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?hr (foufiti) iUftrrl K1NGSTREE, S. C C. W. WOLFE, e'OfTOR AND PROPRIETOR. Ent< rou ;i* the i' Kinysiroe. S C. a- > i nv.-.i! n: utter. - r.L.- '.L .u TERMS il 11 * I" 14 >N II.VTfcS: Or.e copy, oru- year ?*i One copy, six mon;!js 75 One c?i?*y, three monts 50 One copy, one year in advance ? 1 00 Obituaries. Tributes of liespeot. Resolutions of Thanks, t ard*ut"Thanks and all other reading notices, not News will be charged for at the rate of one cent a word for ea -h insertion . THURSDAY. OCT. 7. 1909. Thirteen ceases to be a hoodoo number when it indicates the price [aui fur cotton. In Macon. Gu., last week a banker and a lawyer came to blow* in bitter controversy as to whether Cook or IVarv discovered the pole, liather heated argument over so cold a subject. A farmer who sold his cotton crop oa contract told us recently that up to the present time he was about $2,700 "in the hole." Old King Cotton is merciless when he metes out punishment to disloyal subjects. The dispute still rages as to who tirst got a peep at the northern axle of the earth, Cooker iv>rr This much is evident: There is no absolute proof that either explorer reached the pole. One can assert that Cook got there, or that Peary J id, or that both or neither attained the goal, and how are you going to disprove the assertion: Certain it is, however, that only the man who first arrived there discovered the pole and that niuu seems to be Coo.%. Peary may have worked just as hard and as faithfully to 1- ? - 1 Knf flm realise ins it muiiiv/u uui IHVK remains that he couldn't discover in liK'O what had been discovered in 11K)S. Time to Act. In a little over a month now the legal sale of liquor iu Williamsburg county will be barred. The saute condition obtained here about sixteen years ago and we recall that at one time during the '-prohibition*' era there were four or live places in Kingstree where whiskey could bt bought. Whether or not that was a fair index of the total number of '"blind tigers" doing ^ ? I* - AAnuff ir.-i oro nnl ousir.eas me luiiun nv. civ uv prepared to say. but those who remember the tiuie referred to will ugree that the prohibition law then in force was notoriously ineffective, so far as Kingstree was concerned. Tri* reason for the failure of the law is not far to seek: public sentiment was not behind it and no veiy serious effort was made to enforce the law. Now we are to have a taste of prohibition again?in name, if not ir. fact. Shall we in the light of pas: experience allow history to repeat itself by taking no systematic action as a preventive measure!' We hear of Law and Order Leagues being formed in other counties in anticipation of th-j closing of the dispensaries on the fifteenth of November?why not form such an organization in Williamsburg? The time is growing short and if any organized p'ar. of action : to suppret> illicit l:q.u?r selling i? to be forniu!ati?i why not get , to wut k now? In th:s, as in all matt is pertiiniiiiT to the welfare <?t the botlv politic, it is necessary for some in I'vidiial to take tie- lead and de- ' I i vote some time and energy to tile! work?who will it be!' j THE RUSSIAN PEASANT. J ( I : S'upiJ ?r.i Poor, a G;od Fellow Who ; Merely Exists. ' Tin- Russian po:is;::;l does not live; i be merely exists. "Nitchevii" ("it i.1 be ui?;\.!y says when nuvhappens to him. Nothing mutters. nulling could be worst*. ;ind "Nib uevo" is bis panacea for all evils. A no vet tbe Russian uioujik is really u } tiuc Jellow. Ordinarily, H. P. Kennard ! tells us in bis book, "The Russian t reasant." h-* is a splendid, well built man, large* limbed. large beaded and , healthy. He is equally unaffected by ; 20 degrees of frost or twenty glasses of | vodka. Ho is clothed in uncured sheepskins and carries in winter more I