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VOL. XVIII. KINO ST REE, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1902. NO. 38
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MERRY WEDDING PARTY.
Guect Her? for the Mey-Devie Nup
t'als 1 hit Afternoon.
There is a very merry weddinj
party in town today, and the nup
tials will have been celebrated b;
the time yon read this.
The wedding is that of Miss Cor
Davis to Arthur Alston May, one o
the most promising young men o
that very enterprising and progres
sive community of Cadee. The
are to be married at 5:30 o'clock a
the home of the bride's parents 01
Palmetto street. Rev. Haroli
Thomag performs the servicet
There are wedding guests from al
sections of the country, among ther
Charles Orrin Moss of Philadelphia
a long time friend of the groom wh
will be best man, and Ira M. Ben
ford of New York, friends and rel
' atives from Kingstree, Lake City
Salters and Cades. A very merr
time is ex Dec ted bv the ruests. Th
wedding party will leave on the eve
ning train for the home of the groor
in Cades. Their friends will giv
them a hearty "send off."?Florenc
Daily Times, Sept 16.
STATE AND FEDERAL ELECTION
How the Volt Stood According to th
Official Count.
The following is the official oouc
of the second primary:
Latimer 53,890, Evans 36,371
majority 17,519.
Heyward 50,830, Talbert 40,494
majority 10,336.
Gary 42,737, Sloan 48,024; majoi
ity 5,587.
Gantt 47,312, Wilson 43,669; mt
jority 3,643.
Jones 45,885, Walker 44,873; mj
jority 1,012.
Boyd 41,544, Frost 49,452; mt
jority 7,878.
Caughman 51,060, Evans 39,75(
majority 11,304.
Bellinger 5,847, Croft 5,971; m?
jority 124.
Aiken 8,772, Smith 6,956; mi
jority 1,816.
Those receiving a majority wei
declared the nominees and the con
mittee adjourned.
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BortdO for County Officials.
I represent the United States Fi
delitv and Guaranty Co., of Balti
more, Md., which has a capital c
$2,500,000. Save your friends th
annoyance of going on your bon
by getting bonded in this company
We make a specialty of bondin
County officials at low rates. Kel
erences: The Bank of Kingstre<
the Sheriff, County Supervisoi
County Supt. of Education an
County Treasurer.
C. W. Wolfe.
tf Kingstree, S. C.
Special Sale Monday.
Ribbon worth 25c 30c and 40
will goat this Special Sale for 10c
yard. Ladies' Feather Bone Corsel
worth $1.00 and $1.50, will go *
9c. This Special Sale will tak
place Monday, September 22, at
Schultz's Bargain Store
It Next door to the Dispensar;
Shoes, dry goods, notions, etc., i
reduced prices. Need cash.
v> ^ wllkixs.
Few people know what the
don't want until after they get i
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CLEMSON COLLEGE CHAT.
- College Opened Wednesday of Last
Week with Enrollment of 600
Students.
^ Clemson College, S. C.
September 16, 1902.
^ Clemson opened Wednesday under
most favorable circumstances. Dr.
D Mell, the new president, is very
much liked by the students, he says1
* he is here for business and intends!
to make this the most profitable ses- j
sion Clemson has ever had. First
* Lieut Edgar A Sermyer, 3rd Caval-1
a ry, U. S. A., has been detailed for
duty here, and will act in the capac'*
itv of Commandant. In a shorl address
he says he intends to build the
a military feature of the college to a
l' high standard of excellence, and
0 have discipline enforced to the fullest
extent
There are about five hundred stu'?
dents enrolled, nearly all of the old
Y students having returned.
B The following cadets are from
Williamsburg county:
1 S W EppS, Senior class; S G Bryan,
e G 0 Epps, S 0 O'Bryan, Junior
* class; Duncan Dunlop, S P Harper,
W M O'Bryan, Jr., Freshman class.
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# Card of Thanks.
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Editor County Record:?
t As it is impracticable to Return
thanks in person to the many friends
l_. who honored me with their votes in
the second primary, I take this
method ox expressing my graieiui
appreciation to them all. While I
did not quite get elected I feel that
I and my friends have nothing to be
ashamed of or to regret.
Toward my successful competitor
k. I entertain the kindest feelings, and
to the best of my ability I shall en^
deavor to do my part toward the upbuilding
and advancement of the
*. county.
With a kindly feeling for all and
^ maluce toward none, I am,
Very respectfully,
k. U. -E. >V HEELER.
>e Death of Mrs McConnell.
l* News reached here Tuesday morning
of the death of Mrs. Mary Brisbane
McConnell, which took place
on Monday, September 15, 1902, at
. Morrisville. Mrs. McConnell was a
h most estimable christian lady and
her death is a sad affliction to her
e family and to the community in
3 which she resided.
