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KINGSTREE. S. C.
C. W. WOLFE.
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Kinzstree. S. C.
THUR6DAY, FEB. 14.1907
The rights of the "ooon" and
"possum'' are in good hands when
championed by Representative
Woods of Clarendon and they had
ought to be respected.
Kingstree should be more than
our proud of the noble edifice that
lands a monument to her educational
enterprise. It is now paid for.
The "C. C." bill, as the G. M. 1.
advocates derisively styled it, seems
% to hare had a purgative effect on
the dispensary system.
The G. M.I. is dead and now
come county dispensaries. Sometimes
we think the "best solution"
is pare prohibition, despite the
menace of blind tigers.
Major Rhett of Charleston baa
pretty clearly demonstrated by facts
and figures the accuracy of his assertion
that the port of Charleston
was bottled up by the railroads.
Everj loyal Caroliniau should
sympathize with the stiuggle for
existence of our princi/>al sea port
and we are glad to see that the legislature
has taken the matter in hand
and touched up the railroad commissioners.
The sensation of the hour is the
Thaw trial now in progress in New
York City. We would not offend
the decent sentiment of our readers
by printing any of the nauseating
details. A profligate youug man
shoots down the alleged betrayer of
a lewd woman that the former was
fool enough to make tus wire, now
he pleads emotional insanity to
escape the penalty of his crime.
f That is the story in a nut-shell.
We regret very much the con tinued
illness of Senator Bass of
this county. In his absence the senate
is deprived of an able and faithful
member and our bouse delegation
one whose experience and counsel
would be invaluable to them in this
first taste of their legislative experience.
Pay Back the Cotton Tax.
Congressman Hefliu, of Alabama,
has introduced a bill in Congress
providing that the government at
Washington shall refund the cotton
tax collected in 1866-87. The bill
gives the farmers who were compelled
to pay this tax twelve months
in which to prove their claims and
provides that the unclaimed remainder
of the tax collected by the government
shall be devoted to the construction
of good roads. Large
sums of money were collected from
the people of South Carolina on this
I
riCc'oUi:'. ami tin* books of tilt* go\
. ernim nt agelits will doubtless slum
from hoiu the tax w?s collected
ami the amount paid respectively In
the farmers out i f whom the taxe;
j came. The tax was an illegal tax
i auil the Government at the close ol
forty years of uninterrupted peact
and harmonv ought to restore to tin
? O
people in this part of the countrv
the tribute that was exacted of them
for pucitive rather than revetnu
purposes
We would suggest that all persons
in this State who were compelled tc
pay this tax, cr the surviving representatives
of their families, communicate
with their Representatives
in Washington, collecting all possible
data on the subject, so that oui
Congressmen may be in position tc
recover from the Government the
tax unjustly levied upon them at the
close of the war. The amount involved
is large, bat, whether large
or small, the principle of the tax
was wrong, and the Government
should make good to its citizens the
money taken from them at a time
when they were overwhelmed by
/)?AAA^W? Wa AWA ^A 4 An/vn?*k Adtat)
UlOMlCli ft C mi c Ami cuuu^u n mj
dow, surely, from tho spirit of the
times in which this tax was levied to
have the question dealt with fairly
on its merits. Every now and then
a story is told about the return of
conscience money to the National
Treasury, ar.d we would have onr
representatives in Congress use their
beet efforts to arouse the National
conscience to the point of paying
back to the fearfully burdened cotton
growers of this State the blood
money that was taken out of them
without justification forty years
ago.?News & Courier.
SEE'S LAXATIVE HONEY <u TAB
relieves coughs akd colds
NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING.
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A Dusiness m<in lens ui uis experience.
(From the. Autobiixjraphy of a Business
Man in ?i\ ji'Hly's Magazine.)
For a number of years I advertised
only in my windows
| and in some of the street cars,
because I did not feel that I
could afford to advertise in the
daily papers. Two years ago
last September I was having a
cravenette coat sale, and 1 succeeded
in selling for a couple
of weeks about fifty coats a day.
I thought I would try a column
ad in one of the evening papers.
The next day this column ad
appeared in one of the evening
papers, and by the by, it,was
not the one that has the largest
circulation in Chicago; I selected
the paper this ad appeared
in because they gave ine a low
rate, but they agreed to give
my ad a good position in the
paper. The result was that the
sales which formerly had been
about 50 coats a day, jumped to
145, and in 50 days I had sold
over 3,500 raincoats.
