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ZEbe people a iiwoEArre nvwAm k oouirr*Yifcur? mrsPAPSR. A MtrnMrmm worn - m&tm Am nnm.< J. ?? 1 i' U i. ?> snmumuuy imir tmvm ?>ay. . W. A fCMROQC# PVBUSH0L WUCtlfTMI. ?U0 KI lim. CwlM, |. cu P**. f4Hb IIW8 . Cmmutrj jTmpapcit. '*1 ?in'* neper hod uorftauce." Theme words is tli? valedictory of Mr. J. T. 'Bighorn, who re tired two wjieks a go from the i4 tiie Chester Lan tern, e| praaigy eya<ctly the feel jugs of lite editor of this news paper and ?a have wanted to say something along this line since Ins article appeared, but we have siuipjy not bad lime. Often have we deojred and still long to be in a (hasIUoq where we cau edit a uewspuper as we believe ii should .be wiifeout feeing called on so ffiatiy .oilier dulies. Were we Co teii of tfce IP?uy different things we do in oue day most people would not belaeve us, and yet we are not different from the average country newspaper edi tor. Few ttuvatry newspaper men there are who are not over worked., aud the reasou is thai their jueome is not sufficient to employ enough competent help. Too few of us know what out work is worth, aud we do entire ly Wo Much free worlc, which .costs us wouey and yet we do .not seem to realise it. This editor (Joes uot lose sight .of the iajct that a newspaper is in a measure# public serf an t, aud therefor* ?&unot expect re muuerslJioa for all the servioe*it renders, font it is nevertheless true th^t if the average weekly editor would employ real busi ness methods in the manage lueut of his business he would materially iuorease his iuconie. But the real reason is there ^re too JU&ny newspapers, aud us .a result too much price cut ting, poorly edited and printed .newspapers, and overworked, always-hard up editors. Most country towns in South Carolina cannot do more than furnish enough business for one first ^tass newspaper, and yet how A>any have two in the same town, with others possibly in the lounty. And so it goes. There they all are, doing no more than folding soul and body together, hanging on by the skm of the .teeth as it were, e icing out a precarious existence, with no capital to make improvement in their plant ? many of them hav ing only a sliirttail full of type and the bare necessities needed /or prinlicga newspaper, having 410 tixed rates for advertising or ^ob work, but taking any price they can get, with an humble, servile attitude toward the pub ^ |C| talcing pay for subscriptions in produce, wood, or anything ,:lu*y can get, and agreeing to 'tiade out" with the merchant |he amount of his advertising Mil. Is the picture overdrawn? Answer truthfully aud about ? seventy live per cent, of the weekly editors will agree with us. But there U ft remedy. l>n pfove your paper, make it uewsy , ju'itil it neatly, use attractive type faces if you liuvo to go in jlebt to buy it, find out wliut your work is worth und charge ac cordingly, have fixed rates and make all customers pay Iho same prices. Some of you editors quit the newspaper business. Go lo farming. It's a blame sight more healthful and ir.de pendent. Good advice, all of this, pos sibly you will say, Maybe so, jmd tl>e writer x>ught to take .every bjt of it io himself. But will be do it? We guess not ? J&xtmols from editorial in Bam berg Herald. AN IN j|$ltK4TJNQ MCTTKIt. We j^re )?? reoeiot of anoter in* teresling letter from President W. vy. j?in)ey of the Southern Kail toad, yn fortunately, it is \ ?k? ioqg lor entire reproduction J? o.jr ool Mums, but we will give /VV tl)9 f??turef of it. Mr.ffailty jim qaite ? bar of itadttlii wtoicb shew tl)? alarming decrease 44 osr mmyort trade vUh Ak? f itfir AiMriMn countries. lhak it witk Iftexieo, Ceutral and So ilk ioerioi and Uie Vetklodtot. Ti?e population of Umm coun- 1 tri^s conjoiuUy is MlimftUtl at 05,000,000 which is rapidly in* creasiujf, and t he combined area is about 9,000,000 square miles. Withm the last decade, tlie po litiral and economic coudi lions in Latin- America have greatly