The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, April 30, 1908, Image 4
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KINQSTREE, S. C
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The Last Call.
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Our New Solicitor.
Governor Ansel has appointed
M solicitor for the third circuit
J B McLiucnlin, Esq., of Bishopville.
Williamsburg, as usual,
. ! 1 nr. li
was iguoreu. v?e are wen aoqnaiuted
with Mr McLauchlin
and feel coutident that he will
make an able and fearless prosecutor,
but that is not the poiut.
Every other county in the circuit
has some recognition inState or
district except Williamsburg, and
this is the first favor iii the
way of political appointment that
she has asked for in many years,
and Williamsburg's candidate was
handed a lemon. It seems that
our county is a negligible quantity
except when the silver-tongued
spielers come down and beg for
our twenty-five huudred votes in
the primary.
Well, maybe, in the not far
distant future we may be appreciated
more when the "pork barrel''
is being dished out.
Divided Democracy.
"I have heard some things from (
Hew York, and if they are true one
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I
might Wfll say of your party th<'re as 1
a drunken fellow once said when he
heard the reading of an indictment j
for hog stealing.
"The clerk read on till he got to;
and through the words 'did steal, j
take and carry away ten boars, ten ;
sows, ten shoats and ten pigs,' at;
which he exclaimed: 'Well,by golly,!
that is flif most equally divided gang ;
of bogs I euer did hear of.'
"If there is any other gang of hogs I
more equally divided than the Demo !
crats of New York are about this'
time I have not heard of it." ? Exircui
from Abe Lincoln's Speech in
the I tS Senate in IS48.
Governor Ansel has "reserved
his decision" in the Williamsburg
dispensary case. For the benefit
of all concerned we hope the
Governor will not reserve too long
that weighty decision. It begins
to look as though our Governor's
long suit is "masterly inactivity."
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A big cut or a little cut, small
scratches or bruises or big oues are
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neaieu quicsiy uv uchiub ^muv
lized Witch Hazel Salve. It is especially
good for piles. Get DeWitt's.
Sold by W L Wallace.
Other Democratic Club Meetings.
High Hill, April 25?High
Democratic club met today and
elected officers as follows:
S J Godwin, president; L McGee,
vice-president; J C Moore, secretary;
W P Gause, member executive
committee. Delegates to county
convention; Wilie McGee and W P
Gause. Registration committee: J
M Gause. Respectfully,
J 0 Moore,
' Secretary.
Gades, April 25?Cades Democratic
club met today and enrolled I
ninety-two members. The following
officers were elected:
J P Epps, president; T P Fulmore,
vice-president; W J Smiley,
secretary; R E Tart, treasorer; H
Foxworth, commissioner of registration;
J J M Graham, member county
executive committee. The following
delegates were elected: W J
Smiley, W E Nesmith, J J M
Graham, W E Hanna.
J P Epps,
President.
Mouzon, April 25?Black Kiver
Democratic club met today and re
organized. 1 ii Duke was re elected
psesident; R J Bnrgess, vice-presideDt;
J T Friersou, secretary; D B
Young, executive committeeman. R
J Burgess and J T Frierson were
elected delegates to the county convention.
J T Frierson,
Secretary.
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Unhardened by Custom.
It is strange what tricks even tutored
nerves will play. The strongest
man will wilt into an unconscious
heap under the vaccination
lancet or be reduced to abject faintness
by the sight of dentists' implements.
The Earl of Malmesbury in
his memoirs tells a little incident
illustrative of this fact:
A sad accident happened this afternoon
to one of the keepers, who
blew off two fingers of his right
hand in loading a gun. The fingers
had to be immediately amputated.
All the gentlemen stood around to
witness the operation and to encourage
the man, who showed great
pluck. It was curious that every
one bore the sight calmly but Lord
Raglan, who had seen 100 battles,
lie fainted and had to retire. Id
action he is known to be remarkable
for his unmoved sang froid.
Read the Farmers & Merchants
Bank's ad. this issne.
Notice to Trustees
and TeachersMiss
Nance, State organizer of the
Rural School Improvement Association,
will he with us the third week
in May. I would be glad to hear
from such communities as would
care to have her visit them and will
assureiis a good attendance.
J G Mccullough,
County Superintendent of Education.
SPECULATION.
How It Act? at a Brake on the Flue- |
tuation of Prices.
