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I ?/v*\ Jfcr (fauiitij 5tlccofd. KiNGSTREE, S. C C. W. WOLFE. "EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. ii iiHMHaaMMBmnM Ent'-red ar th-? postoltire at Kin^stree, > C. as second clas> mail matter. TELEPHONE NO- 83- ' TERMS SUBS' RIPTION RATES: Jae copy. one year $1 25 One copy, six mowhs 75 One copy, three months 50 ODe copy, one year in advance ? 1 00 Obituaries. Tributes of Respect, Resolutions of Thanks, Cards of Thanks 1 and all ot >er reading notices, not News, will bo charged for at the rate of one cent a word for each insertion. ' All changes of advertisements and < al! communications must in thisoffice before TUESDAY NOON in order to, < ^pear in the ensuing issue. All communications must be signed by the writer,not for publication unle-s ' desired, but t>? protect this newspaper, ^ ADVERTISING RATES; Advertisements to be run in Spec- ' ial column, one cent a word each issue, minimum price 25 cents, to be, paid for is advance. J< Legal advertisements, 81.00 per inch ,. first insertion, ">0 cents per inch each ;' subsequent insertion. ' ] Rates on long term advertisements . very reasonable. For rates apply at ' this office. I, In rem'tt; ag checks or money orders make payable to THE COUNTY RECORD. | THURSDAY, FEB. 9. 1911. i "In men whom men condemn as ill, ( I find so much of goodness still; In men whom MEN pronounce divine, J I find 30 much of sin and blot? "] 1 hesitate tc draw the line Between the two?whereGod has not. . ? ;i KINliSTKEE?THE GATEWAY i TO OPPORTUNITY. s Good Bye and Good Luck. 1f With kindly feeling toward all * and malice toward none, we hid * adieu our friends who have seen 1 fit t-? sev r 'their political alle- 1 gian<v fr? ?;ij old Williainshurg and / ;afiga themselves with the citizenship of Florence county. But alheit they have dissolved ? the p ditical hands that connected ^ vtlieiu with the grand old mother county, we feel that the ties of ^ friendship and sentiment are in- ' 1 dissoluble. Lake City, Seranton and i MeAlii-terV .Mill may apjx'ar on \ *? the map as riorence it-i l?iit in spirit ami tradition they, are -till with us ancl of us. Let n calamity W-fall either section and s.-e how quivkly imaginary Itoundary lines will vanish and slid and sympathy Ik* poured forth one t > another. Our |>eople are: one Lig family: we have our little luek'-ring- and disagreements, hut let real trouble come and all these jn'tty little quarrels cease. Whether we dwell in Florence or Wil-' lian.shurg the ties of kinship, j friendship and business will ever! link us close together. 'T?W lx' the tie that hinds''. Spallation and [icculation differ only in one letter and oft-times the letter is silent. When is an office not an office? When the holder of another ofI fire wants to swing on to it. A #>.<1 title for the farce com-j edy with the dramatis personae the Kxocutive and the Judicial heads of our State government would l?c: 44Much Ado about Nothing." If the Governor'!* attitude toward the Supreme Court l?e called Contempt of court, the Court's opinion of the Governor might l?e termed "Blease majestic." Tiie constitution forbids anyone holding two or more offices of honor or emolument. If there be neither honor nor money in the State college trusteeships why do the politicians scramble for them? Willi tin l.-iri-'.-'iiw -e--ion !?rn**t:* ;?i?y o\vr. i???i one word. so 1:1 r a- We klli ?\V, ha- I'tVI! Uttered in In k;ilf ?>t" sc--ion.- of tin- I.egi-Iatuiv. which would -aw tiiu tax-payers thoti-ands of dollars and the Statu many f?h?]i.