changed and improved. They have oow approximately 30,000] (piles of railway trackage, while their navigable streams are be- 1 ins: rupjdly improved. Wagon roads, or public highways pre beingconstructed. In short, the whole region is being re- con structed along the liues of modern progress. Which however of the foreign natious are being benefitted by ib>s condition of affairs? Ac cording to Mr. Fiuley, it is not the United States, but Great Britain, Germany and Prance, by all commercial logic, our peo pie should occupy a command ing iullueuce in the circle of their import trade. The exports from these coun tries are mainly unmanufactured articles all of value to our peo ple, while their imports consist largely of manufactured products which our lieoplc should be able to furnish cheaper, and of better quality than can their competi tors for the trade. But, we do not occupy that commanding position. Whj? We cannot even venture a guess. Wo can only say ilia". if we could exchange our agricultural imple ments, vehicles of overy de scription, locomotives, cars, ma chinery, tools, steel rails, build er's hardware, stoves, cotton | textiles, vegetable oils ur.d furni ture for colTce, nitrates, tropical fruits, mahogany timber, rut ber and other products of these countries, we Would be much ad? vantaged. There surely is a way by which this can be accom plished. Naturally these im ports and exports should be handled through Southern ports, so we must look to the Southern delegations in Congress to un ravel the tangle*. A TEMPERANCE UNION. Member* limited to Fourteen UriiiUs of Liquor l>uily. "Signing the pledge" is no new thing, as proved by re searches in Italy. Interesting particulars of what would ap pear to be the earliest examples of written pledges to abstain from gambling and excessive drinking are given in the Turin Studi Mddievali by Signor Giro lamo Biscaro, who litis discovered three such documents in the archieves of Milan. The first of these records is an oath sworn on the gospels by Giacomo pas quali and Armiuine Duca to the effect that for two years they will abstaiu from gambling in Pavia or within three miles thereof and will likowise refrain .from inducing others to gamble on their behalf The penalty for any breach of this oath is fixed at 5 soldi, payable to Papio Bovatorio. In the second document Peratio de Bono promises Uberto do Proto to abstain from gambling for a cerliiin period, evception being made on behalf of the bis mentiro, at which, however, he was not to lose more than V denari on any one day. Portlier, he undertakes not ty visit any inn for drinking purposes be lore the hour of vespers on Mon day. A breach of either clause of the pledge involves the pay inent of 5 soldi to De Proto. Hy iho third document iSileto Per rario expressed his willingness to pay 12 denari to his brother Lamporio should he be persuaded to piny for money in any place of public resort or to spend more than 2 denari on intoxicants in any one day. The motive for ihese contracts is not staled, but it is presumed that they were entered into by employees whose masters wished to keep their proclivities in check. There is nothing in the documents to suggest the ex istence of any ' organization for the promotion of temperance. The honor of being first in the fleld iu this respect therefore I ?till 4}a U ?i|b Ocrttftny. wh?r? *wo fc?pMt*eew*eci?M*ft were CcmiiWM & aixwmultoen 4ury. ^ r V . 'Of these tli*0?ler of St#Obrl* topber v?i.