
law to extinguish the yellow dog
nuisance, the changing of the
.dispensary system into the bet
ter system of County dispensa
ries, theschemoof lowering tax
ation by equalization, and the
yarious other big and little
?schemes that the legislative
candidates discussed during the
last campaign are very slight.
Why? Because on some ques
tions, the' partisans of the two
sides are so nearly equally di
vided that a number of the
weak kneed will collupse at tho
.crucial moment as they always
do, and a good bill will be de
feated because of tho moral
, cowardice of that class. Again,
other bills of meritorious char
acter will bo killed because of
tho influence brought to bear
upon the weaker members of the
Legislature by the more power
ful members of that body.
? We will await with tune and
patience tho outcome of this
session. Then, if no appreci
able good results have been ac
complished, we expect to urge
with voice and pen the establish
. jnent of the initiative aud re
ferendum system of government.
As a number of our readers will
not understand this allusion, we
.explain by saying that tho
"Initiative and Referendum"
systom of government provides
that every law passed by a
?>tate or government, to become
effective, must first bo voted
upon and ratified by a majority
of the people interested in such
law.
Wo aro on record as favoring
such a law, and as time passes,
and wo see daily the hardships
that are engendered because of
tho i absence of it we become
daily more convinced of tho ne
cessity for it.
1H9P1CNSAKY PROFITS.
We are informod through the
.columns of an esteemed State
{laily that the state dispensary
has paid the state school fund
every cent owing it. Our im
pression is that the dispensary
owed this fund up to the date of
the last report something like
$250,000. The latest that has
been mentioned concerning the
matter is, we think, that $175,009
had been paid, $100,000 of which
was money earned for the fund
in 1905. There may be ail kinds
of good book-keeping in this
thing, but it seems to us a rather
strange proceeding that by the
payment of $175,000 a debt of
$250,000 has been wiped off the
slate.
FARMERS UNION NOTES*
Our Way Out of It is This:
What do the people want with
all this New York wire connec
tions, anyway? Does New York
make the cotton? Do our South
ern cotton mills need to go to
New York for their cotton when
eight-teuths of all the world's
cotton is grown at their own
doors? Why should the farmer
that grows the cotton, and should
know the cost thereof, ask the
New York Cotton Exchange,
over these costly wires, whether
or not he should sell his pro
ducts for cost, or profit, or at a
loss? Call this great New York
wire connection what you may;
nick name it to suit the taste of
the people if you please, but the
facts are this whole scheme is
one graud suction pump line
through which the wealth of the
South is pumped out into the
East. ,
Cotton growers want no com
promise iu this bucket shop and
cotton gambling business. We
want the bottom knocked out of
the whole business, and the earth
in the South swept clean of the
whole busiuess and the places
where they stood disinfected. It
is of little concern to those that
are being robbed whether the
thing is done legitimately or il
legally; whether the act is done
in the darkest of the night or at
noonday; or whether it is done
by the little bucket shops or the
great-bucket shop as Senator
Davis calls the New York Cot
ton Exchange.
This arch mammon, the New
York Cotton Exchange, is no
doubt the chief conspirator be
hind this hold cotton bureau
wire business.
When our cotton mills want
cotton let them get it at first
cost from the growers of cotton
through the "Farmers' Cotton
Union" or warehouses. The
New York Cotton Exchange
neither makes cotton or owns
cotton unless they get it from
the South.
When the farmer wants to
know what his cotton is worth
let lii in ask the Farmers' Union
and the Southern Cotton Asso
ciation about it. They know the
average cost of 'production and
what is a reasonable profit on
their cotton. What does the New
York Cotton Exchange know or
care about these factors of cost
and profit to the cotton grower?
When our business men, mer
chants and cotton mill men in
the South want to spend large
sums of money in the interest
of the cotton trade and for
the interest of the whole peo
ple who produce and spin cot
ton let them do it in paving
the roadway direct from the cot
ton fields of the South to the
mills of the world at first cost
and keep the profits that are
justly due to the South at home.
It will take the combination of
both brain and muscle power to
produce cotton and command and
control the cotton situation of
the South, and absolutely every
man in every occupation in
the South is directly or in
directly interested in profitable
prices to the South for her cot
ton, excepting those among us
who are iu league with our ene
mies ? the cotton gamblers and
speculators. It is these cotton
gamblers and speculators that
cause our mill men to grow gray
all too soon and the wives and
daughters of cotton growers to
go in tattered rags and their
children to grow up in dense ig
norance. It takes sweat and
labor to make cotton, and it
takes a triumph of brain power
to turn this cotton into gold for
the South's credit. It will not
be done through making laws to
operate wires for cotton manipu
lators, but it can be done by
opening up a channel of trade
under absolute control of the
growers and spinners of cotton;
to the benefit of the spinners the
worlft over and at the same time
transform tho South from a com
rnunity of borrowers into a com
munity of self reliant capitalists.
