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4 * ' - 1 , ' -"ft f hr Cowntii Record. KINGSTREE, S. C. C. W. WOLFE. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS SI* BSCRIPTIO-N IIAT*:s: One copy, one year, ? ? ? $ l .00 One copy, six months, ? ? - .r>) One copy, three mom lis. ? '-'5! Subscription payabh- in advance. ? IMTT?DTlOI Vo :? ? 'I'LV . AV > liUlloi^n ii.\ i r.r? . One inch, tirst insertion, $1.00: <aeh! subsequent insert ion. 50 en.t-. (militaries and Tribute^ of Kc-jhti owr i o , words charged for a* regular advert i? ments. 1 abend reduction on advertising made for three. -ix and twelve) months contracts. Communications must he accoin-j panied t?y the real name and address of writer in order to receive attention. No oinnniriieatioii of a p? rsonal I nature will be published except as an adtiseinentnt. Address al! letter- and make all | drafts pavableto C. W. Wolfe, Kimjsiree, S C. THURSDAY, SEPT. 28 1905 Replying to Mr Clayton, In our editorial replying to Mr I Clayton we do not think we wereI i "too hard on him," aud our article ! was written more in sorrow than | anger. We like Mr Clayton per-j sonally and have always esteemed him as one of our especial friends, j But in statino our views on the I subject we have pursued the liuei marked out by our conscience and as far a? possible endeavored to eliminate personal preference or prejudice. We do not think Mr Clayton should object to our styling him the "self-constituted offensive and defensive champion of booze' for the Pee Dee section,'' as he has; justly earned the title by the remarkable zeal and enthusiasm dispiayed in his tight to uphold the dispensarv. From the very beginning of this agitation, with an i earnestness and intensity of pur- j fc -v pose worthy Of a better cause, he has bent his energies to stem the antidispensary tide. As the waters! cover the sea his eloquence has I ! < inundated Florence county and, ^ like a torrent, swept over into Darlington, Marion and Williamsburg. If he not a self-constituted champion of booze, we would like to have 5 a correct difinitiou of his attitude.:. - * * x.? * . 11 Moreover, Mr Clayton's argument is nitohwt nn thp v#?rv lnwAst. nknc He appeals to his fellow men to I vote for the liquor traffic for the sake of the revenue there is in it.! j If the State could make a billion i. 11 dollars a year at the cost debauching the manhood of her sons would it i, not be poor political economy? When we have given Mr Clayton all the space he wanted and pub- 1 lished everything he has offered us we think it a little ungracious in him to accuse u? by implication of . inquisition methods. We do not fear any facts he can offer nor any argument he may adduce, and it has certainly been far fiom our in tena: J V? ~c uou to auiiuge ui? ireeuom oj j expression. Mr Clayton's closing sentence is ! enlightening: "If all the goxl that! I yon prohibition people claim will j follow prohibition was anything but' a myth every State 111 the Union; would have adopted it long ago,; I but every intelligent newspaper man knows or should know that while beautiful in theory it is in practice a fraud and a humbug.'' Now, really, all this is convincing. How many States have adopted the dis-1 m>n?rv Rvstem? Tf what everv State in the Union does is the proper { thing South Carolina should pass a divorce law. And, finally Mr Clayton, if pro- j s hibition in practice is a fraud and a j humbug we would thank you fori ^ 1 appropriate epithets to describe the K / Great Moral Institution "in practice." Prohibition vs. Dispensary. ? I In its most recent issue the! Weekly MailAwhich has come 'o be! the dispensar^jrgan for this county,! expends three "columns of its valuable! IS"-' * t space trying to^refute three para ' graphs of su editorial which appear- j ed in this newspaper the week before, and we suppose onr amiable contemporary has sustained its its con . h. / tention quite to its own satisfaction. But the end is not yet. The Mail still contends that voting out the dispensary does not imply I that public sentiment is against it, I as under the ilriee law only qualilied vlectois cau vote. Vet in a | previous issue we limi this editoiial j expression in the Mail: ' We favor the l'riee law and think a county has aright to vote out. the dispensary if they desire. The people have a light to divide this question