The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, May 06, 1915, Page FOUR, Image 4
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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!
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To People
WE SELL MEAT?JUS
TH1T. RFAI. MF AT TIT1
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TIED TO IT. WHEN Y<
YOU EAT MEAT.
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Palace
(People's Mercantile
PHONE NO. 120.
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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
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Bank of Hem
4 D. G. HUGGINS, Cashier.
Dr. F.
EYE SPE
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Will be at the Kin
Store on Thursda
Special Attention Given
DR. P. J. O'N]
SPECIALIST
292 KING STREET, CHARLESTC
Call or write for information
my advanced method of treating
Liver, Nerve, Blood, Skin Disea
Contracted Troubles, Kidney, B1
Private Diseases of men and won;
sulfations free. Hours: 9 a. m.
Sundays 10 to 2.
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ped to do this work satis- jk
>u from $1.50 to $3.00 on
i me fit you out with the
is, reading and distance
nses, bring them to me.
short notice. Save the j
is, Clocks and Jewelry of 1
duating presents. Make
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successful in the eyes of the
very hundred started a bank 5
g?and stucK to it.
s. Mighty few of them have JJ
speaking of when they were O
e not enough money to start
a dollar? That's all it takes.
months. If you do not wish
)thing by the trial.
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