Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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New Stables! New Stock! 2 Cars of Horses and Mules Arrived To-Day, -= December 14th, 1909. ===== 2 Cars of Wagons in Transit, 1 Car of Buggies and Sumes on Hand and 2 Cars in Transit. Also a Full Line of Harness, Saddles, Robes, Whips and Farm Imple C . f< i WCS & 8 Q?= r ice j-^ ~J ments. r I ?. l L I EEd SOT - rT-i.^". We Will be Ready for Business Thursday, December 16th. Call on Us. SHAW & DRAKE * Sumter, S. C. COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE. <>'WH\ LETTKK8 FROM OUR SPE ri\L CORRESPONDENTS. of Interest Prom all Parts of 4MejMp and Adjoining Counties. K TO CQRHESPONDBNTS. ?t**t your letters so that they will ? office not later than Mon '?*rt Intended for Wednesday's .nd not later than Thursday ? rday's Issue This, of course, ? ?nly to ftfsjlat correspond n eaee of Items of unusual ? ie. send In immediately by "phone oi telegraph. Such ???*? are ae< ratable up to the folng to po'H Wednesday's * printed Tn ? <iuy afternoon rday's paper Friday after LYNCHIlim?. Mm sburg, Dec. 10.?While trade Ip no ?tter than usual In this town, th*-e a bis; Improvement In the or i this fall. We opine that s money that Is undoubtedly h I, especially hy the colored 111 burst forth Christmas t make the merchant smile e exceed In ' happy after ? ng and patio u wait, for they y i ?k of reslgniu: >n and hope f Prosperity s certainly round, If n ?t In sight, for s *ose who ha e done their i ?'1. if not In oart. ??Idences are all tho time In o ' erection, but the most dc s - Mental poi lion of the t" ts seems to e tho eastern a north eastern ptrt. Mr. L 'hompson and Dr. Teilott ? have their residences ready f?- ipanry. Upon the whole, tl l iI> better town, for It's pop ui ', !n the State. Few people sett here ever leave. Thereseems to i -?ome fascination about It wh!( h cannot be explalnod. Hut come here and find out 'or your aelves and be convinced. As to the adaptiblllty and productiveness of the soil, there is, everything consider? ed, no finer farming lands in the State. We have three passenger trains a day going each way, that is, stx passenger trains in all, but we can't count the freight trains by trusting to memory. Mr. Edwin DuRant has Just re turned from a several days' visit to Chaster, which ha certainly must It* have enjoyed to the fullest. Mr Junlua T. McNeil la oft on a long visit to his brother in Green? ville. Our graded or high school under the tutorship of Prof. W. L. McGow an, Misses Louisa Scarborough, Ruth Ethridge, Blanche Rose and Ada Tenant 's flourishing and conducted in a most satisfactory manner. Rev. J. S. Beasely is attending conference. We trust he will be re? turned, as few could fill his place here. Messrs. Ernest McFadden and Tommie Miller seem possessed of matrimonial aspirations, which, to all appearances, will materialize, and consequently mean new resi? dences. Too "much smoke for no fire." Mrs. D. O. Rhame and little son, Delmar. returned to Summerton to? day. Misses Annie Griffin and Lila Lew? is spent today in Sumt< r. Some miscreant, supposedly a ne? gro, entered Mr. L V. Brown's resi? dence the other night, shoved the front door open, but suddenly dis? appeared very unceremoniously. Mr. Brown came in a few minutes, and well the Intruder didn't tarry. How? ever, there la very little lawlessness In this place. 8TATEBTJRG. Stateburg, Dec. 13.?A very pretty entertainment was given on Friday night at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Morris, by Misses Lessie Mcllvallle, and Virginia Saunders, teachers of the Stateburg High School, for tho benefit of the school library. The rooms wore beautifully decorated with smilax, holly, red tis? sue paper and bells and when light? ed up presented a charming, Christ? mas-like appearance, the low win? dow belntf especially lovely. The well which was arranged in a most urtistic manner, was one of tho fea? tures of the evening and the buck? ets as they were drawn up from Us magic depths, wero constantly re? vealing new treasures. The candy booth was also a very attractive spot. ?m was proven by the popularity it enjoyed during the evening. Tho raffling of a cake, and a doll caused a pleasant ripple of I'un and excite? ment. Delicious oyscers, crackers, cakes, coffee and other refreshments were served for the delectation of the inner man. Everybody had a pleasant time and tha entertainment was voted a great success. 