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0-ijp (Sountg Sfwri. KtNQSTREE. S. O. O. W. WOLFE. KOI TOW AND PWOWWIKTQW. Entered at the postoffice at Kingstree, S?C.as second class mail matter. TELEPHONE NO. 83. TERMS SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One copy, one year $1 25 One copy, six months 75 One copy, three months............ 50 One copy, one year in advance.... 1 00 Obituaries. Tributes of Respect, Resolutions of Thanks, Cards of Thanks and all other reading notices,not News, frill be charged for at the rate of one cent a word for each insertion. All changes of advertisements and all communications must be in this office before TUESDAY NOON in order' to appear in the ensuing issue. All communications must be signed by the writer, not for publication unless desired, but to protect this newspaper. ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements to be run in Special olumnpne cent a word eachissue.mini? mum price 25 cents, to be paid for in advance. Legal advertisements, $1.00 per inch first insertion, 50 cents per inch each inWmipnt insertion. Rates on long term advertisements very reasonable. For rates apply at this office. In remitting checks or money orders sake payable to THE COUNTY RECORD* In men whom men condemn as ill, I find so much vyf goodness still; In men whom men pronounce divine,, I find so much of sin and blot? I hositate to draw the line Between the two?where God has not." THURSDAY, MAY 6. 1915. Capt L B Steele has been chosen editor of the Georgetown Times to succeed Col H L Oliver, resigned. Capt Steele is a native son of "old Williamsburg," having received a scholarship from this county to the Citadel, where he was graduated with distinction. The Times may well be congratulated on securing as editor this brilliant and well-equipped young man. 1240,000,000 Loss on Cotton. In The Progressive Farmer of No ^ /X 1 I*.!. _ J We have now suffered a similar experience with the 1914 crop. The prices a few months ago were only six to seven cents a pound for middling cotton; now nine to ten cents. On a crop of 16,102,000 bales of 500 pounds each (the United States Government estimate) three cents a pound increase in price represents an advance of $241,530,000 in total values. In other words, since the cotton crop of 1914 largely passed out of the hands of the men who grew it, its value has advanced nearly a quarter of a billion dollars?an advance which, like that of three years ago. has largely gone into the pockets of merchants, landlords, and speculators, instead of producers.?Progressive Farmer, Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Days Toot druggist will refund money II PAZO OINTMENT falls to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days. The first application gives Esse and Rest- 50c. vemDer y, lyiz, we puDiisnea an editorial article, "A $300,000,000 Robbery: the Serial Story of a Crime." In that article we took up the cotton crop of 1911 and traced the course of prices from start to finish. On August 12, 1911, just before the new 1911 crop began to come in, as we pointed out, our market reports quoted middling cotton at 13i cents a pound. By September 30, when the farmers began to seJl, it had dropped to 101 cents. In October prices went to 9 11-16 cents. November 18 quotations were 9i cents. And farmers who were only able to hold out till Christmas-time were forced to sell at 9^ cents. 8y New Year's, of course, most of the poorer farmers had sold, and prices in January climbed back to 9? cents. In February they went to 103. In March to 10 13-16. In April to 11 cents. May to 12 cents. In August to 12f cents. In other words, August prices represented an advance of nearly $300,000,000 over the low prices of Christmas-time?an advance that went largely into the hands of the speculative and commercial classes instead of going to the men whose brain and muscle made the crop. CHILDREN BITTEN BY PET OTTER Little Animal Infuriated Uses Teeth and Claws Until Killed. Georgetown, May 3:?As a result of a most unusual accident a child of Mr William Palmer, of this city, has been fearfully wounded and two other little fellows less seriously hurt. The children were bitten by a pet otter, the property of Mr J C Lowrimore, a neighbor. The child most seriously hurt was bitten about the face and neck and on the ankle. Well-nigh an entire cheek is bitten off, the nose badly cut and the scalp badly lacerated. Yesterday afternoon the little I Palmer children went to the home j of Mr Lowrimore and asked that Mr Lowrimore's little son take the i otter, which was a pet, down to a 1 n/\n%? *,r\v-\A on/1 onfnrf q\ r? fKam j lirai'UV J'WlAU ami tiitvi tuiii viiv.ui ; with his antics in the water. This | was done and the little animal swam ; and played in the water, chasing i crawfish. Finally he was called ! from the water, and as is his prac! tice after bathing, he ran to one of | the little children and rubbed himj self against the child's leg to dry j himself. The child became frightened and caught hold of the animal, mashing him to the ground. This infuriated the otter and he bit the little fellow. The other children then attacked the animal and he fought most furiously. He buried his sharp teeth in the child's cheek. Another child caught the otter's tail and pulling strongly, pulled away most of the cheek. In the fight all of the children were badly bitten except the Lowrimore child, his little master. Strange to sav. the otter refused to attack this little fellow, although he was fighting as vigorously as the other children. Finally word was carried to Mr Lowrimore, who hastened to the scene of the battle, and seeing the lacerated children, caught up his pet and killed him. This otter was known by nearly all Georgetown people. A year ago Mr Lowrimore's son was fishing in White's creek, near the city, and caught