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(The (Counti! |trrord. KINQSTREE. S. C C. W. WOLFE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. fciitered at the postoftire at Kingstree, S C. as second clas< mail matter, TELEPHONE NO- 83rrnMO i tnuid SU1?< UirrioN IIAT?S: j Jr.e copy, one year $1 2.' | One copy, six mom lis 7r One copy, three months 5'1; Ore copy, one year in advance? 1 00 ; Ob'tuarh's. Tributes of Respect, Kes /.ulions of 1'hanks, < anK of Thanks : ani all other reading notices not I . v\iit . r?*.i fern; aerate, of : e a w->rc. iu.' ea ' iii-i'i ti' n. A! changes of advertisements unci. ai' c mmunicati ois inu?t he in ihi>onict b-'i'Mc JTE^OAY NOON in order to app-ar in tit- ensuing issu". A ? o:iiiii'inieati- n? must he signed bv > writer.not tor publication utile? desired, but t?? protect this newspaper, ADVERTISING KATES; Advertisement* to be tun in Spee- ( iai oiumn, one cent a word eaeh issu , minimum price -o cents, to h* p?i-i for in advance. I Legal advertisements. $l.oo per inch fi *; insertion, ">n cents per inch eacl subsequent in* -rtiou. Kates < n !<>ng term advertisetnents very rea-ojiable. I'ot rates apply at rhi- office. J: remitting checks or money order* raa e payable to THK COI NTV KEi OKI). THURSDAY. JAN. 12. 1911. "Jr. rr.en whom men condemn as ill, I rind so much of goodness still; , In men whom MEN pronounce divine, 1 I lir.d so much of sin and biot ? I h-'sitate to draw the line Between the two?whereGod has not." j Nut even ;i great man ran af-j for-1 to overlook small debts. The Hying machine fellows o{>e- J rating over the State seem to Hv anywhere when the jieople raise; the wind. ====== If tin- Legislature liegins tliisI session l<y raising State otlieials' salaries woe Ik' unto the tax-payers hy the time forty days have olapse< I. The ambitious "hurg" that isn't ' kicking aliout the census figures is the exception. May lie we'll j in the insurgents when the returns come in for Kingstree. Some folk> seem to think the 1'en Commandments are applied according to a sliding scale, so that to steal a dollar or two is -* 1 i ? ; o. it VOIUill Mil JtlM "U.IIUT. ii small. Columbia is making a strenuous pull t?? bring to that city next year the National Corn exposition s ?on to he held in Columbus, <>!ii>. It !s peculiarly fitting that this exposition should he held at the capital of South Carolina,inasmuch as the Palmetto State lead4 the world in the production of corn per acre. The record acre in the boys' contest h-^t year is l?eaten bnlv one man and that man is ('apt Zachariah Drake, of Marlboro -county,South Carolina. Already a bill lias been introduced to raise the salary of the 9 A ^ i"WW\ ..**<1 it"* tiovrrnor U) unu jri/ in his campaign against Governor AnseJ Mr Blease ridiculed Governor Ansel's plea tliat he could not support the dignity of the office <?n $3,(XX). "(Jive lis less dignity and more work in the office," quoth Mr Blease when out ??f office. Wonder what he thinks ;Uh?nt it now that he has the office? We welcome. among our ex- j changes the Allendale Herald,whose; editor and proprietor is Mr F Karle BradhaiA,' an experienced; newspaper man. The new-comer into iJic ranks of the Fourth Estate is a good looking sheet, clean and neat, with a good advertising p;itranage. All we find to criticise is the "patent inside." In the light of pa>t exiM'rienee we would print every side of our paper at home if it were no higgcr than .. .'!><...? lot tor n:iner. As :i testimonial of appreciation fur tin* effort- l?c had put forth f??r tin* good of the city the people of Augusta, (ieorgia, last week present*''! Kditor Thomas \V hovle-:?, of tlie Augusta Chronicle. with a haii'l-oine diver serviee '"'sling ..'.je tlloUSaild ' I ! i: I i* -. Lucky editor, to live and lahor ..immg a people so libera! and si appreciative. Most newspaper men?especially editor- <>| country paper-? free'/ give their best ( talents and energies to -ii]?J their communities and in return | eke out a scanty existence, barely | worthy t" 'r ealle*l a living. A siivnuous campaign fought again-t big odd- to a victorious j J lini-h i- taken as a matter of i course and the newspaper i- r* - i 11tendered only in a hostile spirit J I by those whose designs were fruit rated. j There i- agitation among the i faculty ami the alumnae of Winthrop College to increase the amount of tin- girls' college