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f h* datintn fJctorl | KINGSTREE. S. C. . C. W. WOLFE, (EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS SU BSCRIPTI OX IS A TES: One copy, one year. ? ? ? $1.00 j One copy, six niont lis. ? ? - .5 > ! One copy, three months. ? ? .25! Subscription payable in advance. ^ ADVERTISING RATES: ^ One inch, first insertion. $1.00; each J subsequent insertion, 50 cents. Obituaries and Tributes of Respect over 1< 0 j axords charged lor as regular aaverttsniems. Liberal reduction on advertising made for three, six and twelve months contracts. a Communications must be accompanied by the real name anil address o-- writer.in order to receive attention. No communication of a personal nature will be published except a> an advertisement. Address all letter- and make all drafts payableto C. W. WOI.KE, Kingstree, S. C. THURSDAY. OCT. 5, 1905 As to the Mail's "Logic." The dispensary organ confesses that it "was disappointed" in our t reply to its recent dispensary editorial. Now,really,we feel flattered. We did not write that article with ? vioir trt tielt liner the vanitv of our ! K' contemporary nor in any sense to ^arCite an emotion of gratification on its part. How well we succeeded is demonstrated by our friend's unguarded admission of disappointment. Yes, dear contemporary, and we doubt not that you will feel grieved and vexed and disappointed >*' when we have finished with you this J week. The Mail sloshes around in a seai of argument for nearly five columns trying to answer our article and finally in desperation falls back on the plea that we have misquoted it. When left without a leg to stand on, j instead of making a frank and man-! ly confession of error, our misguid;'-f ed friend comes with the trite and ^ threadbare excuse of being misquoted. The Mail's whole "argument" j 5s a pitiful rehash and reiteration of its former statements and the ef- i tfect produced is that our ^contempo- j rary is trying to convince itself of the righteousness of its contention 7 rather than hoping to persuade oth- j ere to its way of thinking. It is said that if a man keeps repeating a story oyer and over again, however ' impossible it may be, he will event-! ually succeed in convincing himself ' of its truth, and if our friend keepsj V on threshing out the same old straw j weete after week he may finally be- j f lieve some of his ownulogic." The Mail is very magnanimous i in promising to eheertully accept j the will of a majority of the voters| j; in the pending election. That re-1 ;, lieves the other side of a tremendous amount of suspense and anxiety, for if the Mail's redoubtable aud puissant opinion-moulder had decreed otherwise it would be very little use to hold any electiou at all. Now : that the oracle has spoken, Mr Su ! pervisor, you may proceed with the ' election. Hgtr _ . . j In trying to explain its position , on the Brice law and the Brice law's relation to the geneial election the j. dK Mail answers its own argument veiy ' effectually. A question of this nature (that is, the dispeusary question), it says, must be submitted to Have WE HAVE THEM AN, ft ' V Ever Brought to This C< CAN SUIT THE MOST FA! a: x f STOVES IN CAR I9AD LOTS ~'{U! In " -sroTT 0:0 ( I X ^ I 1/ I I ^ I ?- 1 . * , to the in a general election; under our law it cannot be submitted in a primary. The law is all right and the people have had an opportunity to express their opinion; if they fail to take advantage of their tights of suffrage it is their fault and not the fault of the law. Very good, so far. But in such an election where the majority fails to vote the Mail claims that the result' is no criterion of public opinion. "In brief,'* it adds, "our position is that the bill lot i-j not a oumrantee of nub- i ? lie sentiment." The latter is certainly a remarkable statement even coming from the Mail. If the ballot is no guarantee of public senti-! ment we should like for our wise! and learned friend to suggest some-1 thing tharfs a guarantee. c o As to whether or not public senti-! ment will be behind prohibition if the dispensary be voted out in this county, that is a matter of opinion. If are there only two issues before the people public sentiment must fcivor one or the other and the preponderance of evidence is that it is not the dispensary, other-wise it would not allow the Great Moral Institution to be abolished. And if it does not favor the (lisp e nsar y the i 11 e v i t a b I e conclusion is that it stands for prohibition. That is the proposition the Mail says we assume without trying to prove. We thought we had made it plain w ? 