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the Counts ^e'toti S? <r> KINGSTREE, S. C C. W. WOLFE. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Entered at the postoftice at Kingstree. j S C. as second cla>> mail matter. TERMS NUKSI'RIITION RATES: One copy, one year $1 25 One copy, six months 75 One copy, three monts 50 One copy, one year in advance ? 1 00 - . . T. , . . C T, , UOUuaries. lrioutes 01 ivesj?cti, i Resolutions of Thanks, Cards of Thanks : and all other reading notices, not J News, will be charged for at the rate of one cent a word for each insertion. THURSDAY, JULY 22. 1909.' No Gab-Fest for Us. Mr Stewart Starr has chal- j lenged the editor of this news- j paper to a series of joint debates! on the new county question at j the ten preciucts withiu the Kutledge county area, beginning August 2 and to be a continuous performance, Sundays excepted, until August 14. We respectfully decline to be led into a contest of physical endurauce and test of luDg power. Mr Stair may harangue the populace at any time and in any manuer he chooses, but we beg to be excused. We are no orator, as Brutus doubt* i less thinks he is, uor are we in training physically for a Marathon stunt over Williamsburg county in 1 the dust and heat of midsummer. : We have made certain statements backed by figures from the eouQty auditors of Clarendon and ; Williamsburg counties and the of- ; ficial report of the comptroller i general. There is no higher proof to be offered. If Mr Starr wants to undertake to refute a single thing we have said, he has his newspaper iu which to do so without roaming over the county and wrangling on the stump. We have offered all along to give space iq The Record to ny one who will prove us to be wrong in a single statement that we have made. i What good is the bank examiner, anyway? The office was created, presumably to protect the public, a9 well as the banks themselves, from dishonest em- ( ployees covering up future pecu- , latious and to expose the thieving already doue. Has anyone ever heard of the bank exarainer discovenuz u shortage? , And yet the banks of the State , are heavily taxed to support ( this useless office, which pays | fat salaries to several men. Re- , cently iu this county, at Lake , City, we had a shortage iu a bank exteudiug over a period of several years. The bank exam- , iner checked up the bank time ^ and again and reported nothiug , wroug. Aud now comes the news from Anderson county that , the cashier of the Bank of Anderson recently left "on a vacation," leaviug behind hitn a written confession that he had stolen $33,000 of the bank's funds. Iu this case the default- j ing cashier "borrowed" $1,000 a , year ago and has been syste- ] matipalk' I'AhKinff tho Tvinlr flvat UiuviUUil J i wviu^ vuv vuua v* vi 1 since. We repeat the inquiry with which we concluded a former article on this subject: Is i it the man or the system that is no good? < As stated last week, in the 1908 primary election 1,08S yotea were polled at the ten precincts included in the Williamsburg part of the proposed Rut- I ledge area. Assuming this as 1 approximately the total number I of Totes that will be cast in the 1 <H|f, - - -y?- . ? - -r - -. iew county election on August IT. it would require 72G votes in Williamsburg to constitute the required two-thirds majority, plus one: while ot)4 \otes, or one more than one-third of the total number cast, would defeat the new county in Williamsburg. In our article last week a typographical error made the number required to defeat the new county 264, when, of course, it should have been <164. While the error was plainly a trick of the types, we make this correction in order to avoid even the appearance of trying to mislead our readers. The people of St Matthews are dead right in one particular, whatever be the outcome of their effort to bond the county of Calhoun. That is this: It will take at least $50,000 in cash (not notes or piomises) to build a presentable court house and jail. * * xl -i it Auy less sum man mat in mese times of high prices for labor and costly building material would be on its face a mere subterfuge to serve until the people voted themselves into the new county and then put the screws to them for auy amount they pleased for permaueut public buildings in keeping with modern