appropriation to huild a new dor-; mitory so as to accommodate thej young women who from year t*?j year seek admission t<? this institution ami are turned away. The plea is made that the disparity I I.i? tl>.. iiiuiiint- iriven the male colleges and the one femalej institution of. learning by the State is too great. While The Record is not in favor of State aid for any of our institutions of learning, still, if the colleges for 1h>vs are to he helped, we helieve that those for the girls should receive equal consideration. But, it seems to us the whole system is wrong. The State cannot afford to subsidize a female college i to the extent that the three male colleges have liecn given State aid. Then, in justice to all, the Legislature should take away a portion from the over-Mowing coffers of at least one of the Stat -endowed colleges and give it to the girls. This is but right and just. Cleinson could spare Winthrop about forty thousand dollars and then he as well off as last year, mil I'l-cn then it was thought by i ? w * I many that C'lemsnn more limncy than it really needed. There is need for some sort of legislation to divide Cletnson's immense revenue or its ever-increasing income will become embarrassing to those who enjoy the spending of ^it. Womsn F?r Goad Roads. In one .?r thnsi* eitief where the women !uio' jn-tivefy taken up the work of civic improvement the woman's club ha* created a department of good roads and has appointed a committee to hnve charge. This is the first action of the kind that we hare noticed. The local newspaper says that "this committee has not been asked to work the roads, but It surely will be able to work the men who control them, to judge by the success of the efforts of the women in the past for improvements of advantage to the <>lt? " Anil tharafn la ofotoil tho iai>rot of the value of such an undertaking on the part of these women. If the men won't build good roads the women can make them. Southern Good Roads begs leave to acknowledge itself a firm and unwavering constituent of this ; club of progressive ladies who not only enjoy books and original articles ' on current topics, refreshments and social pleasures connected with the usual feminine club, but also incorporate , into their realm of activity such a laudable work as furthering the good roads movement < GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETS. j ? M. L. Smith Elected Speaker ol House - W.L.Ma uld In.Pres.Sena te The General Assembly of South Carolina convened Tuesday at noon. The Senate elected Senator W L Mauldin of Greenville, president pro tempore. Mr W W Mann was elected clerk; Mr Fred Schumpert, sergeant-at-arms; Itev A E Holler.chap lain; Rev VV S Stokes, editor of the Lake City News,reading clerk,which % position he held last year. Senator Weston, of Richland, introduced the first bill,to provide for the increase of salaries of State officers. The Senate adjourned at 2 o'clock. Senator Epps' name appears on six committees, as follows: Education. Engrossed Bills, Fish, Game and Forestry, Enrolled Bills, Drainage ami Immigration, Legislative Library, which, it goes without saying, will keep him pretty well employed during the session doing committee work. The Committee on Education is a most important one and Senator Epps will make a valuable member on it. The House of Representatives, as was exjx'cted. elected Hon Mendel L Smi'h of Kershaw, s|>eaker. Mr Smith has already filled this place two terms and it is no idle compliment to say that it would be hard to find a man his equal in the whole State for this position? thqre is none superior. With three former speakers members of the House and Mr Smith's election uncontested, it is needless to say that he had the absolute confidence of his fellow members. The other officers and .attaches chosen are: Clerk, James A Hoyt, editor of the Columbia Record: reading clerk, McGowan Simpkins of Edgefield; sergeant-at-arms, J S Wilson of Lancaster; chaplain, Rev R N Pratt of Columbia. Representative Rembert, Governor Elect Blease's floor leader, sprung his bill to raise the Governor's and other ^tate officers' salaries. The House committee appointments were not announced yesterdav. PROSPEROUS INSTITUTIONS. Fine Showing Made By County's Three Leading Banks. Annual statements of the county's three leading banks indicate in each instance that the past