1- ?* ? * \f ??11 1a aaiii euOllgll C\CW 1U1 nil! .uwi ?.V v."... prehend, but as it seems to have utterly failed to grasp the point, wej have made it plainer In trying to extricate itself from the dilemma in which we placed it the Mail makes a bad plight worse. Here is a sample- Last eek we said: . "Suppose for the sake of argil-' ment?that only half (of the qualified voters) should vote and there is a majority for prohibition. A very small proportion of the qualified voters voted in the last general election?does our friend mean to say that if all hud voted the result would r have been different? The Mail's reply to this is a fair example of its bright and shining "logic." Behold it squirm and wriggle: "In the last general election the voters were onlv sanction- i J i ing their previous verdict expressed in the primary election. Twenty-1 two hundred voters had spoken in the primary aud if only one hundred . had voted in the general election it would stilt have been the voice 01 2200." Just so. And if only 1000; vote in the pending election it will be just the same as though 2200 had ! spoken; for it is a pretty safe proposition that the proportion that does vote in a general election voices: the sentiment of those who through negligence or indifference fail to go to the polls. For instance, in Florence county, we are cr?libly informed that by mutual agreement every man <v hose name appeared on the registration books was allowed to vote, whether or not he had a registration certificate, and it was noted that of the number who under a strict observance of the law would have been disqualified, as many voted for prohibition as for- the dis You Si D ALL YOU HAVE I )unty. Every One Knows ' _ELEGANT I STI PIOUS. ELEGANT LINE F A LIME, S ENABLING US TO GIVE Y( lr Chi W1LX We Handle 1 he Best Lint }UNS OST'Rl 1 pensary, so thai had they b^en barred the privilege neither side would! ha1-'* lo t or gained anything at all. The .Mail goes on to say,"that the conditions of this pending dispensary election and the last general eleelion are in no wav connected is apparent to the most listless observer i and need not he discussed here." We contend that the conditions are precisely similar except in one particutihir, which seems to have entirely escaped the eagle eye of our discern! < ti,,. l.i^i <r.1 <i IU?; 11IVIIW. Ml 111V llin rv..v..?. election the 2200 voters; in the primary were sworn to support the nominees of the party; yet in .spite of this; many of them failot! to vote in the general election. When so few comparatively voted in the general election after all had taken a solemn oath to do so, it is scarcely surprising that the fail voting strength of a countv does not turn out in a general election under the^Sice law. This is an off-year in politics aiul the people are busy trying to make a living. Fully as many who want the dispensary voted out do not take the trouble to vote as the friends of the system who stay at home on election day, notwithstanding our friend's opinion to the contrary. Now as to our misquoting. Thej Mail makes much ado over our stat- j ing that its estimate of the probable j vote in the ensuing election would be three-sixths when it claims it guessed three-fifths. We quoted the i fractal from memory and the .Mail j is welcome to all the capital that, can be made of the hair-breadth of! difference. ' The Mail devotes a lor of space trving to show that the prohibition- J ists should have enforced the dispel): I 8uiy law. This argument is .?? fan-1 tastic as to transcend the bounds of! absurdity. Yes, the legislature did lietrav the prohibitionists by giving them the dispensary law instead of! " straight prohibition and the fart j cannot be disproved. Our friend in- J quires why South Carolina too \ soj long to lind out that she had been I betrayed. If by South Carolina is meant the prohibitionists, we may say that they knew it at the time,but j before