as 1 lit-y seetil, etc.'' The Mail bv indirection accuses the l.rice law as bcingan unfair test of publicsentiinent ret it favors that same law as giving v r) O tiie people the right to decide the question at issue. Why this change of h'-art? The expression of approval was voiced a mouth ago when n o d o u b t t h e M a i 1 supposed that the d i s p e n s a r v had a lighting chance. Subsequent developments have demonstrated the futili. v of its hope and our contem porary anticipates defeat by dis^ crediting the law under which the election will be held. Ill the desperate hope of saving themselves they say drowning men will clutch at straws. What right has the Mail to assume that only half the electors will vote in the pending election and that the silent half comprises a majoiity of dispensary men. Suppose -for the sake of argument. that only half should vote and there is a majority for prohibition. A very small proportion of the qualified voters v oted in the last general election ? does our friend mean to say that it all had voted the result would have been different? And the restrictions that hedge about the general election ?who is mainly responsible for their existence? The self-same individual who has proudly proclaimed himself the 'daddy" of the dispensary. The argument the Mail offers that a man who votes against the dispensary is not necessarily i prohibitionisist is moreingenousthan' ingenuous. Under the Brice law the people are con- | fronted squarely with the option 1 between prohibition and cispen>ary. The high license man,; tlid Knr.rnnm in.in nnrl the blind tiger cut no figure at all without i change of the constitution. | When a man votes against the dispensary he casts his ballot for prohibition, and a conscientious voter in so doing must feel morally bound to support what he has helped to establish. The high license, bar-room and blind tiger bugaboos are largely imaginary anyway and sensible; people take them at their true valuation. The Mail has quite a knack j of assuming what it strives to prove. There it goes again. Althou gh it admits that the dispensary question has never been voted on by the people of the county it assumes that because ^cery candidate for office endorsed the law as the best solution and r?f th^m <mt f?]the people voted for the law. This conclusion of courseis irresistible in its loyic. Well, if it affords our friend any satisfaction to believe that the people would have voted unanimously for the law if they had had the opportunity, let it think so; its belief does no harm. But would thev do now when they know that they have been deceived and mocked at in its workings? Now that the veil of deception has been torn away and the system is laid bare in its naked hideousness, they have very naturally repudiated the whole business whenever the opportunity has offered. The Mail coolly asks why the prohibitionists did not enforce the dispensary law? To put it mildly such a question displays collossal nerve even for a dis? ' / - T * *- ? pensaryite. After the leyisk ! ture betrayed the probitionist bv yiviny then the dispensar 1 in |>l ice of what they voted ft and expected to .yet, when til substitute law proves a di astrous failure they very ma; nanimously and charitably try 1 saddle the blame on the proh bitionists. And this in the fat of the fact the law within itse has a clause for self-enforc inent, providing for an arinc consiaoulary that costs tl State StfdjOOO a year. Wh; these men failed to do tl prohibiti mists ouyht to lia\ done! And why did they fai Mainly because the dispensai itself is a mammoth incubat< of blind tiyers. The Mail saws: "In this ant J dispensary movement we iiav noticed three classes: The i>r< hibitionist, the license ma and the dispensary man who tired of the system because < its rottenness." Then it detint each class. Here is a sanipli "To be a prohibitionist or must practice what hepreache in other words he must ni arink whisket*. * * * T hurrah for prohibition and sti drink whiskey is the ranket kind of hypocrisy." * * * Then the Mail does tard justice to the drinking" man wh wants to reform and vote against the dispensary. In it lirst classification this very cor siderable factor was either cor sidered not worth mentioning o condemned as the rankest kin of hypocrite. The editor of The Mail doe himself too much honor whe he