The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, August 09, 1917, Image 4

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?hp (Cnimtg ISfrori). W. F. TOLLEY & E. C. EPPS Publishers. TELEPHONE NO. 83 SUBSCRIPTION RATE: One copy, one year $1 25 One copy, six months 75 One copy, three months 50 One copy, one year in advance ? 1 00 Thursday, Aug. 9, 1917. The announcement, by his friends, of L W Gilland. Esq, as a candidate for Mayor of Kinjrstree arpears in another column of this paper. Mr Gilland has filled this office before in a manner highly creditable to himself and with satisfaction to the citizens. In his candidacy The Record feels safe in saying that this is a case of the "office seeking the man, and not the man seeking the office." Cotton took a lively spurt upward Monday, and reached $27.50 for spots. It strikes us that this is an opportune time to turn loose any cotton that is still being held by farmers. Apparently there is a big difference between 8 cent cotton and 27 cent cotton, but its not so great after all to the fellow who has to buy corn at $2.25 per bushel for his s^ock and meat for his table at 25 cents the pound. The first and paramount object of every farmer should be to raise his own food-stuffs, so that when he gets a check for his cotton he won't have to spend it for Western raised meat, corn and flour. == By reason of his becoming a medical officer in the United States army, and being ordered to Fort Oglethorpe for duty, where he is now stationed,the town of Kingstree and the county at large is minus a very efficient and prpolar practitioner, Dr Clarence D Jacobs. His kind. gentle ana sympaineuc naiua- ?i once won the confidence and esteem of his patients, and, although young in years and in his profession, he had a large practice. When a call, came from the sick he never hesitat- j ed to consider the elements, distance1 or his cwn physical condition?he went. The Record joins his host of j friends in wishing him success in Ins new field and a safe return to those j who know and love him best. I Never, perhaps, in the history of American journalism }ias there been I so great a demand upon country, neswpapers for free space by really big firms, chief among which is the . Federal Government. Nearly every ' one of its executive departments has1 its quota?and if the average country weekly attempted to publish one third of the matter "released for publication" by these departments there'd be absolutely no space left the publisher in which to air his views editorially or to dispose of to, his advertisers. We have always felt that the government should pay for advertising space at regular space-rate. It would be nothing more nor less than the fol lowing of a business principle largely adhered to by big corporations all over the country, and as a matter of fact the Federal Government has no more right to expect free ad- J ertising space at the hands of coun- j try publishers than it has to expect or ask free transportation of its troops or supplies at the hands of the railroad or steamship companies. Space is the stock and trade of the newspaper publisher?the sale of advertising space provides his bread and butter, and if he were to give space, free, to one-third of the "stuph" received from the various departments of the government he would have nothing to sell, and in a little while would find himself too poor and hungry to stand alone. An annoying source among the free space grafters is the weekly "clifc sheet" sent out by the Nationa/ Liquor Dealers association's headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. There are many others, which are gradually finding publicity through the "Chamber of Horrors," a department maintained in its weekly ( publication by the American Press! Association. Work on the new postoffice building for Columbia has begun, It will cost about $241,000. i , Lincoln and the Negro. At Lincoln Memorial University. Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, Dr William Spencer Currell.president of i the University of South Carolina, delivered a few months ago an address on "The Attitude of Lincoln Toward the South," which one wishes might; be in the hands of all the editors in j the country. While Dr Currell is unqualified in | the stress that he places on the loss ! that the South suffered through Mr j ; Lincoln's death and enlarges upon j j the liberality of his firm purpose to ; ; protect the Southern people from, persecution subsequent to the war, | he discusses with utmost frankness . Mr Lincoln's polical pol cies and upiti ?ns. He asserts that "when Lincoln died the South lost her most generous foe?nay, even more than j that ?her