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Tube jteople ' ? VERCJdANT'8 NEWSPAPER. I J ?? * " * ? * jfc 6oXJKT*YMAM 8 NEWSPAPER. * ' ??i . ? : : : : ? 1 A *EWHPAPEB FOR " . * SELLER AND BUYKK. rUKUQBBD EVERY THUR8DAY. W- A 6CHHOCK, PUBLISHER. SBBSCRlPTiM, $1.80 PER Him. ^ . . jOamdeo. 8. CI* Msj SOtla, 1007 ^CONTRACT LABOK LAW UN ST ... CONSTITUTIONAL.. Jodge Brawley, of the U. S, . ^District Court last week rendered ' frifi decision on the contract labor law, and declares it unconstitu tional. In the course of the de cision, .Judge Bruwley gets off fiome very pretty sounding senti ments. If sentiment was the fnotive power behind the action {brought, we would have no doubt that his Honor is all to the good 4n bis deductions- and decision. - It strikes us however that this <was an action to determine whether two trifling negroes Should endanger the material welfare of the parties by whom they were employed by . Jumping their contract to labor faithfully for their employers up to the date of the termina tion of their contract. This is ,*>f course on the presumption 'that the employer hud faithful ly performed his part of the contract. One clause of Judge Brawley's ^decision reads as follows: "The lot of the agricultural laborer is hard and he has jbeen called "the brother of the ?ox," in his unceasing toil, scuut remuneration and dreary isoia ?tion "but the remedy is not found $n statutes which chain him to the soil and force him to labor Whetner he will or not. Human nature revolts ut it and he will escape it if ho can. It is by im , proving his condition and not by .still degrading it that the ^remedy may be found." Sounds well, doesn't ii? As a jnatter of fact though, general conditions do not buck up the theory. A majority of our farm laborers are well treated and veu opportunities to advauce themselves if they will do it. ^Unfortunately, they will not ,do it except by coercion, and to provide a proper mode of coercion,' and avoid great loss jand damage, there must be some juw for the x>roteotion of the employer against an elemeut of the laboring class who, are Rightly called "brother to tho />x" as they possess not only the Jiardness of head, but are equal ly lacking in a moral sense of Responsibility. We give you bo low Section 357 of the coutruct Jabot* law of South Carolina, which section was the basis of fiction in the case which has just |>een passed upon by Judge Brawley. THE SOUTH CAROLINA LAW. "Section 357. Any laborer .working on shares of crop, or /or wages in money or other ?valuable consideration, under a ?verbal or written contract to Jabor on farm lauds, who shall ^receive advances, -either iu /nouey or supplies, and there lifter willfully and without just .cause fail to perform the reason able service required of him by J.he terms of the said contract, shall be liable to prosecution for & misdemeanor: Provided, That prosecution shall be commenced within 30 days after the alleged ?violation, and on conviction shall .be punished by imprisonment of $0 days, or to be fined in the sum x>f uot less than $50 nor more than $1(X), in the discretion of the court: Provided, The ver ,bal coutract herein referred to ;fihall bo witnessed by at least ,two disinterested witnesses: Provided,, That such contracts shall bo valid only betweeu the .original parties thereto, and any .attempted transfer or ussign jnent of any rights thereunder shall be null aud void. ? Approved the 25 th day of February, A. D. 1004." ItETHOSPKCTION AND IN f It A H P MOT IO N . We are no*, the least bit con cerned about remarks that wo .understand have beon used by tho advocates of the demolition jof tho present system of regula ting the sale of whiskey, wines, }>eors, Ac., as to our position on Jthe question. That wo are bomb proof in the position we have taken, the following ox Jj^pts from a circu l$r letter whjcl) we seat oat through the mail last year when a candidate for the Legislature? and which we" distributed by band from every stump in the county, will be