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?he (Eottittn ^etari KINGSTREE. S. C. C. W. WOLFE. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS UBSCRU'TIOX RATES: one copy, one year, ? ? ? $1.00 One copy, six months. ? ? - .5) One copy, three months, ? ? .25 Subscription payable it idyanee. ADVERTISING RATES: One inch, first insertion, $1.00; each ubsequcnt insertiun, 50 cents. Obiturie6 and Tributes of Respect over loQ words charged for as regular advertisments Liberal reduction on advertising made for three, six and twelve months contracts. Communications must be accompanied by the real name and address of writer in order to receive attention. No communication of a personal nature will be published except as an advertisement. Address all letters and make all drafts payableto C. W. Woi.fe, Kingstree. S C. THURSDAY, JAN. 31.1907 To have one of her citizens elevated to the Bench and win the nation's chompiouship in a cornproducing contest all in the same week, is pretty good for our neighbor county, Clarendon. Some time ago a bill was introduced in congress to increase salaries of members of that body from $5,000 to $7,500 a year The measure was voted down and we gave dne credit to the self-abnegatory spirit thus manifested. But, alas! the sa?e resolution has popped up again and our national representatives could not resist the temptation and yielded. In the lower house the majority in favor of the resolutiou was overwhelming and in the senate both Tillman and Latimer voted for it. We can only hope that the usefulness of our representatives in the national legislature mill Kn inninaon^ oAAnr/linflrlvT n in w iuw vtaovu mwvi uiu6v * Just One Word. Within the past few weeks it seems that we have received more complaint* than ever before in our career as a newspaper publisher. Nearly ODe hundred people have either written or complained in person of not getting the paper regularly. Now, we are of course sincerely regretful}|that. our subscribers have been annoyed^by not getting regularlyjthe paperjthey have paid for. They are entitled to it and we do not blamejthem for complaining when it fails to come. But, on the other hand, it affords us much consolation, when these wide-spread complaints come upon us, to feel that but for the fact that the paper is worthy of appreciation our readers would not miss it enough to complain when it fails to reach them. No in justice to ourself, we have made every effort to get the paper out on time. Several weeks we have had the paper ready to go to press when the gasoline engine would break down and require toe services of a machinist There war do one in Kingstree who could fix it and we had to seed to Florence. Thii required time, henoe the delay. In addition to this, we have had a lot of trouble securing competent help, and that is the source of mnch of the trouble in not getting out the paper regularly. W? have had four men in the office, besides the manof-all work, viz., the editor, and he, the latter, can't do it all by himself. But he pledges you one thing: If money can get an engine and printers that will work, The County Record will continue to ware more vigorously than ever before in our year of grace, 1907. \ * * \ "When the devil got sick, the devil a suiut would be." In the throes of dissolution the G. M. I. forces turn to prohibition. The people of Williamsburg have been from tinie.imraeiuorial too modest to assert themselves in a political wav and while ever ready to aid jiu the preferment of a worthy man, I thati* Innar.rnncru rpl*flpf?.w> n varlrxA'k WMV4i ,VM6 '" >V -V.WVVV| . w | theirhome material. Let us start iu right now and turn over a new leaf. The promotion of Solicitor' Wilson to the Judgeship of the. Third circuit will leave vacant the | office of Solicitor and logically the vacancy should be filled by a Williamsburg man. We have in mind a young attorney who would make a ' fitting successor to John S Wilson? a man in connection with whom the term "rising barrister" is no mere empty jargon. One who by sheer force of energy, indastry and indomitable courage has cleared away obstacles and now stauds as one of the leading lawyers in the Third circuit. Such a man is needed to carry on the work of Solicitor Wilson when he retires from the office and Williams burg should furnish bis successor. In naming a mau who would worthily wear the houor and safeguard the interests of the State we believe we could find no lawyer in the Third district better qualified for the place than LeRoy