Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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kF!*? LIQUOR FIRM BLACKLISTED. For Sending Case oi "Samples" t Member of Beard of Control.l At least one whiskey house Clarke Bros. & Co., of Peoria III., has caused itself to bt blacklisted by direct violatio: of South Carolina's new liquo ?n?r Tb??v are Drohibitet ? henceforth from selling- any li * quors to any of the county dis pensary boards by reison o having- unlawfully attempted t< influence a member of a count] dispensary board by sending him samples of whiskey "fo personal use," which is express ly prohibited in section 46 of tin local option law. It was a common occurrence \ under the State dispensary sys tem for distillers to presen members of the board of direct 3K i s ors, county boards of contro and dispensers with "samples for personal use," and othei "slight tokens," to say nothing of rebates, which it is alleged "were freely given and accepted by certain persons connected with the institution. ? The friends of the new law very properly profited by tht Bumerous evidences ot graft brought to light in the dispenintrocfirr^tirtn hv adding" 3 ^ oai j iu ? vo - j ??^ section to the local option bill which, if enforced'' .vill practically eliminate graft of the kind ao prevalent in the system of State control. Section 46-not * - only prohibits the offer of any rebate, gift or thing of value to . < any person connected with any county dispensary, but makes . the acceptance of such by any member of the dispensaryboards, dispensers, etc., a misy demeanor, punishable by a i ? : : ??. aeavy line unujpiiKuuuicuuauu , . the county dispensary boards are prohibited from ordering .any liquors from any manufac" turer or distiller who has violated the law in this particular. Mr. C. W. Standi, chairman of the county dispensary board of Sumter, oue of the first mem bers commissioned under the new law, received the following >, 1 letter Thursday morning, the case of samples referred to arriving by express on the same train: Clarke Bros. & Co., e Independent Distillers and Blendersf ^ Peoria, 111,, Feb. 23, 1907. <C. W. Stand), Sumter, S. C. Dear Sir: We are sending you today samples of a few of our products nere tor your own per sonaJ use, and we hope you will . accept them from us for that .parpose only* The goods are as follows: Clarke's^ rye, Apricot brandy, Gayoso gip, Clarke's sour mash whiskey. With kind regards we remain, yours truly, Clarke Bros. & Co. Mr. Stancil refused the ex press shipment and wrote Clarke Bros. & Co. that the case ol samples was in the express office to be disposed of as they saw fit. He informed them that he "never used whiskey i~ any way," adding: "Of course I appreciate the spirit in which they were sent, and while I thank you for your kindness, I must postively reiuse to accept tnem. Dr. B. B. Breeden and Mr. J. J. Britton, the other members ol the Sumter board, were seen by a representative of The State yesterday, and when asked ii 7 they had received whiskey sam pies from any whiskey house repiled that they had not. Mr. Stancil mentioned the matter to several of his friends on the streets and in a short while it was being generally discussed. While the incident caused considerable comment in Sumter, it || is doubtful if the true signifiK > cance of the transaction was fully appreciated, as it does not appear to be at all generally understood that the new law con>.7 ri, ?*. I i fijy I d\ Is your baby thi ' 41 Make him a ? ^ I S baby. 1 v Scoff's Emul . a &nd Hypophosphites f V easily digested by littl r a Consequently the r # Scoff's Emulsu i fa cheeked little fellow f J ALL DRUGGISTS I ; tains such a sweeping anti-Kraft - provision. r It is not known how many shipments of samples Clarke I Bros. & Co. have made to memi hers of disDensarv boards, jut I & this one letter to Chairman r Stancil and the single shipment . of samples is sufficient to put! ihe big Peoria distillers on the . blacklist in South Carolina.? The State. A NOTE OF WARNING To Parties Who Sell Their Timber and Stili Own the