ample tMdencet "I favor the abolition of the State Dispensary system, partly because of -its present evident rottenness, parti v because oom* roon sense tells me that there is no permanent, remedy for nres* ent condi tious, the Raysor-Man. ning bill beiug a piece of would be patchwork that is us full of holes as a . sieve* and no other remedy is proposed. My third aud best reason for opposing the continuance of the present system is that the ad vocates of a better system offer you the choice of no dispensary or a county dispensary, all the profits from which remain in the county in which the profits are earned, instead of a large pro portion of them going into the State treasury to be frittered away in assisting other counties that have no dispensary, another portion being covered into, or transferred- to the books of the State institution, merely to be coolly written off as profit and loss ? mostly loss. From the above it will be seen that we opposed the system of State Dispensaries. It will be seen that we offered you a bet ter system, the system of County dispensaries. While we, per sonally were defeated in our effort to give the people that better system, the peoplo of South Carolina voiced their ap proval of the better system we advocated by electing Martin P. Ansel on a county dispensary platform, and a majority in the Legislature who favored the same platform. As a result we have county dispensaries. As another result, we have the op ponents of anything but a State dispensary, and a lamentable minority of good people, blind tigerites and free liquorites lined up side by side in the en deavor to plunge the grand old couuty of Kershaw into a hope less chnos of lawlessness, crime, bloodshed and disorder with the attendant blood-sucking of high er taxation, illiteracy, hopeless ly bad roads, and loss of credit and revenue, with no resultant moral good. Hard talking this, j friends, but "we are talking by the card." Wo are no apologist for any body or anything. If, with our experience of men and things of Kershaw county, our observa tion of things as they are (not as they should be) counts for no thing, then let the sentimen talists, and criminally inclined worlc tlieir will, aud the county become a by -word and a mutter for laughter to the outside world. We regret exceedingly to tiilce issue with the good peo ple who are honestly tryiug to inaugurate the system of pro hibition in this county. It can not but be a bogus system in the present state of the public mind, so we earnestly and honestly ad vise them to either refrain from voting iu the coming election, or voting, vote to retain the pres ent system for tlio time being at least. THE TEST. Thursday, the 20th day of June 1907 will mark an era in Kershaw county. On that day the voters will be put to the test as to their worthiness of citizenship. It is election day, when the people must declare by their ballots whether they desiro liquor sold legally in the county, or. illegally. This is a bald statement of a fact that 110110 but the wilfully blind will dispute. The catch word, PRO HIBITION should not, nor does it fool even those who are using it, some from pure motives, but a majority to sorvo their own selfish, prejudiced or criminal cuds. Prohibition at this time is impractical and visionary. Bogus prohibition no good citi zen wants, so the matters to be settled at this election simply amount to this: A majority vote for bogus prohibition means looser morality, increased, illit eracy, a heavier criminal docket with each recurring term of our circuit court, and lastly, au in creased rate of taxation upon the bolter classos of our people, the classes who aro already over burdened along that line. A vote to retain the present sys tem of regulating the sale of iu toxicants means the continuance of general morality, steadily de ceasing illiteracy, light crimi n*l docket* and lower ^taxation. Thiamin the pnoii? ^Huatito reader, u we aeeit How will you itond THE TEST? SkMnrook Dots. Pear ? Editor : - Please allow me space in yonr newsy paper for a few dots from this section. Oar -farmers are gettiQf along nicely with their crops, and hay ing a plenty ol good rains. The ippst of them are about done chopping out. We are glad to see Mrs. An gela Watkins able to be out again. She has been very ill /or some time. Misses Li Hie and Ella Hasty, two popular young ladies from Camden, spent Friday and Saturday with relatives and friends here. Mr. A. M. Horton spent last Saturday with Mr. Bazley and family. His call was highly ap preciated. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Watkins of the Sandy Grove section spent last Sunday with their daughter, iftrs. McCaskill of this place. The call of Mr. D. J. H. on bis bestest not long ago for the first time in four mouths, caused a few amusing comments. Last spring, there was about five regular writers to The Peo ple. We presume that as there is only one remaining (Violet) all are married but him. We once thought that he was either married or heart broken, but we are glad to see his letters still coming as they are very in teresting. We have no marriages to re port, and prospects in that line in the future are gloomy. Come again Violet. Good-bye to The People for ^he present. Blue Eyes. N. B. The above nice letter was received last week too late for publication. The Provisions of His Will. The widow of a little village grocer was industriously placing the large, rosy cheeked apples on the top of the diminutive shriveled ones in the barrel when, with his well known mar tial tread, Farmer Giles en tered the establishment. "I want that tub o* butter," he said,- "an* those hams, an* that lot o' sugar, an " ? The shopkeeper rubbed her hands together witn delight. "Yes, sir," she beamed; "de lighted to serve you, I'm sure. And what else may I supply you with?** "Well," went on Mr. Giles, "there's all them bottles of to mato sauce, an* them boxes o' biscuits, a' ? an' all that other stuff," he concluded vaguely, sweeping his hand round the shop. - "Goodness gracious!" exclaim ed the widow, now rather alarm ed. "Whatever do you want with all them goods.?" "I dunno, I'm sure," was the farmer's puzzled reply, "but I'm the executor of your late hus band's will, an' the lawyer just told me it's my duty to carry out the provisions, so come on, I've got three hay carts outside!" Sliiloli DotH. The farmers iu tins section are doing a lot of work and have their crops in good coudition. The crops last year were so poor that a number of good old farmers around here who have not bought a bushel of corn in fifteen years are now buying. They have planted this year for a crop of corn to last them two years, and if the seasons con tinue, they will mako it. They have learned their lesson and are giving their corn an 'equal chance with cotton in the way of fertilizing. The hail storm last Monday week did great damage, a number of farmers being compelled to replant be cause of it. Kusher. From Denver Dam. Dear Editor: The weather for a weeir, excepting Sunday, has been beautiful and the farmers have made good use of it. Ou Sunday evening though, wo were visited by a tremendous wind and hail storm which was ac companied by a heavy down pour of rain. Hillside farms ap pear to be almost ruined being beaten by hail and washed by water. There is no news of interest, not even in births, deaths or marriages, so we will close for this time. Will come again with more news, wo hope, if this does not find its way to the wasto basket. ' Jack. ' A Hard Debt to Pay. "I owe ft debt of gratitude thftt nun never be nmd off," writes O. 8. Clark, of Westfleld, Iowa, "for my rescue from deftth, by Dr. King's New Dis covery. Both lungs were no seriously Affected that denth seemed imminent, when I commenced taking New Dis covery. The ominous dry, hacking cough quit before the first bottle was used, and two more bottles made a complete cure." Nothing has ever equaled New discovery for cough*, j colds and all throat tnd lung com plaints. Guaranteed by F. Leslie Zeinp, druggist. 