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?hc Counti) Sftntd. <r> KINQSTREE. S. C. T! C. W. WOLFE. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. ^ n TERMS t r SUBSCRIPTION* RATES: ^ One ropy, one year, ? ? ? $1.00 One copy, six months, ? ? - .5) t One copy, three months. ? ? .25 ^ Subscription payable i? ldvanoe. n ADVERTISING RATES: One inch, first insertion, $1.00: each ?. ubsequent insertion, 50 cents. Obituries and Tributes of Respect over luO d words charged for as regular advertis- n ments Liberal reduction on advertising made for three, six and twelve f months contracts. r( Communications must be accompanied by the real name and address t of writer in order to receive atten- 0 tion. No communication of a personal & nature will be published except as an C advertisement. n Address all letters and make all drafts payableto g C. W. W01.FE, n Kiugstree, S. C. ii d THURSDAY. APRIL25, 1907 t Inlarge the School Building. c To a superficial thinker it would d g appear that Kingstree has done a jujk. enough for her school, but we should a ' peer a little beDeath the surface. t Let us consider what the school has c done and is doing for Kingstree. * Compare the enrollment of 1904 05 c with that of 1906-07 and we fiud in * three years over sixty per cent iu- . crease. What does tins mean for ^ I Xmgstree? Many people have g moved their families here solely for c the purpose of getting the benefit of u our school. These people help to * g build np the town and most of them have bought homes here and are j citizens of KiDgstree. Every pro- n duccr who comes into our community t -as a citizen and a tax-payer is help- E 4ng to bear the burden of municipal ^ taxation and helps every other tax- ^ payer by carrying a share. j That is sound argument from a c material standpoint. From a social i bad educational standpoint the value of our school to the rising generation is inestimable. But the school - needs mote class-rooms and a larger teaching force and until this condition is relieved its field of usefulness is ciicumscnbed, as n? moie pupils may be admitted. Shall we s"hut off those that thirst for the waters of the Pierian spring? It is a question that should be answered fdvisedly by every voter H who exercises his privilege of suffrage when the time comes for voting on 'the question of issuing bouds for school improvemeut Not content with raising their salaries from $5,000 to $7,500 per annum, certain United States .senators are making a raid on ^ the treasury under the guise of , - - . .. ... I( -an immigration commission. itiey ^ will have secretaries, sten?gra- 1 phers and other functionaries gu- r lore to aid anl abet theui in the ' f aoble and uplifting work incident to their "commission." whatever e that work tnay be. Each of the j nine members of the "commis-1 sion" will be accompanied by one 'I or two members of his family at!1 1 s the expense of the government, with practically unlimited fntids to draw from. South Carolina will be ably represented bv Sena- J tor Asbury C Latimer, the States- , man from oelton. Notice to Teachers. ' ? - ? ? " rr? A . t\_: ; i vc Frot. ? IS. iaie. rnncipai ut jicj miger Normal High School, Charleston, will address the Teachers' Association * at its nex t meeting in the auditorium * of the Kingstree Graded School, batur- J day April 20, 12 o'clock. 'j Only a few of you have shown any interest in these meetings. It is ex- * pected of y<>u to be leaders in such * work, and your presence is wanted, if j I lor no other purpose than to encourage c jour trustees and others who desire better schools, and, I may add, better teachers in Williamsburg county. F The public, and trustee* especially, t are invited to attend this meeting. * j J G Mccui.lough, i Co. Supt. of Education. - I I OOG POINTED A LION. All Gam* Looked Alike to This Plucky Little Fox Terrier. The following incident is perfectly true and absolutely unique: As a member of a colonial mounted corps, the British Soikth Africo police of Mashonaland, Rhodesia, South Africa, it fell to my lot in ADVERTISING A TOWN. lie Burden Should not be Wholly Placed upon the Newspaper. The following" editorial from he Bamberg Herald contains so lueh that is applicable to Kings ree that we are constrained to eproduce it for the benefit of 'he Record's readers, condiions in Bamberg and Kingstree ieing very similar, we doubt ,ot. ' It will soon be eight years hat we lived in Bamberg1, and uiing that time there has been aany a column -printed in our >aper which was written by us or the purpose of booming" the own and inciting its people to Tejter things along the lines of ommercial and moral improvelent. If all of this matter was otten together and printed at >ne time, it would lil^ up one ssue of our entird paper and no oubt a great deal more. It took ime to write all these articles; t costs money to set type; paper osts money; type costs money, nd if our