Speculation makes the change in
prices gradual. There is not a sud- (
den drop. It is impossible to se- ,
cure absolute stability of prices,
and speculation accomplishes the
next best thing by putting a brake
on fluctuations. It is the theory of
those who denounce ail forms of
speculation that there is no relation
between speculative prices and the
law of supply and demand. But the
main function of the exchanges is
to make an absolute free market,
with free competition between buyers
and sellers. This compels minute
regulation of prices. There is
no speculation in potatoes, and the
housewife will tell you that the expectation
of a bad crop will put the
price up so quickly that she will
have suspicions of the honesty of
her dealer. When a speculator on
the cotton exchange sells July cotton
at lOVk cents a pound he is registering
his belief based on a close
study of conditions at the present
Tnlv 1 n#>rt not ton
lllIIU tllUi. l/VIViV " Uij ? t?v??
will not be worth 10y2 cents a
pound. He and hundreds of others
try to discount nature and anticipate
events, and, as we have seen,
the user of actual cotton utilizes
this situation to his own advantage
and security.
During the seventeenth century
one Edward Lloyd kept a coffeehouse
in Tower street, London,
where several of the big merchants
used to meet. Many of them would
have ships at sea with rich cargoes
facing the many uncertainties of
voyages to and from the east, involving
great loss if they did not
arrive 6afely. These merchants developed
a plan of each assuming a
part of the other's risk. Each
would write his name under the
names of the ships of the other
merchants, and it is here we find
the origin of the modern system of
underwriting, which is nothing
more than a division of risk.
i_ /?;i;?? ?OTnrt
Laoya 3 nas uecuuie tt iiuuuiu uauiv
in every corner of the earth, -but in
1768 it was denounced as a gambling
house that ought tp be suppressed.?John
Paul Byan in Metropolitan
Magazine.
A Chang* of Nam*.
"Father," said Tommy Bardell of
the" William Henry Harrison grammar
school, "you want to come next' 1
Saturday afternoon and see ua play
a game with the Oliver Wendell
Holmes football team. We're going
{o do 'era up/' ??? ?* "
"Do you belong to a football
team?" askfcd his father. "Tt is
news to me." -n ?"Do
if1-'exclaimed Tommy proudly.
''Well, I reckon! I 'm the quarterback
of the Tornadoes."
"The Tornadoes? Who are they ?"
"That's the name of our school
team."
"R*mph! And you are going to
plav a game next Saturday, are you ?
Well, I'll go and see it."
The game took place according to
announcement, and the Tornadoes
were beaten bv a score of 26 to 0.
"Tommy," said his father, overtaking
him while he was on his way
home, "what did von tell me was tne
name of your team ?"
"The Tornadoes," answered the
boy, "but we're going to change it
to something else. We ain't even a
fog!"?Youth's Companion.
Considerate.
"A Yorkshireman," said a Londoner
now visiting in this country,
"came to London to 6ee our famous
British museum. Unfortunately the
Yorkshireman chose a close day for
his visit, and the policeman at the
gate when he presented himself
there waved him away.
" 'But I must come in/ 6aid the
Yorkshireman. I've a holiday on
purpose/
" 'No matter/ 6aid the guardian.
'This is a close day, and the museum
is shut/
"'What? Ain't this public property
?'
"'Yes,' admitted the policeman,
'but,' he cried excitedly, 'one of the
mummies died on Tuesday, and do
you begrudge us one day to bury
him in ?'
"'Oh, excuse mo.' said the Yorkshireman
in a hushed voice. 'In
that case I won't intrude.' "
Now Use For Himself.
mi ?i/i r^n^xr.
x litre was a u um itnu?
earned a living by doing odd jobs
about suburban gardens. A woman
had employed him to roll her lawn
and told the servant to give him his
dinner. The dinner consisted of
toast, and the big plateful disappeared
so rapidly that the servant
asked, half in wonder and half in
sarcasm:
"Shall I do some more?"
"Aye, aye," was the cool reply;
"go on till I tell you to stop."
After dinner the servant suggested
that he pull weeds up, but he refused.
"No, no," said he; "I dassent
stoop after such a meal. I've filled
myself for rolling!" ? London |
Scraps.
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UBALLOON.
The F That Ccmts With a
/ 'U?h the Air.
