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tCbe people * A MERCHANT'S NKWSl'Al'KK. Jfk CPUN'VR v MAN'S >'1<;WS PAVER A KEWrtPAlfER WK S^U.KK and niTYKK. , PUBLISHED EYEKY THUUSDAY. W. A SCHKOCK, Publisher. 40BSCRI7TI0K, S1.B0 PER ANNUM. Can trie it. 8. C., An-. 2Sltli, 1007. Reason according to your) lights, but if you have tin old, smoky lamp, don't ask anyone to follow your light. ? * * If your lights arc not us bright as the other fellow's burnish your lump chimney, and borrow some of the other fellow's oil. Wo will take pleasure in lendiug liro. Birchmore some of ours. * * 1 ? Bro. Birchinore is entirely welcome to our defense of him against the unwarranted charges of the Edgctlcld News. As we stated, we always take up the cudgel for the under do;?, so it followed as a matter of course that we took it up for him. * v. * Reasoning with Ins usually bright or dull light, The Mes senger of this week cannot un derstand our position on the liquor question. Queer, but some people never could read by a auiokey light. The one we use is clear and bright, and we use a number 7 locus pair of glasses. to * I * We reasoned the recent, dis pensary election according to ihe light of truth and righteous ness and common sense, and not according to mawkish sentiment. That common sense, together witli what wo kuoto, not dream, of conditions in w<H-dry counties, caused us to lliutily oppose the scheme for bogus prohibition. * * * The editor of this paper lias always been in a class by him self. We are not at all seltish however, and will take any other local contemporary under our wing. Perhaps by sitting at the feet of Gamaliel a while some people will enjoy basking in the light of superior knowledge, and profit. thereby. With new lamps, new chimneys, and the finest {Standard Oil, there is no telling what good we mily accomplish. BIG SUM REQUIRED BY ARMY IN CUBA. Two and a Half Million Besides Ordinary Ex penses, Washington, Aug. 2I5. It cost 1he American government 551,070, in addition .to the regu lar ordinary expense, to keep the American army of Cuban pucilic.?tion in thai island (lur ing the Hscul year of l'.)07. This fact is shown in the annual re port of (?en. Aloshire, quarter master general of the army. Of the amount stated $l,01i'>,.'?s;j was spent for transportation. The above figures arc tremend ous, and for the life of us we cfinnot see why the American government should pay one dol lar of the expense incident to the keeping of an army in Cuba. It is there solely in the interest of the Cubans, and there by re quest, so why should not. the Cubans pay Ine cost of its main enuuee? It is of no bcnctit to us that our soldiers maintain peace on the island, as it only defers the period in winch Cuba will become a part of the possessions | of the United States. Withdraw ' t he troops. Let those people i have a little revolution or so, auil then let Uncle Sam step in' 1 | and annex the country. No thoughtful man will question fori u moment that this is the final j and logical outcome, so let it come quick. We take occasion also to ex press our opinion again on the Philippine question. There is' Ho question in our mind that the Philippine islands are costing us a great deal more both in blood and money tliau they are worth to us in either. We ought never to have acquired them, so if any other country wants them, let ( them have them, rcserceing for ourselves two or three coaling ; ttutions. It is said thut .Japan). wants them. If so, wo believe tlmt it would pay us to promptly dispose of them. Trye tliey hayo already cost us a great deal, b.ut we ' are not one of those who raind tn rowing good inouey after bad. to say nothing of the priceless lives of our young men that have been sacri ficed to the Juggernaut, "Never haul down tne Flag." Tl^se are not thoughts thrown out at random, but are the sestled Cou victions of years. Attention, .Merchant* mi<l Other A<lvertiM4M-s. i no iui!o\\ ing items are eli pr?ed from a very tine article on ad vertising that appeared in The Southern Printer of August. 