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I % She (fount]! ftccoriT. KINGSTREE, S. C C. W. WOLFE. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS SUBSCRIPT 1<> RATES: One copy. <?ne year, ? ? ? $1.00 One C'?py. six monilis. ? ? - ,5? One copy, ill ee months. -- ? .'25 Subscription puyabl** i? nlvnine. OBITUARIES. Obituary notices will be published free up to 101 words, except poeiry. All obituary poetry will be charged for at the rate of One cent a word. When obituaries are extended beyond 100 words count the words and enclose money or stamps to make up the difference. Remember, we publish free only one hundred words obituaries, tributes of Respect. Resolutions, etc., free. Also, only one obituary of the same person will be published free. This does not apply to news notices of deaths sent us as news. This notice will be strictly adhered to. THURSDAY. NOV. 14.1907. Our County. Williamsburg county is at last ooming iuto her own. .From being one of the most undeveloped and backward counties of the State she ranks now well to the front in the lower tier of counties and in a very few years will take her rightfal place as one of tne banner counties of South Carolina. This is no empty boast, as cold figures will prove the assertion we make. Without having the exact figures, ?? learn from the countv auditor that the increase of property tor the past twelve months * is about $600,000. Every town and hamJet in the coonty is growing apace and scarcely a day passes but a new enterprise is launched. Methods of farming have become revolutionized and where one bale of cotton was produced ten years ago, by improved methods two bales or more are the yield. But by far the most hopeful sign of all is the impetus that has been giyeu to the cause of education. All over the county the roadsides are dotted with comfortable school buildings with modern equipment, po4 neighborhoods yie with one another to have the best school. One of the few counties to take two prizes for rnral school improvement was Williamsburg and to Johnaonville and Union have been paid $150 in recognition of the progress and enterprise and public spirit of the people of these respective communities. Altogether we live in a favored * v land and if the march of progress continues, in a very few years -every citizen of our grand old oounty when away from home will be proud to hold up his head and say: "I live in Williamsburg oounty, the garden spot of South Carolina." \ We are glad to note that the Daughters of the Confederacy have taken op the matter of the erection of a Confederate monn ment in Kingstree. Thia has been onr pet hobbj for years, bnt re. < in Its heretofore have not been \ encouraging. Now that the ladies have taken the matter in hand however, we have every confidence that the monument will be built We are awaiting with interest the outcome of the hearing last week before the Railroad Commission in Columbia as to the proposed passenger train from Lane to Florence. It is an absolute necessity to have this train, and if the towns interested will <- push the matter and pull together they will get the desired service. After a reasonable time if the asrvioe be oat granted then "get busy" and jog the Railroad Commission again. * It is persistently rumored that l Governor Ansel will resign tht office of Chief Magistrate and make the race in the next cam. puign for Senator Latimer's sea', We do not believe that Goveruoi Ansel will do anything of th( kind. We have more confidence in him as a man of level head and sound judgment. Surely t man as well versed in politics as he must know that such a couim of action would be political sir. cide. Meanwhile, however, "Hiei Urafford"?like "Brer Rabbit"? lies low and says nothiug. With a hop-skip-anda-jump Mr O B Martin bounds into the arena and offers to fight, wreath or lace with all comers for th< United States Senatorship. Of late Mr Martin has thrust himself obstrusively before the public and posing in the lime-light seems to afford him exquisite delight. While every one thought the redoubtable gladiator had something up his aleeve, yet nc one dreamed the extent of hii aspiration. 