best friend"?hut he quotes with discrimination freely from the records to show thai the perfervid adulation that Northern writers bestow upon Mr Lincoln as the liberator of the slaves is without any solid foundation in fact. Indeed, our Northern friends have fallen so completely under the spell of the Lincoln tradition that they have for the most part lost sight of what the man was, what he said, and what he did in his earthly career, j The Lincoln legend of the twen- j tieth century bears a dim and far-) away relationship to the hardheaded and great-hearted country lawyer of Illinois who was born of the plain people of Kentucky. As President of the United States Mr Lincoln deserves a place in history as the central figure that worked for and succeeded in perpetuating the American Union in the day of its extreme trial, but the shifting upon him of a glory that he never sought as a HI erator of negro slaves is as unfair to his memory as it is - n . r^v /"V. ... 11 talse in allegation, mis, ure urren | did not shrink from saving, in kindly terms but without compromise to an audience of Northern sympathy assembled at the institution beating President Lincoln's name. Mr Lin-1 coin undoubtedly was opposed to the institution of slavery, but he was not less opposed to abolishing it by force of arms in the States where its existence was guaranteed by the federal constitution and he was more than willing to trust to time ar.d events to remove it without the accompaniment of violence. It was his desire long after the War Between the States had broken out and while it was being bloodily waged that the slave owner should be paid for their property and in his own conscience he justified emancipation only as a measure of war essential to the Union's preservation. "He had scant sympathy," says Dr Currell, "with the Abolitionists who were exceedingly incensed with him for his tentative and to them criminally luKewarm attitude towards the liberation of the blacks." "In fact," he adds, "Wendell Phillips, one of the leading Abolitionist orators, styled Lincoln the 'slavehound of Illinois.' " These words quoted by Dr Currell to his East Tennessee hearers from Lincoln himself must yield little satisfaction to the doctrinaires who at this time have projected upon the screen of history a Lincoln that never lived in the flesh or the spirit: "I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which, in my judgment, would probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, auu luaamuiii as u uctuuirs a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position." In the Central Mississippi Valley 1 it may be that the memory of the true Lincoln still abides and presides and if it dots there can be no doutt i that in all the years the master race will assert itself. Mr Lincoln in his boundless endowment of common sense steered constantly away from extremists of all sections and look- i ing the facts of the race question rather than of the slavery question in the face, was only turned in part from his opinion when in the clash of war it was for a time obscured. It can not be said that ever he abandoned it and he repeatedly made plain before his death his purpose to treat the negro people in a manner according with the convictions of his lifetime. For a little while the maddened partisanship of Thad Stevens, Ben Wade and their coconspirators set aside and checked the Lincoln plan, but in a few years new life was breathed into it by the Southern people, of whom Lincoln was one in blood, and even now as the years pass it is receiving its destined vindication. These are some of the reflections compelled by the candid discussion of the subject by Dr Currell? a discussion characterized in its language by that clarity and sim-1 plicity that so greatly distinguish' his scholarship.? The State, j l| ACCEPTED ADVICE OF HER GEORGIA FRIEND, i i "I DON'T THINK IT CAN BE EXCELLED," SHE DECLARES. Emphatic Statement. Mrs Ida Vernon, of Anderson, Grateful for Her Good Fortune. "'Tanlac is the finest tonic I have wur fat-Aii f <lnn?t think it cnn be excelled." These emphatic statements were made by Mrs Ida Vernon, of 31 Henderson St, Anderson, in an endorsement of Tanlae she gave May 23. "I took Tanlac for badly run down condition and my health I was so bad I was unable to do my j housework when I began taking Tanlae. I employed a cook then I had Indigestion -badly, and lots of foods 1 couldn't eat, because of the sulYcring they would cause me. lleaily, I was just a nervous wrick. T had been under treatment almost! continuously for almost five years, but 1 did not seem to improve any : "A friend in South Georgia told, me about Tanlac and I took it.: And the Tanlac got me to feeling as^ well as I ever felt in my life. My j I miu.liln ri.tiirnix] ti> nip tlw> imli- I VIV. ...