1 he will appeal to the business sense of every ousiuess man whether merchant or not: ?'Quite recently the publisher of a paper in a town T always considered a pretty progressive coin m uuity complained to me that the business men there did not patronize him as they should, and added that they seemed to cousider money paid him for ad vertising as an expense very similar to their contributions to the foreign missionary society." Smile here. "Advertising matter should be made as interesting as news matter." So St I If wc. \\ hat can be of more impoi tance and of greater interest to a paper's readers than informa tion about the things they must purchase every day ?" Absolutely uothiny. "When advertisements are properly written, they are read as carefully us t|ie bodv of the paper. " Correct, but few tire. Smith, (presumedly a mer chant) and his name is legion, knows nothing about ad- writing and the proper display of his* announcements. It is the busi ness of the printer to leuow about such tilings." Never were truer words written Wc know. 1 here are three things in ad vertising that are of prime im portance and that should be figured in the display: The thing advertised, its cost, and where it can be had. Jifvery thing eJse may be subordinate." Prospective, advertize rs, set up and take notice. The above should be taken seriously ??d acted upon uc cordinsly. There is meat in every line of it THIS >Vi:SLK\ A|??.V?PO Wlroso Pall \Vi iV;.Srm0,'? W<\" Know.? >> Hue Citizens ami FricmiM "1 wish that some of the yel* low journals of the North could have photographs of this scene " | said Kov. N. A. Cleaves yester day as ho prouounced a few re marks over the body of Wesley KulT in the funeral services at Sidney Park church. And it was an occasion which well might have elicited such an expression from the preacher, f ins negro was respected by white men and was honored by his own race. The pallbearers were white men and the escort of honor consisted of colored fra ternal lodges. Wesley Ku IT was a member of the old Independent fire engine company in the clays of the volun teer department, and the pall bearers were the members of that company ? Geo. H. UadclifTe,! Charles Konemann, C. J. Lynch ' ?[no. R Uodgers, 10. A Allwor den, J no. IJ.Carr, Jno. T. Sloan, Hm. G. Gaston. Sam L Sweeney and W. W. Hunter. There were present representatives of all the former volunteer fire com panics and the drivers of the present paid fire department. KufT was a fearless driver in the days of the volunteer fire de partment and figured in two re cords that are worth mention tng. At Augusta, Ga., m t)1(. hose wagon contest, the time of ."O i l seconds was a world's record up to that time. He also figured in a quick hitch aud 100 ,>ard dash at Sumter in 1M seconds, another world's record up to timt time. Ruff was well 'iked by the members of the In dependent company, whose lives lie had many times in his hands while responding to lire alarms. ?The State. SOUTH CAROLINA IN I THE LEAD. Ah? d of the World in a Great Many Respects. South Carolina is truly a great State. How munV people of this county know that it leads the world in the following re spects: Growth of eabbage ? Norman H. Blitch, Meggett, S. C. One thousand acres. Began a poor man, workiug for small wages in 1891. It costs *1 10,000 to cultivate his crop. Shipper of cabbage plants ? W m. C. Geraty, Young's Island. Ships 40,000,000, worth *35,000. Has booked 100 cars, 100,000,000 plants, for this year's delivery. Began poor. Pecan grower? John S. Horl beek, Mount Pleasant, S. C. Main grove, GOO acres; two smaller groves with 10,000 trees each. Annual production 10,000 tons. Cotton mill under one roof ? Olympia Mills, Columbia, S. C. Has 11 acres of floor space aud 105,000 spindles. In production of upland cotton per acre. In the quality of sea island cotton. ?Yielci of coru per acre as demonstrated in world contests. Yield of rice per acre. In addition to this South Caro lina leads all the Southern States, according to an apparently re liable authority. In tea culture, possessing the only tea gardens in America. In the lirst use of transmitted electric power for cotton mill drive, not only in the South but. in the world. Iu cotton manufacturing, be ing second to Massachusetts in the entire country. In products of gold, leading all States east of the Rockies. In effort to establish direct import and export trade and trans-Atlantic passenger ser vice. In