It will set the South up in busi
ness for itiself 011 its own ac
count. The limit of submission
and suffering of tho South
through this legalized robbery
has been reached. Cut off this
beak of tho vampires that are
sucking the South's life blood
out and lets take care of our
selves. We can do it.
? Coney Island United Shows
Jan. 28 to Feb. 2, direct from the
famous resort in Now York.
THE FIFTH CIRCUIT, ,
Solicitor Tim me rainy** Work
l>tirlng Year lOOOH
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Solicitor George Bell TUnmer
man has compiled the following
abbreviated report ^of tto criroi- ,
nal Work in the Fifth circuit:
Edgefield County? Number of
cases guilty, 21; riot guilty; 8;
mistrial, 4; tried, 28. Percent
age of convictions, .875. J
Kershaw Countx-~Nujnber of
cases guilty, 31; udtrguilty, 11;
mistrial, 3; tried^fc-i-Percent
age of convictions, .714.
Lexington County ? Number of
cases guilty, 44; not guilty, 7;
mistrial, 1; tried, 52 Percent
age of convictions, .862.
Richland County ? Number of
cases guilty, 90; not guilty, 10;
mistrial, 3; tried, 103. Percent
age of convictions, .900.
Total number cases guilty, 186;
not guilty, 31; mistrial, 11; tried,
228; disposed of, 217. Percent
age of couvictions in circuit, 857.
Kershaw County is to be con
gratulated on the above record.
In conuectiou with it, we may
mention that a majority of the
convictions obtaiued were in
cases involving comparatively
trivial offenses. ? Ed.
? For the first time in South
Carolina, the Moss Brothers Ex
travaganza will exhibit the grand
reproduction of the champion
ship contest betweeu Battling
Nelson and Jimmy Britt for the
championship of the world. It's
worth goiug miles to see. Lov
ers of tlie manly art don't fail to
see it. Now traveling with the
I Coney Island United Shows ?
I Camden, January 28 to Feb. 2.
A Little Castaway.
About midnight of January
11th, as members of Mr. Arthur
C. Brown's family were return
ing from the Opera House at the
conclusion of a play that had
been given there, one of the
members of the party stumbled
upon a valise that had been
placed on the porch of Mr.
Brown's residence. Examina
tion of its contents revealed the
fact that its occupant was a
baby boy who was apparently
only a few hours old. The little
one was well clothed, and
brought a bottle of fresh millc
with him. Consternation na
turally reighed in the Brown
household for a while, but mat
ters finally adjusted themselves,
and the atmosphere was cleared
by Mrs. Samuel Ammons taking
the little waif in charge. So
far as we have learned, there is
no clue to the identity of the
parents of this poor little atotn
of humanity, and it may be. that
no clue will ever be sought, but
we want to go on record as con
demning in the strongest terms
the growing practice of casting
upon the usually cold mercy of
the world, the human fruits of
sin. It happens in this case that
the fruit is a boy who will per
haps be able to cleave his own
way through life, but we have
known of girl babies being
similarly thrown upon the world,
and in several instances have
had occasion to note their uiti
mato fate. That fate is, a life
of shame for which the parents
are directly responsible, and for
which we do not believe that
they will ever obtain absolu
tion from an outraged and divine
Master.
Cures lilood, Skin Disease* Can
cer. Createst Mood Puri
fier Free.
If your blood is impure, thin, dis
eased. Hot or full of humors, if you
have blood poison, cancer, carbuncles,
eating sores, scrofula, eczema, itching,
risings and bumps, scabby, pimply
skin, bone pains, cat trrb, rheumatism,
or any bl.iod or skin disease, take
liolauic Wood Balm (B. 11. li.) Soon
all sores heal, aches and pains stop and
the blood is made pure and rich.
Druggists or by express ?1 per large
bottle. Sample free by writing Blood
llalm Co., Atlanta, (la. H. li. B. is es
pecially advised for chronic, deep
seated eases, as it cures after, all else
fails. At F. Leslie Zemp's.
? The Coney Island Amuse
ment Company is to be in Cam
(I?mi week after next beginning
January 2s*. The company con
sists of an aggregation of shows
and it will no doubt make things
lively during the entire week.
New Schedules.