Lee, Esq., and we hereby nominate him for Solicitor when Mr Wilson retires to go upon the Bench. Pastor Gets a Poundiag On the evening of January 25, a large company?chiefly members of Union church?assembled at the hospitable home of Mrs Wm Salt erg, where wag spent a most delightful evening. About 9 o'clock the the pastor of Union church, Rev E E Ervin, was invited into a room where a present awaited him. So quietly had the "pounding" been prepared that he could only look with silent astonishment on the accumulation of good things destined for the manse store-room, by the ladies of Union church and of other churches in that section. Also there was a purse made up for him by the young men. It is said that "the heart feels most when the lips move not." Then there was music aud song, both sacrei and sentimental, followed by a delightful concert by the Salters' orchestra and conversation and merriment obtained till a late hour. Probably more than a hundred guests were present. When a movement was made to disperse, Mr Errin asked a moment's privilege to speak. He spoke of human kindness aud good fellowship, and the social side of religion and of how desirable that all our pleasures should be such as that we might easily and naturally at once turn to the worship of Him who gives us all our enjoyments. Then the evening was fittingly closed, and the company dismissed, upon appropriate prayer by the pastor of the Metho j dist church, Rev J O Carroway. A liUEST. Want a Package o! Seed? Editor County Record: I have sent to every white man whose name I could obtain in my district, a package of vegetable seed, and having succeeded in obtaining an increase of a few thousand packages of my allotment this season, I have some left, and will gladly send to the address of anyone?a package, who has not had them, and will indicate their wish for them, bv a letter or postal to me. If you will kindly publish this ! fact in your valuable paper, I will appreciate it very much. Yours truly, J E Ellerbe. House of Representatives, Washing- | ton, D C., January 28, 1907. V CLEVER THIEVES. Guatemala Pickpockets and Thslr Whirlwind Methods. "I once thought the New York pickpocket about the slickest in the world," said a detective just back from Central America with- a prisoner, "but the Guatemala operators j have our local artists beaten to an omelet. "I was standing at the corner of one of the main streets of a Guatemala city about noon one afternoon watching the handful of people abroad. A prosperous looking man passed me. I took particular notice of him because he appeared to be well decorated with jewelry. He had heavy finger rings, a massive raw gold watch chain and earrings of a curious pattern. I was thinking how he would delight a New York pickpocket as he halted a few yards away to look into his wallet, a fat, bulky affair. "Jupt then a young man about six yards distant gave a shout and ran toward the man with the wallet and jewelry. The latter started and stood perplexed for just about two seconds. In tl?. t time I saw the young man run into hiin, knock him down by the force of the collision ar.d race toward me. As he came 1 saw him stow away the man's watch, several rings and the wallet. "I shouted and made a spring for him. He ran into me, dodged a swing I made at him and was across the street in an inconceivably short time. I started after him and saw him run into a third man. The third man tried to hold him, but he might as well have tried to catch a bunch of forked lightning. The man was away and up an alley in two minutes after he had run into the first of us. "When we compared note3 it was found that he had skinned the first mail 8 lingers of rmg3, got one of the earrings, the wallet and the watch and chain. Third man had lost a handsome pin from his tie and his watch and chain. " 'What did you lose?' they asked me. " 1 havent lost anything,' I said. Then one of them pointed at my tie, which had become undone. "I found that I, too, had lost a wallet, a stick pin, my watch and chain. I got my property back through the chief of police. He sent for the chief of the gang and made him hold up the young operator for the gooas. The operator was very obliging when he heard I wi^a detective from New York. He wanted to know if I could assist him in working in New York and hew the pickpockets operated in the city. If he ever comes to New York it is all day with many a bundle of goods."