Land. i Editor County Record: Possibly it may be of benefit - to a portion of your readers to give them our experience with a i._:_ i 1 WT certain nimuci cuuijjauj. uc gave said company an option . on the timber on a small tract i of land. The attorneys for said company after examination of chain of title made out a deed for the timber for our signature. In reading over the deed we found a clause binding us not only to pay the taxes on the land but also on the timber. We wrote the attorneys for the com : pany that we expected to pay ' the taxes on the land, but that : if ever the law was changed so that standing timber would ' be taxed we would not agree to bind ourselves to pay taxes our property belonging to another. The matter was submitted to the company and they declined to accept deed unless we agreed to obligate to pay taxes on the timber as well as on the land. Apparently the timber cor porations believe that in the near future our legislators will see the justice of making the owners of these immensely valu: able holdings of timber pay ' their just quota towards the ex1 penses of the county and State, and to guard against this con' tingency they insert the clause binding the land owner to pay taxes on the property of said corporations. ; This, in our opinion, is n'?t r right and we suggest toaliowDi ers of timber that they refuse to ' sign any deed by which they are : bound to pay the taxes on timr ber sold the said corporations. Coopek Bros. , Fowler, S? C., March 4, 1907. Dissolution NoticeNotice is hereby given that the firm of J. F. Rickenbaker & Co , composed . of J. F. Rickenbaker and S. W. Gowdy, heretofore doing business at Lake City, i in the county of Williamsburg and : State of South Carolina, was dissolved by mutual consent on the twenty-third day January, 1907, and the said S. W. j Gowdy, is no longer connected with i Du-mess. J. F. Riekenbaker shall assume all ? indebtedness of the company, and all ; parties owing the company shall pay > same to the said J. F. Rickenbaker. J. F. Rickenbakeu i3--7-3t. S. W. Gowdy. | Spring winds chap, tan and cause freckles to appear. I'INESALVE CARBOLIZED applied at night 1 i will reiieve that burning sensation. ;! Nature's own remedy. Acts like a ,! poultice pud draws out inflainatiou |-Sold by W L Wallace. 1 * ?L'_J! 9 <| n, weak, fretful ? <fl? ! . tcolt's Emulsion Q i 1 C * f sion is Cod Liver Oil J p prepared so that it is A t e folks. 4* } B&by that is fed on a i: V a on is a stuitly, rosy- J 0 ull of health and vigor. q o ; 50c. AND $1.00. ? 0 Couldn't Ruffle Hit Temper. J] Quincv Tufts, an old time dealer il l in men's furnishings, whose place / of business was in the old Herald a building, on Washington street, c Boston, was celebrated for his ex- a treme courtesy in dealing with try- n I ing customers. On one occasion a y I man whom we will call Mr. A. rej marked on this trait to another n man, whom we will call Mr. 15., 11 whereupon the latter laid a wager i n that he could ruffle the temper of j c Mr. Tufts. The wager was accept- j) ed, atflf the two repaired to Mr. is Tufts' place of business. Mr. B. e asked to see samples of men's suit- ^ ings. Mr. Tufts produced piece aft- " er piece of cloth until the supply e was exhausted, and Mr. B., select- a ing one, said. "I will take just 1 cent's worth of this." Mr. Tufts n took a penny from his pocket and, h placing it upon the cloth, with a & piece of chalk drew an outline upon t the cloth and cut out a piece of it g and with the utmost politeness handed it to Mr. B. The wager was h paid.?Boston Herald. e d Plugs of Tea. I a "Plugs of tea, not unlike plugs of j a tobacco, are used by the Russian d poor/' says a globe trotter. "This n is a low grade of tea, the stems are tl mixed with the leaves, and all are e pressed together by means of an adhesive gum into a hard cake, or b plug. A very strong and bitter cup b of tea is made o\it of these, tea n plugs, a cup that would give you or il me a nervous headache. But the b vmoujik is used to it, and he will ri down twenty or thirty cups of plug 1 l tea along with black bread, raw on- s< j ions and salt fish and afterward tl j light his cigarette with as contented n , a sigh as you or I will heave on 0 Thanksgiving day at the end of a u i nine course turkey dinner."