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j. ^ fie (Coutttit iUtotd. KINGSTREE. S. C. C. W. WOLFE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS SU BSCRIPTION RATES: One copy, one year, ? ? ? $1.0 One copy, six months, ? ? - .5 One copy, three months. ? ? .2 Subscription payable in advance. ADVERTISING RATES: One inch, lirst insertion, $1.00; eaci ^stlbsequent insertion, 50 cents. Obitu r aries and Tributes of Respect over 1 words charged for as regular advcrtir ments Liberal reduction on advei f" tising made for three, six andtwelv ' mouths contracts. * Communications must be accom panied bv the real name and addieo' writer in order to receive atten tion. No communication of a person;] nature will be published except as a advertisement. Address all letters and make a rs drafts payableto C. W. Woi.fe, Kiugstree, S. C. _ ? THURSDAY, NOV. 16, 1905 Those Seven Questions. Did you ever see a bug impale< on the point of a pin? How i writhes and squirms in vain to ge away! It's a cruel sport that boy r practice, but when the bug is a mis chievous iusect it doesn't get mucl sympathy. ? Such a bug is the dispensary "or gin" and those who beheld its des r perate but ineffectual struggles las week to shuffle off our pointed ques r< tions will readily perceive the apt ness of our illustration. We aske< u - for unequivocal replies to our ques ' . tiojing and the Mail at the oiuse > promised to answer them "fairh and squarely." We are willing t< believe that our friend did his littli ?! best, but his vehicle of thought car i ned him a very eccentric orbit so ai to lead him into a labyrinthine mazi of confusion from which escap is clearly impossi ble. Inaprevioui article we called him an artful dodg . er, but now we are compelled t< modify our opinion. His most re ^ cent exhibition is so crude and in artistic as to convince us that, afte all, he is a very awkward exemplai of an ait of which if . practice.ant perseverance count for aught hi ' 4 should be a past master. His fran tic and futile attempts to an ? , swer our questions disclose a statt !_! _. * AAmrvlofA mnnfol Knfn/lrllnmnn! F. V/JL VVUi|/lV IV UiV.ll U?1 Wi.UUUlUUiVll that is really pitiful to contemplate No^ watch his agonizing contor iv1 tions. V\ Question No. 1: "Do you be lieve that a true prohibitionist could vote for the sale of liquor ir any form?" He answers yes, anc < ; adds that under certain conditions i ? true prohibitionist should vote foi , the sale of liquor. Well, for one i who catalogues prohibitionists alon? with bar-keepers, blind-tigers and hypocrites that answer is not surprising, but to our mind when i prohibitionist deliberately casts his vote for the sale of liquor as a beverage he ceases to be a prohibitionist Tl ?1A Ua inof oo orvrvoKla frvi XI# WVU114 juqv ao ivwvunuig ivi one who opposes stealing iu an\ form to favor the issuing of license* to steal "under certain conditions.' Our-friend asserts that a large ma jority of people drink liquor anc that the demand must be supplied He might just as well argue tba because the majority of people ar< sinners we should close up th< churches and turn over the uuivers< to Beelzebub, provided of cours< there is money enough in the dea V to keep taxes t down. "The wage of sin is death," but then we're go to die anyway, so give us the wages Question No. 2: "Are you now or have you ever been a prohibition ist?" The answer to this question i so remarkable that we will quote i rerbatim: "We have never taken a drop a a beverage or for medicine, we hav never spent a cent for it; we hav neve?'given money to another to bu it; we have never offered it to friend; $p.d we have always advise friends wKere we had influence nc to (Mtflrit. We will leave it to th editor of The Record to pass sen tence. Burwe would like for hir to tell us if he is now or has eve been a prohibitionist?" Have WE HAVE THEM A Ever Brought to This ' CAN SUIT THE MOST I ./A / * \ ' V E! IM oa/LOAD LOTS THl In 0 ,+ 0 0-0 K I Is ,,, i ip ??inriir. ????? After pharisaically proelaiaaii in bis newspaper, (for the fifth tim we believe) that lie is a tee-totale the editor of the Mail invites us i "pass sentence." Now, jeally, v hate to comply with our friend's r< quest, but on the other hand v cannot be so disobliging