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ile tosatg ?c?ri > KINQ8TREE. 8. C C. W. WOLFE. KDITOft AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS SUBS* RIP II O RATES: One wpy, ?>ne year, ? ? ? $1.00 One copy. six months ? ? - .5) One copy, tli ee months. ? ? .25 f Subscription payable ii advance. OBITUARIES. Obituary notices will be published free up t? loo words, excef* poetry. 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. 28.1907. Relief in Sight. As will be noted elsewhere in this issue the Atlantic Coast Line has been ordered by the Railroad Commission to extend the service of fts train, known ac "Omntrebury train."from Lane to Florence and return, so as to make .Southbound connections possible between Florence and Lane. So far as these points are concerned, this will relieve the situation to the satisfaction of every reasonable person, since the schedule from Charleston to Florence now in torce gives no cause for com plaint, provided the famous "Fish Special, No. SO,'' can be induced to arrive and depart on time. The action of the Kailroad Commission in ordering this service is very gratifying, as it relieves a state of inconvenience ? that has been existing for about thirty years. The people along this route are slow to claim their rights, but once having claimed, they uclic ludiinaiu iucui, auu v>c uclieve that this service, or something equi/alent, will be made permanent. / In representing Kingstree and other points affected, Capt. Kelley put up a yigorous tight in favor of this additional service, and it is without doubt due to the strong showing, he made before the Commission in Columbia that the ne'W service has been ordered: k ' . t ; Food ftrf< Thought, j It is the custom of a ^tiewspapei man to boom jfre city for all it is worth month after mouth and then see $50 worth of printing go out oi the city because 10 cents can be saved by so doiog. it is the business ot newspaper men to give every local enterprise -enthusiastic and frequent sendoffs and then catc^ sheol because he failed to record the fact that some prominent citizen has his delivery wagon painted; to subscribe liberally tp Svery pub. charitable and phurch enterprise, advertise them for nothing, pay his own way to Everything and then be called prejudiced and mean spirited, because a column is not devoted to that particular affair. Do you wonder that there are so manv cranks in the newspaper business!" It is bound to make either a crank or a philosopher out of a man?Peoriay ill.t Videite. To apply the above to local affairs, we might add that the town of Kingstree, which of course expects to be perennially boomed through the columns of the local | press, has adopted the meth od of promulgating its ordinances / by posting them on trees, telegraph poles, etc. An ordinary tree of conservative habits is rather a poor circulating medium?but then ?chacun a sa gout. When the baby is cross and has you worried and worn out you will find that a little Cascasweet, the well known remedy for babies and ahildren, will quiet the little one in o short time. The ingredients ar'o printed plainly on the bottle. Con* tains no opiates. Sold by W. L. Wallace, M. D, Notice to School Trustees If there are any schools in your din triet not yet opened, please take step te get them running at once. Many o you find diffiiculty in getting teachers if you can't get them any other waj advertise for them; or perhaps I ca help you. J G McCullough. ll-3?8-iJt Co. Supt. Ed. Pinal Hicrharap. I III U I i^lWWUVka ^ w ? Notice is hereby given that on th 23rd day of Nov. 190?, I will apply t the Probate Judge of WUliuasburj County for & final discharge as admin istrator of the Estate of H. K. Brow der, deceased W. M. Browder, 10?31?4t. Administrator. KINGBIRD OP PARADISE. Hit Brilliant Plumage and Hit Dane and Love Song. A most magnificent fellow is th< kingbird of paradise, and his man ner of displaying his charms to th< female that has eaptured his hear is in keeping with his plumage. Tin kingbird of paradise is small, si: , and one-half inches long, having tin head, throat and upper part of th< richest glossy crimson, shading t< orange crimson on the forehead The under parts are of a silky white relieved by an orange red throat bordered l>elow by a band of metal lie green, while the flank feather are produced into long plumes o an ash gray color and tipped witl buff and metallic green. The tw< middle tail feathers are produce! into long slender stalks, tcrminat ing in a wonderful disk of emerah , green. The beak is yellow and tin j legs are cobalt blue. During thos< j ecstatic moments in which he pro j claims his undying devotion to tin l bird lie desires for his mate tin I hodv is drawn close to the bougl which serves as a perch, while th< head is bent downward toward tin