Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r:.r' ; r* ' r | ihc (Tountn JUrord. to KINGSTREE. S. C C. W. WOLFE, J EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. ! J < TERMS 1 ] SUBSCRIPTION RATEh: ' One copy, one year, ? ? ? $1.00 ] One copy, six month-. ? ? - .5i i One copy, three months. ? ? .25 . < Subscription payable ii advance. | ADVERTISING RATE*: ' I One inch, first insertion. $1.00: each ub^eqnfnt insertion, 50 cents. Obitu- ] aries and Tribute* of Respect over 1<?0 i words charged for a? regular advertis- j caents Liberal reduction on adver- j tising made for three, six and twelve ( months contracts. Communications must be accom- ' panied by the real name and address i of writer" in order to receive atten- ] tioa. No communication of a personal nature will be published except as an advertisement. ( Address all letter* and make all ] drafts pavablet-o C. W. Wolfe, Kingstree, S. C. ^ THURSDAY, JULY 11. 1907. ' As a means of advertising a < town a base ball team is about on a par with the Second South Carolina Regiment's advertising Sooth Carolina on July 4. . We protest. On July 4 "Bugs" Raymond, Charleston's premier pitcher, won two games for the j home team, yielding two hits in the ' eighteen innings of the two games , ' he pitched that day. And just i two davs after the News & Couri' i er has the ungrateful temerity to i publish an editorial uuder the 1 caption, "Death to the Bugs."|; And, withal "Bags," the only < . < Bags, knocked a two-bagger in * one of the games that scored three men. It is np to our Charleston contemporary to square itself not | only with "Bugs'' but the comi munitv at large. :? ? ?= We are pleased to publish in another column the preamble to a < petition for additional passenger service from Lane to Florence. This is a matter of great importacce to the traveling public j .generally, and it is to be hoped that Kingstree's efforts will be * "backed up by the intermediate j / points between Lane and Florence, the people interested along the ' j. lines of the Central railroad, and the large number of commercial ( travelers whose interests are much < affected by the proposed extra ; train. Should the matter be prop erly presented to the railroad officials we feel confident that they will , grant the petition, but in case they 1 refuse there is little doubt that the ! Railroad commission would require ' them to give the relief desired. J . I | If the reports sent out by the Associated Press be true the con- < duct of the Second South Caroj y i lina Regiment at Jamestown on the evening of July 4 was little short of disgraceful. It has been denied ! that the South Carolina soldiers ' were the guilty parties, but the , matter should be thoroughly in- 1 vestigated and if they are guilty, ; then Governor Ansel should follow President Roosevelt's precedent i with regard to the negro battal- ! ion that shot up the town of ' Brownsville, Texas. We are not 1 in a position to get at the facts ( in the case, but from our own 1 observation the, behavior of some of the returning troops in transit the following day would bear out anv charge made against them for < desorderly and riotous behavior. ( Trespass NoticeAll persons are warned against tres- < passing or allowing stock to run at , large on my place known as the Isaac 1 Sauls' place, in Ridge township. The 1 law will be enforced. M D Nesmith, ' Lake City, S C. 7-ll-3t i > % A COMPOSITE GENIUS. Hi Seams to Have Read Biography the Wrong Way. In reading the lives of men who played a great part in life we are jften struck bv the fact that those heroic men were in many cases adiicted to certain vices. But it would be well for young men to remember that the great ones of the earth succeeded not because of any bad habits they may have had, bat in spite of them. To get the greatest possible benefit from reading biography we should make an effort to emulate great men in their earnestness and goodness and not, in their littleness or l>ad:iesa. There is something unworthy to be found in the lives of all men, human na ture being far from perfect. But such umvorthiness is not to be copled. The young man sfoken of in the following little story seems