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% REPLIES TO NR. J. D. GILUNO. | Ir. Philip Stoll Presents His Side of the Controversy. Editor County Record : IrK^rour last issue, one J D Gilland, who is hirtd as clerk by the cbunty dispensary board,, sees fit to make some caustic * ! ? ?l*/v MA*VA1>f remarks concerning mc ir^uu ' of the special committee of the grand jury. Iam not a member of the grand jury and, therefore, j ^ am in no way responsible for its ^^presentments, but as some of the j^Bgas' from the said J D Gilland B^was intended to suffocate me, I shalWnake reply. ^.i\ras requested by the grand jury to advise in their work and or tVi.i ovamination nos j.'it.7cui ui. mv ? . of the office of the dispensary board I not claim to be an expert accountant, but as far as I my common sense and general ability are concerned, it will be necessary for this clerk of the dispensary to produce more ev i* dence than his little two by four opinion to convince the public that I and the special committee referred to are a, set of fools. But what did the grand jury say about this office to cause this clerk to smell brimstone? Was there anything in it to burn the clerk? It seems th at there aresome sore spots about that , official, or else why is be so worked up? Did he do all of this spieling on his own volition y or did his bosses order him to paw up the earth and make a demonstration? I ask, why all 1./-V1 aJvmf nfitViinir? lUlO U1UVU UUV ?w?? wv gThe grand jury said nothing to take exception to. It seems to me that this little clerk doth protest too much. Are the board ' who has charge of the county's ^ whisk) business and this nice! little clerk so exalted that a grand jury can not make a re"7. port on tfieir work? They are indeed mightly poffed up if they so arrogate to themselves. Hut it seems that this self important clerk or his boss, has such notion. He would tell the MBBrand jury what to say and what BfflH'do, ank ift they tail to obey n^Rders then be grabs his mighty Hben and presents them tb -the ^Wpeople through the medium of Kthe press. With a few strokes of his pen he kxocks the committee and this humble scribe into a.state of desuetude and by so doing proclaims to the grand juries ot Williamsburg county that tfcey win allow no one ro nose around In their office. The special committee in its examination of the office made no attempt to-examine in detail the books of the clerk. On the contrary they undertook what thev considered a common sense course ;and tried fo 1 ascertain from his clerk the chairman of the board the general condition of the dispensaries in the county. The clerk was asked to tell how much money they had spent for whiskey, what the whiskey bought sold for, and bow much whiskey was on hand as stock. With these figures we undertook to get at the gross profits. This we considered common senst bookkeeping. The figures asked for were readily given by the clerk but showed no profits at all. He then said that he bad made a mistake and gave us a second bunch of figures. This time we figured a small profit. H^^gain he said the figures were HHrong and gave us a third "sum HR) do." This brought bigger profits than the second, but was not up to the mark which the board claimed. The clerk then said that the system of bookkeeping was intricate and that he had to study it a week before he understood it. That our plan of figuring the gross profits did not suit their system of bookkeeping. All this time Chairman Bass was insisting that the books were right and that the pronts were over $av,000,00. The committee having failed to get any information on its plan of examination and be ing unwilling to do like the clerk and spend a week in mastering the system, did all it could do under the circumstances. The above is a brief statement of how the examination was made. In making their report IIJC special lummiim. Hilt. lenient with the clerk of the county's whisky business. In fact in the report made no reflections whatever were intended. It is true that it was very | apparent on the day of the examination that the clerk did not understand his own books, but as the special committee was' examining only in a general way and not trying to do the work of the State auditor, the statement of the clerk as to the system of bookkeeping was accepted and incorporated in the report. The clerk of the board says that if will give him pleasure to demonstrate to any who may desire the common-sense system of bookkeeping as employed in his office. Perhaps he can?at least, I hope so, for that is his business. What he can do now I know not, but I do know that when the special committee visited his office he considered the system of bookkeeping intricate and was unable to tell heads or' tails of his books. They were neatly kept and he could gire c?n*A infnrmaHnn in a direct way, but when the committee got to probeng in its way, he k?ew very little about it. Now, Mr Editor, I am not hunting a controversy, but 1 am always ready to stand pat and j rather like giving the public cold, hard "facts. Respectfully, Philip H Stoix. Notice. Notice is hereby given overseer to warn out tne hands on their sections; and -where there are none, employ enough to complete the work on the roads at once. S J SlXGLETAXY, County Supervisor. 