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fm *\ vx?he tfountn SJecurd.! fcr> KINGSTREE. S. C. C. W. WOLFE. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS /.n r* vV T> 4 T Cc SUBSUKH'ii"^ xvmcio One copy, one year, ? ? ? $1.00 One copy. Ax- months. ? ? - .5J One copy, three months. ? ? .25 Subscription payable ii advance. ADVERTISING RATES: One inch, rirst insertion, $1.00: each ubsequent insertion, 50 cents. Obituries and Tributes of Respect over li>0 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 letter* and make all drafts payableto C. W. WOI FE, Kinzstree, S. C. ~ mm 4AA"T THURSDAY. AKHIL n. i?w/ The Thaw trial is nearing the close. It will be a relief to the newspaper reading public when it ends. V ===== A whale eighty feet long was reported off Charleston harbor last week. Since the sea-serpent story has been rather over-worked the tale of a whale is rather a pleasing variation. It is to be hoped that the town | popple will turn out in full force at W ^ 1 the meeting Jionaav nigm cmicu u_> the trustees of the school. If property owners would think for a moment there would be not a single one missing at this meeting. The idea is to get together harmoniously and discuss matters pertaining to the v; welfare of Kingstree. Much progress ha3 already been nude since the old town began to sit up and take notice, bnt we are now just at the stage wbeu we must go forward or backward. Which will it be? There'is no such thin# as standing atill.in this age of progress. To employ a mixed metaphor, President Roosevelt's alleged discovery of a gigantic scheme of organized capital to encompass his undoing bears the ear-marks of a mare's nest. Our strenuous executive delights in nothing more than posing iu the limelight aud he utilizes an infinite variety of devices to k2ep in the public eye. This last, however, is rather more outre than any of his former theatrical plays. AfV ter accepting the aid of the trasts to the extent of hundreds of thousands of campaign money it comes with poor grace to charge them with couspiring for his downfall. And why should the trusts squander flive millions of good mouev to defeat a n:au who has repeatedly declared that lu; would not offer agaiu for a third term? For a |%ilitieta:i as astute as Roosevelt is reputed to be his latest hid for notoriety appears to he veiy ill-advised, to sav the least of it. MEETING CALLED ToEiscuss the Matter of Issuing Bonds for School Purposes. We are authorized by the Trnstees of School District No. 16 to call a meeting of the citizens of Kingstree Monday evening at b o'clock in the court house to discuss the matter of issuing bonds for an annex to the school building. Under the law the trustees are empowered to order an election on the question of issuing bonds for school purposes, out they prefer to have this meeting and discuss the matter before ordering the election. i i m i-: V, I Does It Pay? Bradstreet is a recognized authority and he states that nearly 80 per cent of the failures in business are by concerns that do not advertise and yet there are business men who openly assert that advertising ctoesn t pay. The Press has always held that advertising- does pay. Now for example, a country paper is read by thousands of people throughout the count}', by men and woman who are the backbone of the country. They read and read carefully every line, and lots of times they are attracted to stores by the advertisments. Of course Mr Merchant the}' are not going to tell you every time they call that they saw your "ad,'' but did all the same. Again "advertising is a mirror which reflects the enterprise and progress of a city." Your paper has exchanges in every part of the State and also sends papers to other States, and the outer world has an eye on your city. The editor of your paper observes the exchanges and he can tell you what towns are doing the business by the kiDd and manner of the advertisements of its business men. Again, if you would employ a man to visit, weekly, and tell a thousand r>eor>le throucrh out yoni country what you have to sell, it would cost you infinitely more than to tell it through your home paper,?Darlington Press. The Fish Lav. Every now and then we have a request to publish the "fish law." This law is especially interesting at this season, and we give below extracts from the geueral aud special laws ou this subject: Section 527 of The Criminal Code: It shall be unlawful for any person to kill, injure or destroy any fish in the fresh waters of this state by the use of dynamite, giant powder or other explosive material; any person violating this Section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be imprisoned for not more than six months or be fined not more than one hundred dollars, or both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court. * Special as to certain counties as to fish with nets, gigs, traps or shooting fish with any kind of gun. Sec. 