cheapness of the cost of liv ing. In climatic conditions, which are ouly equaled by those of southern France. Iu variety of .opportunities for the home seeking agricultural ists. In water power. In yield of oats per acre. In harbor facilities, depth of water on bar and accessibility considered. Iu rapidity of development of the trucking industry. In the production and market ing of kaolin. Iu the extent of cheese manu facturing. In size of bleachery. Iu the strength of her granite. It. the manufacture of paper pulp. In welfare work in her cotton manufacturing districts. South Carolina takes second rank among the States of the Union in cotton manufacturing; fourth rank in the manufacture of commercial fertilizers; tifth rank in canning industry; fifth rank, in the manufacture of hosiery; anil lifth, in the produc tion of raw cotton. Maryland, My Maryland's Big Entertainment. Former Residents Now Living in This State are Invited to Attend Her OKI Home Week. Baltimore, Md., Aug. Maryland is sending invita tions to her sons and daughters scattered everywhere to come to a grand reunion, and is making extensive preparations to give them a week of right royal en tertainment when they *jomo. Old Homo Week covers t lie dates, October 15} to 10, and there will not bo a moment of that time 1 1 1 at w i 1 1 not t li r i 1 1 1 w i tli the spirit of hospitality for which the Old Lane State is famous. The celebration will include a number of spectacular features in this city, such as an electri cal pageant, and grand military aud naval display, a gathering of patriotic societies, a parade and ball by the fraternal orders, a big concert, a night carnival, etc. 1 here will also be a speciul pilgrimage to Annapolis on Peggy Stewart Day, which falls in < )l<l I lome Week. J he visitors to the capital will have an opportunity to inspect the magniticeut new buildings of the United States Naval Acade-' iny and the remodeled Suite House of historic associations. The New Baltimore, which has ?prung from the' ashes of the disastrons lire of 1904. will not be the least of the features t hat will afford delight and will sur prise the returning sons and daughters of the State. The Hooiecotrjers will have the benetit of special trausportion rates grauted by railroad and steamboat companies, and ar rangements are on foot to se cure for the visitors the privi lege of a side trip to Jamosiown without extra charge. Every former Marylander of whom the Marylaud Home Com iug Association secures informa tion will receive a special iuvi tation to attend the liomccoming. These invitations are being sent out by Governor Edwin Warti eld in the name of the State. All persons who have information of the whereabouts of former Mary landers are urged to promptly forwhrd such names and addresses as are in their po sessiou, to the ir'ocretary of the Association, 002 Fidelity Build ing, Baltimore, Md. THE JAMESTOWN EXPOSI TION. (Official Statement.) The Jamestown Exposiou, bar- 1 riug minor details, will be com pleted within ten days. It lit tingly commemorates the great historical event, which it was de signed to celebrate, and it re flects credit on Virginia, the South and the nation. In the character of its buildings, the excellence of its exhibits and the beauty of location on histori cal Hampton Roads, it compares most favorably with any expo sition held m this country, und it fully justifies its management in asking the united support of the count ry. A later report, bearing date Aug. 21th, states that the Ex position is complete in all de tails with the exception of the Q. S. Government pier which will be completed within a few days. As very few of us rural* ists care a snap about piers, or peers, this is a minor objection to the visiting of the exposi tion. ? Editor. Opportunity. The following is a very pretty little poem which is credited to Judge Walter Malone, Memphis, Tenn. It is in reply to Senator Ingall's poem on "Opportunity " the opening line of which reads "Opportunity knocks but once at every door.