?New York Press. MoequitoiMS Cities. Over in Europe there are many happy towns where the note of the mosquito is never heard, and the inhabitants don't care a snap about the pennyroyal market. But in America the cities which can claim to be moequitoless would not run up to a dozen. Denver is one of them, and, it range to say, Grand Rapids, Mich., only a short way from the gnat Gehennas of Lake Superior, is another. The explanation is that the city is built on hillocks of drift sand, so deep and so finely pulverized that they absorb moisture like tissue paper. Stagnant water does not get a ghost of a chance to accumulate, and mosquitoes have carried their cargo of microbes to more congenial markets. ? Health Culture. A Mathematical Wonder. Jedediah Buxton was the greatest prodigy of mathematics that ever appeared in England. His education was very limited, and he had never been taught arithmetic or indeed any branch of mathematics, so that his abilities in this respect were peculiarly natural. He would walk over a piece of land and tell with exactness how many acres and aniuir* rrw^a mntoinnri in it. I?is memory vu so great that while resolving a question he could lew off and resume the occupation again the next morning or a weak, a month or several months later and proceed regularly till it was completed. Chair Varaua Battlaahip. A dentist who had been dosing a woman patient with agony for an hour complimented her on her composure under torture. "But women stand pain so much better than men," he added. "There is a prominent naval officer who comes here who howls like a brass band whenever a nerve is touched." "He does, does he?" sniffed the woman. "I wonder what he would do in a battle ?" "He would be as brave as a lion and as quiet as a Sunday afternoon. Ill stake ray soul on that," the dentist added. "It is all a question of what nerves are touched. ANIMALS AND TRICKS. Gees?, Pig? and Bears Not Hard U Train For the Stage. A farmer would scarcely believe that a goose requires only about j sixty hours in order to prepare it for the footlights and a critical audience and that a common pig j which has been bought in the market will in thirty hours be competent to blossom forth as an actor. According to Ctyde Powers, a trainer of wide experience and much patience, it takes a duck about throe days to learn how to march on the stage, to follow the chorus and to ma-ch off again at the proper time. !t takes a chicken a week or more, and a turkey cannot CTaso the art of actincr in 0 r . _ o less than six months' time. Mr. Powers has tried to train a peafowl, but he finds that it is impossible. A goose is the most intelligent of all the feathered tribe, and a goose is also the only domestic fowl that shows affection. Animals are always entertaining, and eo much in demand are they by managers that every vaudeville theater in America books for its programme at least one animal act and often two every week. A good animal troupe is contracted for many months ahead, and its owners and trainers receive salaries far exceeding those of the average troupe of vaudeville performers of the human species. During a visit to a dress rehearsal at the New York Hippodrome, says a writer in Leslie's Weekly, three or four cub bears were being schooled in the art of standing on their heads, in driving an auto, or at least appearing to do so, and last, but not least?for it amuses an audience greatly?to drink out of bottles. To teach them this last act is not very difficult if the bottles are filled with sweetened water. In fact, the difficulty comes in preventing the cubs from stealing these bottles and rehearsing before it is time, so fond are they of this particular form of acting. Bears are decidedly humorous, and, while they know perfectly well what they are doing, they often do' a trick the wrong way, apparently just for the humor of the thing, and they seem to enjoy the scolding, which with many bears is seldom accompanied by punishment. The trainer's pockets are usually bulging with sugar, and the oubs are giren a taste every time they obey orders and go through a trick with willingness. If a bear is good tempered and of adaptable disposition a new trick can be mastered in about four weeks. A Healthy Bill. A wealthy New York banker, says the Philadelphia Record, while visiting his parents in a small town was stricken with fever. For three months he was confined in the old homestead, dutifully attended by a fond mother and a very zealous doctor. The banker recovered slowly. One morning he decided that fresh air would do more for him than LUCVUUU VU