Beginning Sunday, January
Oth, the following schedules
went into effect on the Southern
road :
Train No. 113, leave Kingville
at 10:45 a. m., formerly at 11 a.
m., arriving at Camden at 12:05
p. m., Hock Hill 2:45 p. m., and
Marion 8:25 p. m.
Train No. 113 will wait at
Kulgvillo for No. 29, only when
they have passengers for them,
starting west of Blackville.
No. 114 will kave Marion at
5:30 a. m., formerly at 4:80 a. in.,
leave Hock Hill at 11:15 a. m.t
arrive at Kingville at 4 p. m.
Train No. 117 leave kingville
at 4:50 p. m., arrive at Camden
at 0:20 p. m., Rock Hill 9:20
p. m,
Train No. 1 18, leave Hock Hill
at 0:20 a. in., Camden 8:55 a. ra.,
Kingville, at 10:20 a. m. as for
merly.
The Page Fence.
The Best Carbfn Spring
Steel Wire Fencing of
Any Height.
All styles. Can furnish you
and place in position anything in
Lawn, Cemetery, Stock and
Farm Fencing, and guarantee
satisfaction in quality of goods
and price of same. *
Can furnish you selection from
forty or more sty lee of
Wrought Iron Fencing.
Address all inquiries to
R. B. ROSS, Agent,
Blaney, S. C.
Dec. 20 '06.
Boeckmann,
"The Photographer,"
At Camden. 8. C. for a few
months.
Come to the Studio and
inspect samples. All
work guaranteed. Prices
reasonable. : : : :
Studio in Tent on Lower
Main Street, South of
Opera House.
An Ordinance
To Govern Hacks and the
Business of Hack- Driving
and the Transportation of
Passengers ana their Bag
gage.
Be (t ordained by the City Council
of tne City of Camdeu, 8. C. :
I. No vehicle used and run for the
transportation of passengers and their
baggage to and from the railroad depots
wit Inn the City of Camden, 8. C., nor
any driver or employee or the owner
of the (tame, shall approach nearer
than twelve (12) fe.it of the train of
cars from which passengers and hag
gage are to be received; and all such
vehicles, drivers and employee shall
occupy only such si'lie or position on
the streets ol the City or Railroad
premises as shall be assigned to tlicin.
II. No owner or employee of the
owner of any such vehicle, nor pro
prietor, or drummer, or agent of a
hotel or boarding house, nor any per
son whomsoever, shall boisterously or
rudely solicit any one to ride in a
vehicle.
III. The charge for the transporta
tion of a passenger from any place
within the City limits to any other
place within the City limits shall not
be more than twenty-live (25) cents:
1'rovided, That if such passenger
should have baggage, there ina.v be an
additional charge of twenty-live (*-!.">)
cents for each trunk or other piece ol
heavy baggage: Provided further,
That for the transportation of an in
fant under Ave (6) years there shall be
110 charge.
IV. Kach and every hack shall be
numbered and the driver thereof shall
wear a tag on the left lapel of his
coat bearing a number corresponding
to the number of the hack, ? tags for
both hack and driver to be furnished
by City Clerk.
V- It shall be unlawful for any
driver of a vehicle to drive in a bois
terous, disorderly, careless, dangerous
or hurtful manner, or in such a man
ner as to put any person in fear of
bodily hurt or damage to the property
of any individual.
VI. It shall be unlawful for any
person or persons to engage or use a
hack, or other public velucle of trans
portation, in this City ii<?t intending
to pay tor the same at the time said
hack or vehicle is engaged, but with
intent to defraud the owner or driver
of said hack or vehicle out of the value
of the use thereof; and every employ
ment ot such hack or vehicle shall be
for cash. It shall be unlawful for any
driver of a hack or vehicle to refuse
to haul a passenger or passengers when
not otherwise engaged; nor shall any
driver of any hack or vehicle fail to
keep an engagement.
VII. It shalf be unlawful for any
hackman or driver of any public vehi
cle to leave his hack or vehicle, ex
cept to assist passengers to and from
his vehicle, or to transfer their bag
gage : Provided, however, Said driver
can leave his vehicle if ee continues to
hold the reins in his hands.
IX. No person shall be allowed to
drive a hack unless given a permit by
the Mayor and Chief of Police, and
said Mayor and Chief of Police shall
issue permits only to such persons as
can show a good character, and said
Mayor and Chief of Police shall have
the power at any time to cancel said
permit, if the person holding same
lias been guilty of such misconduct as
unfits hi in for that kind of work, or
whose vehicle or animal shall be in
such condition as to be unsafe or unlit
for use.