contribution to the rowth of the town was valued t actual cost to us it would mount to many times more han the contribution of any itizen to the public welfare, rith the exception of the gift >f Gen F M Bamberg of $5,000 a ew years ago to the Carlisle Fiting School. Never thoughtof it n this way, did you? Yet it is rue as gospel, and you can't fet around it. Here the editor ?f your paper has actually spent aore money, ten times more han the most of you, for the :ood of the town. That's one ray of looking- it, you say, and ret it is the correct way. Voi| aay say it is the duty an editor o boom his town. Not any aore so than it is the duty of very citizen who makes his ivinghere, the Bamberg Herald toes not belong to the public; t belongs to the editor and no ther individual has a dollar nvested in it. It is not being tin to advertise the town; it is >eing published to furnish a iving for the editor aifti his amiiy, just as you run a store, >r bank, or any other business, md we owe no more to the town han any business located here. L'rue we get a living out of the own and county; so does every >ther business. We mention hese things not in a spirit of ranity or highly developed self esteem, but as a protest against he sentiment which generally prevails that it is the duty of a lewspaper to say nice things ibout the town, its advantages md to keep our enterprise and jrogress constantly before the )ublic. The Last Lyceum Attraction. The last lyceuin attraction will be jreseuted in the school auditorium >n Friday evening, April 26. This ditertainmeut will be given by Mis tViIlium Calvin Chilton, dramatic v-ader impersonator and dialeotor. vlrs Chilton being a Southerner? rom Mississippi?her specialty coniists of Southern stories from Southrn writers and in these readings she s said to be especially tine. Her programme will include )athos, sentiment ami humor so hat everyone who attends will find lomething to his or her liking. Hnt Springs, Ark., s no competition agaiust Lippman's }reat Remedy for the cure of Rneunaliaui. James Newton, Aberdeen, Ohio, lays P PI' did him more good than ,hree mouths treatment at Hot Springs, Ark. W T Timmons of Waxahatchie, lex., says his rheumatism was so >a 1 that he was coufined to his bed or months. Physicians advised Hot Springs, Ark., and Mineral Wells, Lexas, at which places he spent even weeks in vain, with knees so ladly swollen that his tortures were >eyond endurauce. P P P made the ure and proved itself as thou ands of other cases, the beat blood mrifier in the world, and superior o all Saraaparillas and the 90-called Iheumatic Spriugs. Sold by W L Vallace. % Apri 1, 1P03, to enumerate for official statistics the white residents of llusapi district, which is ISO miles southeast of Salisbury, the capital, and sixty-four miles west of Umtali, near the Portuguese border. It was upon my return journey to the main camp that the following dog incident occurred: On the 18th day of April about 4 p. m. I reached an outlying farmhouse close to the railway and in the vicinity of very suggestive looking hills. As I knew the owner, I decided to outspan there for the night. My horse having been sent to water with a native boy, the farmer and I entered the house. In a few minutes a Mashona herd boy dashed in unceremoniously, crying: "Baas! Baas! A lion is down near the cattle!" After questioning the boy, who was much excited, we set off, accompanied by a fox terrier, ana upon urnviug wucic tuc vav?? were grazing we at once found his majesty's Bpoor (track), which we followed until lost on the hard ground. After searching the most likely places we gave up hope of finding him and, turning about, headed for home. After crossing a vlei (open grass land) we entered a thick bush and proceeded a short distance. Then I missed the dog and, looking back, descried him pointing in the orthodox style, the hair on his back fiercely bristling and body as rigid as a statue. Retracing my footsteps and looking over the bushes where he was, imagine my complete surprise to behold a magnificent lion, full length, with face toward me, barely fifteen paces off. At sight of me he growled softly, and then I shouted, "There he is!" But by the time my friend had run up and I had recovered from my surprise the lion was bounding off, much to i mv . i L the chagrin ot my iriena. 