5?4. It s iall not be lawful for any person in the counties of Horry, Marion, Darlington, Clarendon, Chesterfield, Georgetown, Marlboro, Williamsburg, Florence and Richland to fish with nets or gigs or set traps or shoot fish wiih any kind of gun in any of the fresh waters, rivers creeks, lakes or other streams in said counties between the first day of May and the first day of September in any year hereafter. * * * One-half of all fines collected for violation of this section shall be paid to the informer by the magistrate collecting the same and the other half shall be paid into the county treasury. A na.ann ?i/\l a it or thp nntviaiona rXUJ pvldVU ? iwiuwg j'- - of riie foregoing section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof by a court of competent jurisdiction shall be fined in the sum of twenty dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail for a period of thirty days. * * * Acts of the General Asserr.b'y approved February 16 ls?01: Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of .south Carnlina that no person shall sell, deliver or dispos of dynamite or similar powerful explosives, ex ept ordinary gunpowder, unless such pe son knows the purchaser or party to receive the same and is satisfied that the explosive is not to be used for killing fish and then only upon a written application from party desiring to purchase, siting the purfK>se f r which he desires to use the said explosives, and a person selling, delivering or disposing of such explosives shall keep a book in which shall be rec >rded the name of the parchas r or party to whom the explosive is delivered, the quantity so sold or delivered and the date of such sale or deliver! . Sec 2 That such persons seiling or keeping for sale the explosives mentioned in section 1 of this act be required to make >worn quarterly reports of such sales, names and race of purchaser or purchasers, amount sold and date of sale to the Coun'y Auditor of each county. Sec. 3. Any person violating Section 1 of this act shail be guilty of a misde i meanor, punishable by me not to exreed one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed thirty days. " Administrator's Sale. , Under an order of Ih-obate <"ourt j dated April 4, I'.'jT, I will offer for sale ; at the residence of Samuel S. Tisdale, decea>ed, on the 20th day of April ! 1907, the following personal property, ! belonging to the estate of Samuel S. ! Tisdale, deceased, to wit: 2 horses, 2 buggies, 1 wagon, 3 head of cows, 5<J j bushels corn, 300 lbs fodder. 1 stack hay, 50 bushels cotton seed, 1 corn sheller, 1 cross-cut saw, household fur! niture. Terms of sale cash. T. J. PHILLIPS, Administrator Estate, Samuel S. Tisdale. 4-4-it. DRINKING WATER. To Bo of Any Uoo It Must Be Puro or Comparatively 80. Water is the universal solvent, : and it preserves this property inside the human body as well as without. It is therefore a useful, indeed indispensable, substance. But ] it must be taken with discretion. I If one drinks a hard water?one j a'ready saturated with salts?it | does little good, for all its energy must be expended in removing from the system the mineral matter 1 ? *i 1 1 1 11 _ _ . 1-.it wnicn it aireaav noias in soiuuon, and the animal waste is left where it wa3 before. A drinking water to be of. any use must be pure or comparatively so. Distilled water is the best drink, i but unless it is aerated?shaken up I so as to absorb air?it is flat and most unpalatable. J Rain water in the country is dis| tilled water and if properly collected and stored is excellent for drink; ing purposes. The first fall should 1 be allowed to run awav, for it contains the dust and other impurities in the air and also the bird droppings and dirt from the roof or other collecting surface. The cistern in which it is stored should be protected from the surface drainings and should be tightly covered to keep out dust. Water 60 kept is greatly preferable to well water, which is almost never beyond the possibility of contamination, no matter how far it may be from the barn or the outhouses and no matter though it may be at a higher level. There are often seams and cracks in the earth which give free way to water, and in this way the surface washings may be carried to the bottom of a deep well a long way off and on a higher level. ~i?oAna will Tinf tnilf n n V UJ.auJ ^AOVUO TTU4 AAV V W4 natural supply and drink only bottled water, either natural or artifij cial. But this is not always as safe as it seems to be. The maker of the artificial water may not filter it before charging it with carbonic acid gas, and then of course it is no better than the water of the town where it is made. The natural waters may be pure and they may not, just as any spring may be pure or contaminated. Those who live in cities where the water is filtered may safely drink it if they can be sure the water supplied is always that which came through the filter beds. Those