as to r< fuse, since it seems that he hasn the moral courage to come out an confess his back-sliding. As to tl ^ first part of the question, with a 5 his profession of total abstinence, v fear that the editor of the Mail not a prohibitionist. Our opinic is bused on the definition given I h the Standard dictionary, which v " regard as middling good authorit (J ? * though perhaps our friend woul - say that it is incorrect, or that 1 e could make up a better one out < bis own head. We quote from tl ~ Standard dictionary: "Prohibitioi v > e i .1 LM.:.: \ - j 1st, one wno iavors me prouiuiuuu i il law of the manufacture and sale < 11 alcoholic liquors as beverages, II Now, since the editor of the Ma blatantly avows his allegiauce to tl dispensary we do not see how he en be a prohibitionist. "Have you ev< been a prohibitionist?" Well, v should rather think our friend hi ? been one. Jn 189S, we are inform* that he was a member of the coi veution that nominated Mr Joel d Brunsou fo?- governor on a straigh X out prohibition platform. Eith tt he was a true prohibitionii s then, or he was doing a Dr Jeky i- and Mr Hyde stunt, and we ha* h too high an opinion of him to thin the latter. Ho** circumstances ( - combine to change opinions! Bi we would not say even in a whisp* t that our honorable and distinguishe - friend's advent into politics ha - aught to do with his jumping froi 1 the prohibition water wagon in! - the dispensary band wagon. Vet 1 t twits us with changing our opinion ( j the Great Moral Institution. Sur< } ly he must have lost sight of the d< e fective joints in his own armor - But even now our contemporary 5 attitude is as changeful as a chan ? eleon. First he is a prohibitionii p "at heart," but a dispensaryite pc 3 litidallv; then (as we showed 1& - week) he favors a law almost a y radically different from the disper - sary system as prohibition is; yet b - still wheops and hurrahs for tb r dispensary and stigmatizes his foi r mer friends and associates as "a fe1 1 mi-fruided urohibitionists." He n * ?- 0 f * minds us of a man who hitches hi - horses to opposite ends of a cart an - enters them in a speed competition > The Mai) asks if we are or eve t have been a prohibitionist. So fa . as voting against the sale of liquc is concerned we have doue so ever time we had the opportunity. We re . gret to say that we are not a tee t totaler, ana we cannot qualify fo j the high state of moral excelleuc I that the immaculate editor of th k Mail claims for himself. To shoi . our good faith in this matter, haw , ever, we pledge our word of hone r that if the dispensary be votal ou | we will not patronize a blind tige . nor order liquor aud will do all i k our powei to help enforce a prohi 5 bitiou law. Of course we can neve hope to attain to the exalted stand art! of righteousness that our frien . maintains, but if we can't be lik r him in that respect, we'll be as lik 3 him as we can, > Question 3: "Under the dispen . sary law don't you know that th [ sale of liquor is increasing in vo ume from year to year? How thei I can you say that the law is restrk ? tive? > With cheerful ufliauity our cor j temporary admits that the sale c ? liquor is increasing every year, yi j with blind devotion he clings to h 3 fetich and avers that the dispeusar t law is restrictive because it read that way. We'll let that pass wit! out further comment. Question 4: "Would you accej s a position as dispeuser or on count t or State board at auy salary; if nc why not?" He auswers, no; becaui 5 he has religious scruples. "But, e he gravely adds, "there are men wt e FOLEY Cures all Kidn< YolTI ND ALL YOU HAVE County. Every One Know ELEGANT FASTIDIOUS. ELEGANT LIN] A 5, LIME, US ENABLING US TO GIVE 7 ur Ch r : T77-IL3 We Handle The Best Li GUNS i OS T R *ir"w?? - i l ADoctorsj ? Medicine I 't Mnamwmrr.v-Yr?: jj: smmI ^ Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is not 1 'j' a simple cough syrup, it is a ? re strong medicine, a doctor's I is medicine. It cures hard cases, I >n severe and desperate cases, * *y chronic cases of asthma, pleu-1 risy, bronchitis, consumption. g [J | Ask your doctor about this, jj if I " I havc_nscd a (freat aea^ of A ; Hierrv j reciora' n>r cnu^iu i .....i >? .... .... w jf cliest. It has always dn:ic um cr?