ideas as to beauty, comfort and convenience. You all know how a child likes for its parents to move into a new house simply because it is new. You remember how a child likes a new toy simply because it is new. Do you recall Benjamin Franklin's story of how, when a small boy, he traded all his boyish possessions for a whisHp'-' A rwl how when he ant the much desired toy he soon grew tired of it and wanted his barlow, his jackstones, his top, whip and marbles back? He had paid too dear for his whistle. Voters, don't be children; act like men! And, above all, don't be caught by the mel-odious notes of a poor performer ou a cheap, tin whistle. In giving space in our columns to the presentation of differing news on the prohibition question, we are trying to give both sides a square deal. But we cannot handle articles of unreasonable length ou either side of the question. The pressure is great on our news columns just at this time and we cannot afford to devote the whole paper or any cont!.l .. 1 MA?i /-? C < 4- 4A 4 h A /I IflAHO. siuerauie pan ui it v\j tuu motuojion of a single subject. We re3pectfully give notice, then, to both prohibitionists and those opposing prohibition that should their articles exceed one column in length, the part exceeding that space will be carried over to the next issue of the paper. Those Johnsonville people are "from Missouri" in the matter of Lake City's building the court bouse and jail. They want to know if the cash has been put up; how much and in whose hands is it? A movement is on foot to establish another new county, with Kershaw as the county seat. With svery little town ambitious to be come the county capital, where is this new county business going to stop? Spartanburg, with less than double the area of the proposed Kut[edge county, has nearly ten times the taxable property of the rich (?) Rutledge. Our neighbor town, Georgetown is much perturbed over an alleget shortage of SO,000 in the count; treasurer's office and there are ru : mors that a postoffice inspecto ; has found irregularities in theac j counts of the postmaster. Th? Georgetown Times promises to giv I j publicity to all the facts whei ! thev come out. Three circuit Judges have rec omuiei.ded to the people of C'al houti county that their publi< buildings should cost not less thai i SoO.OOO. r I AnenI Choosing a Wife. Now comes the great question tha , is agitating social Washington I Erudite authors and ambitiou newspaper-men are contributing symposium on "how to choose ; i wife."' The old and yet ever nev | story of love and mating is alway a popular theme for discussion. The conclusion was reached ii one corner of the press gallery, du ring a special discussion of thi question, that "not one man out o 8,000 who marry actually choose his wife.' II# thinks, it is true that he is courting a girl, while, a a matter of fact she is making bin a captive for life. Of course, it wa admitted, there was a sort of charn in such captivity, even for the most freedom-loving man; still n< amount of discussion appeared t< bring any real solution of the way i man chooses his wife, 01 the way i wife chooses a husband. In fac j this complicated question promise to take rank with the old query "How old is Ann?"; the true au thorshipof "Ain't it awful Mabel?1 or the unanswerable problem, "\Vh< struck Billy Patterson?" It has been suggested that if th government would take a hand ii the solution, as it does in Japan, i might be possible to marry th right women to the right mentrain up a lady, fit her in ever way for wifehood, then shoot he home with a dispatch autborizinj her to marry some distinguishet man. much in the same way tha these affairs were managed?or mis managed?in the days of the gram old Spartans?Joe Mitchell Chappie in the National Magazine for July Uelay in commencing treatmen for a slight irregularity thatcouh have beeu cured quickly by Foley' Kidney Remedy may result in a seri oua kidney disease. Foley's Kidne; Remedy builds up the worn out tis sues and strengthens these organs. D C Scott OUR CLUBBING RATEi We offer cheap clubbing rate with a number of popular news papers and periodicals. Read care fully the following list and selec the one or more that you fancy am we shall be pleased to send in you order. These rates are of course al cash in advance, which means tha both The Record and the pape ordered must be paid for, not 1, 2. 