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4 HMBaaoMBaBVi " "TOBMBB US OTHERS SEE US. Hied Words oi Encouragement From W F Clayton as to Klngstree's School. Editor County Record: In your issue of February 14, appears this editorial squib; "Kingstree should be more than ever proud of the noble edifice that stands a monument to her educational enterprise. It is now paid for." There is nothing that your enterprising paper could print that should give more joy than the announcement that your graded school building has been paid for. Perhaps you do not know that at our school meeting in Florence when opposition appeared to our erecting a school building that would cost about $45,(K>0, the Kingstree school building was argued by myself and had effect, when I told them that there was Kingstree with per haps one-fourth of the taxable property that Florence had, willing to put from ten to fifteen thousand in a school building, and yet we hesitated on enlarging our building. It had its effect, and we are now erecting our building, but $45,000 in Florence, considering the value ~ If Artliol f A til CX U1 prupci ) 15 UVll ci^uai IV/ vuv. sura of fifteen thousand dollars as expended by Kingstree. And it is paid for, what a sweet word. It shows a people up to the limit of progress. For four years I was a member of the State Board of Education and from the information gained there, I say to any community, let your streets if neccessary grow up in weeds, let your streets be without lights, let your town be without police protection, but never neglect your schdols. Bring* them to the highest state of perfection. Perhaps an education is all you have to leave your child. Let him have it. It may be mere to bim than money. Without it he in a cork upon the stream, driven any way that the winds of gain and deception may waft bim. Kingstree is to be congratulated, and the men and women that have engineered this school building are entitled to the nami of benefactors. W. F. Clayton. Florence, S. C. Feb. 15, 190?. A sour stomach, a bad breath, a nastv complexion and other con sequences of a disordered digestion v are quickly removed by the use of . Ring's Dyspepsia Tablets. Two days treatine't free.?Sold- by WL Wallace. ORANGEBURG STANDS EIGHTH. 1q Producing Cimoa for 5 year Period a. ?Was Second la 1995. Darlington,February 18 -The f -courtesy of Mr. Fulen wider enables ' me to give the exact figures as to -cotton production of the largest cotton producing counties in the - v South and, therefore in the world for the five years ending with the year 1905, figures for 1906 not being available. The figures ari taken from the government reports. Onlv counties making an aggreg O OO o ate yeld of over 300.000 bales are counted: Ellis county, Tex., 480,T ?? * J 704 bales; Boliver couutv, .Miss.. 360,544 bales; Washington county, Miss, 359.149 bales; Hill county, Tqx., 350,737 bales; McLennan county, Tex., 349,890 bales Williamson county, Tex , 348,478 bales; Fannin county, Tex., 335,948 bales; Orangeburg county, S. C., 325,118 bales. A In 1905 Williamson county, Tex., was first, with 90,934 bales and Orangeburg was second with 73,396 bales. James Henry IIice, Jr. t&fs Bee's Laxative Honey and Tar, the original laxative cough syrup, - acts as a cathartic on the bowels. It is made from the tar gathered from P. the pine trees of our own country, therefore is the best for children. It isgootl for coughs, colds, croup, whooping congh, etc. Try our offer 1 " 4* 41 Nursing baby? Q It's a heavy stra ! 4 Q Her system is cal Q nourishment for tw 0 Q Some form of he Q be easily taken up is needed. 4? Scoffs Emu Q greatest possible a J ment in easily digest &A& Mother and bal jfij? helped by its use. ]|| ,j1 all drucc1s Death of a Veteran. Editor County Record: Please allow me space to announce the death of our beloved friend, John Wilson, who died in the Harper seetiou on January 6, 1907, He was born October 6, 1836, making his stay on earth 70 years and three months. He was a faithful soldier in the Confederale army and although badly wounded in service he recovered and lived to a ripe old age. He was an affectionate husband and a kind father. - * ' r _ ?