?New ! Orleans Times-Democrat. h = ? Everyone knows that Spring is ^ the season of the year when the aye-. 'tern needs cleansing. DADE'S f! j LITTLE LIVER PILLS are high- ? j ly recommended. Try them.?Sold ^ ' bv W L Wallace.* ,s I ? 0 pi Recently Enlarged WITH 25,000 New Words w New Gazetteer of the World 31 with more than 25,000 titles, based on the ?C : latest census returns. ? j ' New Biographical Dictionary ! containing: the names of over 10,000 noted P1 j i^ersons, date of birth, death, etc. h J Diitcd by\7.T. HARRIS, Ph.D^LL.D^ T( 11 Uai ted Statc3 Commissioner of Education. ^ 2330 Quarto Fagea ,, Nrw riatcs. CDOO lUastntioai. Rich BiaJlnji. tl Needed in Every Home Also Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 1 1!!8 PajfJ. 1100 111 Miration-!. fl Regular Edition 7:10x2?* iachea. Shiailr.sri. e De Luxe Edition 6JJx8H*l?3'n. Print vi fro-n 1 ! nrvrr*? cn biblo paper. 2 beaut ifi.l liauiu^a. * S( ERLE, 'Dictioaar/Wrinkle*."l'.ltulrato.' pv G. ? C. MERRIAM CC .. ^PubHahera^^Bprlngf^ Books of SubscriptionNotice is hereby given that the ni 1 Books of Suhsrription of the Salters Social Club will be opened at 12 o'clock .. M. Saturday, the 9th day March, 1907, 11 at the ortice of .1 A Ferrell, Salters. iS. C., the stock of said club being w $1,000 divided into 100 shares of $10 each. ? ? L A N'HITFIELD, w <' W Boswei.l, ri E T Hamer, > it 1 as. A. Ferrell, , lr .1 M Cook, * Board of Corporators. | 1?7-lt. lv *< \ - i u'. '* i' t \ iANK OF ENGLAND NOTES. rhe Enormous Output and the Safe* guards Against Forgery. The Bank of England refuses to ise color for its notes on account f the fact that the authorities beieve that its whiteness and appar- ' tnt simplicity are the greatest safe;uards ugainst forgery. The white- 1 less of a Bank of England note is lifferent to that of any other pa>cr and is obtained by using only ' he very finest linen rags in the ( naking. At Laver.toke, a little village in lampshire, the paper is prepared, nd at the mill there every blank s as zealously guarded as if it were lready engraved. Every workman r workwoman employed at the mill 5 bound to secrecv. End the secrets f the mysterious wt.ter mark and exture of the paper are known only y the most tried and trusted of the rorkmen. 11 is not generally known that evry bank note bears a private water nark, which is constantly being hanged in a way known only to the . lead officials and which is discernble through a microscope only. J tnd it says much for the vigilance nd skill of the Bank of England s ashiers that, although they pay on r n average ?27,000 in exchange for iotes every day, they have never ] et paid a forged note. Tne easiest way to detect a forged ote is by dampening a corner with * he tongue^ If genuine, the water lark appear! very distinct. In o mtcr'cit notes it almost ciisapcars. On a genuine "fiver" 'there ' ) a small white dot on the right * ide of the Old-English "I" in the ^ord "Five." The tail of the letter F"'in the sentence '^For the Govrnor and Company" is also left in n incomplete state. The ink with which bank notes re printed is made of charred usks and stems of Rhenish vines, nd the recipe, like the manufacure of the paper, is a carefully uarded secret. Each bank note costs about a aiipcnuv iu pruuucc uuu vu au enrage is in circulation about seventy ays. After being paid the nates rc stored by the bank for five years, t the end of which time they are estroyed bv burning in a large furace. Eighteen millions of money hus disappear in the course of evrv year. I Once a note is returned to the ank it is never reissued, and after eing canceled by having the sigature of the chief cashier torn off ; is placed in what is known as the 1 ank nota library for purposes of ?ferenee. There are no fewer than 20 clerks in this department, and ) perfect is their system of filing Siat any one of the 77,745,000 otes which form the usual stock