breast, and the wings are spreat and extended forward so as aimos to meet in front of the downeas head, as though the performer wer< overwhelmed by a ^uddeq panic o modesty. Suddenly all is changed. Th< body is extended to its full lengtl and the wings are violently beatei as though flight were contemplated Then in a moment he gives himsel a half turn and, facing the specta tors, fluffs out the silky white under feather like an apron and throw: up the long flank feathers till the; form a fan arching above his bad and on either side of the gorgeousi; tinted throat, the beak being nov pointed skyward. Meanwhile th< tail has been drawn forward ove; the back, so that the long, wireliki and disk bearing feathers are raise< high above him. All the while th< body is swayed gently from side U side, and this motion causes th< disklike ends of the long tail feath ers to shimmer in the light, lib balls of burnished metal being tosa ed to aftd, fro in the air. ? < As if these strange antica wen <$ot enough, he bursts into song ? 1 1 ml wnicn wars a cji>su icsciuuiauw v. that of the skylark. Then come the finale, which lasts only for a fe* seconds. He suddenly turns righ around and shows his back, thi white fluffy feathers undeT the tai brisfaing in His" texcit^ment. H" bends down on the perch in the at titufie of a fighting cock, his widel; opened bilf shewing distinctly"th? light ;appfe'?r&n color ef thecal kt,' and sings the 6ame gurglinj note without once closing his bill and with a slow dying away move ment of his tail and body. A singL drawn out note is then uttered, tn< tail and wires are lowered and tb dance and song are over.?Chicago Jfews. .^ His Opportunity. A Buffalo physician tells of twi young friends in that city who en tered simultaneously upon their re spec tire careers of physician am lawyer. Late one afternoon tb newly made medico dashed into th room of his legal friend, exclaiming "Great luck, old man! Congratu late me! Got a patient at last! 0: my wav to see him now!" Where upon the legal light to be slappe< his friend on the back, saying, "De lighted, old chap!" Then, after slight pause, he added, with a si grin: "Say, let me go with you Perhaps he hasn't made his will!" Too Generous. A lady traveling as a first clas passenger was much distressed b th? plight of her valuable youn cofiie, which at Preston station fel between the footboard of the trau and the platform. She appealed t a porter to save it, and the ma; crawled underneath the carriag and dragged the animal out, al though the dog bit his hand severs times. Having got her pet safel in he? compartment, the lady re warded the man who had rescued i from almost certain death with threepenny bit. ? St. James' Gs 17.ette. . -YOU ALL" m TW SOOTH. '* What Makw TMi Papular FHran a f ^ Provincial i am. u Phitologieta claim that soma of \ the most interesting phases of a ^ n language may he traced through the j medium of so called colloquialisms and idioms, and a consideration of the phrase "you all," as used MI throughout the south, would cer- 1 1 tainly seem to make good this as- 81 sertion. The subject is treated in re * Uncle Remus' Magazine in an arti- d< ^ tie by C. Alphonso Smith of the w i- University of North Carolina. He | ef J'U > 9 in pai c . "In almost everv discussion of * this idiom the disputants have con- P fined themselves to the question, h( 'Is it used in the south as a singu- fi< lar?' Northern writers have gen- hi erally supported the affirmative, fc while southern writers have defend- w ed the negative. In fact, Mason be and Dixon's line will have to be re- lv a traced and made to mark not a po- be - litical but an idiomatic distinction, ye e The shibboleth is no longer, What w t do you thin k of slavery or secession bi a or state rights? but, On the con-I |c s tested use of you all are you for the j e singular or for the plural? : bl e "Southern people undoubtedly j tli > use you all in a sense particularly jc . their own and not as the equiva- j w< , lent of all of you. j s] , "What, 1 lion, is the distinctive ar - meaning attached to this idiom in j sp s ihe south? What makes the phrase ?J f a provincialism as used in the; ti: i south, but not a provincialism as ; oi ) used elsewhere? The following|ar i sentences will illustrate: pi "Tirst.?A mother to her chil-' ki 1 drcn, 'If you all (you children) don't yc ? make less noise, 1'Jl send you to th 2 bed.' "Second,?A teacher to his pu- wl e pils, 'You all (vou pupils) haven't w, 3 half studied this lc;son.' : 1 i "In not one of these characters- m ; tic sentences would a southerner di 3 ever think of substituting all of you ar 1 for you all.. Both idioms are plnral, j t but the distinctive thing about i ar t southern you all is not its'plural1 bl ? sense, but its representative sense, or f together with the accent