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' ?hc (Sountu ?rcoti! KINGSTREE. S. C. C. W. WOLFE. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Altered at the postoffice at Kingstree, S C as second class mail matter. TELEPHONE NO. 83TERMS SUBSCRIPTION RATES: due copy, one year $1 25 One copy, six months 75 One copy, three months 50 Ohe copy, one year in advance? 1 00 Obituaries, Tributes of Respect, Resolutions of Thanks, Cards of Thanks and all other reading notices,not News, will be charged for at the rate of one cent a word for each insertion. All changes of advertisements and w al communications must be in this office ^ ^"o^fore TUESDAY NOON in order to appear in the ensuing issue. AM communications must be signed ]p the writer, not for publication unless esired, but to protect this newspaper. ADVERTISING RATES: % Advertisements to be run in Special ooium, one cent a word each issue, miniwarn price 25 cents, to be paid for in advance. Legal advertisements, $1.00 per inch first insertion, 50 cents per inch each subsequent insertion. Rates on long term advertisements wgy reasonable. For rates apply at mis office. In remitting checks or money orders make payable to THE COUNTY RECORD. "It 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 Diot? I hesitate to draw the line Between the two?where God has not." KINGSTREE?THE GATEWAY TO OPPORTUNITY. THURSDAY, MAR. 23. 1911. Co-operation. T!ie immigration department of the Atlantic Coast lane railroad is doing a great work advertising the resources of the South in general And South Carolina particularly. We have received lately a postcard bearing on one side a pie dure of Jerry Moore and his k manwnoth pile of corn. On the ft, _ ^jvverse side is the following mes'Jerry Moore, age 15, produce}! during the summer of 1910 I 1 ftW fct bushels of corn on one acre, on a farm in 'The Nations Harden Spot,' located on the Atlantic Coast Line railroad near Wiuona, Florence county, South Carolina. It establishes a new world's record of corn production by boys." Thousands of these post-cards have heen printed and arc l>eing sent to every State in the l*nion. That is the right kind of f advertising for our country. It will attract more of the desirable class of people here than all the schemes hatched out by busy politicians. The railroad-* have recognized that this is our common country and that they and we must rise or fall -together. What benefits them helps us industrially and each class should boar a proportionate share of the lalwr and expense for the common good. The railroads have taken hold in earnest and set an example that wo would do well to follow. Cooperation is the key to the lock of the rich treasury of our natural resources. V The love of law, anciently implanted in the soul of the Anglo-Saxon, occasionally takes a hack-set, but it will take more than one Blease administration to undermine it permanently. Governor Blease has kindly differentiated between what he terms his enemies and his political opponents. We are glad that he made this distinction. Wej *?n certainly not an enemy toj ' the Governor, although we did | not sup|K>rt his candidacy. i John Jones, the Branchville lawyer who recently killed Pearlstine and was convicted of man-slaugh- ; ter, has asked for a j>ardon at the i hands of Governor Blease. Of ; course it will be granted, if Jones has a friend who has a friend who is i a friend of the Governor's. We believe that every farmer . who sells his cotton for less than fifteen cents a pound under present conditions is being robbed of 1 the difference between the price ' he receives and fifteen cents. Spot cotton is intrinscally worth fifteen cents, if the law of supply and i demand govern the value of the ; I product. Former Governor Ansel is a reJ ceptive candidate for a Federal Judgeship when Judge Brawley retires, which, it is expected, he will do soon on account of his advanced age. He is seventy years old and has the privilege of retiring 011 full pay, we understand. Governor Ansel "stands in" with the President, it is said, and has been recommended by twenty Governors for that place. Are the courts and the juries all wrong in this matter of convicting and punishing criminals? Is the "shot-gun sovereignty" suggested ' by the Governor's admirer, I W Justice, to take the place of our courts of justice? If every criminal who happens to ''stand in" with the Governor, or some of the Governor's pals, is to go scot-free, why go to the expense and trouble of . prosecuting them? Ix?t the Gov- ] ornor get up a list of the "eligibly" < for punishment and let the rest go free without any foolish attempt to bring them to justice. That