T11 ViUUUUV, ?IM AAA ? short time ho was enabled to dismiss his physician. When the doctor's bill arrived the banker studied it very closely. A few moments later the mother saw her son go to the wood shed, procure an ax and begin hewing at the hitching poet, which had stood in front of the house for fifty years. "Frank," she Bhouted hysterically, believing her son in another delirium, "what are you doing?" "You'll have no further use for it," chuckled the perspiring banker. "Hereafter the doctor will come in an automobile." His Richard III. A theatrical manager tells a story about a country actor who studied Richard III. under John McCullough until he felt letter perfect, when he essayed toplay the part in a western town. When he reached the words, "Thus far into the bowels of the land have we marched on without impediment," his memory completely failed. Having repeated so much of the statement several times he was called down by a general hiss. Coming forward, V- 1 J J 4.V ..J J tv. lie wweu tuui vuus huiucsdcu uio i audience: "Ladies and Gentlemen? Thus far into the bowels of the land hare we marched without impediment, and curse me if I can get any farther."?New York Frees. Moot DurabU Wood. Which kind of wood is the most durable? To answer this question some interesting experiments hare been made and the following results obtained: Birch and poplar decayed in three years, willow and horse chestnut in four yearn, maple and beech in five years, elm and ash in seven years. Oak and Scottish fir decayed to the depth of half an inch in seven years, and juniper was uninjured at the expiration of the seven years. | JUST A @ ?: WE ARE NOT SELLINt ?. AT COST. THAT'S POOH ? OFFERING OUR STOCK _ ? ABOVE COST PREPARi ? OUR NEW STORE SO ? COMPARE OCR PRICE!! ? WITH OTHERS IS ALL I NICE L If ? JUST I*?WALK OYER @ DIXIE URL AND TIE I gj M'F'G tO'S SHOES FOR jgj Swell line Dry Goo< jgj please everybody at | Stackley's @ KINGS! ?; ? Notice to Teachers. The first meeting of the Williams burg County Teachers' association wil be held in the Kingstree Graded schoo building on Saturday, February 2, 1907, at 12 a m. It is hoped that everj white teacher in Williamsburg countj will be present at this, the first meeting of the season. The officers of the Association will do all in their power t< make the occasion pleasant and profit able. See Programme in another column. P P BETHEA, President, Miss ETTA JACOBS, Secretary. BEE'S LAXATIVE HONEY m TAB RELIEVES COUGHS AKD C0L08 :?:@-@:@:?:?:?:?:?:?j | ?NEW I Greei ? ^ jjj We are fully / a nlch i/mi u/lth / If III cril J VM rr ii>ii a jjyear /907. ? Latest and | Agricultural In, ?. Everything nec< | your crop. ? Remember | but our stock | FURN) | at greatly rc ? COMPLETE LINE CO | Our elegant new Hee @ sired. A 9.KINGSTREE_ KAR ? Headquarters for Ha :?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?: Take NoMee? Commencing with February * < m 1, 1907, the price or the County Record will be advanced to One Dollar and Twenty-five Cents a year; six months seventy-five cents; three months SO cents. If paid in advance for one full year we will allow a discount of 25 cents and send the paper for twelve months for $1.00. After February 1. No free or complimentary copies of the paper will be sent to any one. 1-1-07 C W Wolfe. - . i:- d , V ' WORD. | ! R i BELOW COST NOR EVEN 1 BUSINESS. BUT WE ARE @ AT JUST A FRACTION ? ITARY TO MOVING INTO ^ ON TO BE COMPLETED. R i AND QUALITY OF GOODS ? WE ASK. ? 4E SHOES S AND BARRY FOR MEN; ? FAMOUS 8T LOUIS BROWN ? LADIES. @ is, Dress Goods, etc. to ? attractively low prices. ? Cash Store. @ "REE, S. C ? . Klngstree ' CAMP NO-22. " A'- ?*OU? NWIUM * *: V' -?|\11st and 3rd Monday |] Mfhtt la each , vwl month. '' * l/l Visiting choppers oor, dially Invited to come r . up and sit on a stump or hang about on the limba. [ PHILIP STOLL, } 9 27 12m. Con. Com. K.of IF,. ' j Kingstree Lodge ^?- 91 J|||g Knights of pijtfjia " ^ ^ Regular Conventions Kvey 2nd and 4th Wednesday nights Visiting brethren always welcome Castle Hall 3rd story Gourdin Building. F. W. FAIREY, c. c. THOS. McCUTCHEN, K. R. & s. ?:@ :?:@?:?:?:@: ?:@:@ YEAR'S? 3 i ? tings, i prepared to fur-* lardware tor the ? @ best improved$ \plements. J jssary to cultivate ? @ we are closing ? of | ITURE I sduced prices. ? IFFINS and CASKETS. <?j irse furnished when de-.fj ? pip cohpanyI rdware'and Crockery. 5 ??:?:?:?:?:?:?? :?:? The Largest atd Most Complete Establishment South. 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