year was the most successful annual j>eriod since their respective organizations. The Bank of Kingstree? the oldest banking institution in the county, held its annual stockholders' meeting on Wednesday, January 4. The usual dividend of 8 per cent, wasde -1 1 i-t- - 1 I 4.L C ciareu auu trie umauctr ui nit- i?iuiits passed to surplus. The net earnings for the past year exceeded the | expectations of the stockholders, being greater than the profits of any previous year. The excellent financial condition of the bank is shown by the following statement: Loans and discounts, $173,954.96; surplus, $15,000; deposits, $173,954.86; cash on hand and in banks, $77,763.40. The directors are: D C Scott, R H Kellahan, J A Kelley and J F Cooper. The officers: D C Scott,president; I J A Kelley, vice president; F Wj Fairey, cashier; N D Lesesne, assistant eashier; W W Barr, teller. The annual meeting of the Bank,! of Williamsburg was held at its j banking house on Saturday. January j 7. The meeting was well "attended I by the stockholders,who were highly pleased with the splendid condi-1 tion of the bank as shown by the i cashier's report. Notwithstanding the fact that the year this bank was organized proved one of the most disastrous years since the war from a business standpoint and the following year was marked by the great panic, causing all products to fall far below their value?despite all these untoward circumstances the Bank of Williamsburg proved a profitable enterprise from the start and has thriven steadily year by vear, increasing its resources and influence, until now it stands in the front rank of financial institutions in j this section of the State. The bank began the new year with: Loans and discounts, $137,000; surplus and profits, $15,000; cash on hand, ^ |U STATE and GENERAL * 3 TOPICS |j rrTr^r^nr^rrr^Trrr^^^ , The Carnegie Trust Company, another big New York bank with a! capital of SI,500,000 and deposits of nearlv $10,000,000, was closed i Saturday morning by direction of i the Statt superintendent of banks. ' The last statement issued November 10, showed a surplus and undivided 1 profit amounting to $737,000. t ; xxx rn nallae-her.the man who s. j)t May or Gaynor of New York citjA got a [ twelve-year sentence. y*.he jury j was out forty rninut? and gave | Gallagher a light sentence. X X X United States Senator Stephen B. 1 Eikins, of West Virginia, passed | away at his home in Washington, j D (\ Wednesday night of last week. Although a Republican in politics,! ho. was a son-in-law of Henry Gasa- i awa\ Davis, once a candidate for!1 i Vice-President on the Democratic ticket. ( X X X The total taxes for the State of ! South Carolina for all purposes is $1,620,000. Of this amount only < $623,437 had been received by the I State Treasurer up to January 5. XXX One day last week Robert Smith, i a Spartanburg lad aged five years, while at play with a small cousin, Thepza Lancaster, chopj>ed otf all the fingers of the little girl's left hand with an axe. XXX i Governor Ansel has commuted to life imprisonment the sentence of Pink Franklin, the Orangeburg ne- j gro murderer who was to have been 1 hanged on December 23, and was J granted a respite to January 27. ] This brings to an end a raitse relcbre. i XXX 1 Probate Judge W A Brunson died I 1 at his home in Florence Monday, i lin ii-oo a PrvnfoOprntA veteran and . ! one of tffe oldest and most highly ? ! esteemed citizens of Florence. XXX John Muiiins, a well known negro ! laborer at the ACL shops in Florl ence, was struck by a train at a i crossing near the town aryd instantly ! killed Wednesday. XXX 1 I The Government census bureau { : places the total number of bales of ? cotton ginned up to January 1,1911, < at 1 1,087,442 compared with 9,167,- ] 327 from the growth of 1909. I XXX t ! Walter B Abbott, secretary of the r Y M C A, of Spartanburg, shot ' himself through the heart with an | automatic pistol Tuesday afternoon ,t while sitting at his desk in the Y M t IC A building. He lived only ten * seconds after firing the shot. The j .IppH is sunDosed to have been acci- i rr - | dental. j XXX < Fourteen men comprising the cap- j tains and crews of three canal barges \ were drowned Tuesday off the coast 1 of Massachusetts. I < t 1 XXX United States Senator Chas J t Hughes, of Colorado, died yesterday i at his home in Denver. -He was jun- * ior Senator from his State and was a . Democrat. t g c $89,000; deposits, $186,632.40. . \ After declaring 8 per centdivi- c dend,the balance of the net earnings 1 ?which exceeded the amount paid c. to stockholders?was added to the J surplus. The hoard of directors and officers ! were unanimously re-elected, as fol- I lows: Directors?C W Stoll.F Rhem, c E C Epps,W V Strong,P G Gourdin, t J C Graham, J F McFadden and W t I Nexsen; officers?C W Stoll, pres- t ident; E C Epps, cashier; C W Bos-1 ii well, assistant cashier; Miss Eunice'fc Kennedy, book-keeper. 