1 ne ousu wag thick, and we had to fire at random,, and he got clear away. Needless to say a few choice epithets were slung at me by the other fellow, but it all happened very quickly, and I was totally unprepared for such a close riew. Moving around behind the bushes, we found the skin and entrails of a sheep, which had been devoured, bearing out the statement that the lion will not eat the intestines of his prey. All this time the dog was jumping a round and at last started off on the trail, and we had a hard job to get him back. The evening was getting dark, and we had no wish to meet the lion among the bush in the dark. After reaching home the farmer placed some strychnino on a piece of meat and placed it on the veldt, but our visitor did not return that night. It is not often a dog has the opportunity to point such royal game. Tnllrtnir a limit dnors T rpmemher * , ? -~o~r - seeing an Irish terrier rout out a hedgehog, and there ensued a terrific onslaught, ending in the death of the spiney one and leaving Boxer, the terrier, full of quills, which 1 plucked, much to his discomfort. ?Forest and Stream. No Infallible Succsts Rule*. Tower to see the future has a certain place in business, an exceedingly humble one, however. It is employed professionally by some ladies and gentlemen at an average price of about a dollar a sitting. They can see things afar off, but not the landlord who is coming up the stairs to throw them out or the policeman who is coming around the corner to run them in. Prescience and clairvoyance have no place in the equipment of men who are able to make a living in less hazardous and persecuted callings, says Will Payne in Everybody's. There are plenty of infallible rules for success. Some men who have succeeded are rather fond of 4aying them down for the guidance of the young, but nobody, least of ail their authors, ever infallibly succeeded by them. CuneiForm Writing. On the old Babylonian and Persian monuments there were wedge shaped characters, or arrow headed nr nail hparlw) ohnrfinters as t.lipv 'were sometimes called, which con Btituted what was known as cuneiform writing. After the reign of Alexander the Great this writjng became obsolete. The Persian cuneiform writing contains sixty letters and the Assyrian 600 to 700 characters, partly alphabetic. The most celebrated inscription in cuneiform writing is that in the ancient city of Behistun, Persia, cut on the face of a rock 1,700 feet high and recording part of the history of Darius.?Argonaut. Tall Stor es. A couple of witty fellows were conversing together recently, and their arguments finally occasioned a bot between them. Each agreed to tell a peculiar incident, and the reciter of the strongest episode was to receive the stakes, a sovereign. Xo. 1 commenced and said he knew a lady who was "turned into wood." "Impossible!" 3aid Xo. 2. "Explain yourself." "You see," was the reply, "the lady was placed on a vessel, and then she was a-board!" "Very gor.-.l," said Xo. 2, "but listen to this: Once I knew a man who had been deaf and dumb for twenty years, but last week he regained speech in one minute." "Xonsen3e:" rejoined Xo. 1. "But proceed." "Well," replied Xo. 2, "the man I mean went into a bicycle shop with ? J ?J -L _ J 1. _ a inena, ana, eioopiug uuwu, uc picked up a wheel and spoke."? London Telegraph. Riddles. She was reading a paper before the Mothers' club. "And here I will insert," she said, "half a dozen questions of the sort my little boy asks me every night before he falls asleep. "'Why does Santa Claus give children skates when there ain't any ice? " 'When I drink water, why don't it run down into ray legs ? "Ts it his very best medicine that the druggist has in them big green and blue bottles? " 'Why is it I breathe out smoke when I'm cold and not when I'm warm? "'Who cooked dinner when all the big folks was little boys?"'? New Orleans Times-Democrat. A Collector's Boc.joot "My wish is that my drawings, my prints, my curiosities, my books ?in a word, these things of art which have been the joy of my life ?shall not be consigned to the cold tomb of a museum and subjected to the stupid glance of the careless passerby. But I require that they shall all be dispersed under the hammer of the auctioneer, so that the Dleasure which the acquiring of 4 ? w each one of tbem has given me shall be given again in each case to some inheritor of my own tastes."?From the Will of Edmond de Goncourt. Spong* Treatment. A young housekeeper in one of the suburbs haJ just succeeded in getting a new cook, who came high1}' recommended. One day Nora made a sponge cake which was so hard it could not be eaten. The housekeeper said: "Nora, do' you call this sponge cake? Why, it's as hard as can be.** "Yes, mum," replied the cook calmly. "That's the way a sponge in before it's wet. Soak it in youf b.'a, mum." Sheriffs SaleThe State of South Carolina J . Williamsburg ?'ounty. j* Court of Common Pleas. John M Nexsen Plaintiff, vs Mary Bradley, et al.. heirs at Law of Dick Bradley, deceased, defendants. Under and by virtue of a decree of Foreclosure and Sale in the above stated case granted by the Court of Common Pleas, bearing date M arch 29th, 1906, The undersigned will on the 6th day of May, 1907, during the legal hours of sale, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash before the Court House door in Kingstree. South Carolina, the undivided one-half interest of Dick Bradley, deceased, in and to the following described property: "all that