The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, March 02, 1911, Page FOUR, Image 4
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KINGSTREE. S. C.
C. W. WOLFE.
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
Entered at the postoffice at Kingstree
S C as second class mail matter.
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"In men whom men condemn as ill,
I find so much of goodness still;
In men whom men pronounce divine,
I find so much of sin and blot?
I hesitate to draw the line
Between the two?where God has not"
KINGSTREE-THE GATEWAY
TO OPPORTUNITY.
THURSDAY. MAR. 2. 1911.
What Can We Do?
One of the most difficult and
perplexing problems we have to
contend with is how to get our
papers delivered after they are
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priuieu uiiu put in nit jiwifviiiw.
If one-half the complaints" we revive
are justifiable our postal
service must l?e poorest to be
found in any civilized J country.
The worst of it is we are! powerless
to remedy the evil. If it
were one or two offices, "something
might be done, but when
complaints come in every week
bv the dozen, what are we to do?
The whole system?or lack of
system?seems to be inefficient,
in some places almost worthless;
such conditions as our Andrews
...v??onnmLnt 1-ilintJlilK ()f f(,r
instance.
\\V mail the papers "usually
Thursday afternoon?rarely ever
later than Friday afternoon. Yet
complaints come frequently Ithat
subserii>ers, living on a line of railway
in the county, do not get
their papers till the following
Monday.
We can well understand and
sympathize with the subscriber
who pays for the paper and fails
to get it regularly. He naturally
places ithe fault upon us, attributing
it to our carelessness or
indifference. But put yourself in
our place for an instant. There
is work and worry enough in
getting out the sheet without tnt
added responsibility of delivering
it. When it comes to that we
are absolutely powerless. All we
can do is to print the paper and
put it in the postoffice. That
we regret the conditions complained
alnnit goes without saying;
Sometimes we feel that our laboi
is almost thrown away. We can onlv
ask our subseriU-rs not to censure
us too severely for something
we cannot help, yet we cannot
hiume anvone for not wanting
^l?e paper after the contents l>eome
stale. If theue were* any
.m-. a f .
f
thing we could do to ameliorate
the present conditions we would
cheerfully exert our best efforts
to accomplish it, but until the
entire system be changed we fear
. that very little can l>e done ex,
eept by the patrons themselves
at their respective postoffices. It
seems that they would be in a
.; Itetter position than anyone else
to locate the trouble and remove
the cause.
5 Zach McGee.
3 The death of Zach Me(iee,wfncn
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took place in the city of Wash
ington, last week, brought grief
3 and sadness to our heart. In
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i boyhood and manhood we knew
j him and in this age of fakes and
* shams it is worth while to know
one of his genuine sterling hon1
estv and noble attributes.
?
The readers of the Columbia State
grew familiar with his whimsical,
' satirical style, and of late his contri?
butions to that paper have been
t missed. Few knew the cause?
i the brave fight a gallant soul was
, making against the grim specter
: that hovered at his bedside until
i the unequal conflict ended and
Zach McGee, enthusiast, idealist,
gentleman, passed into eternity.
One of our valued possessions
is a little red hook, 'The Dark
Corner," bearing the message:
"To my friend, C W Wolfe, New
Year 1909, with the kindest regards
of the author, Zach MeGee."
By the time the Governor gets
tired of his little veto hatehet
the Legistators themselves won't
know what laws they made.
Governor Blease has vetoed the
act relating to ill-formed counties
passed at the recent session of
the General Assembly. The Governor
thinks the act unconstitutional.
If the State supreme court
(decided to the contrary our sclf"
J ? *- /"u.:..* wniild
connaeni emei uacvuhiv
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doubtless still contend that he
was right.
The commuting of Major John
Black's sentence by Governor
Blease should not surprise anyone.
It would have I?een..'surprising
indeed had he 'not taken
some such action. Black was one
of "his friends" and lieyond the
reach of the puny arm of the
law with the Governor's mighty
aegis of protection spread over
him. It is the expected that has
hapj>ened.
The Spartanburg Spartan has
been absorbed by the Journal, the
afternoon paper of that hustling
little city. The Spartan,* estab'
lished 1*44, is the oldest pai>er
in Spartanburg county and it is
rather a coincidence that ('apt
. Charles Petty, for many years
; editor and publisher of the paper,
is again to lxjcomc its editor.
Our l)est wishes to tl>e editor who
. has "come back" to his lost love.
i
"Asked as to how this might
work when applied to women and
i girls, who might be subjected to
, hardships they were powerless to
avoid, the Governor stated that they
? did not have to work under these
conditions, as there was piemy ui
i other work they could go to, though
when pressed for the source of the
I work he did not answer."
; The foregoing excerpt from the
interview between the Secretary
of the Columbia Federation of
' Trades and Governor HI ease (which
' is published in full elsewhere in
this issue) rather suggests Marie
Antoinette's cynical remark when
/ told that her subjects were crying
,r for bread. "Oh, well, let them
cat cake," was the misguided
Queen's reply, as we recall it.
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STATE and GENERAL #
? TOPICS *
At Wellford, Urangeburg county,
last Thursday, Roper Moore, eleven
years old, was killed by his brother,
Tully, by the accidental discharge of
a shot-gun with which the boys were
playing.