n hand can be reached in five mintes. Altogether the Bank of England as some ?15,000,000 worth of notes l circulation and issues between 0,000 and 60,000 notes of various ^nominations each day. There are jvcnty or eight}' kinds of Bank of Ingland notes of different values. I very year about 3,000 of the notes isued are lost or destroyed by the wners. .At any rate, they are nev- ^ r returned to the bank and repre;nt a clea:- profit. While it is true, owever, that if a note never conies aek the bank profits to that mount, they never can tell when iesc so cilled missing notes may _ e presented. Some people possess a weakness >r hoardir.g bank notes, and the re- > lit has been that frequently the < ank is called upon to cash dirty, ^ rumpled notes which were issued * ears ago.?London Tit-Bits. ? Fooled Old Jowett. * Once when Professor Jowett was < isiting his friend and pupil, Pro- * ?ssor Sellar, he declared that he * ever gave to beggars. Mrs. Sellar ? as an adept in "mystifications," an * Bcomplishment popular in Scotch * >ciety since Sir Walter Scott's * me. She disguised herself as a ? oor highland woman and waylaid er husband and Jowett at a crossed, begging importunately and ;lling her tale of woe so piteously lat Jowett at last said: "Poor ling! She seems very miserable. < ive her half a crown." SellaT said j e had no money with him, and be- < ire the alms were forthcoming the 3 ?cret was triumphantly unveiled. ^ Her Idea of Remembrance. J A southern man tells of a con- 1 ersation lie overheard between his < 10k and a maid, both negroes, with J jferencc to a recent funeral of a 1 tember of their race, at which fu- ^ eral there had been a profusion of 2 oral tributes. Said the cook: j "Pat's all very well. Mandy, but 3 hen I dies I don't want no llower3 J n my grave. Jes plant a good old j atermelon vine, an' when she gits 3 pc you come dar, an' don't you eat J , but jes bus' it on de grave an' t it de good old juice dribble down ^ iro de ground!"?Harper's .Week- 3 / I '1 ==SHMS_H^^^=as BUZZARD HARDWARE CO. IS THE HOUSE. t f| are headquarters for all - J. WW kinds of Hardware, Gunsl 3;-j J9j- Cutler}-, Pumps, Piping, Steam 5 " Fitting's, Belting-, Pittsburg '3^"- "" 1 jffp feet Fence, Baib "Wire, Ct&k |j|| ery and Glassware, Cooking "" ' "* ' ""~i?-1*? Stoves, Builders Material of all tinds, N. C. Pine Shingles, Paroid Hoofing, Sash, Doors, 3!inds, Lime, Cement, Paint. Farming Implements, Stalk Cutters Jole Corn ami Cotton Planters. Guano Distributors. : : : : SEE US BEFORE PLACING YOUR ORDERS. Yours very truly, BLIZZARD HARDWARE CO. LAKE CITY, S C. ^ TO OTJZ2 ! Ms ii cm Ye have just closed our third year's business, and take this opportunity to thank our triends for their generous patronage. )ur stock is larger and more varied, and we feel sure we can iave you money. Don't forgot we have a nice assortment of eliable "FAVORITE" Ranges and 4<0 K" stoves; When in need of Sash, Doors, Blinds, Turned Work, etc., we vould appreciate the privilege of giving you prices; from our inireased sales of this material our prices Must be Right. Remem>er where you buy "Anchor" Lime you get the best. If it is good paint you want, buy "Benj. Moore & Co. 's"? pure house colors. * r .j Yours for Business, % . Lake City Hardware Co., TAWf!TW ft n Ullli li VAA A | Ml V/' T >' ' IT--?T-T?^ LOOKOUT! / I am at the same j old Stand with / the - - - and PRICES.S v Yours for business, > VVT Wilk.ins. > ^WVYVVYVVVVVYVVW^^ FURNITURE! FURNITURE!! FURNITURE!!! I MARINE HOME COSY 1 Is easy and costs but little if you get in the ^ * right store with good reliable furniture ?^ At Prices 1 which will surprise you, if you have never 3: called on us before. 31 I Bed room Soils $1750 to $45.00/ 1 Oak Beds 2.50 to 15.00. | Iron Beds 2.50 to 14.00. | ' Foding Spring $1.75. $ E> Above we give you a few of the many things we ^ ?- have at the right prices. !: MATTINGS, RUGS, WINDOW SHADES, t LAMS'S, CLOCKS, CHAIRS and ROCKERS. 5 | AY THE = | : Lake City Furniture Co's I y ? J M TRULUCK, L 0 HOLLOW AY. L M BELK, < President. Vice-President. Manager. ^ ^ uamwaaa^ y .