The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, January 24, 1907, Image 2
THE OPENING OF
THE SESSION,
SALIENT EVENTS CONNECTED WITH OR.
GANIZATION OF BOTH HOUSESCOMMITTEE
APPOINTMENTS.
(Received too late (or last week's issue.)
The Capitol, Columbia, Janu
arj* 15:?
In The Record of last week
announcement was made of the
opening- of the annual session
of the general assembly and a
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was given. Little was done
and some of that little has already
been told. Hence this,
our first letter of the session,
must necessarily be brief, even
though what has been given be
repeated in different form. It
is so usual as to become a kind
of unwritten law that the work
of both houses shall proceed only
in the most leisurely manner
during the first eight to fifteen
days of the session. This body
sets out on a voyage not like a
little naphtha launch that is unfull
cnpud within a cable
ucl ~?
length, but like a ponderous
liner. It takes time to get up
steam but when under full headway
there is no dalliance, but
rather reckless haste that ofttimes
sends many a good ship
to Davy Jones' locker.
In connection with the organization
of the senate there
was an occurrence which may
not be of general interest and
may be regarded of rather minor
importance, but whose import
is really great and reveals a
state of affairs of which most
common people were no doubt
entirely ignorant. According
to what is claimed to be an immemorial
custom the old senators
held a caucus Monday night
to select the president pro tem
and the members of the various
committees. Seventeen holdover
senators were present, of
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Here is the spectacle! Nine
men naming all the committees
and also Jtlie officer who presides
in the absence of the lieutenant
governor. They named Senator
Cole L Blease, who ran for
governor last summer on the flat
State dispensary platform and
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<ed him as president pro tern, gave
the best committee appointments
to the old senators and
their favorites and the "bum"
places to the others. It was
expected that the senate would,
without question, accept their
dictation. And the senate did
affirm their action, but not without
a ripple of protest. There
were a few who could not swallow
such an unfair, dictatorial
and undemocratic morsel. When
the second name on the roll was
called Senator Bass asked to be
excused from voting, as he could
not and would not ratify such
proceedings or accept such nominations.
Three others did likewise
and one other stayed out ol
the chamber. This action of the
four caused much comment and
will very probaoly cause in the
end the breaking up ot the nefarious
custom.
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Senator xuiysui 1IUO UUV4 v.. V
old Raysor-Manning* bill en
grossed again and will probably
introduce it at an early day.
Several bills to abolish buckel
shops have been introduced
The two and a half cent rail
road fare has already come uy
again and the death of the lier
law is aimed at by many mem
bers of many minds. The rail
roads and express, as well as
the telegraph companies, art
receiving attention in bills look
ing to the improvement of rates
the prevention of accidents anc
? the delays in transportation
This writer will from time tc
time make mention of such as
are of special importance anc
such as will likely become law
At this stage all the matters art
in such a jumble that an intel
ligent grasp of them can not b<
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Most people kn<
been sick they neei
sion to bring back
$ But the strongest i
Emulsion is that j
J sick to get results froi
It keeps up the athl
on thin people, makes
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? Food in concentrate
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given.
Yesterday Commissioner Ta,
turn informed the Senate that
:
there was in the State dispen-1
sary $700,000 worth of liquor
and thirty-six car loads on the ,
side tracks and that much of it
was of unsalable brands, with i
which the county dispensaries;
are already overstocked. This j
exists too in face of the law (
, limiting the total amount in-1 j
' vested in liquor to ?400,000. The
Senate Tuesday passed a reso- i
lution to appoint a committee |j
to investigate mis at once ami .
report. Some sa}' that somebody,
believing that the miser-j
able State dispensary is going
to be knocked in the head, is
!
trying to rake in a pile before it
i is to? late. j'
j In the house, bills along the
same general lines of those ,
mentioned above as being in the
j Senate have been presented.
Mr Ayer's resolution declaring
the assembly in favor of the !
State whiskey mill was com- ,
pletely snowed under. There is 1
no doubt that the house is dead '
set against this business, but ;
there is doubt at the other end
of the capitol, both sides claim- l
ing the majority and there hav- ;
ing been no test vote yet. However,
the people should not be
surprised at any antics that
may be performed by a body of
forty-one whose committees and 1
temporary head are dictated by 1
nine. 1
Governor Ansel and all the |
other State officers were inaugu- j
rated Tuesday and the address 1
| of our new head was as clean, '
I clear-cut and emphatic as any !
similar address we have heard.
The members from Williamsburg
received the following
committee appointments:
Senator Bass?(l)contingent
accounts, (2) privileges and
elections, (3) roads, bridges and
ferries, (4) charitable and penal
institutions*(5) and the penitentiary.
Representative Kellahan?
commerce nd anufactures,
and the penitentiary. j
Representative Bryan? agri-:
culture, offices and officers, and ;
claims.