10-17-tf RHEUMATIC FOLKS! a or vnt: ciiDr vniiD innvm arf ABL 1UU dUnL IU(JB UIBKI ir niu. WELL? Many rheumatic attacks are due to uric acid in the blood. But the duty of the kidneys is to remove all uric aoid from the blood. Its presence there shows the kidneys are inactive, Don't dally with -"uric acid solvents." You might go on till doomsday with them, but uutil you cure the kidneys you will never get well. Doan's Kidney Pills not only remove uric acid, but care' the kidneys and then all danger from uric acid is ?nded. *** Rupert B Cairo, bookbinder, employed at the State Publishing Co., official printers for die State of South Carolina, living at 1010 Lumber St., Colombia, S C, says: "I lliAn.Lt T V.it >luinmah'am an/1 ! lUUU^Ut JL HAU liMiitiiahWiH wu%? treated for it on that belief. I used j all kinds of liniment The paiu j was in my back and in my hips j clear to ttte shoulders. The liniments did no good and I took blood medicines but they did not help me. I took a long trip in hopes that the change of elimate might help me. I was away for three months but could see no change for the better. I heard of Doan's Kidney Pills and determined to try them, and got a box at a tlrug store. They completely removed the pains out of my back and I hare not felt a touch of the old trouble siuoe I used them." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co, Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name?Doaa's? and take no other. > Don't get out patience with the baby when it is peevish and restless, and don't wear yourself out worrying night and day about it?just give it a little Caacasweet. <Jascasweet is a corrective for the stomachs of babies and children. Contains no harmful drugs. ISold by W. L. Wallace, M D. fe&sfckj > V ... .'Jlkr.&r?'*?.- . . .. HUNTING THE WALRUS, j. ! 1 The Guards of the Herd Are Shot, the ; Rest Killed With Axes. Whalers begun to turn their at- j g tention to walrus catching about j t the year 1868. During the first part 11 of ever}' season there is but little j f opportunity to capture whales, they j i' beine within the limits of the icy 11 u I n baw:er.- As a resuu mucii ui me j ^ whalers' time during Ji:lv and Au- j * gust was devoted to capturing wal- , t ruses. j * Men would l>c landed on the Alas- fi ka shore in June and left to watch { for the animals to haul up on the j s heach at certain points. According j f to the government reports, the wal- ' I r;:s must either come ashore or got p on the ice to sleep.. When a herd 1 is well ashore one or two old bulls j t are generally left on watch. j * The best shot among the hunters t now creeps up and by a successful j I rifle shot or two kills the guard. | ? Owing to their very defective hear- t ing the noise made by the rifle does 6 not wake them. The gun is then put 8 aside and each hunted; armed with ( s a sharp ax, .approaches the sleeping ; animals and cuts the spines of as 1 many of them as possible before the others become alarmed and stam- * pede for the water and escape. j The white hunters rarely make ( use of anything but the two long, < curved tusks vnth which toe animal f is equipped and which average j 1 about five pounds to the pair. If j1 time permits, however, the flesh is ] boiled and the oil saved. To many 1 of .the Eskimos, especially on the arctic shore, the walrus is almost a 1 necessity of life, and the devasta- 1 lion wrought among the herds by 1 the whalers has been and is yet the cause of fearful suffering and death 1 to many of the natives. The flesh is food for men and dogs. The ovi also is used for food and for lighting and heating the ! houses. The skin when tanned and J oiled makes a durable cover for the large skin boats. The intestines make waterproof clothing, window covers and floats. The tusks are used for lance or 6pear points or are ' carved into a great variety of useful ' and ornamental objects, and the bone3 are used to make heads for spears and for other purposes. In addition to hunting the walrus themselves the whalers also purchase from the Eskimos the tusks, or ivory, that they have secured.? ' I XT 1 r?ew ior:c aun. Not Infallible. Harriot Martineau, the English author, was shrewd and practical, and had what scon are pleased te call a "masculine intellect." But she was not always correct in her deductions, a