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&J-V;- a ' A''-*:' J^Jj VOL. XVIII. IvINGSTREE, S. C? THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1902. NO. 24 THE PRIDE 0 COMMENCEMENT EXERC GRADED Splendid Essays Read by the Gradu Delivers the Literary Decid The lirst nnmi'il commencenn and the graduation ot its lirst cia>> and Tuesday of this week. Tiie : It contained four members, all iiir **a 1#\ Ka^f.iL'uii ?1C fill lUUICd Ilic I*' UV-KIIWII ??.' %.! are certainly larlher advanced graduate. Sunday morning the Metliodi? who had gathered to hear th<? ronnr then took his text I mm Proverb* f: Monday night the concert at It house was packed and jammed an It was certainly grati'yina to .he n commencenient exercises so well at to teei the inspiration and were ' < ted themselves handsomely. Foil 1. America. 2. Brownie Band, :i. German Cradle Sons, V 4. Introduction to Hiawatha, 5. Indian Tribe, 0. Hiawatha's Childhood, 7. Negro Cradle Song, k 8. Hiawatha and Mudjekeewi ft Wreath Drill, B 10. Hiawatha's Wooing, H 11. Silver Stars, (Bohm) 31 9 121 The Famine, f Id. Star Spangled Banner, 14. Hiawatha's Departure, Stars of the Summer Night Mlis. W. V. Biu The commencement exercises ing, when the yeutig ladies read tt * - i s _ J At. _ l.'i B. Scarnorougn aeiveieu tne mer; presentation of diplomas and the IVarl Koger. The scholarship p Eliot's works in 12 volumes. Foil The Messenger, (Geibel) Prayer, - . Essay?The Anglo-Saxons, Essay?Woman as Hero, Der Scharpentanz, (Chaminade Essay?Dickens, Thackeray, El Essay?Some Accounts of Creat Angel's Serenade, (Braga) Literary Address, Le Carillonneur, (Bruges) 1 ?. Presentation of Diplomas, Scholarship Prize Award. Benediction, King Cotton March, (Sousa) In reading their essays thevo v sell conlidence that was retnarki well modulated, which enhanced essays. Hon. R. B. Scarborough wa His theme was ''Education as a \ Mr. Scarborough expected a bri 1 lie pointed. In clear, ringing tones a language his thoughts were expres and drew out pearls of thought, ye ward and hovered as a bird in the keenest sympathy watched the flii It was a great speech and evervou lighted. The success of graded school c uted to by the excellent music rer and Miss Fannie Kennedy, the for Tuesday morning. During the exercises the class much in evidence. Messrs. Theodore Heramingw; smith. Lamar Montgomery and & shals during commencement. THE FLORENCE COURT. A Mistrial in the Smith-Dennis Arson Case. Florence, June 9.?The case of the Slate vs. Smith and Dennis, charged with the burning of their store at Tim'monsville, which has been before the jury since Friday last resulted in a mistrial. The Court was in session all day yesterday (Sunday) and the case went to the jury at 9 o'clock last night. The Judge at 12 o'clock, seeing there was no chance of F THE TOWN. ISES OF THE KINGSTREE SCHOOL. ating Class?Hon. R. B. Scarborough Address and Makes a ed Hit. 'nl of the Kinsstree paded school : look place 011 Sunday, Monday, (-actuating class was not a lariie one. Is. But it the papers read by those i evidence of ilieir scholarship, they than the average graded school ft church was crowded with those icneement sermon. Rev. Mr. Cau:7. His sermon was a masterly one. acted a crowded house. The court d standing room was at a premium, miiagement of the school to see the tended. The little I'olk.too,seemed >11 their mettle," as they all acquitowing is the programme: Girls Little lioya Little Girls Miss Adelaide Harper Boys [ Lamar Montgomery Boys s, - Miss Annie Davidson (J iris Miss Minnie Jones [isses Louise and Flossie Harper Miss Florrie Jacobs Girls - John Cooper , Girls hjkintox, Pianist were concluded on Tuesday mornleir graduating essays and Hon. R. iry address. Alter this came the > scholarship prize awarded to Miss irize consisted of u set of George owiug is Tuesdays programme: Miss Frances Kennedy n r .fU?. - jvc\. 11. v. vauiucu Miss Lorena Jeanette Ross Miss Bessie Harper ) Miss Frances Kennedy iot, Miss Helen St. Clair Scott ion, - Miss Pearl Roger Misses Harper and Ross Hon. R. B. Scarborough Miss Frances Kennedy W. W. Boddie Rev. H. J. Cauthen Miss Frances Kennedy ung ladies exhibited a coolness and able. Their voices were clear and the effect of their really excellent s introduced by Mr. C. W. Wolfe, [oral Factor.