-ii law-. tiovornor 1Mease seems t? he falling away from tlie IVmoerati< simplicity that marked his demeanor on the hustings. According to a report from Columbia the (lovernor nipt ires a visitor to present an admission card lieforc heing ushered into his august presence? J)u tell! The appropriation hill covering all the expense of the State govL'rninent for the current year passpd the House Saturday. Ft foots up the enormous sum of nearly two million dollars. If we reinemlier aright, ten years ago a "million dollar F.egislature" was considered the limit of extravagance. Isir't it time to call a iia.1t to to this wanton and ruthless squandering of the people's money? The National Corn exposition it Columbus, Ohio, awarded Jer y Moore a "h[ue ribbon" for iroducing the largest yield of corn >11 a single acre. Another fifteenrear-old lad won an automobile. The press report fails to state for vhat particular achievement the iUtomobile was awarded?perhaps t was the "l>ooby prize" for the mallest yield. When such mag-i litieent recognition as a blue ril>k>ii was given a fifteen-year-old Mjy for a prize acre that lieat the vorld's record, the awarding eomnittee could well afford to l>e exravagant all down the line. rhe Evolution of i Booster Bill /II.?Improves E23 Kcuscand Grounds Vhen Bill Blue had the grouch disease t struck his house and premises. The UGLY MICROBE hit his yard, -lis home and phiz, and hit them hard. I 3ut when Bill Blue was sane once more | Sis frouzy outlook made him ssre. H is home he started in to groom ^nd took some sunshine for his gloom. fHfeuf ?-? J New paint upon his house was seen. He trimmed his lawn and kept it clean. He said: "I'll brighten up this place. I'll comb its hair and wash its face. "There's nothing puts a town ahead Like pretty homes and lawns." he said. "THE VILLAGE BEAUTIFUL FOR MINE!" Cried "Bill the Eoos'.er," "Make it shine!" The Swallow Family. Before the country was densely populated the swallows used to make their homes In caves or In uiches of rocks or hollow trees, but now they trustfully build their uests close to barns and houses, usually nesting UUUCI iUC CU v vo vt v>vu .Mw.wv buildings. Their nest Is composed of layers of mud about an Inch thick, plentifully mixed with straw and lined with feathers. They usually rear two broods in a season, the first in May and the second in July. The eggs are four to six in number, white, with red and purple spots and splashes nearly covering the larger end. When the second brood of young are capable of using their wings lAe swallows congregate in flocks of thousands and migrate southward, traveling by daylight instead of at night, as is the custom of most migratory birds. The swallow is an attractive bird, with long wings and a forked tail. Its mall, flat, triangular beak is also characteristic. I rrf Vfr'i'lift |:ST^^^d^NEP^L | ij TOPICS || .TTnr.T^rT^^?t!T\nnriTTTtnrrT!7T^ : General Piet Cronje, the famous Boer leader, passed awa> Saturday at KierksdortT, in the Transvaal. XXX , Heyward county, of which North Augusta was to be the county seat, seems to have lost out. The supreme I court refused to review Governor Blease's action nullifying Governor Ansel's order to hold the election1 j and the project dies, for the time being, at least. XXX I ! i Deputy Sheriff George Mumford was killed and A 0 Glover, chief of i police of Wilson, N C, fataliy ' 1 _ 1 1. 1 ?? ?!? ? <*?..?? snoi last wee it uy an uimuuvwi I I j desperado, who escaped and at last accounts is still at large. XXX i The census bureau gives Walter1 borough, the county seat of Colleton county, 1,677 population for 191^. The population in 1900 was 1,494. XXX Saturday night Robert McBee was killed and Lee Holland, intendant of i i the village of Mauldin, in Greenville ; county, probably fatally wounded in (a fight between McBee and his son, Will, and a posse under Holland's | lead, who were trying to arrest the j McBees, father and son, after the latter had terrorized the community. Holland, though shot through the right breast, gamely arrested the younger McBee and delivered him to the Sheriff before his strength failed. XXX T Boyd Pearson, a well-to-do merchant living near Greer, Greenville county, committed suicide Monday morning by shooting himself with a pistol. Ill health is supposed to have been the cause. XXX Governor Blease last week pardoned Edward Abbott and Frank Dearman, two white meh of Spartanburg, who were convicted of gambling and running a gambling house and sentenced to one year each on the pub li/? tvArl^a Our Clubbing Rates We offer cheap clubbing rates with a number of popular newspapers and periodicals. 