\?: it S is certaiuly a most wi nd *'fu'. rnuch me?li-,l> \(Z cine."? Micuakl J. tiTzui-iXAi.u, Medlord. J >> Xii) by J. C. Ay .t Co., Lcr"* at?-n. jj v /l Also manufao: j o. - /inert I U A JklJ&ff O HAIR VIGOR. laBBHMMeTiaEK::' t.vjmxTa\-r? wf ie You will hasten recovery by takm >ng one cf Ayer's Pills at bedtime. IT k'<? havfe no such scruples who would take the job."' How about a man professing "religious scrupies,who n- favors a law that creates jobs to till E "Niich it takes a man devoid of ret ligious scruples? We leave this nut it for our friend to crack at his leisst i ure. IIJ No. 5: "Between the dispense sary law, as it stands, and prohibiik tion (the two questions to be \oted lo on in the peuding election) which it ao you think preferable? He answers, t the dispensary. Then he aduiinis'd teis this gratuitous stab: "Between d thg present law aud 'blind-tiger' n prohibition we .prefer the dispento sary and expeet to vote for the dis>e pensarv on November 21,'' N w >f isn't he severe on his former friends, i- the "poor misguided prohibitioni* IStS?" Question 6: "Do you believe that 's the present auti-dispensary agitation i- is in any sense a political moveaiirted >t at Senator Tillman? if yes, why do >- y^i think so?*' Now read his answer: "We uo not think the moveis ment started with this avowed pur !- pose, but since launched, we believe '<-* that some of Tillman's enemies are aiding it. Senator McLaurin's prom'* inence in the movement is why,we think so. We believe the movement is more directly the the agitation of s misguided prohibitionists, disgruntd led politicians and blind tigers.'' ' We expected the Mail to dodge that t question, but we did think it would r show more skill. Does the answei r given mean yes, or no? We had )' heard that the word was being quietly - passed around that this anti-dispensary movement was a scheme against r Tdiman, and our object in putting the question was to fight it out iu e the open if such an appeal to pr'ejuIV dice is being made. We believe that factionalism is dead in South Caro >r liuaaiulin Williamsburg county, and t he is a selfish, designing demagogue r who would seek to revive it. We n hardly think anyone is so lacking in ' intelligence as to believe any such r preposterous nonsense as that the L* anti-dispensary people are trying to ^ work Tillman's undoing, but it may e be well to point out a few facts that e have been lost sight of by the general public. When, the fight was 011 in [* the 90's there were five counties that p -1 ? wv11..sl ., moinritv sKTOinsf v Uinavs lyirai a uiujuhvj I" Tillman. These were: Charleston, 1 Richland, Sumter, Beaufort and Georgetown. Has anyone heard of a single one of these counties trying l* to vote out the dispensary ? If there was a scheme on foot to beat Tillman wouldn't these counties naturally 1S have been the ring leaders? Bring )' the matter closer home. Where did '8 the present agitation against the dispensary originate? Was it where Tillman was fought the hardest, or )t did it hike form in sections favorable ;y to Tillman? Who are today the )t strongest advocates of the dispensary se system? We know it to be true that " many of them were Tillman's bitter10 est enemies. On the other hand, I ey and Bladde >EEN rr TO DO IS TO CALL ?L_ rr"'* - "" I? | a. S I nai we Duy III Larger v^1 LINE OF RUGS. 5 FANCY BASKETS JUST RECE OUR STOCK IS ALWAYS NAILS, !rOU THE LOWEST PRICES. ina1" and 1 TOsTE ne of Paints Sold Here. Try AND Ever Brought Here. We EE H 3JE52SE^1_JSBHM ' *1 ther? are many agaiii6t the uispen* j sary who were, and are today, Sen-J ; ator Tillman's staunchest followers. 