8MITHVILLE. Smlthvllle, Dec. 13.?We had rain last night and this morning. Maybe the oats will come up now and those that are up begin to grow. Mr. L. S. Vinson intends putting up a ginnery on his farm near here. A part of the machinery has arrived and lumber is being hauled to put up the gin house. He had some fin? ishing touches added to his residence recently, and Is now having it paint? ed. Mr. H. H. Evans, Sr., has begun to make preparation for the erec? tion of his new residence. Mr. J. W. Robertson is hauling lumber to erect a new dwelling. Mrs. D. J. Robertson and children spent last week with relatives at Beulah. Miss Daisy C. Brown is spending some time with her sister, Mrs. W. X. Dunlap. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Shiver spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Robertson. A good many porkers were killed last week Good times in the coun? try now. Plenty of blackbone, spare ribs, sausage and cracklin bread. Some marriages to report ere long. PISGAH. Plsgah, Dec. 13.?The rain has come at last and will be of great benefit to the oats. This has been one of the finest falls to gather crops we have ever had, and all should be thankful for so good weather. Wells and water courses are getting very low from the dry weather and in some cases water has to be hauled, as tho wells have gone dry. Revs. T. Lj Cole and S. B. Hat field have returned from the conven? tion at Anderson. They report a splendid convention and fine time. Swift Creek church is undergoing extensive repairs. A hot supper will be given at the residence of J. L. Gillis on Friday evening, December 17th, at Pisgah, S. C. for tho benefit of Swift Creek church. The menu will be up to* date and the public is cordially Invit? ed to attend. Good order will pre? vail. Also at Pisgah church Thursday evening, December H3rd, Misses Hat tio Hussey and Jessie Brown will have a Christmas tree and entertain? ments for the benefit of their schools. The public is cordially invited to attend and witness the enjoyment of the children. No admission fee. MAX. Max, Dec. 13.?Mr. Jessie Chand? ler, a young man who was raised near Bethel and was formerly a member of that church, died at Bo mar, Orangeburg County, last Friday of typhoid fever. In accordance with his last request his remains were brought to Bethel and atter being funeralized by Rev. B. K. Truluck, was laid to rest in Bethel graveyard Sunday afternoon. Young Mr. Chandler was engaged in teaching up to the time of his sickness. On last Monday afternoon Mrs. M. P. Truluck left her room with her three small children by the fire for a few minutes. Hearing her baby scream she ran to them to find the boby's clothes in flames. In trying to put out the fire Mrs. Truluck's hands were badly burned. The baby was also badly burned, and both arc suffering a great deal. Mr. B. Platt Moore Is going on crutches as a result of a fall of twelve or more feet from where he was doing some work. Mrs. A. J. Goodman Is severely ill of cold. Yes, Sunday was a busy day with Rev. B. K. Truluck. He filled one of his regular appointments, preach? ed a funeral sermon, and married two couples at his home. A good rain is falling today after a long dry spell. Mr. B. C. Truluck sold a fine lot of pork In Tlmmonsville last week. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Philips, of Johnsonville, visited the latter's par? ents, Mr. and Mrs. P. A. W. McGce last week. Mr. A. J. Goodman went to Sum ter on business last week. If It Must be So, Why Not Have un Honest Business Government? Government by business may in it? self be good or bad; we have not yet proceeded far enough with it to be able to say. But with perfct confi? dence two things may be asserted of it, says Charles Edward Russell in "Success Magazine." First, government by business that pretends to be something else, as ours pretends, is most certainly bad. It is bad because hypocrisy, cant and false pretenses are always unprofit? able, and still more because these false pretences are the parents of almost Illimitable corruption, hurt? ful to us all and often In unsuspected ways costly to business. Thus, because we maintain the pretense of a form of government that, practically speaking, no longer exists, business Is driven to secure by the purchase of legislators, or the bribing of police, the ends that it must have. In the case we have al? ready considered of tho man whose trade conditions compel him to vio? late the law concerning land under the sidewalks, a government of pre tence maintains this law upon its stat? ute books, and business, that it mr.y maintain undisturbed the conditions essential to it. pays a public officer -o condone the law's violation. Bufi tl( BS, finding it ne< essary to seize the public highways and to deprive the people of their rights therein, resons, under the government of pretence, to the city council, whose members it bribes into compliance with its wishes. Business under the govern? ment of pretence, being threatened with adverse legislation, proceeds to the State capitol and there deals out wholesale corruption upon the repre? sentatives of the people. Business, having a purpose to achieve at Wash? ington, uses these influences and methods imposed upon it by the gov? ernment of pretence, and these in fiuepces anc methods degrade the dignity of the nation. Business, hav? ing need that one presidential candi? date shall be defeated and another shall be elected, pours out millions of dollars for the purchase of votes and leaves a pregnant source of evil to curse us for many years to come. Business, having need of the assist? ance of a majority of the senators, goes Into the States and buys their election, to the infinite scandal and injury of our good name. It appears, therefore, as a propo? sition not oi en to dispute, that if we are to have government by business we should have it frankly, honestly, without reservation, acknowledging the facts, conducting ourselves ac? cordingly, and we should do away forever with the pretense that we have a government of any other kind. Then if the necessities of trade com? pel business men to occupy land un? der the sidewalks, Business will abolish the law that forbids such oc cupancy and then by abolish the cor? ruption that the law entails. If busi? ness finds thai the presence of any man in the senate is necessary to its purposes, it will announce the fact and choose the man without resorting to the purchase of a legislature. Whatever business wants In a gov? ernment conducted frankly and fair? ly by business will be had without deception or cant. The Curse of Farming Tradition. (From the Richmond (Va.) Times Despatch.) Virginia's reverence for the past has been at once her greatest bane and greatest blessing. It has let the State Into more sound political posi? tions and "? more absurd anomalies than any ott. _r single force. When men have modeled their conduct < from the great deeds of the past Vir? ginia has been blessed, but where they have tried blindly to follow out? worn traditions the State has suffer? ed enormously. Most especially has this been the -y case with our agriculture. Men who ' inherited broad acres and family sil? ver too often regarded them in ex? actly the same way. They were each to be used precisely as their lathers had used them. The crops were to be planted in the same way, in the same fields, and cultivated in the I same old style. To do otherwise would have been to violate time-hon? ored traditions. As a result the old State was left behind in the march of progress, with wornout fields and an? tiquated methods. A few men are sacrilegious enough to violate the old ideas of farming. They are rich today. Their success has precip tated the revolution now on between the old and the new, be? tween science and tradition. The re? sults of this conflict are to be seen In our own State, though not so forci? bly, pcjhars, as in other parts of the South. In Louisiana and Arkansas, for example, boys and men have alike become converts to the new system. Twenty-four thousand of them from the one State and 20,000 from the other have enrolled themselves in the farming clubs of the Department of Agriculture and bound themselves to farm by the new methods outlined in the department's publications. The work of the boys is peculiarly interesting. They kept up their reg? ular work and cultivated, each of them, a little plot, usually only a single acre, on their fathers' estates. Often the old men have condemned the inn-nations and predicted failure for the ' book-farming" lads. New? fangled idea*, they said, would not .lo In farming. But when the end of the season came around the boys gathered, in some cases, 74 bushels of corn from an acre, where their fathers, side by side with them, av? eraged 20. One lad made $400 for his seed corn raised on a single acre. These are mere items in the an? nals of the revolution. But they in? dicate two things, surely and un? equivocally: The old system is doom? ed; the new system offers a happy, sure and profitable living for those who will follow it. Send us your Job work. FOR SALE?One 35 H. P. Liddell Boiler and one 35 H. P. Eagle En? gine. Both in good condition. A bargain for some one. P. M. Pitts. 12-15-2t.