plan 1 would save much trouble and ex- ' ( pense. Governor Blease seems to have caught a Tartar when he tackled Col Tom Felder. His letter to the Columbia State * Thursday surely blisters Blease. ( It is extremely nauseating to the j truly patriotic citizens of the proud j Palmetto State to have all this ] reek and filth served up from day to day, but behind it all lies the hope that at last we are 1 o>.a nnr?nwm?d flip i Ill <1 Kill n aj w g,' v v?t?w * ??? folds of the slimy serpent that 1 held the State in its coils for ^ years. When rogues fall out lion- j est men get their deserts. Turn ^ on the light! Let the Augean stables he cleansed, it matters not who is hurt in the cleans- ' ing process. c i In about three weeks, Deo ro- j lente, The Record will have in- ^ stalled a new Cranston cylinder ] newspaper press. It weighs about live tons and is one of the latest and most desirable machines on r the market for a weekly news- * paper, ft has a speed of two . thousand four-page papers an hour. ^ This press cost us more than j one thousand dollars and it will t take years of hard work to pay * for it. But, as we have said all along, the l>est is none tpo good for c our readers, and we propose to give a (Via nonnlp of old Williamshure a x %"v rvvr-" w . newspaper second to no county seat a weekly in the State in point of me- * chanical excellence. It may take i ^ r some little time to do it, hut we are i a gradually getting, our plans in tan- j gibleshape. Meantime, now is the, time to subscribe. n i s; I h DR.KING'S NEW DISCOVERY M Will Surely Stop That Cough, b j STATE and GENERAL ? ' jj TOPICS * The extra session of Congress will ] convene on April 4. I XXX , The State Teachers' association i meets today in Columbia. < XXX 1 The census bureau reports the cot- i ton crop of 1910 to be 11,921,563 ' bales, compared with 10,386,209 for , 1909. XXX Cromer Hart, convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to serve ten years, was pardoned last week by ttie Governor. XXX Governor Blease last week pardoned Mark Spencer of Aiken, who was serving a seven year sentence for manslaughter. XXX Chester had a $40,000 fire Thursday night of last week, causing the destruction of the Chester Machine & Lumber Company's plant. k x x John Crosby, a white murderer, of Anderson County, had his sentence commuted last week to life imprisonment. It's a wonder our complaisant Governor hadn't turned him loose. XXX Carl Austin, sentenced to three years imprisonment for house-breaking,was paroled "on good behavior" last week. (Who ever heard of a "good behaved" house-breaker? ? Printer's Devil). XXX Former State Senator Frank Kellatr Ap PicKimtTllln T PAIintV VI i^louvp V il*V< 9 vvv**?v^ , ???.w been appointed to fill the vacancy on the new dispensary winding-up commission caused by J L Mimnaugh's declining to serve. .XXX I At the 110th annual meeting of the Charleston Hibernian Society, beld on the evening of St Patrick's lay, Vice President James S Sherman and Governor Cole L Blease responded to toasts apropos to the oc- . vision, X X x ( C P Palmer and Lon Belcher, of Jconee county,had all but 22 months )f their sentences of seven and eight j fears, respectively, commuted by . Governor Blease last week. The two j prisoners have been imprisoned since 1909 and will soon go free. XXX Albert Dawson,of Abbeville coun- J ;_x_o -x _..u 1 ;y,wno was convicieu 01 ussauii anu mattery ?f a high and aggravated lature at the fall term, 1909, and ientenced to two years on the public vorks, had his sentence commuted jy Governor Blease last week to one rear. XXX John H Odom was shot at Brightsrille, Marlboro county, Friday night )f last week and died Sunday mornng of his wounds. The coroner's ury rendered a verdict fixing the lomicide on George W Bullard and iVilliam Barrington. In the melee Harrington was severely cut. XXX The body of a new-born white nale infant was found at the head of Hear creek,in the Dutch Fork section >f Lexington county, Friday mornng. The baby was wrapped in a mman's npw shirt, waist and Dlaced n an old guano sack. No clue to the dentity of the infanticide has been 'ound. X X X < 1 Brooks Scruggs, a white man of ( Ipartanburg county, was arrested i ind put in jail last week charged 1 vith assaulting with criminal intent 1 i white woman of that county. Alhough the crime is alleged to have , teen committed March 4, the warant was not issued until Thursday i fternoon. xxx | Governor Blease has appointed a . ew dispensary winding-up commis-1 ion to replace the old board whom ; e dismissed in disgrace (?) last j( reek. The members of the new a oard are: John L Mimnaugh, of, L Columbia: John V Wallace, of