'The two issues are totally disasso-| jointed, and he who says otherwise must either be vastly ignorant or i very prejudiced, 01 the two combined. No. 7: "Don't you know that the tow ns of Kingstree, Lake City and Scran ton get about $7,000 dispensary profits, net a cent of which is shared by peeple outside of said towns, and that the towns also get ! their pro rata share of the profits that go to the county." Our conterapoiwn answers no to this question, I lit ;: goes on and explains that ! it means y-s. It says: "We have said seur.ii times that the towns get ,$7,000." Yes, that's all right; now add "not a Cent of which is sh.rnd I by the people outside the towns;" for such is true and the Mail know* , it. "And," adds the Mail, "we have also said that the county gets $12,000," Well, go on and tell us j that $5,000 of that amount is ap portioned among the schools, town i mul onnntv .iliL-u ut>i>nrilinnr til <>H j UUU VVUIIVJ ......V, J, rollmeut, ami the balance, about 87,000. goes into the treasury and is J applied to county purposes, so that town and country both reap the 'benefit just the same, because it lowers the taxes just that amount. That's alie way the thing is worked and or / friend can't deny it with all : his attempted financial juggling. Now, our amiable contemporary (accuses us of trying to antagonize town and country. Just a word as : to this charge. In our issue of October 5, in reply to the Mail's edi' torial on "The Money Side," we said: "The question of relative profits of town and county has really j 110 healing upon this discussion save to excite the prejudice of the couni try people and we deprecate the j ' Mail's reference to the matter, hut j since it has oeeii lugged in we want ! the facts el-arlv stated." Now, who j is responsible for the "au'tagoniz* ! ing," if any there be? The editor i of The Record was born and reared ! among country people and he feels ! very near to them. He has lived in Kingstree for nearly ten years aud never yet lias he taken a position that he did not conscientiously believe to be conducive to the best interests of the town. And we be; lieve now that our stand is entirely I in keeping with the spirit that has ! prompted us heretofore. We have noted with pride and gratification the splendid advancement.that: Kingstree and, in fact, our whol-'j comity has made within recent yea aud for years before the editor of ! the Mail ever honored us with his ! citizenship our humble efforts were i contributed toward this very end. Antagonize indeed! We love the } whole county regardless of section, and rejoice at the splendid progress that lias been made in a ma ! tenal way, but we do not want our ' prosperity to be bused on the proceeds I of tlie liquor trunic ana we aonoii believe that it is. We might say a good deal more in reply to our I friend, but pshaw! it's a waste of ammunition to shoot grasshoppers with gatling guns. One of the inmates of a London asylum is a wealthy English m um- ' i j jfacturer hopelessly insane. Tliei story goes that this man invented an expanding steel bu.'let, from which in connection with 1 he firearms j nis factory turned out he made a j fortune. Shortly before tiie Boer war his firm shipped a quantity of arms to the Transvaal. When hostilities commenced his only son enlisted in the English army and was ordered to South Africa. Months afterward the ratner reeeiveu a leuer stilting that his son was dead, had died from a wound which ordinarily would not have been fatal, but for 9S?Guaranteed C Scott ? h5M~I F . AND W WILL an jantities In Each of Our Liri MATTINGS, Oil [VED. IN OUR HARDWARE SI COMPLETE. WE ARE Ti WIRE, F E I Glas, ) TKiEi r Us and See. Another LOAI Have the Goods and Guarai ar n w * t j * . . & " ' [ its being produced by an expand' \ing steel bullet Men! Fathers! I Read the lesson. Should you vote for the sale of liqilor and in after years your boy becomes a drunkard would yon not feel that possibly it was your hand that helped to bring about his downfall? Hello! Diogenes, are you there? We didn't know what had become of you. Glad to know you are still alive and occupied. Guess you've ^ Dtvn "eillU" UUSV Willi \WUI liiiuvm o o j * looking for honest men to put in q charge of the State dispensary. Ta, ta, Di. When the Ttu Commandments were written there were doubtless some people who thought that the time was not ripe for such stringent . legislation, just as there are some to- * day who object to prohibition. 