0 The Farmers and Merchants Bank \ of Lake City has issued an attractive C folder, showing its condition at the IA beginning of the new year, which ' p reflects much credit upon the capa- j % SPECIAL NOTICES |fSp Phone us when you wan /jT to get a notice under thi f t?' lle:U^nE* i>rice one cen* : woril for each insertion. N ad taken for less than 2">c Phone S3. For Salk?Scholarship !" Bryant i Strarton Business College, Louisville If interested let us h?ar from you. 3-ll-tf The< olnty Record. FoR SALE?Seventy-five (7"),Sheep Grade, Merino and S<?urhd'>\vn. hi gh mccutchen. King-tree, b. U Boardeks?See Mrs W P Hawkin a? Ep:?s House, iii-.tr the nil road lor Board and Lodging, (i tod :ice<?nimo<la ion by die day. week or month at rea -onaMe rat?s. J-l'J-tf % ' |NEW AD&f L L) Rodgers, Fire Sale. Jenkinson Bros Co, Pushing Oui Into the Stream. Stackley's Dry Goods Co. Thirty day Reduction Sale. Farmers' and Merchants' Bank Don't keep your money in the home Milhous & Jennings, Delicatesser Store. Wiikins Wholesale Grocery Co Corn and Tomatoes. New Haselilen Drug Co, Greely ville, White Pine and Tar Syrup. Kingstree Dry Goods Co, White Goods Sale. S Marcus. Look Out Next Week TO DEVELOP BACK COUNTRY C. L. Railroad Ready to Helj People Along Its Lines. Mr E B Clark, of Wilmington,th( i\lantic Coast Line railroad's immi ^ration agent for this territory, ac :ompanjed by Division Superinten ient Charles L Porter, of Rockj Mount,N (J,spent Tuesday in Kings tree and vicinity discussing wit! representative business of the towi ways and means for bringing int< this section the right kind of immi grants. Not the foreign rift'-raf ind pauper element, but men o: substance and character wh< would join with the home people ii auilding up waste places and getting :he fertile soil of our county int< i high state of cultivation, so that ;he full fruition of nature's boun :eous gifts of productive soil anc deal climate shall be ours. Mr Clark expressed himself as be ng highly pleased with our countj and its people; said he never saw i jeople more willing to help themselves, and that is the pre-requisit* juality in the community as well as in the individual to encourage ai( from others. All are willing to lelp those who really want to bettei ;heir condition.In his position of im nigration agent Mr Clark is constant y coming in touch with the bettei :lass of home-seekers and investors vho will make desirable citizens ir inv community and he assures u; ;hat in answering their inquiries iKr?nt HiflPnrunt Inpalif-ioc will nrv ?L/V/Ul> UII4V4Vi?V IVVMIIViV w i?v * ?*v "orget the advantages offered ir Williamsburg county. In thus ringing together the consumer anc producer, so to speak, Mr Clark is >f course not actuated wholly bj iltruistic motives. In building ui ;he back country, or contributing t( :hat end, the Atlantic Coast Line is aying the foundation for greatei >rosperity which must result ir argely enhancin g its source of rev;nue. The more "feeders" then ire along aline of railway the great ;r the volume of business createc for the road. But the benefit de ived by the railroad is only indirecl -that is to say, its property is but ;he reflection of and dependent upm the condition of the people wh( xatronize the road. The latter re deve direct benefit from the work >f such men as Mr Clark. That faci w>i?%sw aInwi Alia lira oKaii 1 /4 <4a a!1 ir ^Zlllg UUVIUU3 vvc OIIUU1U UU Oil 11 iur power to encourage the railroac n its effort to help us build up oui >wn country. )le management of the bank and in licates in the strongest way possible he confidence and loyalty of its pa rons. The statement shows: Capial, $25,000; surplus, $15,000; prof ts,$8,277.83; cash on hand and ir >anks, $99,431.83; deposits, $207,'50.98. Directors, S B Poston, E V Stewart, C M Kelley, J D Me !lam, T J Cottingham. Officers: J g icClam, president; S B Poston. vice resident; T J Cottingham. cashier; I F Fenegan, assistant cashier. } INN NAMES 1N ENGLAND. 