in charge of public water supplies have been known to mix unfiltered water with the filtered or to substitute it entirely without warning to the I users.? i uu in a vuui^auivui Jrffarson 8topp?d It. The custom of presidents of the United States reading their messages to congress prevailed up to the first term of Thomas Jefferson, who discontinued it. Various explana! tions for Jefferson's departure from the custom of Washington and John Adams have been advanced, the j most popular being that Jefferson j felt that it savored of royalty, seej ing that the king of England went I in person to parliament and read his 1 address from the throne. Another ! explanation was that Jefferson's voice was notably weak. Jefferson : himself said in making the change, j "I have had principal regard to the | convenience of the legislature, to i the economy of time, to their relief j from the embarrassment of imme, diate answers on subjects not yet \ fully before them and to the ben<?; fits thence resulting to the public ' affairs." Jap Sign of Fidolity. ''The Japs are a fine race," said j a globe trotter, "but there's one ; thing about them I don't like. The married women all blacken their ! teeth with a paste lpade out of I 6\vcct oil and soot. When a young . married woman gives you a smile, instead of being ravished with a : glimpse as of snow on rose9?pearly i teeth gleaming between red lips? you look into a black hole. You j frown. You turn away in disgust. The idea is that the married worni en's black teeth, making them un; attractive, keeps them faithful to i their husbands. Seems ro me it must have the opposite effect on 1 the husbands."?Xew York Press. ? A Typical Yankee. That Dr. Itolmes was a typical Yankee in undemonstrativeness i was shown in the meeting with nis son, who was wounded at Chanceli lorsville. For many days he had i sought the captain on the fields and in the hospitals and at last learned | that he was on a train that was carrying the wounded to Washington. He entered the car, saw the pale face of his wounded boy, and they clasped hands with a "Hello, cap!" and "Hello, dad!" No Tru?t. Prokeleigh ? Now, look at this I suit. What would you say it was worth ? Wiseman?(rive it up. But I'll bet ! know what vou paid for it. Erokeleigh?What? Wiseman ? Cash. ? Philadelphia Pre s. CURIOSITY HUNTING. Some Instance* of Finds of Much Value In Unexpected Places. Some years ago in Yorkshire a man went to a farm for a day's ! shooting with the farmer. In the j morning as they were about to start a nointer dog was unkenneled to . Company them. The sporting friend noticed that attached to tne dog's collar was apparently a brass ring, which the farmer explained his servant had plowed up the day before and tied to the collar. When the ring was removed the friend pronounced it to be gold, and he offered to lake it into town and get it valued. The farmer assented, but he sail he would rather have some silver spoons than money. These the jeweler readily agreed to give, and he afterward sold the ring for ?"20. The next time the ring changed hands it brought ?350, and it is now in the British museum. It may be said that this is quite an exceptional case, says a writer in Chambers' Journal on curiosity j hunting, and a man might live a ; hundred years and never get such a I chance. But how many people ever make the attempt ? It is certainly easier to frequent curiosity shops in town, but you must know something about everything worth buying. I remember once being in a well known jeweler's shop, and while I was looking ! at some old rings and trinkets ray ' eye caught sight of a ring which had in it a stone with a lion cut on it and above the lion a single star. I knew it as a Roman gem, and it was the constellation Leo. When I asked the price the dealer hesitated, and, looking hard at me, he asked me if it was a Roman gem. I replied that was what I wanted to know from him. He tried all ways to get me to confess I knew about such things, and when I presently put down the ring and was going out he told me he wanted 30 ahil lings for it as it was, but if it was a Roman gem he wanted more. I took advantage of his offer and bought the ring. It is always advisable to turn over the loose stones you sometimes see exposed in the window of a small jeweler's shop, generally lying in a saucer. I got in that way a head which was appearing out of a bath. The stone was a yellow carnelian, but just where the neck was there was an accidental streak of brilliant red in the stone representing blood very faithfully. It proved to be a Roman gem and is now, I believe, in the Ashmolean museum. Antique gems are not commonly met with Ar>/\n a /I am J ikin n? r? tf /\/ rvi/\lrl m : tntru auruau, aua una wajr ui pivn.iug 1 them up in England i9 worth trying when you are hunting up curiosities. Bureaus. It is interesting to learn from one authority that the name bureau wa3 derived from the days when tables