clothes than the average Englishman , could stand up in. Ho is unspeakably stupid, however, and his dream of happiness is to gorge, to sleep us much as possible through the winter and dance and sing in tho summer. But the stranger's first objection to the moujlk is that he smells . ?.of iw>nnju ho <lr>o? not wash him self. As a matter of fact, In every village there are public baths?baaxa? and the peasants wash themselves there unfailingly every Saturday In order to be allowed to go to church on Sunday, for the Orthodox church en| joins cleanliness. The Russian peasant is always poor and generally in debt. He plows the i land in the same way that his father I plowed it and gets as little for his la1 bor. His main worry in life is how to ' pay the governor's taxes. If he says : he cannot pay he is flogged, or perhaps he will sell part of his next year's power of work?i. e., work for nothing for several months?to raise a loan, and of course he is worse off than ever the following year. On Christmas night at dusk the marriageable village girls go out into the 6treets and meet their young men, and one 6ays, "What is your name?' The ! young man answers "Foma," and she replies, "My husband's name is Foma." , Some days later at the girl's home relations are gathered together. There . comes a knock at the door. The sta ~ ^ v/Minrr ?n<in ontor TTV. I I UMa auu lur ,?vuu fk, Uiuu VMW?, Vf..^ lng loaves of bread. The starosta says something like this: "We are German people, come from Turkey. We are hunters, good fellows. There was a time once in our ! country when we saw strange foot' prints in the snow, and my friend the I prince here saw them, and we thought i they might be a fox's or marten's footprints or It might be those of a beautiful girl. We hunters, we good fellows, are detetrmined not to rest till we have found the animal. We have been in all cities from Germany to Turkey and have sought for this fox. this marten or this princess, and at last! we have seen the same strange foot-1 prints in the snow again, here by your l court And we have come In. Come, ; let us take her, the beautiful princess, 1 for we see her in front of us, or can it be that you would keep her till she grows a little older?" Thus does the moujlk ask for a wife. New AdvertisementsYoung's?Restaurant, Hot and i Cold Drinks, Etc. i Stieff Piano?Built on Its Merits. Charleston Music Festival. J D Gilland?Ileal Estate Broker and Life Insurance. Butler Dry Goods Co?Keeps Nothiug but Sells Everything. M F Heller?Horses and Mules. Rank of Williamsburg?Solicits PJ Your Business. 'j C R Klugor, the Jeweler, 1060 >! Virginia Ave, Indianapolis, Ind, | writes: "I was so weak from kidney trouble that I could hardly walk a f hundred feet. Four bottles of Foley's , j Kidney Remedy cleared my com; plexion, cured my backache and the irrpcMilaries disanneared. and I can i - ---n j a ! now attend to business every day and 1 recommend Foley's Kidney Remedy to all suflferers, as it cured me after the doctors and other remedies had failed.'' DC Scott. Subscribers who order their : papers changed from one post! office to another must give us : | the name ot the former office as ; well as the one to which they wish the paper to be translerred. | tf I J Notice to Cotton Planters. I wish to inform the cotton 1 planters of this section that I will be on the market to buy ; cotton seed for the Manning ,! Oil mill after Oct 1. Highest market prices guaranteed. I 9-16-4t W K McIntosh. j Old papers for sale at this ; office. | ^ ^ ^ ^ |? ,|'v|4 STATE A\0 GENERAL NEWS. K Henry S.unuels, mayor of Chester. ! who give testimony in the cose of the State against .1 S Farnum, re: signed his oilice at a mass meet* ling of citizens of Chester held Friday night. The resignation was caused by the public sentiment gainst Samuels, which grew out Of