For the year following- that
sale I continued to advertise in
this oaoer. Last fall I felt that
A A
I could afford to invest, say
about $5,000 in some of the
other papers. I used three morning
papers and three evening
papers, the best in Chicago. The
results have been something
phenomenal. I did not have
to invest the $5,000. The profits
came back from the newspaper
advertising belore their
bills came in and I do not figure
today that I have a dollar invested
in advertising.
' A coid taken at this time of the
year is generally hard to get rid of
but it will not be able to withI
stand Bee's Laxative Honey and
Tar. That will cure all colds,
coughs, croup, whooping cough, etc..
j by driving them out through the
bowels. If you have a cold, try it
j and if not cured get your money
i back. No opiates.?Sold l?v \Y L
I Wallace.
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Mt# the bowels. Bee's Luutiys Honey sjm
Tax moves the bowels ud contaia* no oputee.
Sold by W L Wallace.
1 Fooled Old Jowett.
Once when Professor Jowett was
. visiting his friend and pupil, Professor
Sellar, he declared that he
' never gave to beggars. Mrs. Sellar
. was an adept in "mystifications," an
accomplishment popular in Scotch
society since Sir Walter Scott's
time. She disguised herself as a
, poor highland woman and waylaid
her husband and Jowett at a crossroad,
begging importunately and
; telling her tale of woe so piteously
, that Jowett at last said: "Poor
thing! She seems very miserable.
Give her half a crown." Sellar said
he had no money with him, and before
the alms were forthcoming the
secret was triumphantly unveiled.
AN INDIAN EXPERIENCE.
Trials of a Girl Who Waa Capturod by
4ho Sioux.
The winter of 1856-57 was one
long to be remembered by the people
of Iowa and Minnesota for its
bitter cold weather, deep snow and
violent storms, which rendered communication
between the different
settlements almost impossible. A
great many of the settlements were
on the extreme frontier and absoliitelv
unnroteeted and defenseless.
It was during this winter that the
Sioux attacked and destroyed the
family of Mr. Rowland Gardner.
They killed all except a young
daughter, Abbie, who was taken into
captivity, but was rescued
through the efforts of the United
States government. In "The Spirit
Lake Massacre" she tells something
of her captivity:
Whenever the Indians thought to
torture me by threatening to take
my life I would merely bow my
head. My tearless acquiescence and
willingness to die seemed to fill
them all with wonder. They thought
it a sign of bravery.
Soon after my capture one of the
warriors, who waa sitting by me one
day in the tent, thinking to test my
courage or to be amused at my
fears, took his revolver from his belt
and began loading it, while he gave
me to understand that he would kill
me as soon as it was loaded. I
merely bowed my head to signify
that I was ready.
When the revolver wa3 all loaded
he drew back the hammer and
held the weapon close to my head.
I quietly bowed my head, expecting
he would do as he said. But instead
of that he lowered the weapon
and looked at me as if astonished
and then laughed uproariously. So
amused was he that he told his companions
of it, and it was a favorite
subject of conversation.
These Indians were at a loss to
know what to do with much of the
plunder they had taken. Among
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xne spoils were quanuues oi suua
and cream of tartar. Thqr interrogated
me as to their use, and when
I told them we used it in making
bread they wished me tq make
some. They seemed greatly surprised
and pleased when they saw
the bread "grow" during the process
of baking. Although pleased with
the "growing," they were too suspicious
of being poisoned to eat any
until I had eaten. Then they devoured
it greedily.
A Perambulating Pudding.
A commuter who lives up the
Hudson river and who is, of course,
accustomed to go downtown every
morning contributes a specimen of
Finnish humor to the New York
Sun. By the commuter's confession
he is prone to prowl around the re-!
fngerator almost every mgnt ana |
quietly dispose of any unconsid- J
ered trifle that may tempt his appetite
without publishing the same to '
the household at large. Recently
his wife was discussing luncheon!
with a new importation from Fin-j
land named Hilda and, remember-,
ing a pudding that they had not .
j been able to finish the day before,
said to the kitchen autocrat:
"Do you know where that piece
of cold pudding is?"
Without a smile on her faec Hilda
answered: I
"Yes ma'am. It has gone down-1
town!"
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A NATIONAL TRAGEDY.
Dramatic Scene ct the Degradation o'
Captain Dreyfus.