they got a chance at the bal- ! lot box again two years had passed, and they listened to the promises held out by the framersof the law and rather then have.'t changed ?? + DM 1 th in- snlimiffi".! mill 1 WIlllT'ltV < (.1 till HIV. > Utt vittt wv .j ...... still beguiled by specious premises of the apologists for the law?the same old bait you are trying tocateh them with even now?they patiently bided their time hoping against hope for the things that never came. Yes, the law had a self-enforcing clause?an army of constables?but they failed to enforce it because tile dispensary system is a breeder of blind tigers. Do you see the pointy Maybe we'd better make it plainer. The dispensary law in warp auil woof is a tailzie of contradiction. This is jn?t one of many that may be pointed out. What was meant* as a s lf-enforeing clause was nnllitied by the fact that under the dispensary law blind tigers spiing up like armed men from the dragon's teeth and for every one of the beasts EEN Th 0 DO IS TO CALL ON n x iif. i-fc I i A-. I nai yve ouy an Larger v/u ASE OF HUGS, 'ANCY BASKETS JUST KEGEL OUR STOCK IS ALWAYS N AIL 5. ' )U THE LOWEST TRICES. na and ; of Paints Sold Here. Try AND Ever Brought Here. We Main by a curi-tui le tvo are cre;.i-d by the system itself. The Mail quotes from the Kkcohd as follows: "The high-license. bar-loom .tiul | . blind-tiger bugaboos ate largely ini- i 1 aginary anyway and sensible people! ( take theni at their true valuation. j Our friend gleefully chortles over j r out discomfiture and fatuously | i prattles f??r:h "The above is what I oureonteir.j). : .ry sa\s when we talk ( of blind lig- >. luit when it is con- , deiiining i. disjieiisary i' says that! is a'maim >: i incubator of blind'" tigers'. I it- own mouth does * Till-: Kk<v;: > eomlemn itself and further cotnai-ut i< useless." We hate t<> c.;arge our friend with ( wilfully perverting our mean- j in?r. but the foremoinm certainly i ifives room for such suspicion. The sentence (juoted from Tiik Rhcokd is a part of a paragraph , relating to the alleged combination of bar-keepers,blind-timers v and high-license advocates to defeat the dispensary. By detaching a part of the paragraph the Mailj ives a wholly different meaning to the sentence, i With regard to the "unholy al- * liance" charged we repeat that f the Ipmli-license, bar-room and t blind-timer bugaboos are large- c ly imaginary and sensible peo- 1 pie take them at their true val- t uation. And we also emphati- e calh' assert that the dispensary 1 is a mammoth incubator of blind-timers, and we believe both r these statements to be pretty 'J I nearly correct. ! f v* -At. ? A- 1! K ? 1 r .NOiwimsiunuing liic /ami aim eloquence of the Mail and the ' resistless power of its "logic," a we are still benighted enough to i doubt [whether the dispensary r is gaining ground. We do not ^ doubt that the Mail sincerely r believes its assertion, for su:li a beliefjs a Mattering tribute to its editof's ability'as an opinion- * moulder: but that doesn't neces- ^ sarily make it so. The vicious jabs that the Mail a directs at the editor of The s Record we can afford to over- c look. As the Irishman said when kicked bv a mule, we con. ! J sider the source and attribute it t to its ignorance. Is Between the "holier-than-thou i | Blind "About a year ago," v 1123 Broadway, Augusta, Ga., E3 headaches and backaches, and c IT CAI Non-lntoxicatin immediately commenced to like a new woman, and wish all sick women, for I know them as it did me." Cardui is a pure, medicinal vegetable herbs, which relieve! pains, regulates female fund tones up female organs to proper state of health. Try it for yqur trouble. /> m Every druggist sells jjjj it in $1.00 bottles. 