80o and $1. Trml bottle free. BucMen'a Arnica Salvo The Best Selve In The WerM, VSgry Low Rate* to Norfolk And Season, sixty day aad fifteen dsy tickets on sale daily, com meoolog April 19th tb and in cludiug. November, 80th, 1907. Very low rates . will also be made fot Military 'and Brass Bands in uniform, attending the Exposition. Stop overs will be allowed on Season, Sixty day*- and fifteen day Jicksts, same as on Summer UmrTsfc- tickets. ? '^tVtorfiill and complete infor matio&bjsall on /T|wat Souths > Railway; or write 'RT W. Haunt, Div., Passenger Agt., Charleston, S. C. 'r? Wluthrop College Scliolaralilp aud Eutrauce Eramthuiiim. The examination for the award of vacant Scholarships iti 'Win* throp Col lege and for the'admi* sion df new' students will He held at the County Court House dti Friday, JULY 5, AT 9 -A. M. Applicants must not be less than fifteen years of age. When Scholarships are vacated after July 5th, they will be awarded to those making the highest average at this examination, pro vided they meet the condition governing the award. Appli cants for Scholarships should write President Johnson before the examination for Scholarship examination blank. Scholarships are worth $100 and free tuition. The next ses sion will open September 18, 1907. For further information and catalogue, address PRiUS. D. B. JOHNSON, RocU Hill, S.C. THIS SPACE RESERVED FOR H. L. WATKINS' NEW AD. of Chase & Sanborn's Teas and Coffees NOTICE of SPECIAL ELECTIONS. Special elections having been ordered by the Supervisor for Kershaw County to be held in said county on June 20th, 1907, Upon the questions of the "Sale, " "Application of Protits" and "Manufacture" of alcoholic liquors, the following named Managers to conduct said elec tions are hereby appointed to serve at the respective voting precincts: Camden Opera House ? C R Lewis, W G Wilson, E 13 Cure toe. Bethune ? J M Watts, H T Thomas, R W Hammond. Westville ? T B Clyburn, J A McDowell, H J Munn. Buffalo School House ? R E Mungo, J A Shaw, W C Roberts. Kirkley's Store? S A West, W E Elliott, J H Crow. Brewer's Store ? S N Ham mond, G P Hammond, J G Rowel 1. McLean's Branch ? W H Col lier, J C Price, Al?x Shaw. Mt Zion Church ? E P Shedd, John Young, W L Stokes. Stockton ? Sam Boy kin, P T Bruce, W. R. Gardner. Hanging Rock ? W L Croxton, N B Taylor, P P Truesdell. Liberty Hill? F G Perry, N S Richards, W K Thompson. Rabon's X Roads? Ransom Jackson, J R Rabon, J K Smith. Lang's Mill ? Lawrence Mc Caa, J S Hammond, Dr W J Bur dell. Blanev ? A K Rose, J W Wood, Simon Ros9. Shaylor's Hill? C B Lorick, J A Watts, R M Drakeford. Rttley's Mill ? W. D Sr'eegars. J B Munn, Minor L Raley. Managers are requested to call at the office of Ths Camden Chronicle in due time to qualify and to receive ballots, boxes, registration book und instruc tions. W. L. McDowell, Ch'n R B Elliott, T. S. Nelson. Com mtssionerMrf State & County Elections for Kershaw County. Notice. Notice it hereby given that the Ordinance proni biting dogs run ning at large without muusles, will be strictly enforced from the 1st of May to the 1st of No vember. ? BEN J. HAILE, * CUtff jof Police. Money to. Loan On Real Estate. Ki, Clarke & von Tre&Gkop*^ Thw< tar ?<m. a trmtiaactiori in wise i. \ out au- .t!o.*e?<?. ?r*UklN*. BU>umiu?s8, ?lck nindadiv.tur ad lougur, (ever, pile* and a Utouoiiuu ultiei I ? ?re cwlu] by cuuili;>ali?n aud kIukpiIi iwr-. Cascmtitn Ouudy Or.Uiarlio t wou mfJ m?t liver ?tiraulaiit uud ??..eeiina. ~>luo are L-y cJl uroggiete pmru'i^ . * u> curt ?? moDov refunded, i*. 