\ine oYIock; General Darras
draws his sword; orders ring out;
'the infantrymen shoulder arms;
the sabers of the cavalry gleam; at.
i the far edge of the field a little
; group appears. It is made up of
i four artillervmen in somber del
mans. In the center is Dreyfus,
the light flashing on his sword, on
the three gold galloons that mark
his rank. Beside him strides the
adjutant of the guard, the executioner
of the military decree, a
giant of a man, cloaked, plumed,
glorious. The l'Lle group comes
obliquely across the naked field.
The "traitor's" step is firm, his head
is high, his left hand grasps the hilt
of his sword. Without the mob
lifts its dull clamor, the sulky growl
of 6,000 alcoholic throats. Where
the general sits on his horse the
little group halts. The cannoneers
fall back, and Dreyfus stands alone.
Very small he seems; motionless,
cut in steel. And the general
speaks:
"Dreyfus, you are unworthy to
bear arms. In the name of the
French republic I degrade you!"
Then the desolate man raises
suddenly his arms to heaven and
cries with a loud voice, "I am innocent
!"
As sudden is the roar that comes
from the Latin mob, surging
against tho iron fence, "Death!"
uud "Judas!" and "Traitor!" A silence
more terrible than the roar
of tire mob falls as the executioner
steps lorward, stnps on tne epaulets,
the gold braid, the gold buttons?ensigns
of a man's honor?
and breaks across his knee the soldier's
sword. And Dreyfus stands
immobile, beateD upon by all the
winds ol fate. Only when the sword
snaps in twain a great cry comes
from him?a male cry, sonorous and
stern:
"On the heads of my wife and
children I swear 1 am innocent! I
swear it! Vive la France!"
And the mob, in the streets, at
the gates, on the roof tops, howls:
"Death! Death!" It is the answer
of France. The parade begins.
The little group is led now by two
officers of the Republican guard.
Slowly it passes the long files of the
soldiery, just beyond sword reach?
lest an impulsive saber should reach
the "traitor's" heart. The little
man is dressed in black rags now.
But he marches steadily, his head
erect. There is not a quiver in him,
so firm is his drilled courage of a
soldier. When he passes the fence,
behind which the mob seethes, he
cries once more his innocence and
"Vive la France!" What he says
they cannot hear, but they answer
him with crucifying clamor. To
the journalists he says, "Tell
France I am innocent!" And they
call him "Judas" and "traitor." Not
once does he lower his head in this
grim parade of agony. Not once
does he^give way to fear or anger.
As though he had made himself
iron, he passes, proclaiming his
guiltless honor and his love for
France.?Vance Thompson in Success
Magazine.
Mia Waapon.
In some parts of Ireland it is a
custom among bank clerks to speak
of one another as "officers" to the
bank, but little Jim Bender, the reeerfly
imported Cockney waiter in
a ^un ty Mayo hotel, was not aware
of this custom.
"Ha\ e you seen any of our officers
here this morning?" asked a lordly
knight of the quill of Jim a few
days ago.
Jim glanced keenly at his interrogator.
"Yussir," he answered promptly;
"it isn't three minutes ago since one
of 'em went out with his sword be'ind
'is ear."?London Answers.
Mad* It Ev*n.
Curran, when master of the rolls
in Ireland, was going one day to a
levee at the castle. There was a
great press of carriages, when all at
once he was startled by the pole of
the carriage which followed him
crashing through the back of his.
He hastily put his head out of the
window, crying to his coachman:
"Stop, stop! Tha pole of the car r-iai-rQ
KnViirifT la /^rivPTl into US."
"Arrah, then, it's all right again,
your honor," said Pat, "for I've just
druv my pole into the carriage before."
Dividing a Journey.
An Englishman was sent out on a
journey to take a parcel to a place
about twelve miles from Maldon,
Essex, a little town near the coast.
As he started rather late in the day
his master was surprised to see him
back soon after dark. "You surely
haven't been there and back," his
employer said to him. "No, no,
master," the man replied; "I got
halfway thecr, and it began to git
dark, so 1 com'd back ag'in. I'll
goo t'other half termorrer."
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A KINGSTI
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An Important Pott
When Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
was secretary of state for
war Queen Victoria wished to make
the czar an honorary colonel of a
British regiment. The prime minister,
as he now is, demurred on
the grounds that all other European
sovereign! would expect to receive
similar honors. But as the queen
was willing that even this should
be the czar was made colonel of the
Scots Greys. Naturally the appointment
caused some excitement in
the regiment. One subaltern was
overheard saying to his servant,
'Donald, the emperor of Russia
has been made colonel of the regimentw
"Indade," was his reply,
"it's a verra gran' thirg for hira,
but will he be able to keep baith
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