**' The reply is en titled "Opportunity's Reply." Here it is: "They do me wrong who say I conn* no more, When onee I knock and fail lo find you in; For every day I stand outside your door, And bid you wake und rise to fight and win. Wail not for previous chances psssed nway ; Weep not for golden ages on the wane. Each night I burn the records of the day ; At sunrise every soul is born again. Laugh liKe a boy at splendors that have sped To vanished joy be blind, and deal and dumb; My judgments seat the dead past with its dead, Hut never bind a moment yet to coine. Wo clip this from The N. Y. Times Saturday Review. A Long Swim. A tramp has beaten all known records by swimming twenty seven miles in thirty minutes. Me did not mean to do it. He merely tried to steal a ride from St. Louis to Chicago on the rear! of a locomotive tender. When the train started he fell over, backward through the open I manhole into the water lank. ; The noise ol the train drowned his cries for help, and he was' obliged to swim until the tirst stop was reached at Alton. | When taken out he was nearly dead, but the engineer was so unfeeling as to call his attention to the fact that the water was only four feet deep, and lie might have stood up. The con ductor, also unfeeling, asked him for his ticket, but the tramp said lie had not come by rail, but by water. ? Youth's Com panion. A Valuable Lesson. "Six yenrs ago I learned a valuable lesson," writes John Pleasant, of Mag nolia, Ind. "I then began taking l?r. King's New Life Tills, and the longer I lake them the better I lind them." They plea?e everybody. (Juaran teed at F. Leslie Zttnp, druggist. '2'ic. , Broad, All Right. * "I lilce Bishop Edmund's scheme of salvation-'* ? ?'What is it?" "Well, he says the Methodists* will pick a sinner out of the gutter, the Bajrtists will wash! him, the Presbyterians will bluej hitu, the Episcopalians will j starch him, the Roman Catholics will perfume him, the Salvation Army will teach him the Brother hood of Man ? and then ho will be ready for heaven." L. A. HAYNES,! Expert Blacksmith and Wheelwright. Repairing: in both lines A SPECIALTY. I am occupying the Me. Hall shop ? on Lower Broad St., where 1 -will be pleased to receive Your Patronage. Dr. I. H. Alexander, DENTIST. Office one door North of "The People." The Secret or A Beautiful Complexion Now Kevcaled , FREE . Wlint beauty is nun c desirable than an exquisite complexion nml elegant jewels. An npporf imit y for Kvei*> 1 women (o obtain both, for a lin.i i ted ( line only. The directions and recipe for ob taining a landless complexion isihe ! secret long guarded by rhe master ! minds of the OlilKNTAL and < ilt KKKS. This we obtained aft*-!* years of work and at p;re.it expense. It 1st lie method used liy l lie fairest and most beautiful women of Kurope. Hundreds of American women w.liu now Use it have expressed tlu-ir de light and sat isfaction. This secret i.-. easily understood ami simple to follow and it will save yoi: the expense of creams, c. sua tics, j hlcaches and forever give you a u - i t i t'ti I * omplexion and free \ > : : r- - K i 1 1 from pimples, b.;d ? olor blackheads, etc. It alone is worth to y ? ? u many times the price we ask you to semi l<>i the genuine diamond ring of latc.-t ?!?? sign. We sell y ? > n this ring as one small prolit above manufacturing cost. The price is less tliau one half what others charge. The recipe is free with every ring. It is ii genuine rose cut diamond ring ofsparkling brilliancy absolutely guaranteed, very dainty, shaped like a Itelcher with 'I'ilVany set t ing of PJK t . gold shell, at your local jeweler .1 it would cost considerable more th; v $2.u o. We mail you this beautiful com plcxion recipe free when your order i received for ring and fti'.un in money order, stamps or bills. <M t Ji.iirorile: in before our supply is exlu.u t ??:! . This offer is made for a limit. <1 liun only as ?: means of advertising and in troducing our goods. Send to-day before opportunity i forgotteu. T. C. MOSELEY. j Jl'J Kast 2ttrd Street, New York City. CITATION. S'l'ATK <?!?' S< > I "I'll CA1JOUXA ) Count y of Kershaw. S liy Win. I?. Trantham I'rohate .Imlge. Whereas, W. IJ. Hou^h made suit to me to grant him Letters of Ad ministration of the Kstate oi ami effects of < . Is . Morton These are therefore to cite and nd monish all and singular t lie kind red nud creditors of i he said (i. K . Ilortou deceased, that they be ami nppe<ir before me, in the