_1 J.I "Asleep ID Jesus, oiesseu. sicep, Prom which none ever wake to weep. A calm and undisturbed repose, Unbroken by the last of foes. A Friend. "RACCOON BILL" PASSED. Despite Humorous Amendments House Sent Bill to Third Reading! The house had a little fun with Mr. Woods' bill toregulute the hunt ing of opossums, raccoons and minks. Mr. Woods' humorous speech on the subject in which he sud newspapers had 110 right to criticise his action, put the house in an uproar, but .Speaker Whaby managed to quell th? disorder despite the crowded galleries. The bill says: ' Section 1. That from and after tbe passage of this act it shall i.e nnlawful to take, kill or worry any o'possnm, raccoon, otter or mink between the loth day of April and the 15th day of September in any y? ar by any meaus whatsoever. "Sec. 2. That it shall be unlawful to catch, take, kill or worry any of the animals mentioned in this net at any time by any means whatsoever, except with dogs or guns. "Sec. 3. The violation of this act shall be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment not exceeding -JO j days." One member wanted to amend by i inserting "Brer Fox anil Brer Babbit" ami by notifying Joel Chand-j !er Harris of the passage of the bill, j Mr Dixon said tadpoles anl bull-j frogs should be exempted also. Mr j Kershaw begged the house to take; the bill seriously and on his motion ! it was ordered to a third reading! although it had an unfavorable re- j port? The Stele. Whether or not Dr Woods' [justly j ! celebrated Raccoon bill becames law we are not at present informed as j we have not had time to peruse care-. fully the acts passed. We are inclines j to think however 'hat the Raccoon Dill got lost in the shuffle. : A S!i$ht Disadvantage. She was only ten years old, iitiie ! Margaret, but there were two j vounger cjiildrcn, and she had already takercVppon her shoulders some of the Responsibilities of life,: but did not pretend to enjoy them ! .,11 "Where are Helen and Agatha?" asked a visitor, who found Marga ret sitting on the doorstep alone one afternoon,Mooking particularly ! sober. "They've gone off to have what I mother calls 'mischief' and* they I j call 'fun,"' said the solitary one. "And you didn't go with them," ' said the visitor, with a hint of sym- ; i pathy in her voice. "Oh, no," said Margaret, with a sigh; "mother trusts me so dread- j fully! I can't have much of any ; ! fun."?Youth's Companion. ! . . ? i 1 foi' * 4 in on mother. Q lied upon to supply Q o. ^ o wrishment that will Q by mother's system O ? Is ion contains the <0* mount of nourish- 4 ed form. J >y are wonderfully J TSt SOc. AND $1.00 Q REFUSED TO STRIKE. An Incident of the 8horter Hour Movement In Russia. During a period when the waiters and chambermaids were forcibly out of the Warsaw hotels and restaurants on strike many of the coTOontq in nvivotn hmiCAQ TO fused to leave their work, and those who did go into the streets ?oon returned. A servant in the employ of one old nobleman, who does not exact much work from his household, received the men who had come to persuade him to join them, reclining on a sofa. "What do you gentlemen want?" he asked languidly when the four delegates were ushered into his presence by the scared kitchen maid. "You must come into the CtTAAffl ^ ' "But what for?" '"To join the general strike for a uniform eight hour day." The servant sprang from his sofa. "How dare you even suggest such a thing?" he demanded indignantly. "I never heard of anything like it in my life! Eight hours, indeed! Why, you won't find a self respecting footman in the town to support such a movement!" "How many hours do you work ?" asked the astonished delegate;;, who looked upon all domestic servants as white slaves. "Two or three at the most. 1 spend much of my time cn this sofa reading the newspapers, which are very interesting just now. I can just see myself walking about the muddv streets to get eight hours' work a day! I'm not fool enough for that, gentlemen!" "Then give us some money for the committee," the deputation urged. "Xever! I should be acting against all my principles if I gave as much as 1 cent toward supporting an organization which is in favor of domestic servants working eight hours a day!"?Pall'Mall Gazette. A Hopeless Case. Carl vie wa s terribly bored by the persistent optimism of his friend Emerson. "1 thought," he said, "that I would try to cure him, so I took him to some of the lowest parts of London and showed him all that was going on there. This done, I turned to him, saying, 'And noo, man, d'ye believe in the deevil 1100?' 'Oli, no!' he replied. 