X. Any person or persotis violating
any of the provisions of the foregoing
sections shall be guilty of a misde
meanor and shall be punishable, upon
conviction before the ltecorder, by a
line not exceeding forty (40) dollars,
or by imprisonment not exceeding
thirty (80) days.
Katilied in Council assembled, this
7th day of January, 1907.
11. G. CARRISON,
Mayor.
?J. J. Oooi>alk, City Clerk.
Trespass Notice.
Having leased the shooting
rights on the following proper
ties, all persons whomsoever are
hereby warned not to trespass
upon these lands in any manner:
Hardscrabble Plantation, situ
ated west of Chesnut Perry
Road.
Edwin Perkins.
Hardy Anderson.
Richard Boyd and
Wesley Truesdell.
Any violation of this notice
will be followed by prosecution
to the full extent of the law.
C. q. BROWN, Agt.
Jap. 10-4t.
REAL ESTATE
mid
Collecting: Agent.
All persona having Real Estate for
pale or rent, are requested to call on
inn for information. Those wishing
to buy or rent Real Estate, are also
requested to call on me.
Ail claims placed in my hands for
collection will receive prompt atten
tion.
(/All on me at Mr. W. A. So h rock 'a
office (The People's office,) Camden,
S. C.
G. 6. Alexander.
MONUMENTS AND
TOMBSTONES.
l^emnorit Marble Co9 8.
Best Designs .
Est. E. O. McCr eight.
Dr. E. G. Kirven
Dental Surgeon.
OFFICE OVER
DR. F. LESLIE ZEMP'S.
DENTAL CARD.
The undersigned respectfully
informs his frieuds and patrons
that he has resumed his practice.
I. H. Alexander, D. D. S.
Office hours from 9 a.m. to 5p.m.
2 $
5' jr
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Williams & Steedman,
Fire, Accident and Health
INSURANCE.
Surety Bonds.
Office oycf store of J. C. Coreton & Co.
WHAT THE KETTLE SINGS.
Kettle, oh, kettle, get onto your Job,
Sing us a song from your perch on the hob.
A kettle (see poete) should blitheaomely
sing ?
No matter just what ; givo us any old thing.
" What shall I sing about ? what shall It
be?"
Kettle, oh, kettle, Just sing about tea.
" I've heated the water for many a brand,
I've sampled the tea-leaves from many ?
land :
I've snuffed at their aavor and tasted the
brew,
And I like CHASE & SAIfBOKIV'S the
best, honest true 1 "
Kettle, oh. kettle, now why do you blow
For this kind eo stoutly ? and how do you
know ?
" I've seen 'em uncurl when the water'!
been hot,
Releasing their fragrance and spice in the
pot,
Bach leaf like ft jealously clutched little
hand
That held a rich gift from the far Orient
land.
I've seen 'em diffuse all their richness
there stored
As my spout ita libation upon them has
poured.
I've sniffed the bouquet through my long,
eager nose,
And know it's aa rweet as the Orient-land
rose.
And I say once again, and you listen tome,
pe sure CHASK St SANBORH import all
your tea.'*
For sale by
H. L. Watkins, Sole Agent,
tiiomc r
A Splendid Assortment at KENNEDY'S.
One and two horse Plows, Diso and Smoothing Harrow*, Grsin
Drills; Oats, Home Raised and Texss Rustproof; Wheat and Seed
Rye. llay Presses and Gasoline Engines; Barbed Wire and Fence
Wire; Ranges, Stoves, Heaters, B. B. Wickless Oil Stoves; Pipe and
Engine Fittings; JAPALAC.
Harness! Harness!! Harness!!!
Hunting Coats, Pants and Nets; Leather and Canvas Leggings.
Grocery Department.
Kingan's Hams, Breakfast Bacon, &c, Ac.
Wheat Brann, a new and very fine Chicken Food.
A. D. KENNEDY
Columbia Liquor Company,
DEALERS IN
High Grade Wines and Liquors.
Pennsylvania and Maryland Ryes, and Kentucky Bourbons.
Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia Corn Liquors.
All kinds of NATIVE AND IMPORTED WINES.
We conduct a General Mail Order Business, and Solic
Your Patronage.
Box 532, Augusta, Ga.
Specially Fine Cabbage Plants.
I have some plants left over from my own set
ting ? the same kind I set for my own trucking.
I buy the best seeds obtainable on the market. I
have two early varieties: "Karly Jersey Wake
field,*' and "Charleston Wakefield." In season
we follow these closely with "Succession" and
"I^ate Drumhead." Prices in thousand lots
5000 and o\er $1.25; 10,000 and over #1.00. We
have only a limited quantity of very selected
stock. We crate them and deliver thein to the
Southern Express Co. and at very low express
fore our stock is gone.
rates. Send orders early be
W. P. CARR,
Tax Notice.