6 t Th*y Can't B% Changed at th? Mart Whim of th? Innkaapar. ' Our British cousins prince cu,l rious and contradictory ideas with 0 inference to proper names. 0(fi? cially they exhibit all their national conservatism touching the retention - of names in some circumstarfi.es; individually they indulge in ail manner of license in the bestowal of names upon their offspring. England is one of the freest coun-E^ " tries in the world, a country wl^gflp. i: the rights of individuals are sBS^., guarded in the fullest measure, in some details those lights aro^DL* rious1/ curtailed. Once an innk<B&! - er of South Hants wished to 3 the name of his establishment Bj^^B the Duke of York to the Pan^^^^^ - In this country the m?^iod ho to take down the ohi signfl^^B ban? up a new one,, but thcrc^^BB ca?e was different. ^^^^B t The distinguished naval * who acted as c hairman of tli^^H^B ithoritative comnrttee demand^^H^Hfl reason for so sudden and violl^^^^B change. ITe was informed that^^^B el inn namea^B the Duke of York in a neighboring^! town and that the identity of t names caused some confusion in business. \ This would seem to he a safisfac- i torv excuse, but the chairman held that it was discourtesy to the Duke , of York to supersede him by a . . brute. The application was refused. ? The host of the Alma, a metro* 1 politan inn, wis!.' ;1 to take advantage of a passing wave of popular interest and to call his hostelry the Fashoda. Out of regard for French sensibility permission was . curtly refused. A similar fate befell the request 4 to change the name of another inn from the Royal Oak to the Radstock. In this case the chairman of the committee took the ground that Lord Radstoc-k, as an eminent philanthropist and a Christian mar.,, might object to the use of his name.. , for a house in which liquor was ' sold. This argument carried tKe day. Thus the same authority held ? it to be discourteous to a philan. thropic nobleman to give his name ? . to a '"licensed house" and discour. tcous to the heir to the throne to rer move his name from a licensed . house.?Chicago Record-Herald. ^ ^ A Tip For the Angler. 5 There had been an incessant . downpour of rain from the early f hours of the morning, and still the f angler sat on the bank of the river. a Doubtless he was fishing for his tea, p| i but success did not attend hi^jef- n j forts, and his only eonsolatiotfwaa M > a small eel about the size of a worm.^M Suddenly a drenched urchin madaHg - his appearance. "Caught inuch^^H 1 asked the boy. "Can't you see," impatiently rj^Bfl - plied the angler. jHH "Yer'll catch nothing there, n^HBS * ter." Xo reply. After a slight pau^BH - "I know where you can catch - though." j9^BB "Where?" eagerly inquired 1 nrrlnnt nnrrlpr 1 I 'Tnder the bridge," replied^^^H r | hoy. "How do yon know?" H "'Cause they alius go ther^^^H r' keep out of the rain." r The angler got up to stretch 1 self, and the youth made a hasty^^Bj 5 treat.?London Ideas. V * ________ j ^ A Fisherman's Proposal. 1 "Xv love," whispered an ardent' 1 ' ! angler, "you hold first 'plaice* in my heart! Although I 'floudder' 3 about in expressing myself, my 7 'sole* wish is that you will save me } from becoming a 'crabbed' old bochl elor. I shall stick to you closer * than a 'limpetfrom you a 'wink*!!' J be the road to guide me. Together > I we will 'skate' over me 8 tocks,' ana > I when I look at your hand beside me {a [ I shall say to myself, 'Fortune was 1 I mine when I put "herring" there!'" I The lady lowered her eyes in sweet I k confusion and murmured, "Pass the s salt r?London Mail. . 1 * 3 Moat Paculiar. U ) a Canvasser?Are you single? : A J Man at the Door?Yes. "Why, the people next door tolflffl , me you were married." j "Yet you told me just now you^H were single." "Yes; so I did." HI "Well, what is the matter witlwfl "Nothing, sir. My name is SnfH - gle and I'm married. Goodly* *^^D| For There are many reasons girl's giving up office work, but ^H|8 ' mentioned by a writer in Brool^^^M ' Life in the following storyJp p^Hfl I Vian> 4-Via miut efFpnfrivp thflF COUld^iH . be invented. H ; "Miss Smith is going aw?v/' said .fl one of the stenographers to another. H "T* she leaving for good?" H "No, not for good; for better ot for worse."