applies to himself our re marks anent the "holier tha tflou individual." Still if til robe of righteousness fits hir he is welcome to its use fu wearing purposes. We had i mind a type rather than a individual. Such a tvpe, w suppose, has but little sympath for his unfortunate brother wh is addicted to drink. The edito of the Mail says that he doe sympathize with "the poor fe low who is a slave to stron drink and would not put ttmy tation in his way." Yet h exerts all his capacious power for the dispensary. "lie b lieves that whiskey is an ev and should not be taken excej for medicine," yet he favors law that allows five gallons day to be sold to one individua and believes it his conscientiou duty to support that law a beiiijljt to the best interest of th people. Will "the people accept such erratic reasoning Again we say, we shall see. "Oh well," they say, whiskey *vil be sold anyway, and we'd just a well get some money out of it. This philosophy reminds us of th darkey who, 011 a dark nioonligl: night, seeing a chicken 1 ousting lo' on a limb overhanging the road wit nobody in sight, justified his cours of action, ms he gathered in tfc feathered biped, thuslv: "Dat fow am too careless in his habits, j'l jest tek 'im wif me before some low down thief comes erloug and stet 'iin." If selling liquor is wrong moral 1 ?and we think no one will gainsa it?then by a well recognize principle of ethics those who shar the profits must bear the reproach o the wrong doing. The man wh derives gain from stolen property i equally guilty with the thief himsell AKE YOU ENGAGED* Engaged people should remembt that after marriage many quarre can be avoided by keeping their d gestions in good condition wit Electric Bitters. S A Brown < Benuettsville, S C, says: ''For ye.n my wife suffered intensely from dy pepsia, complicated with a turpi liver, until she lost her strengh an vigor, and became a mere wreck ( her foimer self. Then she trie Electric Bitters, which helped h< at once and finally made her ei tirely well. She is now strong an healthy." Dr W \" Brockintoi druggist, sells and guarantees thei for 50c a bottle. RMlEYSKIT/NEYCDI] Hakes Kidneys r ?d Bladder Right A mind reader 'as a snap win. he thought so. Cures all Kidn< Aj'./AAru. <' jsAit w.?J . : f j JU? I ? ? J|r ' ' ~ i Painful periods j sr | Life often seems too long to the woman who suf- | "n U fers from painful periods. The eternal bearing- f down, headache, backache, leucorrhea, nervousness, v dizziness, griping, cramps and similar tortures are 3 lf dreadful To make life worth living, take | It Eases Women's Pains I } It quickly relieves inflammation, purifies and enriches the blood, rol W strengthens the constitution and permanently cures all diseased conditions from which weak women suffer. jf| j. It is matchless, marvelous, reliable. !gj| At afl druggest's in $ 1.00 bottles. j|g j- WRITE US A LETTER "I SUFFERED GREATLY," M freely and frankly, in strictest confid- writes Mrs. L. E. Clcvenger, of Belle- f&M Ln ence, telling us all your symptoms and view, N. C., "at my monthly periods, L|S IS troubles. We ^vill send free advice all my life, but the first bottle of Car- Ha r (fn plain sealed envelope), how to dui gave me wonderful rebef, and now t|jj| JI I cure them. Address: Ladies'Advisory 1 am in better health than I have been Ml js ii Dept., The Chattwoog* Medidne Co., foralongtiae. IthinlcCardui thegreat- H ^ Chattanooga, Tern. est woman's medidne fn the world." m UB HIE I it Big Lot of Buggies and Wagons at y ? THOMAS&BRADHAM'S. S 1" A 11 1 1 fM 11,^ ^ [m All sianuaru i ictis.es. d WREN, TISON & JONES and BABCOCK BUGGIES. MILBURN, TAYLOR and CHATTANOOGA WAGONS. n HARNE:SS and SADDLES n Made at Our Factory and Guaranteed Hand-Sewed, e No Better Can Be Bought. : Thomas & Bradham, Agents, n KINGSTREE, S. C. e I \ SOLD BY G- OLLIE EPFS lS MAIN STREET. KING SEEE, S. G. BSD OF 0R6ANS. ie Now being sold in Kingstree and Williamsburg Co. by i 1 THE CABLE COMPANY. ii We have just finished selling carloads at Lake . City and in the countr>t>ut from there. Our prices are right, our terms are reasonable. Any one desiring to purchase either an organ or piano will please communicate with Mr A J Thompson, Superintendent of our force at Kingstree. In addition to selling and delivering organs our salesman are - prepared to take orders and sell our complete line of pianos con^ sisting of e MASON fcHAMIJN -CONOVER--KIXGSBURY- WELLINGTON f ? TIE CABLE COMPANY, Largest manufacturers ot pianos and organs in the world. FACTORY BRANCH: >r KING STREET'S Charleston, - S. C. j; J. V. WALLACE, Mgr. rs a ( d skttlki) in ins Trespass Notice. 