three of these rare animals. He was fishing with a bob, and on seeing the little otters in the water caught them by thrusting the hooks of the bob into their bodies. All of the animals died but one. This was taken home and trained to do many tricks. He developed remarkable intelligence. He would follow his master to the office of the Clyde Line, where Mr Lowrimore is employed, and spend the day about the office very much as would a pet dog. Ua rrrnn av% AkiAAf a f rmnoVk i n f a mar lie woo an uujett ui mu^ii iiueieot to everybody. He was very affectionate and his attachment to the little son of Mr Lowrimore, who attempted to protect the Palmer children, was striking. Some time ago this little fellow was sick, and during his confinement to his bed the otter insisted on staying in bed with him all the time. Every morning it was the otter's practice to go into the child's room and get in his bed before the child arose. A special mark of attachment was his refusal to fight this little fellow while infuriated by the attacks of the Palmer children. The otter had grown to more than four feet in length and was richly furred. Mr Lowrimore attached a value of several hundred dollars to his rare pet and was greatly grieved to be forced to kill him. Mr Louis Jacobs of Elloree is spending the week with his sisters *\nd brothers in town. Card of Thanks. Editor County Record:? I desire to express to the people of the town of Hemingway and vicinity our sincere thanks for the kind assistance rendered us during our recent bereavement in the death of my husband. Mrs R T Harmon. Hemingway, May 3. It Cuba will allow no more prize fights. But we still have peaceful Mexico. Lame Back. Lame back is usually due to rheumatism of the muscles of the back. Hard working people are most likely to suffer from it. Relief may be had by massaging the back with Chamberlain's Liniment two or three times a day. Try it. Obtainable. everywhere. j FATAL ROW AT NEGRO CHURCH. One Dead. Three Wounded?All Caused by Liquor. Brunson, May 4:?As the result of a general row at Cherry Grove church on Sunday, where large congegations of negroes frequently assemble, five persons were conveyed | to the county jail in Hampton, while | one has died, another is mortally ' wounded and one or two others are jshot up. It appears that whiskey was pret! ty freely indulged in, then a row began in the church yard and the shooting followed. Result: Buddy Cope, a young man, is dead, John Davis is probably mortally wounded and Henry Davis, his father, is ! wounded seriously in the shoulder and head. Jerry Bowers, Jake Bow: ers, and Quilly Bowers were arrested as particeps criminis, Julius : Caesar Smith was arrested, charged : with selling the stuff that seems to i have caused the row; Henry Davis, | wounded, is charged with the kill. ing, which, it is said, he admits, but claims self-defence. Crops Not Affected by Moon. Scientists are now convinced that the moon has no more influence on crops than it has upon the temperature,the amount of rain, the wind or any other weather element. The growth of plants depends upon the amouht of food in the soil and in the air that is available for them and upon 1. A. l'-Ll J * - x temperature, ugni, ana moisture. The moon obviously does not affect the character of the soil in any way, neither does it affect the composition of the atmosphere. The only remaining way in which it could influence plant growth. therefore, is by its light. Recent experiments, however, show that full daylight is about 600,000 times brighter than full moonlight,yet when a plant gets l-100th part of normal daylight it thrives little better than in absolute darkness. If l-100th part of normal daylight is thus too little to stimulate a plant, is seems quite certain that a 600,000th part can not have any affect at all. It is therefore a mere waste of time to' think about the moon in connection with the planting of crops. The moon, say the scientists, has nothing more to do with this than it has to do with the building of fences, the time for killing hogs, or any other of the in numerable things over which it was once supposed to exert a strong influence. WILL MEET NEXT TUESDAY. __ State Democratic Executive Committee to Assemble. Columbia, May 5:?TheState Democratic Executive committee has been called to meet in Columbia on Tuesday. May 11, at noon, in the library of the State House. Among other things the committee at this meeting will arrange for a primary in the 4th Congressional district to select a successor to former Congressman Joseph T Johnson, who resigned recently to become Judge of the Western Federal District of South Carolina. Salting the cattle once every week or two may or may not be better than no salt at all; but salt provided so the cattle can take it as they want it will almost certainly pay. School Teachers! You are advised to enroll at once. Remember the best schools have the first elections. "The early bird catches the worm." Write for full information today. School Trustees. We have enlisted with us at this season, for both summer and fall terms, the very best teachers available, and shall be glad to supply you at any season of the year. Write or wire today. Office in Nexsen 3-story building always open. Carolina Teachers' Agency. F K Graham, Mgr. J McCullough, Ass't Mgr. Kingstree, S C. 5-6-tf To Drive Out Malaria And Build Up The System Take the Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know what you are taking, as the formula is printed on every label, showing it is ?ninine and Iron in a tasteless form, he Quinine drives out malaria, the Iron builds up the system. 50 cents | ARE ALWAYS ON THE WATCH How Battleships at Sea Keep Informed of the Whereabouts of an Enemy's Fleet. Every battleship at sea has its wireless installation adjusted so that it can send and receive signals and messages to other squadrons at sea or in harbor and to stations ashore. One ship is always in direct touch j with the admiralty, whence the latest information received at headquarters from all parts of the world is immedi-! 