^, ...v. | | gestion was stopped and niy whole; system was strengthened. Tanlacl surely did help me wonderfully. I i gained about ten pounds in weight, i too." Tanlac, the master medicine, is sold by Kingstree Drug Co, Kingstree; Mallard Lumber Co, Greelyville; Farmers' Drug Co, Hemingway; S S Aronson, Lane; II P Hin-; nant, Suttons; W I) Bryan, Bryan, j A Card from Dr Jacobs. I take this method of extending my most grateful and appreciative thanks to all of my friends and1 well wishers throughout the county ; for their prompt response to my, earn in this paper two weeks ago., Also to express my retrret upon not' being able to personally see many of them before leaving for my new field of service as a medical officer *i? TT~:*?1 I ill uir uuiu'ii otaica 01 iiij a; a vji c i Orglethorpe, Ga. With best wishes to all, I am Very sincerely, C D Jacobs, M D. j Notice of Sale. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, EASTERN DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA. In re: R W Lewis, Bankrupt. Notice is hereby given that pursuant to the order of R J Kirk, Esq, Referee in Bankruptcy in the above entitled matter and dated August 8, 1917, the undersigned Trustee will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the store building formerly occupied by the said R W Lewis in the town of Kingstree, S C, on Monday, the 20th day of August, 1917. at 12 o'clock noon, all of the personal estate of the said R W T.ewis consisting of the stock of goods, wares and merchandise, book accounts and choses in action, and also the mercantile furniture and fixtures, consisting of show cases, counters, safe, refrigerator, etc, now being and located in the store building formerly* occupied by the said R W Lewis, and also by separate sale at the same time and place the household furniture and effects of the said R W Lewis, bankrupt, all of which being sef forth in the schedules filed herein. 8-9-2t R K Wallace, August 19, 1917. Trustee. Citation Notice. THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, county of williamsburg, By P M Bnxkinton, Esq, Probate Judge. Whereas, L W Gilland made suit to me to grant him Letters of Administration of the Estate and effects of R C McCabe. These are, therefore, to cite and ad-1 monish, all and singular, the kindred > and creditors of the said R C McCabe,, deceased, that they be and appear ' before me in the Court of Probate, to be held at Kingstree, S C, on the 20th day of August next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be granted. Given under my hand this 6th day of August, Anno Domini, 1917. P M Brockinton, 8-9-2t Probate udge. Insurance! I When you want Insurance I .r i.:_ j n nr? UI nil V KJI1U, Uttll UI1 US. we write I Life Fire I live Stock Plate Glass I Accident and Health I onding a Specialty I > I We are the largest and I most experienced agency in I Williamsburg county, and I are in a position to give you I the best service. I Kingstree Ins., Real Estate I & Loan Co., Agts., I PHONE 85, KINGSTREE, S. C. I FUR We handle th they are recogr SouthernB Brumby CI guaranty tion or i Globe-W ei Singer Sewing Mac! Shipman Organs Heyward-Wakefield Complete line of Ro King Bee Stoves am Tomlinson Chair C( Room, Library an Hard Oil Window horn Rollers. The largest and mo! ings ever shown 1 Buy while you can 1 KINGSTRE Phone 167. IllThe Kella is at the1 11 nig ties i We are "on the you receive prompt and We appreciate j Tntiarrn epllina cn mud A VUUVVV wviiiii^ ww ihow. We are going t< Tobacco you sell with i rition you help yourself. Bring Us a L of the Hit ? Johnso NITU iCk fnllnwinnr 1!ti IV/ iVUV TT lltg U1J rized as the bes Iron Beds eddingCo. liairs-the 1 je to give! ef und yon rnicke Bo< _ ?* ir*. lines noosier rvi Sidewalk Sulkies & i tck Maple Rattan P d Ranges(wood, coal >'s Quality Line Be d Parlor Furniture. Shades, with and Trunks, ] ft complete line of 1 lere. buy at the old price E FURNITl 113 Academy St., N< ihan War rery top note! rices for 1 job" in your interest, efficient service at our our patronage, and ar< fi higher than last year, ) get you every dollar is. When you help to We are here to stay t ,oad and be ( ?h Prices Being n = Mill RE! ' ies, because t: t* Springs rind we satisfacr money )kcases tchen Cabinets leaver Pianos Babv Carriages orch Furniture I & oil burners) droom, Dining without HartsBags, Suitcases House Furnishs. JRECO. ?xt to Postoffice =r=anl" enouse iwilli 'obacco and will see that house. e nleased to see ? possible for the keep up compeand help you. Convinced Paid 7 s Co.? i