Mrs. McConnell (uee Hext) was
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g born in Barnwell county June 9,
1832. She married Mr. John Thomas
? McConnell, of Black Mingo, Wil.
liamsburg couuty, who died in 1877,
leaving four children: Mrs. T. P.
Steele, Mrs. J. Wesley Cook,- F.^ D.
and J. Zuill McConnell, Jr, all of
whom still survive her.
Mirth, Mimicry and Music.
Ic The World's Leading Monologist,
tt Ralph Bingham, of the Alkahest Ly g
ceum, will give an entertainment in
the Court House Wednesday eve:e
ning, September 24. Mr Bingham I
will rriv? <m ?vri<rin>il f?nti?rtsiinmi?Tit_ I
"1" bI,V "" V* 'O* V..W. vW...M.v...7
presenting an evening's programme
r< of song, music and story of the
brightest order and the most enjoyit
able character, inducing pleasure
and delight and provoking mirth,
merriment and laughter. Admission,
adults 50c, children 25c, Tickv
ets on sale at Dr P C Scott's drug
I. store.
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TALKS TO THE BOYS ABOUT
THE DOG STAR.
Takes "Bill Arp," the Georgia Philosopher
to Task for Denying the
Existence of Dog Days.
I see in a late letter to the young
people on the "solar system", "Bill
Arp" knocks all the romance out of
the dog days, saying, "there are no
dog days, nothing but u superstition
that has come down to us from
the ancients."
Well, well, may be so, Mr. Arp!
But please don't be so dogmatic
about our dog days. Indulge us in
a little floating, legendary fancy; let
us have something to frighten the
boys with when they insist on going
in swimming every day; we want to
tell them: "the dog days ain't out yet,
it might make you sick", and don't
dishearten these old farmers who
say, "To destroy cockle burs they
must be cut up in the dog days,"
and "To plant turnips in dog days,
to belt trees in dog days, to cut the
sprouts off the new grouud stumps
in dog days, and to nurse your sore
hand a little better in the hot sultry
weather of the dog days".
The dog days are said to be those
40 days the sun seems to rise and set
with the dog star, Sirius, the brightest
fixed star in the Heavens; you
can find him now, just at day light,
abont 2 hours high, a little south
east of, and about 20 degrees from
"Orion" or the "Ell and yard", but
don't mistake Venus for him, for she
rises ubout daylight now just in the
east.
But Mr. Arp treats this great
stellar sun?which he says gives 400
times more light than our sun, but
whose distance is so preat that the
best telescopes make him look no
bigger than the naked eye?I say he
treats him with too much irreverence
'when he says his time of rising is
"very irregular". And he mixes the
present too closely with the profound
future in claimiug, "The appearauce
of Sirica is very uncertain and in
course of time he will rise in winter".
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.wow BiriUB, as wen as oiner nieu
[ stars, rises and sets 360 times in a
year while the sun rises and sets
only 365 times, hence Sirius gains
about 4 minutes on the sun every
day, so he in dogmatic reality, will
rise with the sun only one day iu a
; year, and Arp ought to have given
us at least one dog dUy.
But I suppose the ancients meant
the time the dog shir became hid iu
| the twilight of'the evening und rose
ahead of the dayn in the morning.
But let us examine a little closer
this, so claimed, irregularity and uncertainty
of the appearance of Sirius.
The length of our year, measured
by the time it tykes our earth to pass
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the time the sun is exactly vertical at
at equator on June 521st until it is
precisely vertical ;tt the equater next
21st of June, is put down at 365
days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 49
seconds, and is called the tropical, or
solar year; and always keeps the same
seasons to the months.
But the siderial year is the time
the earth takes in passing from a
fixed star until it returns to the
same fixed star again; and is 365
days, C hours, 9 minutes and- lli
seconds; so the star year is about 20i
miuutes longer than the 6olur year.
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But that star year is perfectly uni- ^
i. form, and the dog star is just as cer- r
' tain to be on hand at his regular %
tiine as the sun is to rise and set
Now, this dog star year, being only ^
20i minutes longer, he will take 7o
, years to lose 1 day, and* therefore
more than 6000 years before the dd? si
star will rise with the sun in winter. P
But long before that time I expect ti
to know more about this great stel- ti
lar sun and the worlds that ever
revolve around him, and the iatelli- ,
tl
( gences that people those worlds in ^
that far off distance, which cannot ^
be less than millions of millions of
ft]
miles from the confines of our solar
i system. For when we get to Heaven;
in homage to God in His. unbounded
goodness and wonderful works, I ci
expect, among other things, to be m
, permitted to go on an excursion to p
. Sirius and other wonderful places in tl
\ God's subline Universe of suns and it
revolving worlds: for they will remain
and "shine as the stars
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, forever".
