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r ' Ihe <?oimt? . K1NGSTREE. S. C C. W. WOLFE. i EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. j TERMS ,< SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ji One copy, one year Si S5.1 One copy, six months 75 i One copy, three morrts 50 One copy, one year in advance ? 1 00 . j Obituaries. Tributes of Respect, Resolutions of Thanks, L ards of Thanks < and all other reading notices, not News, will be charged for at the rate of one cent a word for each insertion. ? ??????i THURSDAY, JAN. 7. 1909. I1 _ i Disgusting Toadyism. ! President Elect Taft, who even 1 in the eyes of certain of his natural politics*! enemies, Southern' ' Democrats, has been discovered . actually to possess more qualities t of statesmanship and broad-minded patriotism than poor old Brvan 1 ever dared even to claim, is now * disporting his elephantine propor-!* I ? tions over the golf links of Au-; ^ gusta's swell tonrist hotel, to the j ^yreat edificatiol of tire natives' [ literally starving for a crumb of' jiotioe or condescending patronage from the great and magnificent j ^ pemnage now in their midst. | ^ But however fantastic the capers c cut by the hospitable and ubse-; j quious Georgians, it remains for t Birmingham, Alabama, through j their committee inviting His ? Highness to honor that paiadisaic j community with his corporeal p presence, to make itself a spectacle p that excites ridicule and derision t among decent and self-respecting Democrats of the Sooth. Hearken to the language of the o month.nippp nf thpsp natrint.iV pt. f. ponents of the rock-ribbed prin- fi ciples of Jeffersonian and Bryan T Democracy, General Rufus N t< Rhodes, editor of the Binning-u ham News, whose paper three: t] months ago was no doubt shouting C( aloud perfefvid panegyrics on the S( .peerless Nebraskan: "Judge Taft,;'j '(swallowing hard and voice trembling with ill concealed emotion) ,H UI am going to take advantage! of this opportunity to say to you; sl that if you knew the heart and P head cf the men of the South,, and particularly of Birmingham, you would know that they regard p the result of the last election as e i r a benediction from God Almighty ^ Himself to the people of the t South over their own protest. I am a Democrat myself * * " ii Then follows more hypocritical n O protestation ad nauseam. The = "General" might have completed the last sentence of the quoted- r excerpt something like this: "I I a am a Democrat myself, but I am ^ * r heartily ashamed of the fact, and I would cheerfully and willingly s accept a minor position in the, consular service or even a fourth- e - * * ?-t l s cjaas postmasiersmp 11 uui ui j >the abundance of your loving j kindness and mercy you should deign to overlook the blind parti*: < sauship of environment and see ; fit to bestow upon me the bene-; < diction of your favor in a tangible1 form." ] General Rhodes should modify! the order. He not only does not represent the "men of the South,' : but merelv the hungry horde of camp-followers always to be found j in the wake of a victorious army, j And we believe that Judge1 Taft deep down in his heart estiI mate3 at its true worth the sloppy j sentiment of these blatant idiots'; I 1 who miscall themselves Democrat?.: 1 k Whose Business Is It? In his interesting account of the proceedings of the teachers' ! meeting held in Columbia last week our correspondent reports! Senator Tillman as saying in substance (referring to the Clemson ind Winthrop trusteeships) that! we have a Legislature, a Govern-1 >r and other executive officers and! f it be true that he is violating; :he law it is tneir duty to proceed against him in the matter. We fully agree with Senator rillman in the view he takes on this phase of the subject. Some executive officer or officers have been derelict in their duty to wink at so flagrant and open a notation of the State constitution ill these years, and it is certainly not iucumbeut upon Senator lillman to proceed against him?elf. But why has this state of things joue on undisturbed? Aye, there's he rub. That brings us back to ;he starting-point of the discuslion: "And he has been permitted 1 x> do so because?well, because he I 8 Tillman." Or, at least, that s the way it appears to us. ===== ] With princely generosity Con- i i 1 * A 1 J?nAA AAA 1 ;ress nas appropriaieu 'or the relief of Italy's earthquake j :ictims. This looks like a tremen- i lous amount to expend in a char- 1 table cause at the other end of i he world, but, then, Uncle Sam ^ s rich and his favored nephews ] irho are supposed to represent the 1 istant cousins, the working peo>le, don't mind blowing in the i eople's money. Why not? Let j hem work and make more. ** ] - f Another new county scheme is | u foot to cut off portions of ( ?rritory from Darlington, Chester-1 | eld and Lee counties, with Harts-, \ ille as the countv seat. It seems 1 ) us that in the face of the; t niversal cry of hard times it is y ae wrong time to be forming new * w ounties to increase taxes already > high. The earthquake at Messina, It-! ly, and Sicilv is the worst caistrophe of the kind on record, nice the year 526, when 250,060, j y | erished at Antioch, in Asia. How's This! We offer One Hundred Dollars j teward for any case of Catarrh that | annot be cured by Hall's Catarrh i Jure. 1 F J CHENEY.