5-1 KIDNEYS. d .it ^''u> undorsijiiU'd. land holders j A Jenuessc. J?ni Ifutler St., in itiri?<-and Sntutor townships, warn I )f writes: ''1 am a switchman all p-rsons aa inst rre>|wssiinr on our! lands hv ltdtinir stork rtll) at large. til uuil am out in all kinds | iiirci hunting, cutting timber arid >r of weather. I took a cold in uiv ether depn-datioris. AM trespasser*' j. ., , iii V sliall l?<- dealt. witb according to the j knmeys and was i.i had shape. 1 laws of Smith Carolina governing sneli 1C tried sereral advertised remedies; (,a>es. ,t5 . . ., T W. E NESMITH, [i) with no beiiHjt, until 1 was recom-1 !?, m i;RO< KNTOV. ! mended to try Foley's Kidney Cure, F- ^ FX SEN. L, - . , ". , " . ." ,, V>. r. Air(?lLt.. - : rwo-thirds of a bottle cured me.? r, i^vRKKK, 6 i Sold bv all dealers. , -) ?ODWIN. .. FOLEYSHONEFHCAR - - ? ? for children: eafe. tare. Mo opiate, Brill"" U.S your JOB WORK. ?y and Bladder Diseases?^ruara/zfeetf i * i \,. i Z wSil ?' ' . . ORANGEBURC^^^^M COLLEGIATE institutT* Orangeburg, S. C. , ^hR Tilt' school is splendidly located, is well equipped and offers 1H to your boys and girls the best of training at the lowest cost. Tlie departments of ^ At, Elocution and Music are as good as in any school in the State. Applications are rapidly coming in. Let us send you a catalogue. .Your boys and girls are under the best of good influences while they are with us, and at all times have our utmost care and attention. % n Session Opens Wednesday, September 20, 1905. ? W. S. Peterson, - - President . j| SEPT 28th, 29th, &, 30th. s ARE THE DAYS. I The Big Brick Store in Lake City is the Place. Our in lilitti Ok. 1 We Wish to Announce to the TradeOur Showing of Pattern Hats for Fall Beginning We Have also a Showing of Medium-Priced Hats Copied From Latest French Models. ? Careful Inspection of ?-? Our Millinery Will Give the Best Suggestion of Style that Will oy 1 Prevail Dnring the Fall. Everything that Hold* Popular Favpr You Will Find Here. FANCY FEATHERS,FLOWERS.OSTRICH PLUMES. AIGRETTES,LACES.BFA&DS,BEAVER PLATEAUX, ;J AND HATS IN ALL THE NEWEST SHAPES. Also An Attractive Display of DRY GOODS. NOTIONS, SHOES J &. MEN'S CLOTHING. This is the Last Notice So Remember the '|H Dates and , I CO!v?E "STTIESE]. ? For Nicest Goods, Best Attention and Most Reasonable J Prices,We are | Yours Respectfully, 1 - Willi* mc C nmnanv I^lllltll T T IttlMAAlO J Millinery Department. jp^X. B. To the lady making the largest purchase* ot us during the three Jays above named we will present :tsu Souvenir her selection froiu our handsome stock ot r. Umbrellas. DURANITE! f The Economical and Satisfactory Wall Finish. FIND OUT ABOUT IT. Kingstree Hardware Company. A; f) MEET ME AT g J / THE SKYSCRAPER X j '/ And we will inspect f, a( lVT^fnic' IVpw T.inp Of Wl ATAMA VVTV * 1 'W TT ??-v -v ^ Men's Business and Dress Suits. Also a New Fall Line iK of Boys' School and Dress Suits. New Fall Line of Under- T1 m\ wear and Hosiery for Ladies and Gentlemen. * 7A We carry the following line of fall goods and we are 7A selling them at the lowest possible prices: jR (M DRESS GOODS, SHIRTS, COLLARS, . TIES Ji w) and SHOES. In fact a New Line of Fall Goods w) (? of Every Description. (? 71 SPECIAL ATTENTION IS CALLED TO OUR rn NEW FALL LINE OF niLLINERY. if 8 s. MARCUS,! 1 y? KINGSTREE, S. C. mi si. i ?i Writ? | U?^A Letter? - ,| 1 OUR 'BUSY" DRY GOODS STORE i j Is now tilled with choice winter fabrics. From now until the spring season opens we'll make i strong efforts to clear out this stock. If there's snmpthinp- in winter eoods vou can use? 1 I JUST WRITE US A LETTER We'll forward samples at once \ HERETOFORE we have sold out our surplus stocks by means of CUT-PRICE sales twice a j week,and only our home customers reaped the benefit. Now IF YOU'LL WRITE US A LETTER, we'll quote prices for the next sale. This ? opens the wav for our out-of-town customers to secure the unusual bargains offered at our special ' sales. : : : : : I If you want prices on Furniture,Mark your Letter for "THE BIG FURNITURE STORE" JBUELL & ROBERTS, :j Clxsixlestoxv, S. C. - j ?