The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1906-05-24

y une l6 line QeUallS nave nOG Oeen d
ranged yet.
CHANDLER is being paid back for
once stealing electoral votes to elect a
Republican president.
A Massachusetts, paper says the Ros-
tong rls a have legal right to wear
white stackings. DO they? =
MRS. Jefferson Davis, who has been
extremely i'll for several days in New
York. is thought to be in a fair way
to recover.
HIGH society customs don't go at
Macon, Ga. a woman has been arres-
ted down there for wearing a decollete
gown on the street.
THE Times and Democrat has been
commended on all sides for the stand
it took to the washing machine con-
tract selling scheme.
THE tragic death of Mr.. Geo. W.
Rickenhaker, Jr., is very sad indeed,
and his family have the sympathy Of
all in their sad bereavement:
IT looks from this distance as if
Senators Tillman and Bailey, with the
assistance of former Senator Chandler
has put President Roosevelt in deep
hole.
SOME of those young San Francisco
! people who married in a hurry last
week may discover after while, tina t
there are worse things than earth
quakes.
WHAT ever else you may do this
summer don't fall out with your neigh
bor about politics. Reno Der that
we all can't think exactly alike on
public questions.
Az LAST the worm has turned. An
Indiana husband has: out talked his
wife to such a degree that she has be-
come a nervous wreck and is suing for
divorce on the grounds stated.
a Montana man says he has found
out how to grow a bushel of potatoes
in bushel of sawdust in sixty days,
and it can be done in the cellar or any
other old place. No vines, no bugs,
no trouble and it is likely no potatoes.
EVERY man has right to think
for himself, work for his own interest
and DO al number of similar selfish
things, but after all the things that
give the most pleasure when looking
backward is the good we have done
Others.
WE commend the straightforward,
honest announcement Of Hon Richard
I. Manning to all candidates They
must all line up on one side or the
other Of the dispensary question so as
the people can vote intelligently. So
toe the mark, gentlemen.
WE understand that several of the
people who were duped into buying a
washing machine contract has gone
back to ploughiug and charged up the
five hundred dollars they paid for the
contract to profit and loss. Later on
there will be more who will do the
same thing.
The Sparlanbur9 Herald says: THE
dispensary question, if allowed to con-
tinue the first issue in all things per-
tainlng to South Carolina, will stran-
gle the very life out of the common
wealth-and the institutions of the
state will wither of neglect" Who is
responsible for bringing this question
up at every election?
AMONG the curious things that az
rest attention on arriving in Moscow
is the absence Of whips among drivers
of cabs, carriages and all sorts of
vehicles. There is law prohibiting
their use. There is not a single whip
in use in Moscow. The excellent con-
dition of the horses attest the benefit
of this humane law.
THE pretty girls at Seaford, Del,
felt so bad for the poor sufferers out
in San Francisco that they decided to
sell kisses at ST apiece for the banetit
fund. One rosy. checked, dewey-lipped
blushing maid actually brought over
hundred dollars into the relief fund
in the space of two hours, and she said
she was not bit tired Ell her.
The editor of The Times and Dem
ocrat never touches strong drink of
any kind as a beverage. He regards
it as one of the greatest enemies to the
human race in the world, and il such
q thing was possible he would like to
see it's manufacture prohibited every
where. but he can't believe that the
socalled prohibition we have in some
counties in the State is the best way
to manage the demon of strong drink.