to1 tiave read biography the wrong way: He lingered near the managing jditor's desk, waiting for an appointment on the regular staff. "But you drink," said the manager, wishing to let the young fellow down easy. J "Yes," replied the young man. "So did Alexander the Great." "And you are a dude," glancing it the youth's dandified dress. "So was Disraeli." "And you are a liar." "So was Napoleon Bonaparte." "And you swear occasionally." "So did George Washington." "You are liable to get drunk." "Like Daniel Webster." "And you write a fearful scrawl." "Like Horace Greeley." "Well," said the manager, plunging at a heap of, manuscript, "anyhow we don't need you. You won't do. Good morning." The young man turned away sorrowfully. "It's no sort of use," he said. "A fellow combines in his own brain and person the traits of all the great men from Alexander to Greeley and can't even get a place on a newspaper. The world is growing too fast for genius."? Exchange. An Unusual Father. TT. L iL. . ne Degaa aiver uiu usuai iui m. "I have a little boy at home who"? They interrupted him before he had got far. "Pardon me, old man, I must be going along. Sorry I can't wait, but I'm due at the office," and so on. "Just a minute," he urged, buttonholing the two nearest. "It won't take a minute." They sighed and resigned themlelves. "All I want to, say," he went on, "is that I have a little boy at home who never said a bright thing in his life." They grasped his hands with thankfulness that could find no expression in words. And then he added: "He's too small. He can't talk yet."?London Mail. Americans Growing Bigger. A tailor whose firm has been continuously in business in Philadelphia for over a century has compiled from his books of measurement some statistics that discount the statements of the pessimists. These statistics show that the American in the past century has grown taller, stronger and slimmer ?greater in height and in chest girth, less in the girth of waist and hips. The average chest of 1795 was 36 inches. It is 38 inches now. The average height was 5 feet 7 inches. It is now 5 feet 8V2 inches. The length of leg has increased in the same proportion. The shoulders and chest have greatly developed. The waist, on the other hand, has lost two inches. Tha Brougham. What is the correct way to pronounce the name of that vehicle, the ''"brougham?" Up in Scotland, where the original Lord Brougham came from, the name was pronounced "Broocham" (with the "oo" as in "book" and the "ch" as in "loch") and also "Broofam" and "Brooham" ("oo" a little longer). In London society mace it "Brooam" or "Broom" ("oo" as long as one pleases), and the vehicle waa ''"broom." Elderly people still say "broom," says the dictionary, and a few make it "broo-am," but "broam" is commonly preferred by the educated among the younger generation. The one really vulgar pronunciation is "brome." Russia's Vast Forests. Very nearly four-tenths of the ' * n r? suriace 01 ruissia in rjurupe 10 layered with woods and forests, according to the Revue Economique Internationale. In fact, the Russian forests are so great in extent that they almost equal the entire united area of western Europe, including Austria-Hungary, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, France and Spain. Among European countries, next to Russia, Austria-Hungary is the richest in forests. FELL INTO MILLIONS. Th# Slip by Which a Rich Gold Mina Was Discovered. One of the most productive mines in California was discovered through an accidental fall of the discoverer. He was one of a hunting party that had gone out from San Francisco J during the Christmas holidays. While passing along the side of a steep hill on a narrow trail hisliorse , suddenly slipped and with his rider went down into the gulch. Happening to be the last in the j line and some distance behind the others, he was not missed for some moments, but when his absence was noticed the party turned back to look for him, fearing some untoward accident. He was nowhere to be seen, but the place where his horse had slipped and fallen over the bank, together with the traces of the fall, was plainly visible. Following the tracks made tv the