on you. or ''You all, therefore, with the ae- ic; 3 cept on you, is not an error*, for sp i you all, with the accent on all, or i for all of vou. tr "It is something entirely differ- hr f ent. The standard you all and all de . of you are employed as frequently or . in the south as elsewhere, the dis-: hf 3 tinctive you all supplying a desid- j ar j eratum not furnished by either of sc -I the other two nhrases. Joel Chan- j f dler Harris writes as follows: di r " 'You mav say without any hesi- ed 3 tation whatever that "vou all" and vi r "we all," "you uns" and "we uns" in 3 invariably refer to more than one or 1 individual. These locutions some- to ? times refer to a partner, to a family, > to a settlement and to a whole com- cl 3 munity, but never to one individual, th . I have seen assertions to the con- as 3 traiy, but you may put them down af j as gross mistakes.'" lii 'y .> * T . in i < PUicing the Value. St Edward Everett Hale was one of re 3 the guests at a New York million- D 3 aire's dinner. The millionaire was 7 a free spender, but he wanted full t credit for every dollar he put out. s And as the dinner progressed he told 1 his guests what the expensive dishes e(3 g had cost. "Jhisieyrapin," he would ^ . say, "was shipped direct frcfm'Bal- * Y timore. A Baltimore.cook came on 80 2 to prepare it. "The dish actually ?c . cost a dollar a teaspoonful." So he ^ oii-ort nf th* other combe&i He' . ? laittvvi v* ?^ ^ dwelt especially on the expense of ^ ' the large and beautiful grapes. He e tojd, down to a penny, what he had ?* e figured it out that the grapes had ce 0 coat him apiece. The guests looked 5 anfioyed. They ate the expensive grapes sparingly. But Dr. Hale, smilingly, extended his plate and ai said, "Would you mind outting me off about $1.87 worth more, please?" m ? A Yallow Favar Cur*. A correspondent of a London pa- .. ~ per asserts that no fatal results ' may be feared from yellow fever if P( 8 the person attacked, as soon as the f 8 symptoms appear, takes a tumbler- !s : ful of olive oil with the juice of a ~ lime squeezed into it. This doae 1 should be repeated till vomiting and h purging ensue. ^ "This is infallible in checking the virulence of the complaint," says a the letter writer, "and a speedy conY valescence invariably follows. I have not only proved its elBciency 113 personally, but have witnessed its Z* complete success in dozens of cases ** both in Cuba and South America." 8 y The Chief Trouble. S fit is a sad fact/' said the statis 1 tician, "that the ordinary waste Of 5? Q food in an English middle class fam- 7. 0 ily wonld be sufficient to maintain Q wholly a French family of similar * e station." ' "True," said the epicure. "And ? J it" is also a gratifying fact that the .j 7 average French family couldn't he . ' hired to eat it after it had been 1 t cooked by the average English mid- ? a "die class family, so that, after all, l" it is not wasted so far as France is concerned:""?Sarper's Weekly. :a- < *! n\ imor WEAPom hay An N*t CmAiwd tt Um 1?k and th? Spur*. Many people are inclined to think ist a bird's weapons are practicalconfined to beak and the spars ith which the le^s of some birds e provided. There are, however, good many instances 01 dinerent mament. A moment's reflection (calls to any one the mulelike kick divered by the foot of the ostrich, hich requires no spurs to insure fectiveness. Besides this, many birds use their ings very effectively as weapons, eonle who have spent their child)oa in the country will recall how jrcely the domestic gander uses is wings, and among domestic wis 1he cocks not only use their ings to blind their adversaries, but itter their opponents quite severewith them. Although doves have ?en selected as emblems of peace, 't they are rather pugnacious and hen quarreling among themselves ing tneir wings into play to good ivantage. Birds using the wing to strike a ow usually attempt to land on ieir adversaries with the wrist int. This demand for a wing eajton among birds has in some ecies brought about remarkable id formidable developments. The ur winged geese of Africa have a ur 011 the bend of the wing somemes attaining a length of one and le-half inches and fully as savage 1 appearing weapon as that of a imecock. One of the wrist bones lown as the radiale projects be nd the others and is capped with ie spur. A now extinct species of bird hioli formerly inhabited l'odriguez l.t.ess, but an outgrowth of . at the joint of the radius and c acarpus formed a knob that ren'red the short wing as dangerous nong birds as a policeman's billy. Some of tlte Australian pheasants id other gallinaceous birds have unt tubercles on the wings, ineasing their effectiveness as weap- j is. Africa, Asia and South Amcra produce a number of species of air winged plovers. The jacanas, tropical or