3 1 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10,11, but twely: months ahead. Below ie the list o our best clubbiug offers. The Record and News & Courie (Semi-weekly,) $1.85. The Record and Home & Farr (twice a month,) $1.35. The Record and New York Worli (3 times a week,) $1.75. The Record and Atlanta Consti tution (3 times a week) $1.85. The Record and Atlanta Consti tution (weekly $1.50. The Record and Bryan's Com moner, $1.75. The Record and Cosmopolitoi Magazine $2.00. The Record and Yonth's Com panion (New Subscribers) $2.50. The Record Semi-Weekly State I $2.50. ' PtsnAon on/) T.inm noAff' iHL JLlLtVAi/ auu jui^/|/iuwvv Magazine 1 year each $2.75. The Record and Nations Magazine, 1 year each, $2.00. N. B. We do not club with an; daily papers. The first issuo voi receive of the paper or periodical ii evidence that the money for sami has been forwarded by us. We an not responsible after that. THE COUNTY RECORD, Kingstree, S. C. I * STATE AND GENERAL NtWS. K 1 fee**arnron^K**?** j President Taft lias thieatened to veto the tariff bill if the measure r Quaily agreed on does not does uot - constitute a material reduction on ? specific duties. e Cotton took a tumble of 47 i points in New York Friday on account of the report by the govern! ment entomologist, Dr W D Hunter, ' | stating, that the ravages of the boll | weevil had been checked by dry - weather. i In a game of baseball played in Washington Friday between two nines composed respectively of the two different parties in the National House of Representatives, the Dem1 ocrats beat the Republicans by a score of 2G to 16. 3 a Insurance Commissioner McMasa ter has licensed the negro grand f lodge Knights of Pythias to do a g fraternal insurance business throughout the State. The applicants fp*\ 4 4 r* _/ jicnarter put up ?>o,uuv \ their policy-holders. s Last week Mr R R Culpepper, a f prominent farmer of Darlington, s while stretching a wire fence, was , so badl/ injured by a post breaking s and striking him in the head that it he died a few days after the accis dent. 1 Dr James Evans of Florence, ? well known throughout the State as 3 a physician and Secretary of *he 3 State board of health, died Thurs1 day morning, July 15, at Clifton * Springs, N Y, where he had gone 1 some weeks a;o in search of health s John T Duncan, a former Columbia attorney who was disbarred last , year by the supreme court, hfcg 5 been adjudged in contempt by the same court and sentenced to pay a fine of $50, or be imprisoned ten davs in the county jail. Duncan 1 . . . t bad taken a case in violation of the supreme court's disbarment order. 7 Delay in taking Foley's Kidney r Remedy if you have backache,kidney g or bladder trouble, fastens the disj ease upon you and makes a cure more difficult. Commence taking Foley's Kidney Remedy today and * you will soon be well. Why risk a 1 serious malady? D C Scott. 9 The Record has printed up a number of r ^missory note t books, fifty * to the book, 1 that we arev. _.ng at ten cents s each. "" tf 7 ' $5,000 .1 a Word! For the familiar sign, >een at almost every raiiroad crossa ing?"Stop, Look, Listen"? the originator was awarded $15,000 ? $5,000.00 a word! ^ l'retty good money, you say? But that sign has saved the ^ railroads millions of dollars in tines. It pays to get a good thing, even though r you may have to pay a lit' tie more for It than the ^ "just as good" at a smaller cost. Always r Stop! Look!! Listen!!! d Xot for the cars onlv, but for all things, at all time& When buying: u Piano neyer be too ha<tty.Ntop! And consider! See that all [. its merit does not stand in its ontward appearauce?that its finish does not overshadow its quality in tone and durability. Look! See that it n bears the name of "Chas M Stieft" and insure the best in Piano manufacture. Listen! To the exquisite harmony of the Stieff's tone. And the , feature of it all is, the longer '* you consider, the more you l*ok, the longer you listen, 8 the more fully you become convinced that the Stieft'is best Piano before the public I today. , Chas. M. Stieff i Manufacturer 3 SOUTHERN WAREROOM: 3 5 W. Trade St. B Charlotte, - N. C. C. H. WILMOTH, Manager. (Mention this paper.) 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