Court ol ? I'rohate, to be held :i t Camden on j the 'JUt Inlay of August Hit?V next after publication thereof, at II o'clock in | the forenoon, to show cans", if any jtliey have, why said Administration I should not be granted. t~'Vci under mv hand, this loth day I of August, A. I). I'.UT. \\ in. I >. Tran( h.i in , I'rohate .1 mlge. Published on the 1 -*> I } t uay of Au lu<?7 mi I'lie People. liisitig I'rotn the (Irnvo. A prominent uiauufact urer' Win. A. [ l'Vrt well, of l.ueauie, N# C., relatej a I uiost remarkable experience, lie say-:; " A f t er tuk i ng less t iia n t hree hoi I les of i Klectrie. Kitiers, I led like one rising j from I be grave. My t rouble is I', right's disuse, in the I >iabet es stage. I fully believe Klectrie Hitters will cure me permanent ly , for it h is already stopped the liver and bladder eompli palioiis which have troubled me for' years." Guaranteed at K. I.eslie Zeuip I drugstore. Price only ??0e. KILL the COUCH1 ?ko CURE this LUMPS with Or. King's New Oiscovsry FORC^gr ?!$&., /??*> AM. TVfiOAT JtF/nMWGTtO'JT. F.S oiiAMiiti'kiiii is ATiL7iioi;oHs? OK MONEY ?EFUNI>EI>. LET US GC I HAVE THE MOST COMPLETE LINE OF FISHING TACKLE ON THIS MARKET. I Am also the Leader in Hardware, Cutlery and General Farm Supplies. GIVE 3X1 3 A CAIjIj ! A. D. KENNEDY SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Schedules "Effective May 5, 1007. To Washington, to York and East. !.v < 'aimli'ii *11 .Ml am 7<i pin Vr K??rk Hill "J pin :ia pin ?? Charlotte (i pin 11 :?! jmi " Washington V :{?> :iiii lO l.i am ?? l>ali ini'iiv lo !."? am 11 !I2 ?m " Philadelphia 12 "?:! p: i 1 !'? pin '? Nrw York '?> pin I i"i pin Pullman sltM'iHT and Soul hern ! Jail way ditiimr ears from U?k;1c i 1 ill. Trains arrive at Camden from norl h S So a in and 111 noon. Prom south and,\vesl l'J ()."> j> at and 0 L'O |> in. I'nr exei.rsion rates and illus I rated mat ter a boul "The Land <>!' the Shy," ' ' i tea nt i la 1 S a | > phire i.'onnt ry," and Summer tie* >ori s, a i?|)l.\ to the undersigned. . Hnily I'Mvpl Sunday. * liailv. To Columbia and Ashev?!le. I.v < 'minim .V) a m Ar < 'oluiiiltia 1 1 1 .*> a m Ar SpanaiiUur^; :t'i p in A r Tr\ en *> 10 p in Ar ll?,ncJt,psinivilli? <> *J."? p in A r A>lu'Vii!t' 7 HO p in Solid t i*:i i i i with Chair ami C;i IV Car froin K in.tfvilh; t ?? Aslie i v i ! if wit liout cliaiiiji'. 1 To tharlestr.il, Atlanta and West. 1 l.\ ( 'atmli'ii *'2 lo p in ; i \ tit* it v i 1 1?* 7 no p in Ar ( ' li:'. rit'<i en Ar Ail. t-it I.", p n , ?' I" p ut ! Ar Ait!>iis;:i j(, j, ,,, ? At Atlanta ,r, i :( i ni I Ar < lir.tl .iium^a p., | ., ,,, I Ar ( iiicinnal li S :;t t p nt A r Si l.uui 7 a in I ' 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 ; 1 1 1 slcopor lti ancliville to At ianta coniu'ct in?r with sleep or and dining car lo Ciiicimiatti For full infnrm'it ion consult W. S. COOPER, R. W. HUNT, GEO. B. ALLEN, Agent, Div Passenger Agent, Asst Gen D,\ss Agent, Camden, S. C. ChaiTeston, S. C. At'^nth, Ga. f a 1 1 1 es! ( > vv n b] x j k >sition M" mt ^ fm. /\ ?[~> | S aciatr-Li J rr^i ?x\ij lairij^ Xbf ...i- A? bkom W kj krmmr Mil Ljyi: UAILIVAY* 10 Day oach excursion, sold on Tuesdays and Fridays only $ 7 10 15 Day Tickets 12 15 (i0 Day Tickets 1?$ 45 Season Tickets, limited Dec. 15th 1(5 10 Coach Excursion Tickets will not he good in Parlor or Sleeping Cars. Seaboard is IVio??t Direct Route Double Service Daily to and from Norfolk. Lv. (Camden 7.01 a. m., Ar. Portsmouth 8.00 p. m. Lv. Camden 7.58 p. m., Ar. Portsmouth !M)0 a. m. For furl I ? ? ? r informal ion and rrscrvntions apply to C* M ADK'INS, A ?ront, or wrilo \V. L. IH'UIJOMiliS, T. IV A., Columbia, S. ('. UNDERTAKING CALLS ATTKNDKI) ANY 1IOIMI DAY 01 v NKiHT. :: :: :: Est. K. (>. McCrci^lil, Williams & Stccdman, Fin*, Accident and Health INKUKANCi:. Surety Onice ovci' store of J. C. Curcton & Co. J liST SATISFY YOURSELF. . i tyTli.at tl^cro Is 3cim.otlvir5.Er ? Tcottor tlicm. ?rdLino. ry <Buq0y Painting .? (iive us u trial. Wo mulct-* \ i it specially of 1 Buf?gy Painting and Repairs.; ??op* Our Miirli |i iinlril f?>r II < /\TTIl \C TIVI'MKMS mimI OI'l(/\ Itlt.lTY. Your patronage respectfully solicited.! ( '?i < n I'rliiK*' ?V Wiikoii WorltH, O'MM't M G. CAnnnoN * omct ' r? m Hampton. f?no?? n