semiopical birds of both hemispheres, ?? lUnm mnro nr 1PQQ ne mum uiciii luui^ iveloped spurs on the wings, while le genus, though without spurs, is the bone of the wing widened id flattened, forming a sort of imiter. The screamers, birds related to lcks, are tHe most formidably arm1 birds as to wings. They are prodcd with two spurs on each wing stead of one, the inner and longer le of which is a three sided stiletof needlelike sharpness. Some birds while young have a . aw on the wing which is U9ed by ie bird not as a weapon, but as an sistance in dragging itself along, ter the manner of a bat. The gallules are an example of birds havg such claws while young, the ructure being lost before the birds ach maturity. ? Cleveland Plain ealer. Feat of a Greek Scholar. It may safely be said that no feat translation in anv age has ever |ualed that achieved by Professor ?bb in rendering Browning's "Abt ogler" into Greek verse. This fine liloquy of the musician is less 'obure, no doubt, than many other of i author'^ productions, bnt it | >ounds in iihagery and in turns of* , ought which even an Englishman , ids-it not very easy to follow and ! which he could hardly have coniyed it possible that any Greek ' [uivalenta could exist. \ et they d, exist, for Jebb found tnem, lough it may.be doubted whether * ly other Greek* scholar living ould have been eaually successful his search.?London Telegraph. A Problem. Two Irishmen were discussing potical economy. "The problem of )litical economy," said Casey, "so was reading in one of thim books, the distribution of wealth. That eans, Grady, how are we going i t compil the rich to give back the i oney that they have stolen from , le poor?'4 "Ye may be right," , iid Grady, "but there is wan other ling about yer problem, Casey, 1 lat I can't finger out. It is this: :'ow the diwle did the poor iver ianage to git all the money that i say the rich stole from thim ?"? uffalo Commercial. A Dry Land Fi?h. The periopath&lmus, one of the iost remarkable of the several specs of dry lai\d fish catalogued by le naturalists, is a native of Maurius. He is only four or five inches >ng, but has a big head, very promient eyes and side fins which bear strong resemblance to legs. They ave the curious habit- of leaving le water in the evening and spend1 g the entire night hunting the octurnal insects which inhabit the mildy flats near tidewater. A siraar species of New Zealand are alleg. "running fishes" by the na ; ? 1 - 1 i g 1 ' 1 =g , . 1 ? The ? aT;' V ? 6 ieJ rv i? . i_ J j 2. s uayiijrni .store. z _____ * ? (?j ? yS y The largest stock of fall goods we have ever carried has ar- /gj ? rived and all and everybody is cordially invited to call (gj and examine all goods. Exclusive agents for Walk- jgj 4 Over shoes for men, the best on the market; V ? Browns' Shoes for men and women ? None better. $1,000.00 worth of men's pants, best ? W quality and make. 81,000.00 worth of boys'suits and single jgj ? pants; Shield's Hats for men and boys', all styles and colors, prices jgj $2.00 and $3.00.The best line of Dry Goods, Millinery Goods, Fancy @ W Goods, Laces, Ribbons and Notions. We guarantee every piece ' zti ? of J merchandise bought from our store. ^ ?. ? ft | Stackley's Cash Store. ? * * a'' @ K1NGSTREE. S. C 1?:?:?:?:?:?:?:@?:?:? :?@:?::?:?:?:?.?:?@ .> ' Bank of Lake City I Lake ity, S . C. | Capital Stock $20,000. Surplus - - 5,000. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. Interest allowed at the rate of 4 percent, per annum, payable ^ [quarterly: July, October, January and April. OFFICERS: j A. II. Williams, Pres.. E. W. Yates, Cashier. W. J. Singletary, Vi?e Pres.. D.E.Motley, Asst. Cashier, W. L. Bass, Attorney. (DIRECTORS: I A. H.Williams, W. J. Singletary, J. A. Green, W. T. Askins, J. B. DuRant, J. C. Lynch, 3 Henry P. Williams/5 1 We are prepared to afford you every facility which your business H SHINGLES! I SOLID CARLOAD FOR BLIZZARD HARDWARE CO., LAKE CITY, 5. C. * No. 1 All Heart at $5.25 per M. No. X a Good Shingle at 14.25 per M. No. 3 A very good shingle at $3.00 per M. I CARLOAD LiriE > Come to us, we can save you money and give the highest grade Lime $1.25 a barrel. One carload of Pittsburgh Perfect Fence just arrived. See us hefore nlacine-vour ordifr. - SEWING MACHINES?A high grade machine; guaranteed to please, $20.00. , i BLIZZARD HARDWARE CO. ) LAKE CITY, S C ?? 1_ V.V : V . - " * V* . . # r . =j t s t " i 'i e i'i ? ?i''i * Another Large Lot of. $ | FAVORITE RANGES. ? | Any Kind of Cooking S | Stove you Desire. M O AH these bought before the advance and we will sell Q Q accordingly. fj 8HEADQUARTERS FOR ANYTHING INS ; *pr | HARDWARE, | Building-Material, Sash, D^rs, Lime, Paints, Oils, Glass. "*v jjj Cofflos and Caskets. Pianos and Organs. $ ; ? 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