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II ** We b H goods for ra prices. C ? EVEF B We h: ^2 turer in I H Pal | worth up ft going to UM your busi v ^ once and t M Suits $L f. K o:i..A. A OllVbl ATT] I BIG RI r 1ENTIR ' =DUR ( Tobacc I Come a ATT t V VrVTV 7 IquAUii MB S. IV THE 816 ST Kingsb I# % ; HI When in 1 Store Hea ^H atch 1 ave the most wondi ? m this season, at surp orae and get your 4 tYBODY L ave purchased from Hew York City 180 m Beach ! fn ?i n no fha cilit : IV tp X VtUV U1V UUAl^ sell at $3.98, and i ness you had betl get one. Boys' I 48 and up. man's Dept H^ToToXoXoXoX>I ENTION! I i AUCTION | iN MY I E STOCK IMP. THF= Ill M. JL A. JL-* | :o Season ! I ? nd Compare AND PRICES! J larcus ORE ON THE CORNER ee, - S. C. [own Make Our : dquarters. g ^____ T] v ...? / Mrftil lina nf M jl 1UI 14IAV VI risingly low ^ ire of them. ^ ISTEN! ^ a manufac- fit a ex ? i?A suits H that we are if you know ^ ter come at ^ Palm Beach ^ % . Store I DR. F. jTlNMAN, EYE SPECIALIST FLORENCE, - S. C. will be at the Kingstree Drug Co.'s Store Thursday ot Every Week. Special Attention Given to Fitting Eyeglasses. nn m aiiaiiki UK. h J. INMAN FLORENCE, S. C. Uwana Theatre. it = Programme For August. _? EveryTuesday Night "The Million Dollar Mystery" Every Friday Night "The l Exploits of Elaine" Uwana Theater, Kingstree, - - - S. C. Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days oar druggist will refund money if PAZO INTMENT fails to cure any case of Itching, tind. Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days, be first application gives Ease and Rest. 50c. e== f SAT , Is the Onlj Becomin ALSO IT IS THE ( UPRIGHT W O IT TAKES TIME, BU' H PRINCIPLE IT TAKES PATIENC YOUR NERV # I LET US HELP YOl 1 OUR DEP( HAVEN'T 1 Bank of He I Farmers of V Dpar Sirs: I Bring your tree, the best t the State, and s< Mules, Buggies, Harness, Saddle; Grain Drills, Etc ' Yours Williamsburg Kingstree, m i wriiiMi'agii ?? l rU Naut nnrl IIo, uci ii nun anu ud< H This Elegant Hami Handsome Japanese Art great hot weather comforts, designs. There's a lot of Comfort Furniture and it doesn't cosi our line before you buy. Ou The Steele Fui Kingstree, HHDDmBBBDBi Scott ? will hereafter kee] popular Hahnd 1 Cold Drinks of A A fresh supply o ways on hand. W come to us and get Scott C Kingstree, /ing! r Sure Way of , ig' Wealthy. R UTTV PT TTAM TTHMFQT II J LJ X \ 11 j fji-i i * j nviiJJWi) || AY I r IT DOESNT KILL YOUR Q * * * I " " " E, BUT IT DOESNT RACK ES. J SAVE-ASK SOME OF I )SITORS IF WE I HELPED THEM. mingway, S. C. t )rug Co., South Carolina. ] ; to be derived from Summer i t much either. Come in and see ir prices are always right. i uiture Company j South Carolina 1 i )rusr Co. 3 the well known and ' i !ce Cream. i 11 Kinds at Fountain i f Norris' Candies alrhen you want Candy, Norris'. - 1 r uiicuiiduui g. tobacco to Kingsobacco market in Be us for Horses, Surreys, "Wagons, 3, Mowers,- Rakes, to please, i A i Live Mock to. - - s. c.j e It All Next Summer! nock?only a few left ; Squares or Mattings are also We have them in a variety of 1 a * RADICAL CHANGE IN f POLITICS PROPOSED.. EFFORT TO ABOLISH COUNTYTO-COUNTY CAMPAIGN-ARGUMENTS PRO AND CON. v ',+y( Columbia, August 4:?That the county-to-eounty canvass, which has been conducted every two years just preceding the Democratic primary in this State should be abolished is receiving attention in several quarters outside of political circles.There is a feeling, to judge from many expressions, that the biennial "circus," as it has been dubbed, has outgrown its usefulness and that its continuation only serves to keep alive fac tional feeling. A great many politicians strenuously oppose any suggestion looking to the elimination of the county-tocounty tour and declare it is the only way the "poor man" has of reaching the people with his views. Some of these admit privately that the requirements for entering the canvass ought to be more stringent and a few of them have suggested that it would be a good thing to require that a candidate must file a petition signed by a certain number of voters, say 5 per cent, before he could enter the canvass. This, they claim, would do away with the running of candidates who have no earthly chance of election and whose vote each year is so negligible as not to amount to anything. But they insist that it would never <Jo to abolish the "circus ring" because they assert it would sound the end of any but rich candidates. This is not agreed in by all the politicians and by a great many ^ people. Those opposed to this canvass emphasize the incentive to per- il M sonal abuse and the opportunity it affords for the campaign to degenerate into villification and the impossibility of the discussion of issues.* Not only this, they say, but ..the crowding of the lists^ffords so little time to the individual candidate that about all they can do is to state their name and the office for which they are running and then give away to the next/ and so on all day until the patience of the voter is exhausted and* goes a^'ay no wiser as to platforms than when he came. .. ; Even if the villification incentive and opportunity were absent?which probably a majority of the people will say is not?the fact that the individual candidate does not have enough time to discuss issues, makes it, in the opinion of many, absurd to have the canvass. In the last State campaign party tiTrtvn obonf f iiTQnttr_oo\rnn cucic wcic auuut mwuvj -ov. vvii \,ciuu~ idates for the various State offices, and even allowing them ten minutes?and many of them had less than half that time?meant an allday's speaking, wearying alike to voters and candidates. The strenuosity of the canvass doubtless keeps many men from running for office, for many object to being dragged around from county , : , to county like actors in a show, placed on exhibition and then hurried off to the next county seat and this for forty-four days. The canvass comes right in the middle of the hottest of the summer and the strenuous life and physical discomforts has broken down men in some instances and very few go through the campaign without some ailment. South Carolina is the only State in the Union which has a pre-election canvass under a party regulation. Other States let each candidate run his own campaign and there are many in South Carolina who want to see this State do away with .the staging every two years of a ring of the aspirants for office and sending them out to play one-day engagements at every county seat iri" the State. It is believed by many who have 1 made a close study of this matter and who have no political ambitions that it would materially lessen the cost of a campaign to do away with the canvass. The candidates have to spend money for railroad fare and board and this makes a considerable item, which advocates of the movement to abolish the canvass point out would enable poor* men to run for office where they are now barred by this terrific expense of making the canvass. They believe also that it would do away with tacuonansm auu peisunai auust; aziu would mean that the candidates would discuss issues and not one another so much. It has been stated that less than one-fourth of the voters attend the campaign meetings anyway and that by eliminating the canvass there would be opportunity lor more . _ i 1 1 i iL A quiet, sooer juutfmeiit un uie part of the voters and less chance that they would be incited to factionalism and bitterness. A threat many believe that it would be a constructive and forward step to abolis 1 the canvass.? W F Caldwell, in News & Courier. Send us the news, ' V ,