XXX
Two more life convicts werej
turned loose last week by Governor
Blease, Preston Jefferson, convicted
of rape in Sumter county in 1888,
and W G Rivers, convicted of murder
in Dorchester county in 1903.
XXX
The fertilizer strike in Charleston
and vicinity,which has been on for a
week or longer, has been formally
declared at an end, the negro employees
returning to their labor at
the former schedule of $1.50 a day.
XXX
Three men have been caught who
admit taking part in the hold-up of
the Southern railway train at White
Sulphur Springs.Ga.last week. Vith ,
the captured bandits more than
$2,800 in cash and jewelry was re
covered.
XXX
J
Rev Dr David Ramsey, pastor of ]
Grace street Baptist church, Rich- (
mond, Va, has accepted the presi- (
dency of Greenville Female College, (
to assume his duties in June. Dr .
Ramsey was formerley pastor of the ]
Citadel Square Baptist church. ,
Charleston.
XXX <
Governor Blease has commuted i
the sentence of John Black, former <
chairman of the State dispensary
board of directors, to $2,000 fine. ]
Black was convicted in Chester on ?
November 12 for conspiracy to defraud
the State and sentenced to five c
years imprisonment without an alternative
fine. i
XXX
Mrs Maldwin Drummond, form- '
erly Mrs Marshall Field, Jr, of Chi- ^
cago, while on board the steamship 1
"Amerika" returning from Europe,
lost from her state-room jewels val- ued
at $130,000. A reward of t
$5,000 has been offered for the recovery
of the gems, which are mostly
pearls. 1
XXX
Gary Gist, a negro 22 years old, is
charged with criminal assault on a j
: well-known,prominent white woman
! in Spartanbu^? county Saturday af- 1
I ternoon, while the woman was alone
i at her home except for her two in- ,
fant children. When the three-yearold
child screamed the black brute
choked it severely and also hurt a .
three months old infanr. The negro
failed in his purpose and has been
captured and lodged in jail.
(Joing the royal .Julius one l>et- (
tea, King Cole might say, "Veni,
villi, veto!"
Certain editors that are constantly
sneering at "the newspapers"
and impugning their motives
appear to forget that they
themselves belong to that despised
class, and their shafts tipped
with venom hut recoil upon themselves.
As a rule the editors of .
]
newspapers in this State express <
their honest opinions, "unawed <
by influence or unbribed by gain;" j
yet we fear there are some, who 1
while the demagogue is tempo- J
rarily in the saddle, will "crook j
the pregnant hinges of the knee 1
that thrift may follow fawning," |
even to the extent of Mittling ]
the power of the great vocation ]
they are supposed to represent.
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Well Merited Rebuke Administered
by Famous] Editor.
The followingjoft-repeated anecdote
concerning Horace Greeley.the
brilliant editor, who made the New
York Tribune famous, touches a
sympathetic chord in th& heart of
every newspaper editor, especially
the country editor, who, dependent
largely upon the dollars gathered
"on subscription" for the maintenance
of his business is often confronted
with the egotistical subscriber
who seems to fancy'that his
dollar keeps the business going foi
at least six months of the year,^and
when he determines to withdraw
his financial support from the paper
he sees in his mind's eye the entire
edifice? building, presses and all?
crumbling to ruins "amid a crush
af matter and a wreck of worlds,"so far
as the unfortunate editor and
his microcosm is concerned, at any
rate.
As the story goes.Mr.Greeley was
)ne day stopped on the street by an
rate subscriber and the following
iialogue ensued:
"Mr Greeley,after that article you |
published this morning, I intend to
stop your paper."
"Oh, no!" said Mr Greeley,"don't
lo that." ?
"Yes, sir, my mind is made up; I
ntend to stop the paper." ,
The angry subscriber was not to
x appeased, and they separated.
Late in the afternoon the two met
ipain, when Mr Greeley remarked:
"Mr Thompson, I am very glad
r*ou did not carry out your threat
;his morning."
"What do you mean ?"
"Why, you said you were going
;o stop my paper, didn't you ?"
"And so I did. I went to the ofice
and had your paper stopped."
"You are surely mistaken. I
lave just come from there, and the
:>ress was running, and business
,vas booming."
"Sir," said Thompson, very
Dompously, "I meant 1 intended to
stop my subscription to the paper."
"Oh, thunder!" rejoined Greeley, J
I thought you were going to stop j g
;he running of my paper, and knock J |
ne out of a living. My friend, let j I
Tie tell you something. One man |
s just one drop of water in the |
>cean. You didn't set the machin- ?
?ry of this world in motion and you :an't
stop it; and when you aie un- ^
ierneath the ground it will still be t
unning." H
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d He would be a heartless father j
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The Spring Term of the
rty>
KINGSTREE GRADED AND HIGH SCHOOL
will begin
January 5, 1911 i
All departments are now ^ J
in Good Working Order. j
Parents who intend entering their children in the school 1
will please do so daring ttu first week of the spring term.
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Patrons and friends of the School are cordially invited
to visit the school at an r -i:r.e.
Any further i.:f ;*mat<on may be had by
, applying to
J. W. Swittenberg,( E. C. Epps,
Superintend ;nt. Clerk Beard of TrusteesKingstree,
S. C.
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