'J. C. aro a sure blng. Try % box te-def ; l?c., ?c., Mfc,* ?nmideauj booklet free. ow bu CLEMSON AOItlCULTUHAL COLLKGE. Scholarship nnd Entrance Ex . an luatlon to Frcsluuau ^Iams. The examination for rhe awnrl of scholarships from* Kershaw County and ADMISSION TO FRESHMAN CLASS will be held at the County court house on Fiiday, July 5, at 9 a. m. Ap plicants for scholarships may secure blank application forms from the county Superintendent of . Education. These blanks must be tilled out properly and tiled with county Superinten dent before the beginning af the examination. Those taking the examiuatiou for entrance to the Freshman class and not tryiug for a scholarship should tile their application with President Metl. The scholarships are worth ?100 and free tuition. On e scholarship student from each county may select the Textile course, others must take oce of the Agricultural courses. Ex amination paper will be furnish ed, but each applicant should provide himself with scratch paper. The number of scholar ships to be awarded will be an nounced later. P. II. MELL, President, Clemson College, S. C. Tax Notice. City Treasurer's Ofllee, \ Camden, S. C. May 0, '07 ) Notice is hereby Riven that a levy often (10) Mill* lias been made upon all City property, both real and per sonal, within the corporate limits of the City of Camden, S. C., on the 1st day of January. 1007, and that the books for the collection of the sunn? will be opened hi the Council Cham ber in the Opera House from Mond.iy, May 27th, 1U07 to Saturday dune 15th, 1007, after which date the penalty will positively be attached to all delin quents. Costs and charges will be added after 0 o'clock p. in., Saturday, June 15th, 1007. II. CJ. Carrison, Mayor. J. J. Goodale, Clerk ?fc Treasurer. Notice of Election. Petitions having been filed with me as required by Ihw, signed by more than one fourth of tin1 qualified elec tors of Kershaw County, asking for election* to be held upon (lie question of t lie ?SVi If atul also upon the question of the Manufacture of Alcoholic liquors in ?ai?l County : Notice is hereby given that I have ordered and do hereby order an elec tion to \je held in and for Kershaw County, on Thursday, June 20th, 1907, an provided by la\*, upon the ques tions: "For Sale". or "Against Sale" of Alcoholic Liquors, and also upon the question of application of on third the Dispensary profits "For School Fund" or "For K>ads and Bridges." It is further ordered that upon the na id 20th day of June, 1007, an election be also held in and for Kershaw Conn* ty, as provided by law upon the ques tion of tiie Manufacture of Alco holic Liquors in said County, at which the qualified electors may vote "For Manufacture" or "Against Manufac ture." The Commissioners of Election for Kershaw County are hereby notified and directed to take proper steps for holding thu elections as herein or dered. M. C. WEST, Supervisor K. C. Camden, S. C., May 14, 1007. W. A.. Schrock NOTARY PUBLIC, Notarial Certificate with Seal. Jlny Legal ftlank filled and probated. Wills , Contracts and A greoncnts, Specialties. Call at or 'l'lionp THE PEOPLE'S OFFICE, Camden, S. C. A Splendid Assortment at KENNEDY'S. One and two liorse Plows, Disc anil Smoothing Harrows, Grain Drills; Oats, Home Raised and Texas Rustproof; Wheat and Seed Rye. Hay Presses and Gasoline Kngineg; Barbed Wire and Fence Wire; Ranges; Stoves, Heaters, B. B. Wick less Oil Stoves; Pipe and Engine Fittings; J APALAC. Harness! Harness!! Harness!!! Hunting Coats, Pants and Nets; Leather and Canvas Leggings. Grocery Department. "Kingan's Ilams, Breakfast Bacon, ?&c, &c. Wheat Brann, a new and very line Chicken Food. A. D. KENNEDY SEABOAE1 D A IK LINE RAIL WA Y. WORTH-SOUTH-EAST-WEST Two Daily Pullman Vestibuled Limited Trains Between NOKTII AND SOUTH. First-Class Dining Cars. % The BEST KATES ami ROUTE to all Eastern Cities via KICII- ? MONO and WASHINGTON, or via NORFOLK and steamers?' To ATLANTA. KASJIVILLK, MEM I'll IS, LOUISVILLE, ST. LOUIS, CHICAGO, NEW ORLEANS, and all points Sou t li and Southwest ? To SAVANNAH and JACKSONVILLE and all points in FLORIDA and CUBA. POSITIVELY THE SHORTEST LIRE BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH. tions, etc., apply to any agent of the Seaboard Air Line Railway, or W. I*. Burroughs, Travelling Passenger Agent, (Columbia, ,S. (5. Cltas. F. Stewart, Asst. Gcnl. Pass. Agt, Savannah, Ga. 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