falling horse and man, and when near thie bottom, the men suddenly came upon an interesting spectacle. Just behind a clump of bushes which the man and his steed had crashed through on their way down stood the horse, apparently uninjured, while near by, on a slab of rock projecting from the snow, the man was capering like an Indian at a ghost dance. The first impression of the rescuing party was that the man had gone suddenly crazy, but as he caught sight of them he suddenly ceased his gyrations and shouted for them to approach. They came, when he showed them several lumps of almost pure gold he. had hastily f Via arJrra trifV o ofnna n 1 f^~i ">r " At vu? bUV VU0V/ n * VII a owuw far ft hammer and announced his discovery of a gold mine. The gliding horse had brought up against the ledge, and the restive animal, kicking vigorously in the efforts to rise, had struck off the moss from the stone and disclosed the fact that it was a gold bearing ledg^of unusual richness. The find was appropriately named "The Christmas Gift," and a valuable gift it proved to be. Animals Trisd In Court. Down to a comparatively late period in continental Europe the lower animals were considered amenable to the laws. Domestic animals were tried in the common criminal courts. Wild animals fell under ecclesiastical jurisdiction. French antiquaries have discovered the records of ninety-two processes against animals, conducted with the strictest formalities of justice, from 1120 to 1740, when the last trial and execution, that of a cow, took place. Thus there was a lawsuit that lasted from 1445 to 1487 between the inhabitants of St. Julian and a kind of beetle, and at Lavigny in 1457\a sow and her six young ones were iriea on a cnarge 01 naviug iuuiucied and partly eaten a child. The sow was found guiltv and condemned to death, but the little pigs were acquitted on account of their youth, the bad example, of their mother and the absence of direct proof against them. Tho Rival Hairdressers. One of two hairdressers by way of advertising himself cuts his hair in the most faultless manner, according to the latest fashion piate. The other, on the-contrary, cuts his in the most clumsy way imaginable. The first customer who entered his shop did not fail to take him to task about it. ''How in the world, being yourself a barber, do you have your hair so badly cut?'' "Why, sir, the reason is simple enough. I cannot possibly cut my hair myself, but am obliged to have recourse to my colleague over the way, and he is such a duffer!" "And I suppose you cut his in turn?" "Of course.1 And you can judge for yourself whether he oughtn't to be satisfied."?Rome Journal. Posting Him. Shopwalker (severely) ? I heard you tell the lady she would find the ribbons at the third counter to the left. Xew Shopwalker ? That's where thpv are. Shopwalker ? Yes. But you should have told her to go to the ! right past the necktie bargain couni ter, turn to the left past the stocki ing bargain counter, then three ! counters to the right past the counter where the millinery bargains ' are, and so on. You'll never make a shopwalker.?London Standard. Got Her Talking. The geography period at school has no terrors for Georgie. He has a teacher who loves to explain I things to the children, sometimes at such length that she has no time to question them as to their own knowledge of the subject of study. "I was afraid she'd stick me the other day," said Georgie, "so I switched her off quick. I asked her the difference between a volcano and an earthquake, and she talked | to the limit."