7 "Is it right?" That is the ques- 7 tion the hcuest voter should ask g himself Tuesday before casting his f ballot in favor of the sale of liquor I in Williamsburg county. | Every ! Two Minutes \ I Physicians tell us that all / i the blood in a healthy g J luiman body passes through / i tlie heart once in every two g minutes. If this action be- / comes irregular the whole g body suffers. Poor health / : follows poor blood ; Scott's g Emulsion makes the blood pure. One reason why SCOTT'S j EMULSION is such a great aid is betause it passes so qtn'ckly into the blood. It is partly digested before it enters the stomach ; a double advan- " tnge in this. Less work for the stomach; quicker and more direct benefits. To get the greatest amount cf good with the least possible is tne desire of everyone in ppor health. Scott's Emulsion does just | that. A change for the better takes place even be fore you expect it } We will send you a *mple free\ I Be sure that this I | |V-:^ picture in the form of ' ' JHW a ,aDCI u on u,c M i*r 0<t ever7 bottle of 5 jtr~T- . ij Emulsion you buy. ^ J f Scorr & Bowne *^/ 'V' I I Chemists c *^^gL yiP^- 4?9 Pearl St., N. Y. 50 cents ?d ^r. oo All drugguu I ~ 11 For Sale or Rent. K I offer my plantation, known as d the VV V Strong plantation, about 5 ^ miles southeast of Kingstree, S C, j containing 695 acres, 76 acres cleared, 1 for sale or rent. Anyone wishing to purchase or rent will please confer <> with me at Marion, S 0. ^ \V S FoXWORTH. ^ The timber is sold 011 the above t land. b 1 b Notice. * Notice is hereby given that parlies leaving corn at Kingstree Grist Mill " will do so at their own risk. The management will not b6 responsible I for corn left at mill. 11 -2?3t W L Dennis, Miller. Not," SHOW YOU THE ies, Than Our Competitors I . CARPETS & LI TORE WE CAN SELL YOU ANY IE ONLY PEOPLE WHO : N CI N D, C ?x? s Ware NICEST Carload of FENCE WIRE Er >ed s: iteee Our a rices to Please. AR E\ / I - ' V. ' -- " ' ' "-'A Fall and Winter ioods.^^" *Jfl Our stock is larger and better than ever before and rtew ? goods coming in daily. " 3 COME TO STACKLErS- <1 1 \ress Goodsy' Dry Goods9 Millinery and Shoes ; fnd You7II Get Your Money 's Worth In Quality and Quantity jKm Stackley's Cash Store. jb Kingstiee. S- C. 5 MEET ME AT gJ THESKYSCRAPER ft r And we will inspect ft j S, Marcus' New Line Of ft P Men's Business and Dress Suits. Also a New Fall Line iK L of Boys' School and Dress Suits. New Fall Line of Under- 7L | P wear and Hosiery for Ladies and Gentlemen- jK f A We carry the following line of fall goods and we are 7A ^ F selling them at the lowest possible prices: a\ * * i DRESS GOODS, SHIRTS, COLLARS, TIES U % f) and SHOES. In fact a New Line of Fall Goods ID I 9 of Every Description. jl I 5 SPECIAL ATTENTION IS CALLED TO OUR fl I ^ NEW FALL LINE OF niLLINERY. ft I js. MARCUS,? t i KINGSTREE, S. C. : rfSSCSCgeSCSCg C9eseseSCSe9& jjM [ am After you. L. J. STACKEE Y. , THE FURNITURE MAN. 1 EZin-g-stxee, -. - *S. O. j WHEN NEEDING ANYTHING IN I THE FURNITURE LINE DO NOT | FORGETTHATI CARRY THE BEST .j|S Household Furniture, Hugs, I Carpets, Matfmg and Everything to^Make the Home ?COFFINS and CASKE1S? ''tM CEPT CONSTANTLY ON HAND AND SERVICES > i RENDERED DAY OR NIGHT. -*? - Foreclosure Sale;TATEOFSOUTH CAROLINA, I ril?.?ll?A?I?I?'COUNTY OF WILLIAMSBURO. ) 1/1131110008,111 S A"lw By virtue of judgment for foreolos- ! J re to me directed and filed in this1 v -i Va ause, I will otter for sale at public l a' V- 1 ~ TV CUTJMW ; netiod ill front of the court house I ? \ ?S gal hours of sale to the highest bid- ft h . Cf KM er for cash, on the first Monday in I f \]i i lecember, next, being the tth day, I All that certain piece, parcel or tract u Nej If?1*?' i\f^ '{ f land, lying, being and situate in V'illiamsbiirg county, King township, !ate of South Carolina containing! 11 ^"Jllz'rS licIllCuV cres and bounded on the North by J E ? ?7 trockinton: on the East by Win Gam- The Children's Favorite -jf le; South hv Calvin Roberts; West y Calvin Harris, the above land mort- Coughs, Colds, Croup and aged being a *3 interest therein. Whooping Cough. G J GRAHAM, Thla remedy Is famous for ita curer over -'.mI S W C. large pert crt the civilized world. It can "i \3| always be depended upon It contains no ? " opium or other harmful drug and may be givenascocSdently toababyutoanadoM {2 iummmcm f"c? <i Makes Kidneys end Bladder Right Why Not? RGEST AND MOST ELEGANT LINE OF : :V% r . 7. m *uy Therefore We Can and Do Sell Cheaper. nolkum * j THING YOU WANT FROM A WIND MILL TO A NEEDLE. BUY A A: X ' i :ement & fii-p.a g t Department * f our g~oous. / iroi|te. Biggest Line of ' HELLS 0:0 con PAN Y. jP