-' Those who know int. eflort and they were not disapmd the most chaste and beautiful ;sed. He went beneath the surface >t when his lancy winged heaven ethereal blue, his hearers with ditand the graceful return to earth. a u*hn Itil-iril if irsnl dOTilV rtd. ommencement was largely contribtdered by Mrs. W. V. Brockintor. raer on Monday night and the latter colors of light pink and blue were ay, Heyward Scotl, Philip Arrowianders Whitehead, acted as mar agreement, ordered the case entered as a mistrial and the Court adjourned. The sitting of Court on Sunday has been severely cril| isized by our people, but it was a i case of necessity. The jury stood eleven to one lor acquittal. Hymeneal. Married?On Thursday, June 5, 1902, at the home of the officiating clergyman, Rev. S. T. Russell, Mr. M. W.JEaddy to Miss Bertie Rodgerson, all of Harpers, S. C. A MEETING CALLED. Out of Town Lines Asked to Send Rep resentatives Here Monday. At a called inee'ing ol the stock-holders of the Kingstret Telephone Co., held last Thursday night. a committee consisting of LeRoy Lee, D. C. Scott and C W. Wolfe was elected to call s meeting of the stock-holders o the out-of-town lines for the purpose of discussing tlie telephont situation generally and especially to consider the matter of employ ing a lineman to look after all tfie telephone instruments so that r better service may be secured This committee met on Friday and prepared the following letter a copy of which has been sent tr each stock-holder ot the several country lines: Kingstrce. S. C\, June 6,1992 Dear Sir: ? A meeting of the stock-holders of tin Kingstree Telephone Company waheld on June 5th, and the uudersignei were appointed as a committee, to con fer with tlie stockholders of thesevera lines running into Kingstrce Central or representatives of said lines. This committee met on J ane 6. and determined to call a meeting of tin stockholders of these various lines t< he held in the Court House in Kings tree, Monday, June l<i? 1902. The object of this meeting is to consider th< advisability of employing a lineman tc iook airpr ill" sy.'it'm anu u> iniu-m i such other businesses may be consid ered to the best interest of the stockholder of these lines. In case eacl stockholder cannot attend in person w< would suggest that one or more repre entatives l>e sent, with full i>ower tc act as to his line. The unsatisfactory condition of the system tinder its pres ent management demands that som< ehange be made at once, and we earn estlv request that every one interested in this enterprise be" on hand by IS o'clock sharp on the day named. Respectfully. LeKuy I.ee, Chairman, I). 0. Scott. C. W. Wolfe. It is absolutely necessary in order to j;et a satisfactory service, that the lines' be ' kept in ordei and this requires the services ol one who understands something of telephony. The need ot a lineman has been greatly felt here and we have no doubt that the same necessity exists on all the line?. Let us then have a full attendance on Monday and discuss the matter fully and freely. Eaddy-Simmons. At Johnsonville church or Thnrsdav afternoon, at 3 o'clock a large crowd assembled to witness the marriage of Miss Lulu Simmons to Dr. Albert G. Eaddy At all times there is about a wedding an element of irresistible fascination, which in this instance was intensified by the uuniversal esteem in which the bride and groom are held. Amidst a hushed and expectant silence every head was bent tc tho cftlomn nf fhp man of Cod, Rev. T. B. Owen, as he recited the old but ever interesting marriage service. . At the close cf the ceremony the bride and groom received much hearty congratulation and il kind wishes avail their married life ought be one of unclouded bliss. Alter good bvs were spoken Mr. and Mrs. Eaddy drove to Lake City, where they boarded the Charleston train for their bridal trip. The bride if. one of Johnson ville's most charming and accomplised ladies, and the groom, who is a son of Hon. H. E. Eaddy, is a rising young physician and druggist of TimmonsviJle. C. Cow and Hog Feed. We have on hand Corn and Wheat Bran, Chops, hominy, feed middlings, Cotton Seed Meal and Hulls and will keep these all the year round. BARK 6c Co. V . I III 10 8C11 IS. I > SOUND ADVICE FROM THE SAGE f OF POSSUM FORK. f ; Words of Wisdom Well Worth the S Attention of Children of [ Larger Growth. f] ' Editor County Record: a With your permission I will s 5 write a letler lor school boys. 8 But the trouble is boys are so full r of mischief you can't get them to F ' think. It saw one in church y6s- 1 1 terday that couli not wait for the ^ preacher to say amen before he ' was sticking other boys with a pin * !nf f t\) o it ll 111 lll> LUC^. *? CII^ JCI iiacm j/iaj , ' but they should be taught to be- 1 I have in the house of God. u You school boys that call your- c selves young men will find this 1 life a warfare. You must fight c : your immoral nature with moral 1 discipline; in fact you must fight 1 the world, the llesh and the devil c 1 if you ever make anything out of ^ ' yourself, for in every thing you *( put your hand to you will find op- Q ; position. But I want you, just now, to help me contemplate the material warfare that is going on in the [ Island or Martinique, some 1.400 j south east of Florida, where a large city and thousands of lives [ were destroyed at one fell sweep h *-? f I U/* fl.i f/iAf f r* in f| _ UV U1IC UI IUC llCIVCOt V V/IVUIJ1V; 1 * > eiuptions of modern times. The'1 [ display in the awful warfare be- b 3 tween fire and water is aweinspir- c - ing to think of. Not to be com-1b J pared, however, to the prehistoric i P upheavals that formed the moun- b tains when the earth's crust was b thinner, but none the less in power n because of the greater