certain piece parcel or tract of land, lying being and situate in Williams burg County, >tate of South Carolina, containing one hum'red and thirtyseven and one half acres, and bounded as follows: South-east hy lands of S E Tisdale, South-west by public Road leading from Kingstree to Potato Ferry being on the North side of Black river. Purchasers to pay for deeds. G. J. Graham. r? 1 T?T onerai t? mouuig 4? IS-St. Sheriffs Sale. The State of South Carolina^ Williamsburg County. ) Court of Common Pleas lohn M Nexsen, Plaintiff, v Thomas Harper. Defendant. Under and by virtue of a decree of Foreclosure and Sale, in the above stated action, granted by the court of Common Pleas, bearing date March 29th, 1906, the undersigned will on . J..vnf Mav 1907. durinsr the mr ucii u ?j v* ? j ^ , ^ legal hours of sale, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, before the court house door in Kingstree, South Carolina, the following described property: "All that certain piece, parcel or! tract of land lying, being and situate in the said County of Williamsburg, State of South Carolina, containing one hundred acres. This being the tract of end conveyed to the said Thomas Harper by R H Kellahan, January, A l>, It#*, and havingsuch boundaiies, reference to said title will more fully explain. Purchasers to pay for deed. G. J. Graham. Sheriff Wmsburg County. 4?18-3t. - 4- . ? ?::?:?:?:?:?:??:?:?:?.?:?:?@:?::?:??:jB | Go the new |1 1 Daylight Store. I" g 3 ? FOR YOUR SPRING GOODS. WE HAVE A ? ? NICE LINE OF ? | Embroidories Laces, All Overs White Goods, Rib- | ? bons, Silks, Millinery and Dress Goods. ? ? WE CARRY THE BEST LINE OF LADIES @ ? AND GENTS' SHOES IN TOWN. PRICES @ ? AS CHEAP AS ELSEWHERE. NO TROUBLE ?. ? TO SHOW GOODS. COHE AROUND. ? ? @ | Stackley's Cash Store. ? @ . K1NGSTREE, S. C. ? @?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:??:?::?:?;?:?.?:?? :?:@?:@:@:@:@:@:@:?t@:@ :@:?@:?:@:@:.@:?:@ |COMPLETE STICK h SEASONABLE GD0BS.1 ? ^ | Refrigerators, Water Coolers, J ? Ice Cream Freezers, - $ ? Doors and Windows. ?1 $ STLo-sxrex IFots, .AJ.1 Sizes. ? ? @ flo/ooce o/ our &oc* of FURNITURE, RUGS, MAT ^ TINGS, LACE CURTAINS, and WINDOW SHADES, 8 ? we will close out AT COST\ as we discontinue ? V w .? Furniture Business. " @ ??? 2Cotton Planters, Guanoz ? Distributors and improv- o $ ed Farm Implements at ft $ prices to suit the times. -J :: | Complete Stock COFFINS & $ * CASKETS. 2 ^ Will serve yon day or night and fhrnish onr Handsome New Hearse. ^ I KINGSTREE HARDWARE COMPANY. 5 :?:?:?:?:?:?:@:?:@:?:?:?:@:?:@:@:@@<?h?:? I la Not less than 370,000,000 pounds FlUJil Disch&ITFA of cooj>er wire* were in use on the UttxlCu* ^ telephone lines in America last y**ar. Notice in hereby given that on This year then- is expected ao F.^.' rNobite jlld^ increase of 53,000,000 pounds, of Williamsburg County, for a final Considerable qualities of copper HcVe\^d"S?,f|thee8tH'e?' are used in the manufacture of brass R H Footman, for telephone instruments. 4-lfi-lt. Execi tor. I The Ideal Home Entertainer, I j QuI'rZSZift The Edison Phonograph solves ^wtawoill the entertainment problem. This I cleai rich-toned instrument is a I {Oj source of entertainment that never 5 is tailing and never-tiring. Class- I ? /V\ ical music or rar-time. sonfrs or I (&\ v^( JB^SjQ marches minstrels or orchestras. " ()r funny stories, are sure to be (ToiSSfrh f"'"a.ft appreciated by all who cross fesj) your threshold. Without the Phonograph none except trained musicians can hear the music they like sung or played as they like it. The Phonograph sings as sweetly and clearly as the cultured 3inger and renders perfectly the tones of the various instruments of orchestras and bands in all their delicate harmonies. With the Phonograph you can make up your t 1?i . ?? __ -I* own programmes; you may near wiiai yuu uic.o M un.cn H ^uu picaac. n It requires no skill. You can master its operation in five minutes. B Perhaps there is a piece of music that you have heard, the half learned melody of which haunts you; or may be there is something that you particularly want to hear. Your Phonograph will give it to you as it should be sung or played, until you have learned it?if you desire? and always just as clearly and sweetly as the first time. The Phonograph is a most unselfish entertainer; it has something for all, young or old. When the wife is wearied after a day's household cares and the children tire of play, this charming entertainer will rest the one and quiet the other. It will make the children and the head of the house *ant to stay home. It will play for a dance, take you to the theater, to the Minstrels or a Wagnerian Opera, play rag-timX sing songs that touch the heart, and play marches that rouse tne sow?aU this between supper and bed time. I We Sell Edison Phonographs. THE CABLE COMPANY. ~~ H EVERYTHING KNOWN IN MUSIC. J. W. WALLACE,,Imager. Cable Bldg. CHARLESTON, S C ?? j J i