'Mr Martin is a good stamp speaker and a great joke cracker, but these talents would scarcely qualify him for the United States Senate. Bat, after all, maybe Mr Martin means bis announcement to be a joke. Sbe Did Not Fear Deatb. An old lady on her seventy-third birthday once said, "I do not mind getting old, and I do not fear death, bat I live in constant dread of paralysis." 'For some time I have been wanting to tell yon of the great good yonr wonderful Sloan's Liniment it doing here," writes Mr James F Abernethv, of Rutherford College, N C. "In fact, all your remedies are doing noble work, bat your liniment beats all. Iu my eight years' experience with medicine I find none to go ahead of it, having tried it in very mauy cases. I know of one young man, a brick masou, who suffered from a partial, yes, almost complete paralysis of one arm. 1 got him to use your liniment, and now he can do as much work as ever, aud he sioge your praise every day* I get all to use it I possibly can and know there is great virtue in it. I have helped the sale of your noble remedies about here greatly, and expect to cause many ? k.,., fKon, as T lrnns UIU1C IW UUJ (UCUI, uu A nuvn >uvj can't be beat" * Hymeneal. Married?By Bev E Z James, at the home of the bride, Latta: S C, on Tuesday afternoon al 4:30, Miss Carrie Monroe and Mr S Wightman Epps, The bride and groom arrived at Kingstree on the evening train and will re side at Mr Epps' home near town. The bride is well known and has many friends here, having taught m the graded school and Mr Epps is one of oui county's most substantial and popular young men. Reward. The Williamsburg County Die pensary Board will pay $25. (X for tne apprehension and con viction of the party or parties wh< burglarized the Kingstree Dispensary on the night of November tne 8th 1907. J. L. Bass, J. M. Parker, W. E. Snowden Rev AdTerUseaeits. P V Hazel ? Cleaning anc Pressing. Kingstree Dry Goods Co.? Shoes, Shoes, Shoes. People's Mercantile Company ?Great Reduction in Prices. Kingstree Hardware Company ?Stoves, Hardware, Coffins anc Caskets. A lot of people go away fron home to tell the news. The child that always, has itf own way usually ends ' in a bac way. fM ^-11" .4 vi I. wJ V- ? <\T ' Garment Fcr Wh.: : K~ Hsd a Sort of Supers.Itioue Reverence. ' At the n Vonuomi:iir6 Xapolcon was in such a state of poverty that his clothes were all torn and he did not own a sword. He had to borrow ' one, and the day following his suci cess he had to get a quantity of , cloth from the state to have H suitable uniform made. From this moL ment, however, he paid great attenl tion to his toilet and took a certain 5 pride in richly decorated clothes. I At Marengo he wore a uniform covered with gold embroidery, a uniform to which he attached a sort of superstitious reverence. When he r went to Milan, for instance, to he - crowned king of Italy he attended a review on the field of battle in the old fashioned and much tarni.-hed suit he had worn on the memorable 1 18th of J une, 1800. He never parted with this old coat. He brought it with him to 1 St. Helena, and when lie was dead i his companions put it over him. ; When Napoleon became consul he still took great care of his toilet, ' but he affected simplicity all the ? more, as he wished his generals and suit to be gorgeous in gold uniforms ^ and plumed helmets. It was then he took to wearing t the gray redingote and the hat which, as well as the uniform, has ' been decreed to the Empress Eu) genie. At first the hat was low crowned with a wide border, but lit3 tie by little it got higher and higher I until it became the hat every one knows. The hat was of long hairy felt, what hatters called "castor francaise," and it had a lining of . grayish green silk. Napoleon wore hi6 hats for a long time and sent 1 them to be repaired again and . again.?London P. T. 0. Tn* Leaf Cutter Be*. A writer describes the interesting operations of the bee called the "leaf cutter/' This insect drills in I a sand bank a hole ten inches deep | and half an inch in diameter and divides it into about a dozen compartments or cells. Each cell is composed of pieces of leaf, cut into proper shapes and carefully fitted - together. Rose leaves and sweet [ pea leaves are among the favorites ( of the bees. The cutting is done with the jaws, while the six legs hold the leaf in position and enable the insect to turn itself about with i the precision of a pair of compasses. ; Some of the cut pieces are perfect circles. Others are oblong figures of varying proportipns. Having cut out the segment of leaf, an operation requiring about twenty seconds, A* i * ii. i.