Representative Gause?agri-1
culture and public buildings.
Our house members secured ;
favorable |seats and are con- j
stantly in their places closely |
j watching proceedings and are'
rapidly grasping the modus j
operandi of legislation.
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tion meeting was held to con
sider sundry and various affairs
' connected with our county-and
) its government. The following |
1 county officers were present, by
' invitation. Messrs G J Graham,
HO Britton, J W Cook, J J B:
| Montgomery, SJ Singletary, 11 j
; K Wallace, J J Graham, A C
I Eaddy and J G McCollough by '
?jletter.
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} Bee's Laxative Honey and Tar,
' the original laxative cough syrup,
I acts as a cathartic on the bowels. It
. is made from the tar gathered from
> the pine trees of our own country,
therefore is the best for children. It
is good for coughs, colds, croup,
- whooping cough, etc. Try our offer 1
THE DEVILFISH.
A Eattle With One of These Repuiaiv*
Marine Monsters.
Devilfish grow to great size in j
the Pacific ocean, and most uncanny
arc some of the stories told of them.
The keeper of the Avalon zoological
station says of an adventure he
himself had: "I was fishing at the
time with several partners out of
San Francisco. It was our custom
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ete's strength, puts fat ?
a fretful baby happy, X
girl's cheeks, and pre- Q
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h and poor. ?
Irugs and no alcohoL A
60c. AND $1.00. T
Genuine Repoio.
It is good to be strenuous, but it
is also good, as the poet tells us, to
play the fool or, at any rate, to be
idle at the right time and in the
right way. This is just what the
strenuous man forgets, and the consequence
is too often premature
breakdown, a common event in the
storm and stress of modern life.
The strenuous life is helping to
overcrowd our asylums. The sensible
idling consists not in a change
of excitement or in hard work disguised
as a game, but in that ''genuine
repose of which Charles James
Fox, strenuous as he was in politics
and in play, was thinking when he
said there was nothing so pleasant
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book except to do so without a
book."?Practitioner.
New York's Oddest Street.
One of the strangest streets in
New York is Patclien alley, situated
about at the entrance of Greenwich
village. The alley is conducted
upon the principle of a building
of flats. There are two rows of little
three 6tory houses, the height of
two story houses of ordinary size.
There are small balconies outside
each row of windows, and these are
vine clad. If you ring the bell and
ask for the janitor you will be told
that he lives in the middle house on
the north side, and in the meantime
you will be having a glimpse into
the narrowest hallway in New York
out into about the smallest and
greenest back yard. Patckeo alley
is as it was soma hundred yean ago.
There hare bean no changes-?New
York Preaa.
Na Waaaunt Far Aaldnasc.
A easterner in a dawntown ban
bar thop get inte a heated argw.
ment with the boaa barber erar tht
prioe of a hair cot.
"See here/' ha said, "I'm baldbeaded.
There certainly can't be
nearly aa Much work in trimming
this little fringe of hair ?? the
back of My head aa in ontting a
whole mop of hair. Cooaeqaantly
it doean't seem fair to charge aa
conch."
"That is the contention of half
the b&ldheeded men in town," sighid
the barber wearily. "They don't
take into consideration that h man
who has but little hair is much
more careful of it than one who
bas a good deal. Therefore a barber
has to take extra pains with
(lim. It goes pretty hard with the
man with the shears, I can tell you,
if he happens to clip off an eitra
bair. In view of the caution rejuired
he certainly earna tho full
price of a hair cut."?New York
Prees.
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10 go out to me nanus arouna me
Farallones and try for deep sea fish.
I It was a rough place, nearly always
blowing half a gale, foggy and danj
gerou3, and often we had to let our j
| linea go and run in to lie in the lee
of the rocks. One morning I was
hauling in the trawl when it stopped
coming. I thought I was foul of
a rock, so I palled hard, and after
awhile I felt it give and begin to
come up, but very heavy. It's slow
work hauling in a trawl, taking off
a fish and killing sharks that get
hooked, and it was some time before
I got what I supposed was a
rock. I had just taken a turn about
a rowlock with the line to rest when
it sagged, and, looking over, I saw
a jrreat mottled ball, out of which
shot a long arm that took hold of
the gunwale and held on. ?
"We often caught devilfish, and
i there was a demand for them in the j'
market, so I tried to pull it up. But
another arm came up, as big as my s'
' own, while another crept over the n
side near my partner, who started
up, shouting that it was coining ^
aboard. I looked over and saw a ^
great red, mottled mass hanging to
J the bottom of the boat. Then 1 P
reached for a knife?a kind of
cleaver?my partner doing the i
| same. The devilfish was caught by 1
several of the trawl hooks and tried
to fasten to the boat to get rid of
them. Its arms shot out of the wa- t_
ter like fingers, and when I saw
one the size of my arm and growing
bigger near the base I didn't
wait, but slashed at them right and
left, cutting them on the rail.