(oraMb| 8|fii?uod de Diettricbstein^d J?n. 18, IM7, and the Order of Temperance by tbetiodyfive of Hem bo Deo. 25, 1400. The members of the] one order were pledged to ab stain front toast drhilnng, and Mie tteaabers of tbe other under took not to drink more than seyeu glasses of liquor at a time, mud tbut not ofteuer than twice a day. ? Chicago News. ? A Word to the Wise. Are you laying up stores in these good years against the poor oues which ma^ come? If you don't securely lay up during the harvest, the drought of old age will catch you without provender. No .natter who you are, where you are or how old you are, it is your duty to save money. Are you rich now? Yow may become poor if you dou*t save. Are you poor? You may be come rich if j'ou save. You will ulways remain poor if you don't. Without economy you can't be rich; with it you need not be poor. To have a surplus? capital in reserve ? is simply throwiug au auchor to windward. It will prevent your drifting into the rocUs of penury. If you already have capital, economy will preserve it for your use in the times of greater need. If* you have uoue you cau ac quire it by the same means. But you must have capital if y?u would get ahead financially. Youth is emphatically the time to begin to save, but it is never >oo late while your earning ca pacity is greater tiiau the needs of yourself aud those dependent upon you. But saving is a habit, and like most habits of life, in the great majority of cases it must be ac quired early if at all. Indeed, the main object of sa\ing in early life, ia not so much the actual amount saved, which may be very small, as it is the formation of the habit of economy. It is an important moment '"hen a j'ouug man or young woman begins to lay aside part of his or her earnings, be cause from that moment the per son ceases to bo slavish de pended, and become self-reliant. If you have not begun to save, get started .?Merchants Journal. Items ot Interest, The Pope has formally blessed President elect Taft and family. Tuft is all right now, even if he doesn't have the tariff revised to our uotiou. Our strenuous President seems to be in somewhat of a hole con cerning that Panama Canal deal. The thing does loolr fishy but there may be nothing iu if.. Our belief that all is not quite as ii should be is based largely on Hie fact that Teddy "doth protest too much. " % There appears to bo a desire in certain high official quarters to muzzle the press. Don't worry about tho Press. We will still bo doing business at the same old stand long after these mischief makers are where they should be, shoveling coal with a red hot trident, or toaling light wood knots in the lower regions. m. * w i ho complete vote in the re cent election shows that Judge Tart received 7.6a7,07G votes out of a loin 1 of 14,852,239. Col. Bryan received 6,893,182 votos. f ho balance being scatter ing among a lot of scrub and fool candidates who ought to bo in an asylum for defeating tho Demo cratic candidate, which they did. % % Dunkirk, N. Y., Dec. 20.? William Ives, 105 years old, died at his homo in Predonia today after a brief illness. Ho was a vegetal iau and never required the services of a doctor until within the last few months. PR.KfNG'S IMIW DISCOVERY ' WW Sweiy ilop Hut gro#j,, : V ? Madam E\don. World's Greatest Palmist, Clairvoyant and Medium "By Their Deeds Shall Yei Know Them," Says Script ure , and So It has Proven With Her ? $20,000 for One That Can Equal Her. She Tells Your Name and Also the One you Will Marry. Who rends your life from t lie crtulle to the grave, and is known from sea to sea as one of i lie hesl palmists in the world. During lite Omaha Exposition she read the h ind of President McKiuiey and predicted that he would die by the hand of an assassin, which prediction caiue true. She it was, who, while filling an en gagement in Pittsburg, traced on the map the famous Heaumont, Texas, oil fields, and located what has since proven to he the greatest oil lields in existence. Palmist Located Watch. | The following special from Con J covil I o the Charlotie Observer I tells ils own storv: ?'Seven mouths ago Mr. James C. Gibson lost u watch, and he believed that the tresured jew el had been stolen until yester day the matter was solved. Mrs. Leonard Cowen, it daugh ter of Mrs. Gibson, concluded to consult Madam Eldon, a scicut ilic palmist , who is here this week with a carnival company. After readings the lines in the young lady's hand the Knowing oue de scribed tho watch and then told her I hat. the