- il.. J V?.1. ! tne Dee carries n 10 me suuu uau& and then returns for more materials. When a piece has been nearly cut off the bee, in order to prevent tearing, poises itself in the air with its 1 wings and completes the operation with a clean cut. , The Golden Fleece. It was on Jan. 10, 1429, in the ancient city of Bruges that Philip ' the Good, duke of Burgundy and , Brabant, set the climax upon the scene of indescribable splendor that formed the setting of his nuptials with Isabel of Portugal by issuing the proclamation which called into being the Order of the Golden Fleece, for centuries the most coveted distinction for the mighty of this , earth, the reward for stainless chiv, airy and deeds of heroism and pfow. ess, forfeitable at the least deviation ' from the strictest code of knightly honor. The conduct of the sover: eign himself, chief of the order, i waa subject to investigation and . censure by the chapter, and many . are the occasions when the assembled knights availed themselves of 1 their dangerous privilege. Cfcoodng m Charioteer. A certain king once required a . charioteer. There were many can1 didates for the honor, and one by one they were brought before the king. He inquired of each, "If you were driving my chariot near a precipioe how near could you steer . without falling over?" The first ) said two feet, the nekt that he could ' eo safely within a foot of the brink, ' t third that a few inches would be quite enough for him. A fourth came and, hearing the question, said at once, "If I were driving the king's chariot I should consider it my duty to keep as far away as possible from the precipice." The king felt that he was the safest man, and ^ he was at once engaged. Pain af a WKnw. An attorney, speaking of overwilling witnesses who desire to make their evidence as strong as possible f by the use of qualifying adjectives, said that their effort* warn, fttj quently aroo/dng. He then rafejyed ^ to a caae in which a woman, who had met with an accident and traa tiring for damages, testified that she had suffered severely from Moonl densed" pain. She was injured on the left side and testified that when she sat down she had to sit "teeto' tatty*" on the right side.?Utica Ob* server. | TENDRILS. r M oving P?rt? Which Are the "Brains of Plant Life." There are two classes of plants | which are incited by man's presence i to describe certain definite movements. One class, the sensitive 1 plants, retract their leaflets as we : Ipproach them, as if they resented any attempt at closer intimacy, i while the other class, comprising ail j those vines which develop climbing I organs called tendrils, will reach r out toward us if we place our hands in contact with them and will even ( j use a finger as a support to climb : i upon. We know that these tendrils ( will wind just as readily about a 4 twig or a grass stem, but as one i feels these sensitive strands multi?\lf tVini? nr>/-.iT-<->linrr /->rn']a nhrtnt. r?TlP 5 l'lJ 1 "V " V1H.1H-1.4Jjj fingers there almost seems to be established between us and the vegetable world a more intimate relationsliip than has ev?r existed be- i fore. J Tendrils are indeed capable of exhibiting faculties and going through evolutions more wonderful : perhaps than many of us realize: It is only after we have seen them at work, testing with their sensitive tips the objects they come in contact with, apparently considering their suitability as a support and i:hen accepting or rejecting them, ns the case may be?it is only then that we realize how justly they have l>een called the "brains of plant life." The thorough ne=s with which these wandering t'ps explore their surroundings is illustrated by an instance I observed in a grapevine tendril. A eherrv branch whose leaves had been variously punctured and scalloped bv ir.sccts hung near the tendril, and a particular leaf had just one small hole in its blade, no* ?