Office of Treasurer oj Kershaw Conn. )
ty, Camden, 8. C., Sept. 14, 1006. )
In accordance with the Act to raise
supplies for the fiscal year commenc
ing January Int. 1005, notice is hereby
given that the books will be open fur
collecting State, county and school
taxes from October 16, 1006, to March
1st, 1007. A penalty of 1 per cent will
be added on all taxes unpaid by Janu
ary 1st, 1007. A penalty of two per
cent on all unpaid by Feb. 1st, 1007.
A penalty of seven per cent will be ad
ded on all unpaid March 1st, 1007.
The rate per centum for Kershaw
county is as follows:
General State tax,
Constitutional School tax,
General County tax,
Cailroad tax,
Court House Bonds,
Koad tax
Mills .
r>
a
2
15
Total,
The following special levies have
been made al*o :
District No. 1,
Special School tax Dist. No. 1,
" 2,
Graded School Ilonds "
4,
7,
10,
11,
12,
17,
IK,
10,
22'
20,
27,
40,
*4
a
l'a
a
2
2
2
2
a
a
2
2
2
2
4
a
Bo'^ *-*r>9 Megrgetts, fss*. c.
The road tux of two dollar# can be
Enid the County Treasuier from Octo
er, ir>, itiOO, to March 1st, 1N07.
All male persons living within the
corporate limits of cities or towns, stu
dents attending any college or school
of the State, Ministers In charge of
regular congregations, teachers cm
ployed In pnhlic schools, school trus
tees during their term of ofllce, per
sons permanently disabled ami those
actually engaged in the quarantine
service of the state are exempt from
the payment of road tax. All other
male persons between the ages of 18
and no required to pay said road tax
or work not less t han six days during
the year.
Trie poll tax is $1.
All information as to taxes will be
furnished upon application.
No lists of names for tax receipts
will be received unless the amount of
tax money is deposited with thu said
list.
This rule will be strictly enforced.
D. M. M c.Cask ill,
County Treas.
A Wonderful Happening.
Port llyron, N. Y., has witnessed
one of the most remarkable case* of
healing ever recorded. /Vmos F. King,
of that place says : "Hucklen's Arnica
Halve cured a sore on my leg with
which I had suffered over 80 years.
1 am now eighty Hve." Cuarnteed to
cure all Bores, by K, Leslie 55emp,
prugfjist. Wc.
UNDERTAKING
CALLS ATTENDED
ANY HOUR DAY
OR NIGHT. :: :: ::
Est. E. (). McCreiglit.
Money to Loan
on Real Estate
i
After November 1st.
CLARKE & VON TRESCKOW
Money To Loan
On Improved farm lamia in Kershaw
County. On loHimiip to $1,000, M per
eeut. On HtniM over ilnit amount 7 per
cent. No commission* charged.
J j. A , Wiltkowsky,
< -nnnlen, S. O.
or C. f?. W inkier,
4o Broad w:ty,
New York.
J. M . SOWKLL,
Ch'mn. Hoard of Commissioners
for Kershaw County.
UAI I ICTFR'Q
Rocky Moontaln Tea Nuggets
A B'Jfy Madtclna tor Bwty Peoplr.
triad tteWm HMlth and Rwewvd YUror.
A specific for Conatlpatlon. Indlectlon, L,lver
and Kldnejr trouble*. I'ltnple*. Kr*? ra?, Impure
Hlood, Had Hreath. Sluffglxb JV>mla, Headache
and Iteckache. In Kooky Moontaiti Tea iu tab
let foTD, 3? cents a bo*. Ueuutno mado by
tlofXi Tin Dhuo Com'AMT. Madlaoa, Wla.
GOLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PEOPLE
KILL?. COUCH
AND CURE LUNC8
"? Dr. King's
New Discovery
/^OMIUIIPTIOM Prlc.
FOR I OUQHtaM 50c ft $1.00
1 W" ^OLOt Frw Trial.
dorNt anTQuTokMt Oure for all
THROAT and LUNG TROUB
LES, or HONBT BACK.
Supervisor's Notice.
All those holding claims
against the County of Kershaw,
are hereby requested to present
their claims in full of all de
mands. each month, with each
item dated, and the bill itemized,
and properly attested .
Failure to comply with this
request, will result in the? bill,
or bills being turned down until
compliance with the same has
been made.