fact illustrated by the following anecdote, told in her "Memoirs," by Sir Charles Murray, who was then the English consul general ir. Egypt: One afternoon we met at the villa of my old friend, S. W. Larking, on the banks of the Mahamoudieh canal. In the course of our stroll through the garden we came to a 6mall gate, the pattern of which was new to Miss Martineau, who was walking in front. \ She stopped and, looking at the gate hj.an attitude of intense admiration, exclaimed: "How truly oriental! What wonderful taste these easterners have in design!" \ vShe went on, and as Larking and I followed through the gate he whinnered to trie. "I cot it Otft last week from Birmibgh&ni," Queer Ideas of Beauty. The amiability of Moorish women strikes- me greatly, writes an Englishwoman in Morocco in the National Review. I visited some the other day, and they were full of kindly interest They liked my fair hair, they liked my clothes. One old crone suggested how lovely I would be were I to paint my cheeks a brilliant red, stain my under lids coal black, adding three black vertical lines on my forehead and one in the middle of my chin; also stain my teeth with walnut juke, my hands with henna! I therefore rubbed my cheeks with I my handkerchief till they turned crimson. That amused them highly, and they laughed and said I needed no paint, but did need henna and blacking! Another woman gazed at my waist and groaned, exclaiming she would be ill had die a waist as small as mine. Ni Bsntfft. A well known actor, lying on his deathbed, according to the physicians, was approached by a brother Thespian, who said: "Blank, old Winn von are loni? for thig world yet' are going to get up a bene- I fit"? The dying man of tragedy lifted himself up by his left elbow and, shaking his long index finger of the right hand in the visitor's face, hissed: "Benefit 1 Benefit! Benefit! Oh, Shakespeare! Now indeed do I know that death is at hand. My time is come. A benefit! Goodby, old boy. See that I am decently buried. But no benefit!"-?New York Preas. THE TOAD. t? Eyes and Its Venom and the Changing of Its 8kin. "Moving slowly through the long toss is a small, rongh skinned creaure, almost the color of the earth hat shows at the roots of the rees," writes a nature observer. "It 3 a toad just emerged, somewhat ardily, from his winter hiding lace (a hole about as big as himeif) and only now awake to eternal influences. Lethargic and leepy though he is, he is quite suficiently alert to know that I am ooking at him and wondering to ee flow his skin lias lost all its color rom the long absence of the light, t is hardly possible to trace any hade of olive green and dusky yelow or ashen gray and brown upon he warty surface of his back. And 1 he darker. markings whiclj some- j imes form irregular bands ovct the >ack and legs are merged into the general dullness and dustiness of he soil which has covered him for -o long. As a rule, .toads and frogs ind other hibernating animals are een in the open as soon as the first varm days of spring restore their owered temperature. ^ "Some people wonder what Shakespeare meant "by the 'precious ewel in its head.' The brilliant ?yes with their yellow rings, like a ^old setting to the onyx, are as gems laid upon its head. Wonderful eyes they are in their range of rision and able to see meal worms 2 placed to the rear far quicker than J irhen some distance ahead. The J venom of the toad, which is an ? icrid, milky fluid concealed in the J glands at the back of the head, has t t>een many times described by nat- J uralists as harmless unless it j touches some abrasion of the skin, j when it causes local irritation. But " * 1: 1 1? mvnljvnf I tnougn not, pamcumuj iuuhu. a when swallowed by another animal, S yet injected into a wound it is very j active and causes ulceration and all j the symptoms of irritant poisoning. ? A dog which has once seized a t6ad J and tasted this bitter fiuid and j burnt his tongue will never attack ] one again. Snakes will starve rath- j er than swallow a toad. j ""Daring the warm weather the ? 6kin is sloughed, and the ponderous J toad shakes off the thin film that j covers him and emerges in a new * skin, fresh and bright. So also do ? the frogs change their skins in the ' course of the summer, assisting in ' the process themselves. The old cuticle divides down the center of the back and the two halves grad-j ually fold and recede farther and farther from the center. By continued twitching the folds are brought down the sides, and then the hinder legs, first one and then the other, are brought forward under the arm, which presses down upon it and thus draws off the-old , skin inside out.'* Truthful Boy. 