1 ately transmitted to the fleet, while 11 each of the other ships composing the j I fleet is similarly responsible for some I particular station ashore or for a E cruiser squadron or flotilla of torpedo I boat destroyers. ^ For the purpose of obtaining infor- I mation as to the whereabouts of the | enemy and guarding against surprises wireless telegraphy is, of course, inval- N uable, says the Wireless Worl^ (Lon- B don). A great number of cruisers are I sent out ahead and spread a number B of miles across. The duty of these g ships is to keep a thorough lookout F and report to the ship in the battle jF fleet looking out on their particular IB wavelength. This ship, in turn, re- j ports by semaphore or Morse-lamp to j the admiral of the battle fleet The . cruisers are sometimes assisted by ' torpedo boat destroyers. Now, if 30 I of these ships are used it will be read- j ily seen that the area of their vision is enormous, and it would be almost impossible for a fleet to pass unobserved. immediately any of the ships sight the enemy's squadron they would report at once by wireless, stating the i number of ships sighted, with their speed, latitude and longitude, etc. The admiral would then give his orders, also by wireless. BOOKS HE WOULD SELECT Author Gives His List of Reading Matter for Dweller Encamped on Desert Island. What ten books would you select for a course of reading if you were placed on a desert island? No time should be lost in compiling the list, because there are only a few desert islands left Here, for example, not of i i Islands, but of books, is the list selected by William Caine, the novelist, author of "But She Meant Well." "1. The Bible, because it is a book that I have always meant to read. 2. Gibbons, because there is such a lot of it 3. Rabelais, that I might laugh. 4. 'Don Quixote,' that I might weep. 5. 'Bouvard et Pechuchet,' because this is one side of France. 6. Carlyle's 'French Revolution,' because this is the other. 7. 'Wahrheit und Dichtung,' because here I have Germany. 8. 'Arabian Nights,' because this is the East. 9. 'Tom Jones,' because ,this is England as Fielding saw it. 10. 'The New Foresters,' because this is England as my wife saw it" Poland Not Wild and Desolate. The prevalent impression in the west that the operations in Poland have been conducted in wild and desolate country is curiously wide of the truth Poland is now more densely ^ populated than any other part of Russia, and the towns which have figured in the recent dispatches are centers of thriving industry. Radom, now out of sound of the guns, has large tanneries and distilleries, Kalisz, through which a big German column passed to relieve the pressure in the center, is famous for lace and ta embroideries. Every little town around * li.l xl a _i.il 1 wmcn me uguuug uas rugeu una ita own mills, chiefly textile. Poland is rich in minerals, and its coal field is fi of considerable extent It is not neces- I sary to cross into Silesia to find either I factories or Germans engaged in run- I ning them. If Russia could have D saved Poland from Invasion we may I be sure she would have done so.? I London Times. 1 Where Home Folks Come First I In Chicago men who need work are I being given blue tickets. These tick-11 ets identify the holders as bona fide 11 residents of Chicago. The object is to ! I give needy Chlcagoans first call on I jobs and charity and to shut out an I army of drifters who crowd into the I city in the cold months to live on I charity. Of course, the blue tickets I do not doom to starvation all Strang- I ers who reach Chicago in a starving I condition. They simply insure pref- I erence to Chicagoans when aid is ex- I tended and discourage the professional I hoboes. I Crushed Stone Industry. E Crushed stone is the largest factor I of the stone industry in the United I States. Figures showing the value of M crushed stone were first published by I the United States Geological Survey I in 1898 and amounted to $4,031,445. I By 1913 the output was valued at over I $31,000,000. Of late years stone I wished for making concrete nas largely taken the place of building and I foundation stone. I ? . Absolute Devotion. "I think that women ought to have p the ballot." "Do they really want it?" "They must want it. Some of them are working so ardently for suffrage that they are paying absolutely no attention to dress." * No. Six-Sixty-Six This is a prescription prepared especially for MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER. Five or six doses will break any case, and if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not return. It acts on the liver better than ; 1 Caiomel and does not gripe or sicken. 25c i m I am now fully equip factorily and can save yc each pair of glasses. Lei "New Kryptok" Glasse vision ground in one lens. If you break your le: I will duplicate them on A full line of Watche all kinds suitable for gra your selection now! i T. E. B A To People WE SELL MEAT?JUS TH1T. RFAI. MF AT TIT1 ING?NOT LEATHER \ TIED TO IT. WHEN Y< YOU EAT MEAT. DRESSEDPOULTI Palace (People's Mercantile PHONE NO. 120. ' u Is What YC 1IT CAN BE A SUCCESS WHICH SHi r _ i _ _ a1. _ T IJjOok at tne men wno are i world. Ninety-nine out of e account when they were your And now look at the failure 1 a bank account now. Not young. Perhaps you think you hav a bank account. Haven't you Just try it for a year or six | to continue it you have lost n< ! WHICH WILL IT I FAIL1 ITS UP 1 Bank of Hem 4 D. G. HUGGINS, Cashier. Dr. F. EYE SPE Ut Moren Will be at the Kin Store on Thursda Special Attention Given DR. P. J. 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