depth of w the crater through the superior b 1 thickness of the earth's crust, w ? which to-day is thought ? by 0 scientists?to be from 20 to 50 b miles, a But this most powerful of all ^ warfares is in the highest degree essential, is indispensable to life c] on earth becausb we must hawe b water, and without that guard of n liquid fire enthroned below the b last drop of water on earth would ^ ; soon penetrate the caverns ot the awful denths of thousands of w miles, and in the absence of heat wouldcongeal to solid ice: and like I' { the moon our world would go her |( annual rounds in space with every 15 ocean cavern as dry as a powder ^ ( house. Yes. our friend the fire ^ fiend lies underneath and guards a ' with eternal vigilance the least s< approach of impinging water on P , its domain., converting it instantly b [ into red hot steam which drives 0 back with irrisistible force any ai annroachit'i<? water and keeDS the b ?r J o r - seas above the land. , Let us Jook a little at the fear- h' , ful force required for. the work. w . The weight of water per square . inch is a little less than half a ^ pound for each foot in height, so water one mile deep will press ^1 ; about 2,400 pounds per square al r inch, and 5 miles deep 12,000 h' pounds* so when ever it is pushed down through crevices, the deeper ^ it goes the more it is pressed, so e: , if the earth's crust is only 20 i miles thick the pressure would be w 48,000 pounds per inch, a power a; already equal to the explosion of *gun powder. Then, again, water at the sea , level boils at 212 deg. F., and on high mountains less heat will tuin it to steam. But in a steam boil- ^ er where it is under still more tj pressure it requires still more heat to convert it to steam and the more the pressure the greater the heat required to convert it to steam, seventy-five pounds pres- r> i sure requiring over 300 deg. of r , heat to vaporize it. But when it comes to such pressure as obtains ni it the molten tire line I reckon he water must be red hot before t could be vaporized and made to lo the expansive work of driving >ack the impinging sea that it nu.st send back to the surface. (I aid expansive loree, I reckon I honld have said explosive force.) No wonder, then, when the sea inds a hole through to the fire line nd piles down on it with a force ufficient to bore a hole through olid iron, and the molten sea of ock converts it instantly to exilosive steam, I say no wonder ild mother earth is shaken up and las little convulsions. Well, such is some of the maerial warfare, and whenever we eel tremors in the earth we know he fires below are working for s and compelling the waters to ome back to the surlace for our ise. And thankrpod for His wislom and goodnes*. But we are far from the mounains and I reckon the earth's rust is thicker and stronger down ere, so it will be a long lime beore any one is killed by an earthuake down here in Possnr Fork. DROWNED IN BLACK RIVER. eremiah Henderson Loses His Life at a Fishing Frolic. Another victim has been added o tiiose who have sunk beneath he waters of Black river, never 0 rise again. The tragedy oeurred Monday afternoon; the ime, about 4 p. m.; the place, a oint called Epps' Bars, about a alf-milc up the river from the ridge. A crowd ot colored picickers on the banks of the river rere disporting themselves and aving a good time generally rhen within sight of them all one f their number, one Jeremiah lenderson, went to his death 1 most, within an arm's reach of :ie shore. , The accounts given of the av.ident all agree in the main. A oat was drawn up on a sand-bar ear where some one had "set" a shing cane. A big fish grabbed le hook and darted off toward lie opposite bank. Henderson, ho could not swim, jumped into le boat to try to save the fish, a some unaccountatde way he \nr\lo<1 ntror infn thp WJifftr. which 7 i known at this point as "(Jooter lole,? and is some 15 or 20 t'^et eep. The drowning man arose nd grabbed a fishing cane that )me had handed him and would robably have been drawn ashore, ut for his wile who in a frenzy ['excitement fell across the cane nd broke it in pieces. Iler husand then sank for the last time. A* soon as possible grappling ooks were procured and the body as dragged ashore and brought ) the liver bridge. Here L>r. w. '. Brockinton examined it and. linking there might be left a jark of life, endeavored bring bout resuscitation. But over an our had elapsed between the rowning and the bringing of the ody to the bridge and life was Ktinct. Hendersou was a 6ign painter ho came here several months jo, claiming to have lived in . harlestoti. Annua! Honor Roll. Following are the pupils of the grad- . i school making 90 per cent, on .tendance and 80 per cent, on reeituons during the year: Ninth Grade?Pearl Koger. Eighth Grade?Flossie Harpei. Seventh Grade?Mattie Brockintcn. Fotirth Grade?Jake Weaver, John avidson. Second Grade?Walter Harper. To:n illar.d. Fred Davidson. Bes<ie Swam., First Grade?Robert Register, Win e Scott, Tom Harper, Rosa David so