The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, January 31, 1907, Image 6
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KINGSTREE. S. C.
C. W. WOLFE.
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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.
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"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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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,
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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.
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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.
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Commencing with February
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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.
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or hang about on the
limba.
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^ ^ Regular Conventions Kvey
2nd and 4th Wednesday nights
Visiting brethren always welcome
Castle Hall 3rd story Gourdin Building.
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