his testimony on the witness stand. Southern mills are threatening to shut down unless the price of cotton !? rpilnpHil. Chairman W .1 Murray, of thedispensaiy winding-up commission, has announced that the affairs of the old State dispensary will probably be closed up finally some time during the present month. Asa Batson, a young white man, was killed Saturday morning by a train at a crossing on the Greenville & Knoxville railroad, near Marietta, in Greenville county. Edward Haramett, aged 45 years old, was killed at Greers Monday afternoon by being caught in the V\AUInrt i\f flio ml mill anrl ! UCitlUg VI luv. vii Ulna wuu wvwvvm i to deatii between the floor and the ceiling. Night watchman J R Garner, while making his rounds at the Shaud Lumber Go's plant in Columbia Monday nigi|J, was shot three times by * a strange negro, who seized the watchman's pistol while the latter was striking a match on entering the building. While he is seriously wounded, it is thought that Mr Garner will recover. The negro escaped. The Beinheim Distilling Co., has made good its promise to return '*30,000 overcharges for whisky sold to the old State dispensary board of directors, Chairman Murry, of the winding-up commission having received from the firm a check for that amount. This money will probably go to the school fund. According to a statement issued by Commissioner Watson the total sales of fertilizers in the State du-' ring the past year amounted to *>25,0}* tons, valued at $14,003,580. The number of tons of cotton seed meal sold was 133,315, valued at $3,460,190. The inspection tax collected from the sales amounted to $189,950.75. John C F Suhrstedt of Charleston committed suicide on his farm on the Ashley river, near the city. Monday by shooting himself with a shot gun. The Bed-Rock of Success lies in a keen, clear brain, backed by indomitable will and resistless energy. Such power comes from the splen did health that Dr King's New Life Pills impart. They vitalize every organ and build up brain and body. J A Harmon, Lizemoro, W Va, writes: "They are the best pills 1 ever used." 2oc at D C Scott's. The Quipus. The quipus. upon which the uQcicnt Peruvians kept their records and accounts, consisted of a thick main cord, i with smaller cords tied to It at certain distances. l*i>on these smaller cords the knots were tied by means of which the reckoning was kept. The length ' of the main rope varied from a foot to several yards. The cords were of various colors, each with Its own proper meaning?as red for soldiers, yellow for gold, white for silver, green for corn, and so on. The reckoning seems to have been largely regulated by the distances of the knots from the male cord and the sequence of the branches, ?New York American. weaK Kidneys Dish nor* trouble thaa u; other organ of the body. The funotloa of the kldaeye le to leparate Inorganic salt ui water la the prw eea of circulation, aad to remove them aad their attendee tpoiiona from the pedy through the bladder. Therefore wbea the kldaeye become dlaeased aad weak they are naturally aaable to perform their work properly, aal pains in the back, lsflanmatlen of the bladder aad urinary disorders are the resmlk It Is Imperative that a prompt relief be afforded, which la Impossible unless yea remove the onus* DeWitt'a Kidney and Bladder Pilla promptly eliminate poisons from ths syttem aad at the same time make the kidneys well aad strong. For Weak Kidneys. Baokaahe, Inflammation of tha bladder and all urinary troubles Da Witfs Kldney and Bladder Ptlle are unsurpassed. A Week's Treatment for 25a. Mac ay baek If they falL For Sale b}* W L Wallace. Budding genius ra seldom found behind a blossoming nose. i I Boom Your Own Town. BP.I Business will prosper Only when the people Of the community Make a united effort. Your business depends On