- or three-sixteenths of an inch j 5h diameter. So careful had been the exploration of the leaf's surface that this one small hole had been discovered by the tendril, which had thrust itself nearly three inches through the opening. ? Harper's Magazine. A. Tart Old Lady. In Indiana a good many years ago a certain old lady, summoned as a witness, came into court wearing a large poke bonnet, such as was then much affected by rural folks. Her answers to the questions put to her being rather indistinct, the court requested her to speak louder, though without much i "The court cannot hear a word f you say, my good woman," said the j ! judge. "Please to take off that huge bonnet of yours." "Sir," she said composedly and distinctly enough this time, "the court has a perfect right to bid a gentleman take off his hat, but it has no right to make a lady remove her bonnet." "Madam," refffed the judge, "you seem so well acquainted with the law that I think you had better come up and take a seat with us on the bench." "I thank your honor kindly," she responded, dropping a low courtesy to the court, "but there are old omen enough there already."? Law Notes. Don't Spook to You.* Horso. Caress must promptly reward performance and the voice be never used?the horse does not under - 3- J it | 8tana your worus, ?uu ix , angry your tones will only further y disconcert him?while if you are ? ^eternally talking to him you simply 1 render him careless and inattentive. ' Caress the spot you have just ad- \ dressed nor think that he under- \ stands a pat on the neck a? reward ] for something he has just done with . his hind quarters. Oo direct to the spot, and where-two parta havfc been ' addressed caress them both, w in 1 backing, the hind quarters and the \ sides where the lees came, etc.? y and do the same thin^ in bitting. . Do not pat the neck if you asked him to yield his jaw. "Don't re- ' ward your daughter for your son's 1 successful geography lesson"?that ] is the idea in a nutshell.?From ' "Directing the Saddle Horse," by ' F. M. Ware, in Outing Magazine. ( Carruptian of Names. , The name of Applecxoss, the old Boss-shire seat oi the Mackenxies, ' is a modern corruption of Abercro- ' san, meaning "at the mouth of the Croean," the little river which there 1 flows into the Atlantic. The names 1 of many places in Scotland have un- \ dervone changes as curious and | confining The thousands of travel- . en who weekly alight at the fine station at St Enoch, in Qlaagow (celled 1 after the neighboring church), no 1 doubt identify the name in some j . [ ague way with the petriaich j Enoch, mentioned in an ?ny chapter of Oeneeis. It is really a corrupted form of 81 Theno& or The- 1 naw, who was the mother of Kanti- 1 gern, 01ae]^ow,? first bfchop and pa- i tron saint and who is the subject 1 of as quaint a legend as am to he , found in mediaeval sacred history. ?Modem Society. /'' \ ? * V Tie isiR FBI ci HORSE EG.. KINGSTRER S. C. ro WIIO.M IT MAY CONCERN:? We, the undersigned, having purchased from McLaughlin Bros., of olumbia, Ohio, through their representative, Mr R I James, the grand mported French Stallion, Val-de-Saire, registered No. 4162, for the sum )f $3,600.00, we can conscientiously say he is the grandest specimen of i horse that we have ever had the pleasure of looking at, and breeders who vish to improve their stock of horses will do well to see him. Thos McCuichen, Pres. M H .Jacobs, oee'y and Treas. M F Heller, John F McFadden, B S Smith, ) nJ C Everett, L P Kinder, f Directors. VAL-de-SAIPE will stand the season at F C Thomas' stables. Fee^ >25.00. For full particulars call on or address any of the above officers or nana^er of F C Thomas' stables. Aug. 30 '07. 1 'V .? Organized 1903. The Old Reliable. * Bank of Lake City Lake ity, S. Capital Stock $20f000. , ' . Surplus - - 5,000. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. Interest allowed at the rate of 4 percent per annum, payable lmiQi4avliT* Tiilw lannavv and Anm'l K^u<ii vviij* vuiji vvwvwif "oxiuai j ?"? OFFICERS: A. H. Williams, Pres., K. W. Yates, Cashier, % W. J. Siogletary, Vice Pres., D. E. Motley, Asst. Cashier, W. L. Bass, Attorney. ^ \ DIRECTORS: A. H. Williams, W. J. Singletary, J. A. Green, W. T. Askins, J. B. DuKant, J. C. Lynch, Henry P. Williams." I We are prepared to afford yen every facility which yonr business and balance justify. 4 , ' r SHINGLES! > I SOLID CARLOAD FOR BLIZZARD HARDWARE CO., LAKE CITY, S: C. , L ~ tfo. 1 All Heart at $5.25 per M. jno. A a liooa sningie at per M. 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