?Exchange. ' S' V/ # THE SABLE AciTELGrt. A Boautif_l Creature, Powerful, Graceful and G'ocay. Of the many beautiful antelopes which abound in Central and .South j Africa two species the larger kno doo arid the sable, rf ust be awarded | the first p'ace?. Of these the former is a veritable kmg of the for-1 est. The exquisite symmetry of the long, curving horns, their spiral twist, their noble spread and striking noise on a well shaped head, which seems almost too small to carry such a glorious ornament, go I to make a picture which is matched by few other denizens of the forest. The sable makes a good second. Long, massive, ringed horns, forming, in a good specimen, nearly a perfect semicircle, rise almost vertically and close together from a narrow forehead. Bending backward in a bold sweep, they lose their rings near the tip and taper gracefully outward, to end in shiny black points. Add to this a powerful, elegant body, narrow shoulders and graceful limbs, a glossy black hide shot with russet gold, brilliant white patches below the eyes and an under body of the same color, a short black mane, and the portrait is complete. Seen at close quarters in bis native haunts, he makes a picture few will forget. His natural habitat becomes year by year more restricted, but with sensible game laws let us hope the day of his final eitinctior is still far distant. At one time plentiful in South Africa, his gradual extinction there has been brought about by the rinderpest, and still more so by the wanton destruction of animal life characteristic of the Dutch and the early pioneers. At the present time, except in some parts of Mashonaland, the Kalahari and the Portuguese territory, he exists only in herds north of the Zambezi, where the Dutch are not and where the South African of destructive tendency has no inducements to go. Here again the distribution of the sable is peculiar. His first cousin, the roan, swarms over Portuguese Zambezia and northeastern Rhodesia. The 6able, except in a few localities, is comparatively scarce, while in British Central Africa, the adjoining country separated from the others by no distinctive change in scenery or climate, it is exactly the contrary? the sable is common,* the roan scarce in comparison.?G. A. ParkRoss in Macmillan's Magazine. The Judge Understood. The late Judge Pettengill of the Maiden district court concealed under an apparently stern exterior a kind heart, and nothing touched him so quickly as an unintentional witticism, especially if it were at the expense of the court. KJlie UttY a pnouuci cuia^utu WVfore him for drunkenness, and still under the influence of liquor, pleaded aa hard as he could to be placed on probation. "Why should I place you on probation?" said the judge sternly. "Why, you're drunk now." "No, I'm not, your honor," said the poor prisoner earnestly; "I'm as soltr as a judge." He was placed on probation.? Boston Herald. Equal to tha Occasion. Joseph H. Choate, the famous lawyer and diplomat, said at a lawyers' dinner: \ "We lawyers couldn't do better than resolve to be gentler in our cross examinations. Rudeness in cross examination never, never pays. This is a truth that I once saw proved in a damage suit. In this suit a cross examining lawyer shouted at a witness in overalls: "Tou, there, in the overalls! How much are you paid for telling untruths ?' " 'Less than you are/ the witness retorted, 'or you'd be in overalls too.'"?Indianapolis Star. Compound Intorost A celebrated English authority in a well known work entitled "Observations on Reversionary Payments" makes the following wonderful calculations: It is well known to what prodigious sums money at compouna interest will increase. A penny so improved from the yeax 1 A. D.?that is to say, put out at 5 per cent compound interest? would by this -time have increased to more money than could be contained in 150,000,000 of globes equal to the earth in magnitude, and all solid gold. His First Refusal. A young gentleman who had not familiarized himself with the forms of polite correspondence and lacked the good sense to discover the form for himself found it necessary to refuse an invitation. The Chicago News gives the note which he wrote: "Mr. J. Henry Newton declines with pleasure Mrs. Raymond's invitation for the 21st and thanks her extremely for having given him the opportunity to say so. Notice of Sale and PartitionSTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, l County of Williamsburg v. ( Court of ' ommon Pleas. Mattie L Fulmore. Plaintiff, against Eleida V Fulmore, Defendant. Pursuant to an o der of this Court! issued in the ab -ve entitled case, dated j the 26th day of Mareh, 1907, I will sell j at public auction for partition between the pla'ntiff and defendant, before the I Court House dojr in Kingstree on the j first Monday in August. 