& CO, Toledo, O.; 1 We, the undersigned, have known, ( i1 J Cheney for the last fifteen years j 1 nd believe him perfectly honorable * q all business transactions, and fi- 1 ancially able to carry out any obli- ' ations made by his firm. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, s Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. i } Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter- ' tally, acting directly upon the blood j i ,nd mucous surfaces of the system. 1 restimonials sent free. Price, 75c j ' )er bottle. Sold by all Druggists. 'i Take Hall's Family Pills for con-1 1 tipation. Our line of shoes is complete, unxcelled in style, quality and price, j ' See us before buying. People's Mercantile Co. j l-7-2t I. I J New Advertisements. : liMiimiiniiiiniiniii S O Eaddy, Johnsonville?Improved Cotton Seed. Peruna Drug M'f'g Co.?Peruna. New York World?World A I- j manac. T W Wood & Sons ? Garden Setds. Kingstree Dry Goods Co.?Tobacco Cloth. For health and happiuess? Dei Witt's Little Early Risers?small, j gentle, easy, pleasant little liver! pills, the best made. Sold by D C, Scott, M D. CHINA'S GREAT WALL j It Was Undoubtedly the W?rk of a Real Genius. The Great Wall is often stigma- i tized as a monument of human shortsightedness and folly by many who are willing to rhapsodize over the Great Pyramid. A great archi teetural work the pyramid was cot. It was simply a stone tumulus, and everything goes to prove that it was nothing more than a superlative mausoleum, a monument of. the vanity of the monarch who was entombed beneath it, and considered either as mere bulk or as an engineering feat it sinks into utter insignificance beside the Great Wall, a work of vast practical utility. It is in fact the Great Wall more than anything which stamps its founder for all time for what he was?a man of the highest order of genius, possibly the greatest genius who has borne sway on the earth. The Chinese of the second century B. C., like the Romans of the first, had arrived at a critical stage in the tourse of their development, and each nation succeeded in producing a hero at the right moment to lead it to the accomplishment of its destiny. The prescience with which Julius Caesar, confronted with the problem of finding a suitable defen-ive frontier for the Roman empire, solved it by the occupation of the line of the Rhine is rightly considered as one of the chief reasons for his Dre-eminent place in the world's history. The guarded river that the genius of the great dictator had made the frontier of the Roman empire was the terminus of barbarism for nearly five centuries. Chi Huang Ti was confronted with the^ame problem^ He solved it with jqual prescience and grer*er success by an inspiration of gei. s unparalleled in history. Where nature had placed no barrier he reared an artificia me, and for ten centuries the northern barbarians pcessir down ' from the great central ' id jtrove in vain urst th 0 * che bulwarks which 3 had interposed ^etween their ravening hordes and ae rich plains of China. Probably {he Great Wall was a more formidable obstacle to the barbarians of central Asia than the Rhine to the Germanic hordes of Europe. It was at once a well deined frontier, a magnificent miliary road and an impregnably inrenched picket line along the borler. The towers were probably all iccupied by pickets and communication maintained by cavalry pa:rols, a very easy matter on the >latforms of the wall. The gates rere doubtless strongly garrisoned, rnd at strategic points along the vail and to its rear bodies of field ( roops collected in permanent forresses and intrenched camps. The , rail itself was a formidable obstacle to a band of marauders. If they , ncceeded in scaling it there still emained the nearly insuperable lifficultv of bringing across their lorses, and a Tartar without his iorse is well nigh helpless. Did a Wronger force make an attack it j niicf cfill 1i9va an pa;v nuitter o concentrate on the threatened >oint before the invaders could >ass in anv numbers. ? Edward "oord in Contemporary Review. Curiosities of Our Calendar. There are some curious facts ibout our calendar. No century can i >egin on Wednesday, Friday or Sunlay. The same calendars can l>e 1 ised every twenty years. October ilways begins on the same day of 1 :he week as January, April as July, September as December. February, March and November begin on the same days. May, June and August ilways begii^on different days from ?ach other and every other month in the year. The first and last days [>f the year are always the same, rhese rules do not apply to leap year, when comparison is made between davs before and after Feb. 29. Ancient SmitHfield. Sraithfield is probably the oldest cattle market in the world. It was already ancient when Fitz-Stephen made an allusion to its existence in 1150. Then a place for live cattle only, it lay