others' prosperity. Unless we work together Results are disappointing. Only those prosper Whoce patrons are prosperous. Nothing succeeds like success! Towns thrive and flourish Only when they deserve to? I When their own people Neglect no opportunities. CARBON COUNTER. PADS For Grocers. Butchers and j other tradesmen, made in businesslike manner it reasonable prices AT OUR JOB PRINTING OFFICE Electric Bitters Succeed when everything else fails. In nervous prostration and female weaknesses they are the supreme remedy, as thousands have testified. ; FOR KIDNEY,LIVEH AND | STOMACH TROUBLE I it is the best medicine ever sold I over r druggist's counter. I %0 ~ " ^* : E THE MODE E WIRE FENC jL What a Marvel it H would have y been to Hi Abraham hincolu m splitter of E? rails. '25 - j I vSf^CLARKE'S MAILORDER WHI5KEVL HOU5E 1 4 XpjjSjl . ,>lYNChBUR6^^^hHQND IWBlli MY WHISKFV ! Thousands of satisfied customers point to "Clarke's Mail Order House," and say "There's where I buy my whiskies." There is a reason for thio:? We sell only the purest and best, and guarantee quick shipments Ly Cannon Ball Express.' Let us ship you a trial order of some of the following. They are exceptionally pure and delicious. We prepay express charges. ? 1 Gal. 2 G?l. 4 Fall 12 Full Jug. Jui?. Qts. Qts. Clarke's Htppv Valley Com $2.50 $4.50 $2.75 $7.75 Clarke's Old Tar Heel Corn, 2 85 5.00 3.25 9.00 Clarke's Select Old Corn 3.35 6 CO 4.00 10.00 Clarke's Old Private Stock Com. . . . 3.85 7.00 4.75 13.00 Clarke's Sunny South Rye 3.35 6.00 3.75 10.00 Clarke's Old Tar Heel Rye, 3 85 7.00 400 11.00 Clarke's Monogram Rye. 4 75 9.00 5.00 14.00 Sunny Brook Whiskey,(Bottled in Bond) 3.85 7.00 5.00 13.00 Clarke's Malt Whiskey 3.85 7.00 4.00 11.00 Clarke's Medicinal Corn-Malt, .... 3.50 O.50 3.75 10.00 Otd Private Stock Apple Brandy, . . 4.00 7.00 4.50 12.00 Select Old Peach Brandy 4.75 9.00 5.00 14.60 All goods guaranteed under National Pure Food Law. All orders shipped same day received in plain packages. Remit by postal or express money or registered letter. Complete price list mailed upon request. H. CLARKE & SONS, Inc., Richmond. Va, The S?*-*th'r !*:"?' Mail Order House I Land for Sale. ^ IEw?f F At Gourdins, S C fonr (4) acres V >fij! Kingstree Lodge laDd, with good two story seven No. 91 room dwelling, bath room, kitchen KtU^fytS of PytfyklS and pantry. Also one tenant house, Regular conventions Every stables and barn on same. 2nd;?ud 4th^Vedoesday nights For further iuforraatioo, apply; ? ^T- T^T* ... . . . n r J \ Castle Hall 3rd story Gourd m Building, to (Mrs) A A Gamble, if. H. Jacobs, C. C. H 9-30-2t Greelyville,S C. j xhos. McCutchex, KRS&M f * ^ ^IB 9KBS rn "pittsburgh perfect" 3 gfl I :e, weeded by electricity. 3 Mr. Farmer: Year pro.^isivenes-; is keeping you in close touch with 'improvements Jr. tarrr mn thincry. in da rt method", and vith all the scientific facts that brmg accut tne graatctt pGss.c.e agricultural SB production. jH You are also informing yen: self abort fame. V.'v \nov/ you arc. a^B a First?there was t'm stone fence of medieval history. BBI Second?pior.ecr A?.erca converted its t'mb'r in?o rails. ^B| " "hird?somebody found a way to weave w re und slats. mS ? r'ourtl)?alcnj come barb wire, wrb its m.arve'ous s-,!e. i^fl ^ Fifth?machines wc. 3 : .. ont-aa . - tv.nt or cl-rr.,' one wire around BB another: tho wo.or. v.-ire fe.tco. jflf Hu#_ mrtat iT'DOrianfc of all, electricity new wefticthe IBI wires at the joint, making no longer nccrssary these wraps ^ W and clamps. Stay and strand, wizard-like, become one. j^H ' a single, master stroke. (( Of course, you are not usin;T anythir.fr else. Surely you are familiar- izing yourself w.th this rcmarxabio improvement, to be found only in SRj A -Pittsburgh Peri ecu" FARMERS'SUPPLY CO., | ,TJ- ; ?. ?; MUMBy-wBKmasx. ^ j? Kingstree, S. C. w 'v si .3