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D. nc uu uul uuu niui any daily papers. The first issue you ! receive of the paper or periodical | is evidence that the money for I same has been forwarded by us. We are not responsible after that. ' The County Record. Kin^stree, S. C. j Old papers for sale cheap by i the hundred at The Record office. ?? ? Chamberlain's SMfftUS Rem fails. Buy it now. It may save life *: ... - . MARK TWAIN ON ROOSEVELT. ! i Dead Humorist's Rating of Rough J Rider President. Books owned and manuscripts written by Samue! L Clemens (Mark Twain), collected at New York for disposal at an early date, are found to contain some indications of the late author's method of work. An. interesting and comparatively recent document refers to Col Theodore Roosevelt. ! Among the other manuscripts is one described as "an article on the inauguration of President Taft," and "The deliverance of the countty from Mr Roosevelt," dated Marap6, 1909. A portion of it follows:^ ( "Astronomers assure us thlt that the attraction of gravitation on the surface of the sun is twenty-eight times as powerful as is the force at the earth's surface; and that the obipot which weierhs 217 pounds else J""" W where would weigh 6,000 pounds there. For seven years this country has lain smouldering under a burden like that, the incubus representing, in the person of President Roose-; velt, the difference between 217 ( pounds and 6,000. Thanks be, we got rid of this disastrous burden day before yesterday at last "Forever? Probably not. Probably only for a brief breathing spell, J wherein, under Mr Taft, we may hope to get back some of our health ?four years. We may expect to have Mr Roosevelt sitting on us again with his twenty-eight times , the weight of any other Presidential?J burden that a hostile Providence ] would impose upon us for our sins, j j "Our people have adored this ; showy charlatan as perhaps no im- J postor of his breed has been adored J since the golden calf; so it is to be | expected that the nation will want J him back again, after he is done J hunting other wild animals heroic- j ally in Africa, with the safeguard i and advertising equipment of a i park of artillery and a brass band." , 1 ??j ^ Lincoln and the Book. *|J Abraham Linc4n when a boy of j thirteen or fourteen years of age. hear- 11 lug that a neighbor named Crawford ' owned Ramsey's "Life of Washing- j ton," borrowed the book to read. He J bad nearly finished the; perusal when ? an accident occurred, which caused M him much regret. On retiring to bed one stormy evening he placed the book directly under a crack In their log cabin, and, the wind changing before morning, the rain came In, and the "Life of Wasbigton" was wet through. His dismay was great on discovering Its badly damaged condition?he had promised to take care of It and return it safely?and he felt that his reputation would be lowered, although he had not actually been to blame. But he resolved to take it back to the owner at the close of his day's work and offer to make what reparation he could, though he had no money to give. He carried out this purpose with a heavy heart and was well received by the neighbor, who proposed that he should work out the whole cost of the l?ook and theft keep It for his own. in this way he earned the book. j Lincoln's Politeness. No doubt you boys have all read the story of the time when Lincoln, walking with a friend, met a negro who lifted his hat to the two men. Lincoln lifted his hat in turn to the negro. "Why did you do that?" asked Lincoln's friend of the president. "Because." was the reply, "I cannot afford to be less polite than a negro." Now. can we boys, whether we're white or black, afford to be less polite than a hero? Boy's Thought of Lincoln. Some days in school when teacher