190". (the same j being the .?th day of the month,)dur:? -i? i 1 I -< ?i- u:~u I nig usr urgai ii"urs ui sate, tu iuc ugir i est bidder, for caah, the following de scribed lot of land, to wit:- All that i certain pie 'e, parcel or lot of land situ -1 ate in the town of Lake City, State and bounty aforesaid, containing three quarters (3-4) of an acre, more or less, bounded as follows: North by a ditch running fr-m rhe N. E. R. Road to the Eublic road leading from Lake City to anzstree, on the East by the public road, West by the N. E. R. Road and South by lot of Mrs 0 E Singletary . Purchaser to pay for papers. H 0 Britton, Clerk of the 0??urt of Common Pleas for Williamsburg county. July, 9 1907. 8-11-St Literary Note. Ut tier the general title of "Emotional Monotones" there appears from time to time iu LippincotVe Magazine a clever little allegory signed Jane Belfield. The author is one of this periodical's valued discoveries, though her work has since appeared elsewhere. She lives in Philadelphia in wiater and pas8e8 her summers at Cape May. The current number of Lippincott's contains her story called "From the Land of Ought.'' Nearly all old-fasioned Cough Syrups are constipating, especially those that contain opiates. They don't act just right. Keunedy's Laxative Cough Syrup contains no opiates. It drives the cold out of the system by gently moving the bowels. Contains Honey and Tar and tastes nearly as good as maple syrup. Children like it. Sold by W L Wallace, M D. Rates to James The following rates to the Jan next Friday, April 20, have beer Season Ticket 60 Scranton $15 85 $11 Lake City 16 00 1 Cades 16 3d 1 Kingstree 16 75 1 Salters 16 95 1 Lanes 17 20 1 Gourdins 17 35 1 Coach excursion tickets will b' opening of the exposition and wi week thereafter. They are lie tickets will be sold on the day p sition and will be on sale daily d tinn 1 :?:@-?:?:@:@:@:@:?:@* fcrnn s Mil ??======== ? Refrigerators, @ Ice Cream Fr J Doors and I 8 rio-^7er IFoi ? ? Balance of our Stock of i | TINGS, LACE CURTAINS @ we will close out AT C .? Furniture Business. ? @ Cotton Plan * i v a i f V . ? uistrioutors @ ed Farm Im @ prices to suit | Complete Stoc] ? CASKETS, ? ^ Will serve you day or night and i I KINfiSTREE HARD ? :?:?:?:?:?:?:@:?:?:@ :< 4 '? - / L <4 of! When there is the slightest indigestion, heart barn, flatulence or any j foim of stomach trouble take a lit- ? tie Kodol occasionally and you will % be afforded prompt relief. Kudol it a compound of vegetable acids and ] contains the juices found in a nealthy stomach. Kodol digests what yon at, makes your food do yoi} good. Sold by W L Wallace, M D. WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. I AM REPRESENTING THE CHERAW DOOR AND SASH CO. AND WILL BE PLEASED TO QUOTE YOU PRICED ON Sash, Doors and all kinds oi Building Material bcfora you daaa trad* elaewhere. I also represent J. H. WEARN \ & CO., Charlotte, N. C, and can interest you in fancy mantels. My prices are low for high grade material as a comparison with other dealers will prove to you. D. J. Epps, Kingstree, - - S. C. 6-27?3mos. '. u A 1VIVVV Your '. m Property by Insuring- it against fire in ('om^nies that are above sus- r;j picion. We represent several of the vj largest and most liberal Old Line companies in the United? States For rates, etc., see or write D. E. flotley & Co., Jj at Bank of Lake City, LAKE CITY, S. C. | town Exposition, 1 lestown exposition, which opens 'JJ i furnished us by the agfent here: 7 Days Days 10 Days roach Excurs'n 3 25 $12 00 $7 50 3 40 12 10 7 70 ,J9 3 65 12 30 8 10 4 00 12 55 8 55 ' .3 4 15 12 70 8 80 4 40 12 85 8 90 ^ I 4 SO 12 00 O ?u e sold on the day prior to the ?|| 11 be on sale Tuesdays of each J nited to seven days. The other rior to the opening of the expoluring the period of the exposistock < inTTi nnnno 1 loLG uUUIjo.? 1 ?:3 ??????? g Water Coolers, J | eezers, Screen- ? 1 Windows. I ;s,-A-l Sizes. J ) FURNITURE, RUGS, MAT- $ , oorf MW00JC S//40?S, | as we discontinue ? i _ jaj iters, Gua8 | andimprov-Q plements at? : the times. ?==@ 1 I. PACniMC o. ffli is. VjUi i inj vx g @ ? furnish our Handsome New Hearse ^ WARE COMPANY, i ?>:?:@:@:@:@:?@? :?:@