"Some of the tentacles near the
j body looked as big around as my leg,
| and the whole arm, or feeler, was
nearly twice as long aa a man. The
arms were probably twelve feet long
and the body two or three *imes the
| 6ize of a man's head. The whole
i mass was so big that we were glad
to chop it to pieces as it came
aboard and then to punch it away
from the boat with oars to get rid
of it. It was too heavy to take
aboard, especially in a aeaway."
Is It Your
Own Hair?
Do you pit your hat to your
wa hair? Can't do it?
Haven't enough hair? It must
be you do aot kaow Aycr's
Hair Vigor! Here's an introduction!
May the acquaintance
result ia a heavy growth
ofrich,thick,giossybair! And
we kaow you'll aeverbegray.
" I thlak thai A yac'a lair Ylgar la tha oa?at
wandarfal tulrgrawar that waa arar Had*. 1
hart ?a*4 It far a*ma Vaaa aatf I *aa truthfully
aar that I am graatly plaasaA with it. I
chaarfnlly rfwomiaaaad It aa a aptanAM praparaUoB."
? Miao . BKOCK, Waylaod, Xkb.
J Uada br t.Q. Ayar O*.. Lawall, Kasa. _
it Ata? uiAatum of ?
AA ? . . y SAaSAFAULU.
l\lfCTS Sam pectoral /
MstaaBakaoBMaKaHaaaJ S
Did tK* Dog Raannf
The late Duke of Beaufort, who
waa an excellent observer, note* in J
i his diary how (he was hunting the H
| hounds himself) the pock drove <
I down to a wall and flashed over? J
I all but Bachelor. This hound mise- j
| ed the scent as he reached the top j
of the wall and, standing there, J
! waved his stern as if in thought, q
Then it seemed to flash across him, ^
"If the fox lias not crossed he must J
have turned short under the wall." q
So Bachelor dropped back into the j
I road and, racing along, picked up j
! the line.?T. F. Dale in Outing 1
i Magazine. 3
Not Too Cold For Him. J
The unconscious humor of the q
English peasantry m shown in a j
story told by the London Tribune, j
A Lady Bountiful wm ea-lling on a j
devoted old couple with such croa- j
ture comforts as the doctor said J
were suitable for tho old man, who 1
j was dying and being tenderly nursed j
by his consort. Entering "the cot- ^
; tage, she saw the old dame leaning 1
I over the fire. "Ah, Susan," she i
| said, "and how's John?" *
"He be goan, mum; he be goan," j
? ? 11 i i i _ j #rr i. J
mutterec tne oia iaay. \ueoaiway? ^
I can't say that for sartain sure, but <
he did Beem a-gwine ju?t now. But, ^
there, it's that mortal oold up there H
that I had to oome down to warm <
my hand?/' \
LAKE CITY, S C.
TO OTTIR
DwftiiJri nuri Pnnfnmnnft
mm 9i brawn
Te have just closed our third year's business, and take this oportunity
to thank our triends for their generous patronage,
ur stock is larger and more varied, and we teel sure we can
lve you money. Don't forgot we have a nice assortment of
diable "FAVORITE" Ranges and ''0 Iv" stoves.
When in need of Sash, Doors, Blinds, Turned ^7ork, etc., we
ould appreciate the privilege of giving you prices; from our inreased
sales of this material our prices Must be Right. Rememer
where you buy "Anchor" Lime you get the best. If it is good
aint you want, buy "Benj. Moore & Co.'s"?pure house colors. i
Yours for Business,
^eike City Hardware Co.,
LAKE CITY, S. C
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Ten PerCent
above cost CASH will buy any of my
BUGGIES OR WAGONS.
all standard makes. I have a large
lot on hand that must be sold.
This tfer is bona fide and will save
you money.
J. L. 5tuckey,
Lake City, S. C.
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FURNITURE! FURNITURE!! FURNITURE!!! %
MAKING HOME COSY j
Is easy and costs but little if you get in the ^
right store with good reliable furniture 5
- -I At Prices 1
which will surprise you, if you have never ?
called on us before. ^
Bed room Suits $17.50 to $45.00. 1
Oak Beds 2.50 to 15.00. ?
Iron Beds 2.50 to 14.00. f
Foding Spring $1.75. %
Above we give 3'ou a few of the many things we ^
? have at the right prices.
C MATTINGS, RUGS, WINDOW SHADES, %
t LAMPS, CLOCKS, CHAIRS and ROCKERS.
I AT THE =~ I
I Lake City Furniture Co's ?
JM TRULUCK, L 0 HOLLOW AY, L M BELK, 5
? President. Vice-President. Manager. J
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