Flo.. .v up into the blue !
ocean o watching the earth
?ink slow- sway beneath us and
fade and cnange quietly to an ira- !
mense map spread before our won- j
Jering eyes?such are the first im- j
pressions of bailoon voyagers.^The ;
nnic\- shouts of those wfa> ^.'o j
wish us "Bon voyage 'o^tomej
fainter and fainter unt* bsolute
quiet reigns about us. It ?s so still j
that the ticking of the cl*:k in tiie
barograph is heard noi^' countingl
the seconds as it tra.v- .he line of
Dur upward flight across the sheet. J
Meanwhile the earth map down
below us stretches-out larger and
larger, but its details are fading
and becoming blurred. High hills
have chare/* d to flat surfaces. A
river winds and bends its way
through the duller colors like a tangled
ribbon of silver. A small lake
sparkles in the ?*mshine. giving life
and tire to the x,yer shades '?bout
it. A railway tr .creeps s owlv
along, its trail oft Y.e strea ning
back over it. But' .V look it suddenly
disappear ,om *ight. apparently
swallowed up fflrfore our
eyes. Then we realize that it has
plunged into the tunnel through a
irili which to us seems only a flat
surface. Now it appears again,
coming out on the other side.
So the wonderful scenes come and
go, ever changing. I nit over graDd
and inspiring?scones that come
back to ns real and vivid, that we
may live tlmm over again in later
days. The cloud effects are at times
the most beautiful of all. After having
sailed up through these into the
dazzling sunlight we see the snowy
hi lows just below our car. the shadow
of our balloon falling upon their
white surface. This shadow is often
surrounded by a halo of rainbow
colors of rare beauty. At such
times one has the feeling of having
left the earth completely and to
have reached some other planet.
The white masses just below seem
to be quite solid and look as though
one might step out of the balloon
and take a stroll over them if one
onlv had snowshoes. The air is
wonderfully clear and pure and
gives one a feeling of exhilaration
much greater than that enjoyed in
mountain climbing.?Henry B. Hersey
in Century.
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vynara odibi^* m>? ?
In the Dutch army a' man must
be able to swim as well as {<J nght.
Moreover, if he is in the cavalry
must have a horse which will take a
fiver as ^asily as a hunter takes a
fence. Swimmfng maneuvers are
part of the regular drill there. Collapsible
canvas boats mabned by 3
few oarsmen lead the horses so that
they do not attempt to land on
stone quays and other 'difficult
points. The men swim across with
their horses and on them. They do
it in swimming costume and in all
the accouterments of war. There
are few nautical emergencies in
which the Dutch army is not prepared.
Some of the officers have
even reached a degree of proficiency
that not only their horses and kit
cross the river with them, but their
pet dogs sit upon their shoulders
and are borne over almost without
getting wet.?Stray Stories.
Something For Her Neck.
A ludicrous story is- told of a
young Japanese engineering apprentice
in connection with the Christmas
custom of kissing. He was
serving his time in the north of
England and was astonished when
a waitress at the dining rooms which
he regularly frequented kissed him
under the mistletoe. On its being
explained to him that a present was
expected in return, he suggested a
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pail Ul gtUIVi}. M?..
ever, had heard that he was immensely
wealthy and gently hinted
that something for her neck would
be more acceptable. When the present
arrived next day she conjured
up visions of a pearl necklace as she
tremblingly undid the parcel. Then
was disclosed to her disappointed
gaze a Jap's idea of "something for
her neck. It took the shape of a
bar of soap!?London Standard.
John Smith.
Transferred to other languages,
the plain name "John Smith" seems
to climb the ladder of respectability.
In Latin it is Johannes Smithus; the
Italians smooth it off into Giovanni
Smithi; the Spaniards render it
Juan Smihus; the Dutchman adopts
it as Uans Schmid; the French flatten
it into Jean Smeets; the Russian
turns it into Jonloff Smittowski;
at Canton John Smith becomes
Jahon Shimmit; the Icelanders say
he is Jon Smithson; among the Tuscaroras
he becomes Tom Qa Smittia;
inToland he is known as Ivan
Schmittiweiski; among the Welsh
mountains they call him Jihon
Schmidd; at Mexico his name is
written Jontli F'Smitri; in Greece
he turns to Ion Sinikton, and in
Turkey he is almost lost in Yoc
Seef.
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