were the only writing desks. These tables were covered with a thick woolen cloth called <fbure," and from this beginning the name has dung to the modern glorified piece of furniture. It was not until the reign of Louis XIV. that either writing tables or dressing tables reached their height in beauty of design and comfort. Strictly speaking, a bureau is a desk, or what we call a secretary, from which the term bureau, or department, is derived in a broader sense. The article of bedroom furniture commonly called a bureau nowadays is really an improved dressing table combined with a chest of drawers. Algol, the Mystery of the Skies. Algol, "the variable star of the , constellation of Perseus/' is regard ed among astronomers as the greatest mystery of the heavens. Its light usually remains constant and uniform for a period of from fortyeight to sixty hours. It then commences to gradually fade from view and in less than four hours diminishes to an insignificant point of light. After remaining in a state of semiobscuration for a period of ! time, varying from fifteen to thirty minutes, it again regains its former brilliancy. Astronomers believe that some large dead and dark world revolves between us and Algol, but this is the disputed point, a mystery which will in all probability never be satisfactorily explained. A Candid Confession. Father of the Bridegroom?Before cementing this close relationship I think it but right to tell you that I once had a little unpleasantj ness which involved the loss of my j liberty for a considerable period. I TWh mv daughters are. I am sorrv to say, rather flighty, my dear wife l is suffering from kleptomania, and 1 my son was mixed up in a little | forger}' affair. Won't that make any difference? Father of the Bride ? Xot the ; slightest. From the fact that I am i quite in favor of our alliance you may judge how matters stand in my family.?Berlin Journal. ? ' | Go the new | j | Daylight Store. 2 ! J; ? !?r @ FOR YOUR SPRING GOODS. WE HAVE A @ <?j NICE LINE OF i | Embreidories Laces, All Overs White Goods, Rib-1 | bons, Silks, Millinery and Dress Goods. <?> <?j WE CARRY THE BEST LINE OF LADIES @ @ AND GENTS' SHOES IN TOWN. PRICES ft ? AS CHEAP AS ELSEWHERE. NO TROUBLE ft ? TO SHOW GOODS. COHE AROUND. ft @ ? 11 Stackley's Cash Store. ? ? | @ K1NGSTREE, S. C. @ ??:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:??:@::@:?:?:?.?:?? :?:@-?:?:@:?:@:?:?:?i?:@:?:??:?:?:?:.?:?:? SnnuDicrc PTfirp i IUU1V11 LJQlfi rtlUUV I 1 SEASONAILG COlDS.i ? @ JsJ ft | Refrigerators, Water Coolers, ? ? Ice Cream Freezers, Screent ? ? Doors and Windows. J | ? Plo-wer ZFots, -ALU Sizes. ? ; ? I ? ft Balance of our Stock of FURNITURE\ RUGS\ MAT- ft ft TINGS LACF CURTAINS nnri WINDOW SNADFS ft <?) > ? @ igj we will dose out AT COST\ as we discontinue <?j ? Furniture Business. ? ? ? ^ Cotton Planters, GuanoQ \ @ Distributors and improv- $ &ed Farm Implements at?. & prices to suit the times. ^ | Complete Stock COFFINS St ?. * CASKETS. A /gv g Will serve you day or night and fhrnish our Handsome New Hearse- ^ I KINGSTREE HARDWARE COMPANY. X :?:?:?:?:?:@:?:?:?:@:?:?:?:?:?:?:@?@ :?:@ L j I ? 1 TO THOSE WHOSE PIANOS ARE UNSATISFACTORY. An inferior piano at the best, is instruments would possibly give but a make-shaft, an imitation. you a clearer idea of what a good It is a source of annoyance, a Instrument i3 and what it i* I constant reminder that yon have worth either bought without judgment You can inspect at your leisure or that you been mislead i n mak- the Mason & Hamlin, Conover, d ing your selection. ^blo, Kingsbury and Wellington r . , . ? ? . , . and the Inner-Player- a complete It is a detriment, not a help, in range of reliable grades. Among t musical education, and should be all of these vou are sure to find a daily suggestion of the necessity one that will give you complete t for replacing it by one in whose sa*ls acrion. musical qualities you can find l ^om ^*250 to $1^500. I pleasure and a means for satis- *~a" l'u*' u" payment factory development. There is no premium to be paid a? O" on our pianos. You do not pay ^ ^ any more for one of these instru- ^ ments than it i- actually worth? not as much as it may be worthy perhaps, if you place a just es- hamuM timate on what it will return to j jgT you in enjoyment and education. W V We invite you, at least to fLJjs ^? satisfy yourself of the opport- vtfHT nnitv wp nffpr Tn pvamillp nnr ? g THE CABLE COMPANY. I ffl EVERYTHING KNOWN IN MUSIC. 9 9 J. W. WALLACE, Hanager. Cable Bldg. CHARLESTON, 5 C 1 I We Sell Talking Machines. | ? ECZEriAand PILE CURE FO^ SALE. rnrr Knowing what it-was to suffer, LUL L I Will give FREE of CHARGE, Brick in my t'. suit purchas | |\LL to any afflicted a positive cure ?*r. 1 he Best Dry Press Machlce-niade for Eczema .Salt Rheum, Ersypelas, ^ , , , . ^ ^ Piles and Skin Diseases. Instant re- V lief. Don't suffer longer. 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