'All these people seem to mc only parts of the great machine, and on the whole I think they are doing their work very satisfactorily.' Then," continued the sage, "I took him doun to the hoose o' commons, where they put us under the gallery. There 1 showed him 'ac chiel getting up after aniiher and leeing and lceing.' Then I turned to him and said, 'And noo, man, d'ye believe in the deevil noo?' lie made me, however, just the same answer as before, and I then gave him up in despair." The Ostrich's Mistake. A trained ostrich recently disconcerted its exhibitor at a music hall by continually endeavoring to break away from all restraint and to climb over the fpotlights into the orchestra. The widely advertised act came to a sudden end, and the professor emerged from behind the curtain ? * *?? M 1 # 1 ana apologized lor tne actions 01 111s pet in about these words: "Lydies and gentlemen, Hi ham very sorry to disappoint you this hevening. We are compelled to cease our hengagement until the management hcngages a new horehestra leader. The one at present hemployed 'ere 'as no 'air on top of 'is 'ead, and my bird takes it for a hegg."?London Tit-Bits. PINE SALVE ACTS LIKE A POULTICE RELIEVES ALL FORMS OP SKIN DISE ASE j : SERPENT POISON. The Venom of the Cobra Is Deadly Almost. Beyond Belief. It was in the autumn of 1891 that Calmette, while acting as director of the Bacteriological institute of Saigon, Cochin China, first commenced his experiments on the neutralization of serpent venom ir the animal system. He had exceptional opportunities in the mattei of serpent venom wherewith to carry out his investigations, inasmuch as a band of cobras, had recently attacked a village in the vicinity oi Baclieu, and by order of the governor of the district no fewer than ninety specimens of the terrible Naja tripudians, or cobra de capello. were forwarded in a barrel to the institute. r i... il- x:i J rvr ly ui uie repmes urnveu alive, and several were at once sacrificed to secure their venom glands. Each gland, resembling both in size and shape a shelled almond, contains about thirty drops of venom, find in this transparent limpid liquoi is embodied a toxin of extraordinary strength. As i3 wjll known, this cobra is the most dreaded oi all serpents, and it is widely distributed over India, Burma, Sumatra, Java, Malacca and Cochin China. Until Calmette, however, set to work to systematically study the nature of this reptile's venom but little precise or reliable information had been obtained as to its character. It was, of course, necessary in the first instance to ascertain, within as narrow a limit as possible, the exact degree of toxic power inherent in the venom and to determine if possible the precise dose lethal in respect of each variety of animal experimented upon. A correct calculation of the quantity of venom required in every case was, however, found to be quite iranossible. for so virulent is the A ' poison that a single drop of an emulsion produced by pounding up eight glands in 300 grams of distilled water is sufficient, when introduced into the vein of a rabbit's ear, to kill it in five minutes. All the mammals to which Calmette administered this cobra venom, such as monkeys, dogs, rabbits, guinea pigs and rats, succumbed more or less quickly, according to the size of the dose.?Westminster Gazette. Holyroocl's Chapel Royal. Those who lament the results of much of the so called restoration in our ancient buildings will not be sorry to know that Holyrood's Chapel Royal is to be left untouched, for with that crumbling pile r.ro bound I up many historical memories. In I that chapel the beginnings of Anglo Scottish union were made when at the altar there James IV. was united to Margaret Tudor, the "marriage of the thistle and the rose." There Queen Mar}' was twice mated?to Darnley first and afterward to Bothwell. Ilolyrood palace, as we know it now, was mostly the handiwork of Charles II.'s craftsmen. James II. turned the Chapel Royal into a Romish building. In! deed, he wished to restore Ilolyrood entirely to its original monastic purposes. But he reckoned without the dour Scots' temperament, and the vestments and ornaments were ruthlessly torn from the chapel and burned, by an Edinburgh mob.? ?I1 rouble. It is i?. well known medical fact that pine resin is most effective in the treatment of diseases of the bladder and kidneys. Sufferers from back ache and other troubles due to faulty action ol the kidneys tind relief in the use of Piue-nles. SI.00 bnvs 30 davs treatment.?Sold by W L Wallace. I GET TOE BEST Recently Enlarged * WITH 25,000 New Words New Gazetteer of the World 4 with more than 25,000 titles, based on the | illicit census returns. i NcwEiographical Dictionary a containing the names of ove? 10,000 noted 5 ; v.-o.-s Oato of birth, der.th, etc. * ntite.1 ? yxr. T. HARRIS, Ph.T)., LL.D? i L in vOd bi lite? Comuiissiouer of Education. ! j 2380 Quarto Pages ? ; 5 r'-t ?. Cv00 IlluUaticns. Dirh Btnuiac* I ; .tocdedinEveryHome 5 1 I .'.iso VchsUr'n Collegiate Diction?-y *. J i i*!0 l'-'TMb liuO IlioAtralioaj. 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