says, "Jim, name the presidents," I up and commence And say them all from Washington clear through Kuchanan; then I have to stop and clear my throat. I al- ( ways have to when . I come to Abraham Lincoln's name E'en though the teacher whispers: "8hatne! Can't you remember. Jim?" Can't I remember him? Why. he's my hero! That ts why I get choked up and want to cry. Once he waa J jst as poor as I And homely, too. and tall and shy, And he waa brave and made his pl&cw? Climbed to the top and freed a race. When I think what he dared to do I Just vow I'll do something too. ' i A Changed Man. In Scotland a man has reached the summit of his ambitions when he attains to the magisterial bench. There was one Scot to whom the honor seemed indeed an overwhelming one, and he tried-hard to live up to it. This individual, deeply conscious of his importance and oblivious to i his immediate surroundings, was one day proceeding along a road when he plumped into a farmer's cow. "Mon," protested the farmer, indignant, "mind my coo!" "Mon!" reiterated the officer. "I'm no longer a mon. I'm a baillie." I The Spring; Term of the j [ HI1STREE GRADES AND HIGH SCHOOL j ? will begin ? January 5, 1911 All departments are now "S in Good Working Order. Parents who intend entering their children in the school will please do so during Live first week of the spring term. Patrons and friends of the School are cordially invited to visit the school at an / .i:ne. Any further Lit juration may be had by applying to i J. W. Swittenberg, E. C. Epps, / Superintend in L Clerk Board of Trustees. '" i j Kingstree, S. C. I New Year Resolution | E Buy your Groceries where you get the most 3 E for your money. In other words buy from 3 | MILHOUS & JENNINGS j E Fancy Groceries, all kinds of Choice Canned Goods, g E Fruits?Fresh and Evaporated, ? National Bis- 3 E cuit Co's Products, Heinz' ''57 varieties", 3 E Schlesenger's Delicious Confectionery, 3 E Choice Beef, Pork and Mutton, 3 f E Cigars, Etc. 3 E Everything to be found in a high-class delicatessen 3 ^ ^ ?A-* ? - ITA11 flf SLUrC IS UliCICU Jfuu ai nm^m p; 2S g Milhous & Jennings 3 ? Phone 93 v Kisgitree, S. C. 3 f L J. STACKLEYjl I - The Coffins and Caskets Man | 8 offers his services S i> Day and Night \ fl in the W 8 FIRST OFFICE OVER STACKLEY'S DRY GOODS CO.'S. 8 8 Yours to Serve. 8 I L J. STACKLEY. I sssssscscscstesescssscsesd? ? ???j No. 1207.?Numerical Enigma. Arrival of Passenger Trains at I am composed of twenty-four let- Klngstree. ters and stu-Il the tianiyvjf a famous m. A., .. ^ , " English poetess. My 17. is. 19. 20.21 . Atlantic Coast Line railroad Is a color; my 10. 11. 13 is a trouble- j13 promulgated the following' schedsome anicini; m.v i). 7. 5, 2. S. 9 is ux'e? which became effective Sunday, soundness of laxly: my 12. 22. 23. 24 January 1, 1911: Is a finger ornament: my 4. 1. (5. 12. 3 NORTH BOUND' Is an animal that Is related to the ass; ? my 10. 3. 24 is large, and my 10. 14. 5 0 " " " 7:45 * m Is a beverage. No 46 - 11:37 a m No <8 - - - 6:12 p m No. 1208.?Concealed Word Square. ^TH BoUND (One word Is concealed In each couplet.) Do seo the man standing nearby all alone. No 79 11:14 Well, he Is the bravest at everything *xjr? /t7 * nn known. I>0 4f - - - - 6:09 p m t . No 89 - . . 9:10 p m rheS.,Stame' ^ow * Daily except Sunday. [ know you'll agree when you ponder each word. ,v ' Who would to a postal entrust such a It is now against the law to send ~*jf ril "vVto reform end .end letter. Or * W?U>' P?I*r to a subscriber longman. er than one year on credit. We _ . ? ., ... ... don't intend to violate the law to Should Ada mend every small thins she . could find please anyone; so don t be surprised 'Twould give me the leisure to settle my j jf your paper Stops coming when .mlnd" 1 you don't pay. tf He's not a pretender. I noticed your I ' m smile. ^wlr-S' wMt '"" By helping n. you help yourTh. self. Buy from the houses who Beside his brishtfexriof.s our advertise in The Record and a. -.t . : . | mention the paper. .-r o W-t.'v. ^ .v"