outside the city walls and served in the absence of the cattle as a place of recreation. Two hundred years later the corporation assumed official control over the beasts and the butchers. But these did not have the complete monopoly of Smithfield, as the blood of the the martyrs and the revelers of Bartholomew fair testify ? London Chronicle. He Knew by Experience. A little boy who had just this season joined Sunday school was asked by his mother how he liked it. "Why!" exclaimed Charlie disgustedly, "they don' know much. The teacher asked what was the collec\ and I was the onlv one who knew." "And what did you say, dear?" "Why, I told them pretty quick that it was a pain in the stomach." I OUTWARD DISPLAY. It Characterizes the Social Life All Over Italy. Social life among the Italians is j really not so different from social iife in other countries, although certain national peculiarities must be remarked, saf& Harry Quimby in Leslie's Weekly. Italians even iu the most elaborate homes do not wear evening dress for dinner unless there is a party. The particularly fashionable wear a smoking coat and a black tie, but . A-\ plain black coat is more univer ?sed. i All over Ttiilv social life V- i terized by great love of td display. In Naples particui VJ. afternoon drive or promen. 3 important to reputation and hi.t ^ ness. The following will illustrate the prevailing feeling: An American who had taken a flat in a palazio, the first floor of which jjas occupied by a noble family in reduced circumstances, noticed every day a servant going up the steps carrying a pair of carriage doors. Upon investigating he found that the noble family shared a carriage with other families and that each had its coat of arms upon its own doors. Fewer Italians go ' the famous watering places thar people of any other country. The >opuiar annual tonic of the Italians consists of eating grapes. The treatment includes grape juice and grapes, as much as can, be taken, in the morning and at noon a rare beefsteak. In the afternoon more gr^nes and grape juice are partaken f, and at 7 in the evening *1 rare beefsteak. This is con+ ar three weeks, when th^ ;s said to look and feel r ierent person. The gra* j the system, and the h' ... a tonic and keeps up 1 cngth, according to the Italphysicians. Malacca Bellas. Eastern standards of beauty differ, like the customs, from those of the west. In Malacca, we are told, tlje small yaist and velvet eyes do not count, but instead the length of the neck is the criterion of beauty. The longer it is the more perfect the beauty. The girl of Malacca at 1 a very early age is fitted with a metal ! collar which compels her to keep j her head erect, and as she grows the ( callar is increased in size, and by j this means the neck is gradually 1 elongated. A Paris contemporary, j1 with the present style of corset in view, suggests that, given time, figures equally grotesque will be seen in European cities.?London Globe. ( There is no case on record of a ( ' cough, cold or la grippe developing ( into pneumonia after Foley's Honey and Tar has been taken, as it cures ( the most obstinate deep seated coughs < and colds. Why take anything else? s W L Wallace. Fresh supply of garden seed onj hand, now is the time to plant your < garden. ; People's Mercantile Co. j i-r-2t j Always have Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup handy, especially for the chilrtn. It tifctes nearly as good as maple sugar. It cures the cold by gently moving the bowels through 1 its laxative principle, and at the i same time it is soothing for throat, , irritation, thereby stopping the r.nnph. There is nothing as erood. Sold by D C Scott, M D. A Unique Calendar. ? We acknowledge with appreciative ( thanks the receipt of a pretty calen- j dar, unique in design, sent us by D E Motley & Co., Lake City's enterprising insurance agents, advertising the extensive life, fire, accident and < \ health insurance old line companies they represent. We have noted 1 ] seveial unusually attractive 1909 1 ! 1 calendars, but the one referred to is the handsomest and most elaborate of them all. This beautiful re minder of the new year is both '' ornamental and useful?a work of : art equally worthy to adorn boudoir or business office. Simple Remedy for LaCirippe. Racking la grippe coughs that may develop into pneumonia over night are quickly cured by Foley's Honey and Tar. The sore and inllamed lungs are healed and strength-' ened, and a dangerous condition is quickly averted. Take Foley's Honey ! and Tar in the yellow package. W L Wallace. It you lifud any tobacco cloth call on the People's Mercantile Co, where you can obtain anything you desire in general merchandise. l-7-2t m o 4 .O J3 K STO I Think Hnu/ M aiv * i t i BY BI o COOK S Stoves that are 0 K with buy in car lots, therefore you range for less money than yoi are the times the prudent buj COUNT. Give us the opp you the economy. COriPLETE LINE We have in addition to th hardware ot all kinds, but for give you a list of what we do we have one of the most up-tc found anywhere, and invite y self. A welcome to ALL at o farmers! If you will take Foley's Orino Laxative until the bowels become regular you will not have to hike purgatives constantly, as Foley's Orino Laxative positively cures | chronic constipation and sluggish j liver. Pleasant to take. W L Wallace. ! Cash Cade, who is a banker at Shawnee, Oklahoma, Republican National Committeeman for that State and likelv to be the next Governor, was christened Cassius Marcellus, but the Oklahoma folks refuse to call him anything but Cash. Don't Get a Divorce. A western judge granted a divorce | >n account of ill-temper aud bad breath. Dr King's New Life Pills ivonhl have prevented it. They cure Constipation,causing bad breath and Liver Trouble the ill-temper, dispel ;olds, banish headaches, conquer ;hill3. 