watch had not been stolen, but misplaced. The de scription tallied with an iir jncdiato search and tho watch was found just where it had been placed by <he hands of some member of Mrs. Gibson's family. Ti.is happened yesterday, and last night all the people of the city who had lo=>t something or waniid lo tind something con sulted M idatn Kldon. In oilier words, she did a great business last., night, especially with the ladies.' * Don't Mistake the Name, ELDON. Strangely fasinnting nre Hie words that come from I lie culti vated lipsof this most interesting woman whose journey of life hits already taken her through ail the renowned psychic schools of Egypt, India and Europe. It seems indeed as if her knowledge must come from that mys terious world of which we all would know, yet longing, cannot know. She looks as far away hi the dim mysterious future ? the great beyond ? across the dark chasm which seperates the hu man body from the tittini; soul ? and that which is to he told. The seperated are brought together, foe are made friends, lost prop city, Is recovered, the mist is brushed away from business ven lures, the hand is so guided that failures are aver'.ed, the earth's face is - explored, its treasures laid bare to perceptive mind, and while she gives dates, facts and figures, her visitor sits dumb founded at the revelation sin* makes to him. She is surely a women of the passing time. She stands alone in her mug n ? ?r iicie i? t power of reading t lie future of human kind. Educated in occult mysteries and Hindoo phihxphy hi Egypt and Iuditi. I do hereby sole inly agree and guarantee to make no charge if 1 fail to lull you whetheryour hus band, wife, or sweetheart is true or faUe; lull how to win the love of the one you most desire, ovi n though miles away; how to suc ceed in business, speculation law suits, how to marry tho one of your choice. A true clairvoyant is horn ? not made. Madaiu Eldoti is not a clairvoyant from choice, but be cause fate has so decreed it. Htr ancestors were powerful me diuuis and have for a^es handed down their wondt rful power of gift from general io.i to genera lion. So she has received the rich inheritance together with combined knowledge and price h'ss experience of generations. No mutter what your present trouble may be or your past ex perieuce has been you will save lime and avoid disappointment by at once consulting her. THIS WEEK. Do Not Mistake The Name-ELDON. On Vacant lot North of Hotel Camden, CAMDEN, - - - - - s ( FuikI ICiMiiiiruil by Cows. The cow requires not only] materials fur maintenance, but must also luivo protein, fill, mid carbohydrates to make milk I from. The milk contains wuiir, fiit, protein (casein, or curd), sugar and ash, and those are all made from the constituents of of the food. If insufficient pro tein fat and carbohydrates are j contained in the food given her, she cow supplies the deficiency for a time by drawing mi her own body, and gradually be gins to shrink in quantity mid quality of inilk, or both. The stingy feeder cheats himself as well as the cow. She may sutler from hunger, although her belly is full of swale hay, but she also becomes poor and dot's not. yield ' the milk Mild butter she should. ! Her milk glands are a wonderful machine, but they cannot make milk casein (curd) out of t lie con* I stituentsin coarse, unuppeiizing, j indigestible swale hay or saw dust any more than the farmer himself can make butler from skim milk. Sho must not only have a generous supply of good food, but it must contain snlli* ciont amounts of the nutrients needed for making ini'.k. Cot ton seod meal is the greatest protein food obtainable in the south. Until this fact is under stood and appreciated, sueees* fnl, profitable dairy ing is out of the question. Many forciblo illustrations of its truthfulness have been fur nishod by the agricultural ox poriuiont stations. ? From Kali iiicih' BtilU'lin N<?. 