Charleston; Thos F Brantley, of Orangeburg; James Stackhouse, of Marion, and Fred H Dominick, of tfewl>erry. It is stated that Mr Mimnaugh has declined the honor lonferied upon him. XXX David Jacobs,convicted of murder in Chesterfield county in 1891, was pardoned last week by our tenderhearted Governor. Jacobs was first sentenced to be hanged .then his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and now he goes forth a free man?free to slay or steal or commit whatever other crime he lists. How will it end.this wholesale abuse of the pardoning power? Are we to have the whole penitentiary gang turned loose on society after all the burden on the State of convicting them? DECLARES CAFFEINE POISON. Drag Contained In Popular Soft Drink. Saya Chemist. Chattanooga, March 15:?In the hearing of the case of the United States against a certain number of barrels and kegs of coca-cola in the Federal court here today, some of the most interesting testimony yet brought out was given by Dr Lyman F Kebler, chief of the drug department of the bureau of chemistry, Washington, D C. Dr Kebler is the chemist who made a test of cocacola and today he testified that cocacola contains caffeine, declaring that to each eight ounce glass there was one and one-fourth grains of caffeine, which, he says, is poison. Dr Kebler cited many eminent authorities in proof of his statement that caffeine is a poison and cited a number of deaths reported as being caused by its use. One of these writers had reported a case where four and one-half grains of the diug had produced death and he said that about three glasses of coca-cola con* i '* - x. _r tainea mis amouni ot caueim-. Dr Kebler testified as to the finding of vermin and bugs in the vats as the result of his inspections of the coca-cola plant, in Atlanta. He also testified that caramel and brown sugar were added because of their opaqueness. Dr Busby,for the Government,testified along the line of the name of the drink coca-cola and stated that no other product bore the name of either "coal" or "kola." Government chemists stated that coca-cola contained neither coca nor kola, and the effort of the Government will be to prove that the drink is misbranded. BLEASE'S PARDON RECORD. % Exercises Clememcy Towards 66 Prisoners in 64 Days. Columbia, March 22:?Governor Blease has passed the one-per-day mark in his exercises of executive :lemericy. He has been in the office 54 days. In that period he has granted clemency in various forms :o 66 convicts. Pardons, 31; paroles, 10; communions, 25. Total, 66. i(vimmntatinns hnvp )oen "to date," so that they are in ?ffect outright pardons, except that ;hcy have not restored cit'zenship. With the same limitation, most of ;he paroles nave also been in effect Dardons. This compilation was made early ;o-d:;y. By the time it is published ;he Governor may have exercised his ight of executive clemency in other ;ases, for he has before him a num)er of petitions. Part of the Talent. A church once gave a charity concert where the best talent volunteered?the city's leading singers, elocutionists and actors. At the end of the concert the chairman [vent up to the organ loft and said to the little boy in patched clothes ^ V?.*J 1x1 a Arrron niiu uau UiUVMi tug Vi^au. "Well, Freddie, what do we owe pou for your work this evening?" The little boy looked at the chairnan in genuine astonishment. "Why, sir/' he said, "didn't the rest of the talent give their servces V* When you want us to change the address of your paper it will save j Dts of trouble to name the old s well as the new postoffice. Please ear this in mind. tf j \ KXXXXXXXX xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxa [fob sale! I IDEAL 2-HORSE FARM 8 X of 80 acres, 45 acres under cultiva- wtf X tion. Made bale per acre last year. x X Timber on land not sold. Tenant X X house and other improvements. X X Only three miles from Kingstree. X X Quick sale desired. Long terms if x X interested. -> x 8 R. N. SPEIGNER, - Mgr. 8 8 KINGSTREE, S. C. 8 ?vyyvvvvv vvvyvyyvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvyyvvv wvvvvvv? I BETTER BE SAFE THAN SORRY f i During 1910 . | > The Fire Companies Represented by this Agency J " I PAID NEARLY | I $10,000.00 ? > To Policy Holders in Williamsburg. J C I. YOUR Property $ : g PROTECTED ^ 5 ' > n Against Fire 0 > | KINGSTREE INSURANCE REAL ESTATE & |1 I LOAN COMPANY. | ?MM MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MM? 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In a Hash Dennis' own I.. revolver was out and the rascal's ~ ~~ opportunity was gone.?Westmin- QUCklen'S Amlca SalVfi ster Gazette. I jfte 3esj gajve |a ^cry. ' ' ' ? \