25c at D C Scott's drug store. County Uirfot Meeting. On account of the meeting of the State Farmers' Union on January 20 the Williamsburg County Union is called to meet on January 15 instead of January 2(> as agreed to at j the last meeting of County Union. All local unions are requested tox 3end delegates, as business of im portance will be discussed at this meeting. Presidents of local unions are requested to call meetings and elect delegates to County Union on Friday, January 15, 1909. J T Frierson, J D Daniel, Sec. Pre3. Look out for the special representative Globe Tailoring Co January 13?14 at People's'Mercantile Co. 1-7-It nr*T-i/-tr at X T/-N' 1 ' I /"srin srt^u\L :nuiiuc;:>, Transient Notices will be Published In This Column at the Rate of One Jent a Word for Each Issue. No advertisement taken for less than 25 cents. For Rent-Onepair mules,sufficient dwelling house room, barn room, with 75 or lou acres of land; also a lot of corn ' and forage for sale. Apply to Wm Cooper, 216 Manly .Street, Creenville, S C 12-17-5t Wantei>?Cows, hogs, hides and furs. Highest cash prices paid for! same. The Pai.ace Market, S K Epps, Proprietor, Next door below L Staekley s corner. l-7-4t For Sale?Two thoroughbred Jersey . cows and calves, Good milkers. J A Kei.ly, i "? " < ir; i 11 i l"4-<5l-ti rviugsiree, o v/. For Rknt or for Sale?One lot| with store house and outbuildings in the town of Cades. Fine business stand. Apply to .1 C Moore, Spartanburg Co. Duncans, S C l-7-4t Dinning?After this week the Kings-' tree Ginneries will be operated only i two more days?Wednesday and Thursday of next week. Geo a McElveen, Manager, i 1-7-lt i i x / 5" 8 I VES J uch You Save : *? JYING * ? K TOVES i an absolute guarantee. We will get a better stove or i can get elsewhere. These rer should make every cent ortunity of P R O V I N G! to / 'f OF HARDWARE. e above a complete line of lack of space are unable to carry. Just remember that > date hardware stores to be ou to call and see for yourur TWO STORES. SUPPLY CO, m n Get measured by an expert for your spring suit. The Globe v* Tailoring Co's representative will \ take your measure and guarantee a fit. Remember date, January 13 and 14. People's Mercantile Co. 1-7-1t A "'a Citation NdticeTHE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. ^ County of Williamsburg. By P M Brockinton, Esquire, Probate Judge. Whereas, Hugh 8 Nesmith made suit to me to grunt, him Letters of Administration of the Estate of and effects of Robert Nesmith, ? '' Thkse are Therefore to cite and \ admonish all and singular the kindred T and creditors of the said Robert Nesmith. deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, ro be held at Kingstree,S C,on the llth day of January next after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoen, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should _ not be granted. \ Given under my Hand, this 28th day of December, Anno Domini, 1906. ' Published on the 31st day of December, 1908. in the County Record. PM BROCKINTON, 12-31 -2t Probate J udge. f * FREE TOBflGGO SEED. * Tobacco seed for planting will be furn- L-? ished free to parties, ^ who apply for same at Kingstree Hardware C'os. Mcintosh & Moore, h-u-n Workman, S. C. i ahv \\r a wTrn JLAU 1 f? /Ill l LiJUt % Honest industrious woman wanted to introduce our large line of fancy and staple dress goods, waistings, trimmings, etc., among .friends, neighbors and townspeople. We also manufacture a full line of perfumes and toilet articles, no soaps. Should be able to earn $aS0 or more weekly. Dealing direct from the mills our prices are low and patterns exclusive. Write as for full particulars. Standard Dress floods Co., Dept. 9 Binghamton, N. Y. Cotton Seed for SalePhillips's Improved. Very small seed. Twelve hundred twenty-live pounds seed cotton sufficient for a five hundred weight bale. Very highly recommended by those planting this variety. Fiftv cents per bushel, or will exchange one for two. See or write me. * S 0 Eaddy, l-7-2t Johnsonville, S 0 | J, D. GILLAND, j ( Rpal Fstatp Krnkpr ) <r iiuui luiuiu uiuiiui) i } KINGSTREE, S. C. } J I have on hand a hand?some list of bargains in) ) farm and city property.) > Call and see me. Title < guaranteed. Loans nego-\ ^ tiated at a reasonable fee. J i List your property witht ? me for sale. Good prices J ( and satisfaction assured. } f 10-29?3m. s \