22 10), U. fc?., Depui t of of All ien! turo. c t=TS*| <r> r&t c sm W* 2?. e-? n jr ?71 s Bp Bfl r C St! Q 3 Qn m cs Cp ro C75 Z~l Co z v> ? > n: o ro ^ z: o ri v; c: LZ t\ 3D rn 2 s 1 3> </> o p > Q r c> n: jj; ~l > G 5 R r' c; ? > ?? 2 c? a: > X (9 o K z O Z? 3? n c ?? O i? o? o ? rn n:_ . O -'?> 7* f J ^ * O-e ?S| cn* o Iff i r? S. * s I y 7 IS X. < K5 A cn w ?tr? P. THE HUNTING SEASON / ' Now is The Hunting Season. Call on me fo^anything in the line OF HUNTING GOODS. Full Line of Guns, Shells, Belts, and Leggings. Evertiung But The I Am also prepared to furnish you with anything in HARDWARE, FARM SUPPLIES, and GENERAL MERCHANDISE. Price and Quality talk. I Have Both. GIVE ME A CALL S. C. Tax Notice. om.-e .?f TrrnKiirer of Kershaw I Comity S. C. Sept. -1th, 'OS. ) In nntorilanoc Willi lln* Act to raisv supplies for tin* lldra I year ewnineuc ii>K .fuiiiiary 1st, 1SH>7, not ire is lii-rcb) ?;ivei? thai liie books will b.' open for roUci'tiii}* Slate, coiiiity and school taxes from October l.?, 11MH, to M :rch 1st, 1WH). \ penalty of I per mil will be added on all taXfM liup.iul by .1 i? - nary 1st lilllll. A penalty of two per rent on all unpaid by Fel>. l>t,lSMl>. A penalty ??f seven per relit Wlil be add? (I on all unpaid March 1st, l'.io'.t. '1 be rate per reiitunl for Kernh.*. w county is us follows: Mills State taxes, C> 1-2 School taxes, K t oinily tiiXiH, 21 I I U'. i road lute#, 1 II I Court House lloiids 1-1 Ko;.d, 1 Total, 113-1 The following ppeeiitl levies have been made also : Special School lax, District No. I for interest on School ltouds (irndrtl School liitihiing. Mills. District No. 1, il l Special Schorl tax Dist No. 1, il 44 44 44 ? 4 44 J | |# 44 4 i 44 ? 4 4 4 J JJ 44 44 44 4 ? *4 ~ ?> 4 4 4 ? 4 4 44 44 |(^ j 44 44 4 k 4 4 4 ? J | 44 44 < 4 44 4t |.j 4 ? 44 4ft 4 4 4 4 j J J| 4 4 4 4 4 4 4? *4 ft 4 4ft 4ft 44 tl ||| %) 44 44 44 4? *4 %).) ?> 44 44 4ft 4. 44 2 44 ftft 44 44 ?4?;y %) .4 44 44 4. 44 - \The mini tax of two <1?>I can he ? p:ml tin* Comity Treasurer frum ()>:? loher, lot ti. WOU, to March 1M, l'.Hiii The |>n!l tax i> $1 . A II information as to fuxc.s will he frrnisheri upon n|>|ili<Mt ion. In s?MMlini( for 'I'ax account* am! j Kecci|>t*, Hlatc with wIioiii the Tux- I payer 1 i v?*?l in January la?t, ami ii | known by two Rive botli, am! be sure to tfivn Township ami No. of ?School District. 1). M. MeCa*kill, Con iity Trcn?. lu'i'o Bullets ric%v. I >a v i?l Parker, of K< ye'.te, N. Y . a veteran of tin? e.ivil war, who li?t a ffot r.t <! ttjsliiir^, *ny:"Tbc irmul Klectric Hitter* hnve done i* wr.vtl j more than five htnnlred ? ! ? . H n r - to u<c [ I sp? nt mt.ch money doeto'itig I < r a i (ill <1 ert*v of ftomneh tr< I'.V.e, t<? lilt'e j Mirpoae. I then 1 rn*?1 Klectric Hitl.r , ?l ti?1 they etiretl inc. I it- W ' n!.e tin m j n* a tor.ic, and they keep me *'.niitj; | ami well." fiOe. r.t K. Leslie /,eni|i | ? nmilrti hriigt'o., Z? mp A l>epa*? ' ilrnj: *tore?. ? ? ? ? ? . j BucMen's Arnir ? ~?y3 Th* Best 5?!v$ fa Jh9 ii+iH, W. BRATTON DeLCACH ATTOUNKY AT LAW Camimin, s. 11 UAL KSTATfi ! :i : (I Aj^ent. All person* having Ufnl Kstalf for i -ji If or mil , nr?* r?\|ii?>tr<l to rail on ni?* r.?p iiilxriiiiit inn. wishing | to buy or mil Krai Kslate, are al*o requested lo rail on me. All I'lnimk in u>y I. and* for f rollrrtion will ri-iu'ivti *>tii pt niteii l ion. I <'jill on mt' a! Mr. -W. A. Srlimrk's | oilier (Tlit* 1% o;>le':? olUt't*,) Canute n, j S. U. (i. C i . Alexander. IC!(LLt"? COUCH *-fto OUSSE5 T HZ LUNC8 wch ir, ling's Me?# Oissmvy FOU 0?FgM3 a^,in ?-r> *? rlrff ? ? *,l,? Bott,J FrM ft *0 ALL TiuiQAT AND LUUG TROUBLES. S2^2?3SS&,S&0*W" Dr. I. II. Alexander in::-; t i sr. Ollicj 0110 door North of ?'The People.* -J- J!'-' .JL."- -uii-j undertaking' CALLS ATTENDED ANY HOUR DAY OK N101IT. :: :: :: list. K. O. McCroi^lit. It est JU'.sifjJis. > Est. E. O. McCrclrjht. MONUMENTS A NO TO M H STONES'. Vermont J! a rh f v C o 9 a. ?# )"UI1 Illicit **?* I f Vllf.tt'J I III ? ? "i \v : I I'll' t i ft 0 ? tu' < i. bit o ?i?i-*m. 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