1 ih _ - ^ I EM?IF US AW WE WILL FIMIITIIRE antities In Each of Our Line MATTINGS, OIL VED. IN OU R HARI >WARE STC COMPLETE. WK ARE Till WIRE, FE Glasi this : Us and See. Another C LOA J J Have the Goods and Guarani The Better Way Th& tissues of the throat are nflamed and irritated; you :ough, and there is more irritaion?more coughing. You take i i cough mixture and it eases the rritation?for a while. You take SCOTT'S! EMULSION uul it cures the co.'u. That's vhat [s necessary. It soothes the :hroat because it reduces the rritation ; cures the cold because : drives out the inflammation; uilds up the weakened tissues >ecuuse it nourishes them back 0 their natural strength. That's lo.y Scott's Emulsion deals with 1 sore throat, a cough, a cold, >: bronchitis. WE'LL SEND YOU A SAMPLE PREE. 5C0TT & nOWNE. ia'^n? *Trt ndivid ual" who does not drink ' vhiskev and advertises the fact | rom the housetops as a claim o greatness, and the man who ( [rinks whiskey and'tries to hide | lis weakness behind a prohibi- I ion mask there is but little ' hoice and we would prefer to >e placed in neither category. . And, after all, the Mail does | lot favor the dispensary law! | Hie ideal arrangement it 'pro- I esses to advocate might be all ' iglit, but the whole dispensary aw would have to be made over , igain to bring it about and then | t is a question as to whether or | lot abuses as bad as ever would I reep in. It is a condition and ' lot a theory that confronts us , Lid the issue is clear-cut be-|j wen the dispensary, as it j lands, and prohibition. If the! Jail does not fa.vor either its liscussion is irrelevant ju$it now nd it should "go 'way back and it down"'until the election is ?ver. It makes no difference how long ou have been sick, if you are roubled with indigestion, constitution, liver and kidney tr*. ubles, Holistcr's Rocky Mountain Tea will nuke you well. 35 cents. cdache I 1 /rites Mrs. Mattie Allen, of "I suffered with blind sick Vvl ;ould get no relief until I tried I Rous g Female Tonic I improve, 2nd now I feel i to recommend it to ^ that it will cure | [ extract of WklTE i female SFREELY, ions, as w# wot yoi u wrlto a y7 Vi freely and frankly, dacriba ley all yoar aymptoms. Wt yy employ a ataff of specialists la female .<V disorders, who will cart folly coatlder y yoar case and fjtrt yoa free iidrlce. Do pot besltaft, bot write ns today, flvlnr a complete history of yoar troubles, and we will send yoe Jn Instructions what to do to retvtll, AlIcorres? see kept perlecUy secret, and reply seet yoe la sled envelope. Address Ladies' Adrlsery Dept., 1TAN00GA MEDICINE CO., Cfcattanooya, Teaa. J; BKBHBSHVBH&l IV A T 11UI, SHOW TOO THE Ut s, Than Our Competitors I , CARPETS & LI >ee we can sell you any <: only people who N CI IN! D, C > Ware JUICES T :arload of FENCE WIRE Ei ' E D s: teee Our j rices to Please. " 1 1 . k. Fall and Winter Goods.Our stock is larger and better than ever before and n<. goods coming in daily. COME TO STACKLEY'Sx fob. > .; : >% Dress Goods Dry Goods, Millinery and Shoes and You'IIGet Your Money's Worth In Quality and Quantity TK&Stackley's Cash Store. Kingstiee. S- c. ^mmmmM??? ?? ????? ? MEET ME AT X t THESKYSCRAPER X \ j. And we will inspect * j) S, Marcus' New Line Of ft t Jn Men's Business and Dress Suits. Also a New Fall Line jf fL of Boys' School and Dress Suits. New Fall Line of Under- Ta wear and Hosiery for Ladies and Gentlerrfen- if 'A We carry the following line of fall goods and we are TA A) selling them at the lowest possible prices: 2lv ? DRESS GOODS, SHIRTS, COLLARS, TIES yl jr) and SHOES. In fact a New Line of Fall Goods S of Every Description. (A fl SPECIAL ATTENTION IS CALLED TO OUR fl f. NEW FALL LINE OF HILLINERY. if is. MARCUS, J KINGSTREE, S. C. * riAfin ?iin VAin SUUU liU LVAB OF U16US. ! Now being sold in Kingstree and Williamsburg Co. by THE CABLE COMPANY. We have just finished selling two carloads at Lake City and in the country out from there. Our prices are right, our terms are reasonable. Any one desiring to purchase either an organ or piano will please communi:ate 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 consisting of MASON & HAM LIN--CONOVER--KINGSBURY--WELLINGTON THE CABLE COMPANY, Largest manufacturers ot pianos and organs in the world. * FACTORY BRANCH: 282 KING STREETCharleston, - S. C. J. V. WALLACE. Mgr. \ tti You are Geiog to Use Wblte Lead Wbeo You Paint, Use { U LEMOCO | >11 It Will Give You a Fine Result at a Moderate Cost. For In- \ > *LA formation Ask Mr Carr at j ^ Kingstrse Hardware Co.) CBITY Bffllliiir Why Not? RGEST AND MOST ELEGANT UNE OF V L Buy Therefore We Can and Do Sell Cheaper. lYOT.Fim. ^ THING YOU WANT FROM A WIND MILL TO A NEEDLE. BUY x X X ^ ZEMEIMT & PIPES Department or" a-oora iroute. Biggest Line of HELLS 0:0 ^ /v m r* A *.T ^7 CU1 1 PAIN f . >. . - jL . ' jjj