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If A**A?tr a4-rti* ia a
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? sun, and each sun has his family of
revolving circumnavigating worlds,
, like our planetary system; and these ^
, systems are traveling about other
, great common centers; and finally the a'
. universe itself in majestic obeisance sc
circulates around God's eternal C
, throne, as the supreme, awful centre ^
of the whole, then, surely, eternity 41
is too short to comprehend it all. le
1 suppose David was thinking on L
some of these thfhgs when he said;
"Such knowledge is too wonderful
for me, it is high, I cannot attain ^
unto it"?And in contemplation ^
of God's presence every where he said, rp
"Whither shall I flee from thy pres- ^
ence? "If I ascend up to heaven thou ^
art there; if I make my bed in hell, ^
behold thou art there; if I take the
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wiugs of the morning and dwell in ^
the uttermost parts of the sea, even
there shall thy hand lead me,"
Then,
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WHERE 18 GOD?
"Oh where is the sea?" the fishes ?
cried, '8
As they swam the crystal clearness di
through.
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"rre ve uearu uuiuviuui mc vacoh a
tide, ?
And we long to look at the water# lx
blue. a
The wiso ones speak of the infinite
sea, er
Ob, who can tell us if such there be!" hi
The lark flew up in the morning 111
bright, a{
And sung and balanced on his wings; m
And this was its song, "I see the u.
light, ft<
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i looK o'er a wona or cK'auciiui miogx, ~
Bur, fiying and singing everywhere C
In vain I search to find the air." p]
But to go back to Sirius; don't understand
me as trying to go back on p,
"Bill Arp." I reckon he was so full of ]v;
contempt for President Roosevelt p,
because he won't apologize for slan- w
dering Jeff Davis, that he felt kind h,
of snappish about dog days. No! No! te
"Bill Arp" is the Gamaliel at whose Uj
feet sit all loverfi of Humanity. A u
patriotic philosopher, a true demo- nj
cratic christian gentleman; about cj
whose future home we have just been al
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talking, uua wftose company i wm
be glad to seek in that grand excur- re
eiou to the aforesaid dog star. jj
And if any of you boys fail to rec- hi
oguize Sirius in the early mornings, tl
I will take pleasure in pointing him re
out if you will come to fa
Possum Fork.
Car of flour just arrived and will sa
sell cheap for cash any grade, also m
any size sacks. Wilkiss. ii
Election Echoes | ^
.The general election comes off
'uesday, November 4.
Mr Elbert H Aull, the private
icretary to Gov McSweeney and ?
resident of the State Press Associa- ?
on, has been elected to the Legislate
from Newberry county. , ' '
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easurer of Florence county on the
irst ballot over several competitors.
[r Lucas is an old Kingstree boy
ad is a brother-in-law of VV L Bass,
taq., of Lake City.
Not only the candidates, but every
Itizen who participated in the pritaries
has pledged himself to supart
the nominees of the party. Bear
lis in mind and turn out and vote
i the general election.
In the second primary Capt Heyard
received a phenomenally large
ate in his home county of Colleton,
ie returns showing 2192 for Heyard
to 58 for Tallaert, or about 98
?r cent for the former.
Following are the representatives
id representatives elect from the -
fven congressional districts of South
arolina: 1st Geo S Legare, -2nd G
f Croft, 3rd Joseph T Johnson,
th D Wvatt Aiken, 5th D E Finy,
6th R B Scarborough, 7th A F
ever.
Even the worm will turn. A
ory is going the rounds that after
le first primary an enthusiastic
eyward partisan sent Col James H
illman the following telegram from
Kershaw, Lancaster county: "Heyard
189, Tillman 2. Hurrah for
illman." Col "Jim" promptly
ired back, collect: "Two wise men
id one fool in Kershaw; not
mcerned about the rest."
The defeat in the 2nd district of
ttorney General Bellenger lor con e
J8 occasioned much surprise, and
accounted for by the fact that in
ischarging the functions of his
resent position Mr Bellinger made
me powerful enemies, who were
?nt upon his political undoing. To
man like Mr Bellinger, who on sev al
occasions has taken his life in
is own hands to prosecute a criinal,
this defeat weighs not on*.,iota
gainst the consciousness of having
et every demand in the full and
meet discharge of his duty. Mr
ellinger will continue to reside in
olumbia where he will pursue the
ractice of his profession.
Governor-elect D C Heyward has
iblicly announced that Mr J Ed
orrnent, of Darlington, will be his
rivate secretary. Had Capt Heyard
searched the whole State over
i could not have found a man betr
suited to this position, or whose
jpointment will give satisfaction to
greater number of South Curplians.
Mr Norment is one of the
everest newspaper-men of the State
id his friends are legoin. It will
? remembered that at the end of
cent State compaign all the candates
chipped in and presented
in with r lnvin<r erm im a token of
teir appreciation of his impartial
ports of the meetings and his un- ' ?
tiling courtesy on all occasions. '
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Having purchased twenty tivv
icks coffee, I am prepared to give
iy customers big bargains. Drop
a and inspect. Wilkins.
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