'Thomas," said Mr. Smith, as he gazed into his son's eyes with a soul searching look, "have you eateii any of those peaches I put in the cupboard 7* "Father," said Tommy, "I cannot tell a lie. I have not touched one." Mr. Smith eyed him wrathfnlly as he plunged his hand into the pocket of his coat and drew forth five iiieriminatinir stones, which had each once been enshrined in the luscious flesh of a peach, but which were now staring in all their horrid nakedness. "Then how is it," said the parent, "that I found th?? peach, stones in your bedroom, and there is only one peach left in the cupboard V* "Father," said Thomas as he silently but swiftly left the room and placed a chair in such a position that Mr. Smith would fall over it if he followed too quickly, "father, that is the one I never touched!"? Pearson's. Fata*. He was a country cousin on a visit to London, and as he sat in the theater he observed that a long silken tress was hanging down the beck of the lady in front of him. "Excuse me, miss," he said, leaning over, "but your hair is coming down." She turned upon him a face acid enough to make several ,gallons of homemade lemonade. "My hair V* she asked icily. But the country visitor was not so verdant as his native fields. "I bee your pardon," he said, with all humility, "I thought it was your hair." Fortunately the band strode up just then and dicnmed the fair maiden's reply.?London Answers. Th# Blind Man's Laugh. A blind man was sitting with ft number of persona. When they laughed he would laugh also. Some one asked him, "What have you seen that you should laugh so heartily?" The Wind man said, "I am only echoing your laugh." "We are laughing at you," some one said. "Then I am laughing at myself," the man replied.?From the Chinese. .L\ HERE to stay ^ With Prices Hammered down. , TWO CAKS FLOUR, ANY GRADE. C ONE HUNDRED SACKS COFFEE ANY GRADE, FOUR HUNDRED SACKS RICE ANY GRADE. || < ONE HUNDRED BOXES CRACKERS. Jl ^ior Assortment Can Goods to ? Move Cheap for Cash. . {'ours to please, WT Wilkins, KINGSTREE, S. C. ' ' * \ yi antffinintniTnfnninttnnifnfnnifnntnimnTmntinniin^ 1 GET BUSY! f E Why We Are Always Busy. M E We do not want it all, but must have OUR share. || ? FINE STOCK STERLING SILVER ON HAND. |? E Tea Setts, Pitchers, Cups, Spoons, Forks, Berry Spoons, 3 jj; Soup Ladles, Ice Tongs Sugar Spoons, Butter 2 Knives, Beautilul Assortment in Chest and Cases. E WATCH INSPECTORS FOR 3 E Southern, Georgetown and Western Railroad and Consolidated Hs ZZ Street Railway. 52 . 1 s. THOMAS A BRO. | _ _ 3 ? 257 KIl^O STREET, CHARLES'! OIN, S. C. 3 ? Mail Orders Receive Careful and Prompt Attention, 2 iuiMiUiiiiiiitiiUimiuiiiUiiiiiuuii'iiaui wwf WK cotton is rat . i ?AND THE PRINCE RECENT IS? TOBACCO. i There will be a number of subjects of both in Lake City this Fall and we are ready to serve them. In anticipation of the f splendid crop prospect we are repairing our warehouse so as to enlarge our floor space, and rather than remove the stock of 0. K. Queen Stoves and Ranges from warehouse *we have reduced the., price < * ' . SO Pei Cent We have just received a carload of Wire Fence, which is offered at a low price. Remember we are headquarters for Benjamin Moore & Co's Paint. Also, we offer exceptional values in Cutlery and Razors. The Robeson Razor can't be beat. We appreciate our friends' patronage and will try to merit their continued confidence. Lake City Hardware Co., LAKE CITY. S. C One Quart Absolutely free! > ., SNAP 1. SNAP 18. 4 Qts. Acorn Corn $2 00 20 Bottles Schlitz Beer |2 50 1 Qt Eye Free. SNAP 14. SNAP 2. 20 Bottles either Port, Cherry ' 4 Qts. Surnuf Corn 3 00 or Blackberry $3 75 1 Qt. Bye Free. SNAP 15. * . SNAP 8. 6 Qts. Scuppernong Wine 12 85 4 Qts. Hygrade Corn 4 00 SNAP 16. 1 Qt. Rye Free 6 Qts. Blackbeny $2 85 SNAP 4. SNAP 17. 4 Qts. Corncob Corn $5 Oo 6 Qts. Port or Cherry $2 75 1 Qt. Imported Claret Wine Free SNAP 18. SNAP 5. 5 Qts. Rock and Rye or x 4 Qts. Eagle Gin 00 Peach and Honey 82 001 Qt Rye Free. SNAP 19. SNAP 6. 4 Qts. Apple Brandy $2 00 12 Mixed Qts. Wine $5 00 1 Qt. Blackberry Free, 1 Qt Rye Free. SNAP 20. SNAP 7. 4 Qts. Peach Brandy 82 00> 4 Qts. Monogram Rye $2 00 1 Qt Blackberry Free. 1 Qt Rye Free. SNAP 21. SNAP 8. 4 Qts. Malt 84 00 i Al.. Til I. r.. D... CQ OO T Ai Til I.L- *7> - ' Vd*s. discs, rus ftjre w i yu omcsuerry r rtx. 1 Qt. Rye Free. SNAP 22. SNAP 9. 4 Qts. Lynndale, Bottled 4 Qts. Square Deal Rye $4 00 .in Bond ?4jM* 1 Qt Imported Claret Wine Free. 1 Qt. Blackberry Free. SNAP 10. SNAP 23. 4 'QtB. Gold Seal Rye $5 00 4 Qts. White Mills, Bottled l|Qt. Imported Claret Wine Free. in Bond JP".00> SNAP 11. 1 Qt. Blackberry Fre?~ 5 Qts. Cream of Kentucky $5 00 SNAP 24. SNAP 12. 4 Qta. Ivy Crown Rye 94 50' 20 Bottles Pale Export Beer $1 50 1 Qt. Blackberry FreeMORRIS DISTILLING CO. P. 0* Box 243. Wilmington, C* DEAL WHERE TOD GET A SQUARE DEAL.j -. -1 . tiN' , ' \ i-i _j- i