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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1908-02-06
Age No BAR.

Everybody in South Carolina If
eligible.
Old people stopped with suffering,
Middle age, courageously fighting,
Youth protesting lmpatiently;
Children, unable to explain;
All in misery from their kidneys.
Only little backache first.
Comes wheh you catch cold.
Or when you strain the back.
Many complications follow.
Urinary disorders, diabetes, Bright''
disease.
Doan's Kidney Pills cure backache.
Cure every form of kidney ills.
JW Powell, proprietor of gen.
eral store d, d coal, wood aud ice
dealer of Waverly, living at 20l(
Blanding ST., Columbia, S G, says
MY son has been afflicted with kid
pey and urinary trouble from child
hood, being unable to control the
secretions especially when asleep
Since using Doan's Kidney Pills ht
has entirely recovered
For sale by all dealers. Price 81
cents. Foster -Milburn Co, Buffa
10, New York, sole agents for tn;
United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
andsstake no other.
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CHAPTER ".

CHAPTER ".
four days the Santa Maria
l felt blindly through the white
fields. drifting north with the
l. snrinr tide that sets through
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1908-02-06
Street Cars IN MeHiso.

"Street car conductors in the
City of Mexico" said tourist, "givc
a receipt to each passenger on tax
ing fare. The pads are number
cd and show as quickly as a cash
register how many fares each man
must return to the company, provid-
ed that the passengers accept the re-
ceipts. The Mexicans never forget
to demand a voucher, for each is a
numbered ticket in a monthly lot
terry with many rich prizes, and the
gambling zeal Of the passengers acts
as check on every fare taken In. !"
New York Sun.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1908-02-06
The THRICE -A.WEEK WORLD IN
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN YEAR.
More Alert, Aore Thorough and More
Fearless Than Ever. Read In Every
English Spoken Country.

A president of the United
States will be elected this year.
Whois he and who is the man
whom he will beat? Nobody
yet knows, but the Thrice.a
Week World will tell You every
step and every detail of what
promises to be campaign OF
the most absorbing interest. 1t
may not tell you what you hope
but it will tell you what is. The
rhrice-a.Week World long ago
established a character for i'm
partiality and fearlessness in
the publication of news, and
this it will maintain. If you
want the news as it really is
subscribe to the Thrice-a-Week
edition of tie New York World,
which comes to you every other
day, except Sunday, and is thus
ctically daily at the price
of a weekly.
The Thrlce.a-Week Worlds
regular subscription price is
only $1.00 per year, and this
pays for 159 papers. We offer
this unequalled newspaper and
The COUNTY RECORD together
for one year for $1.75.
The regular subscription price
OF the two papers is $500.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1908-02-06

Hereafter we positively re-
fuse to publish any communica-
ton received at thisioflce later
than Tuesday, noon, except 10.
cal and personal items, which
will'not be available later than
Wednesday, noon, for the cur.
rent week. By trying to be ac-
commodating we are thrown late
every week and we are tired OF
it. This notice applies to
EVERY BODY.
4-25.tf.
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Notice.

Trustees will meetion Saturday, 18th
inst, to let contract for the erection OF
a school building at Indiantown church:
We reserve the right to reject any and
all bids.
d E MCCUTCHEN
&C DANIEL
w BRoCKINToN
Trustees.
Feb 6, 1909. 1t
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1908-02-06
What | ardnt, | take

"Whdt I ardnt, tnkG."
and released her.
Il am going to love you, Helen" said
he.
"And may God strike me dead II
ever stop hating you" she cried. her
voice coming thick and hoarse with
passion.
Turning. she walked proudly forward
toward her cabin, trim, straight.
naughty figure, and he did not know
that her knees were shaking and weak.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1908-02-06

Mixed Sausage made fresh
ally at Peoples Market Scott &
Miller, Proprietors. 1l'31-tt
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1908-02-06

! Your choice steak at Peo-
Piles Market, Scott & Miller
Proprietors. '11-21!tt
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Surprising.

Surprising.
yesterday was my birthday"
II suppose your husband gave you
. little surprise"
"Oh, yes. He came home before
midnight" Houston Post.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-12-10
GULLIBLES VISIT CHICAGO.
Easily Victimized by Sliarpers, Who
Don't Half Try.

Chicago.-The gullibility of some
persons is past all comprehension.
A party of visitors from the West
once made up purse of SIS to see
the statue of Gen. U. S. Grant dis
mount from the stone horse at Lin
coin Park.
A Kansas farmer agreed to pur-
chase the Federal Building for So
600, securing his option with cash
payment of s147.
Another man from down State
paid a newly found friend $3.50 to
see the Masonic Temple turn half
way around
But new bunco game was discov-
cred this week when Harry Pickles
herer, OF North Tonawanda. ~ Y
kicked because two detectives re-
fused to allow him to buy the gold"
on the tower OF the Montgomery
Ward Building.
Ficklesherer had just completed
negotiations for the purchase when
Detectives Russell and O'Brien ac.
costed him.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-12-10
The Old-Timc Watermelon.

Readers who live where good wa
termelons grow, Will sympathize with
those whose emotions Mr.. WILDER d.
Nesbit has so eloquently expressed
in the Chicago Post
In the old days when the world
was much better than It is now, there
were good watermelons.
AS We remember them the water
melons of twenty-five, thirty or thir-
ty-hve years ago were huge affairs.
They were none OF your overgrown
cucumber effects of to-day, but were
great big round fellows, and the out
side was dark green. It was the
same shade of green as the reflection
of the trees in a swimming hole.
And when you sunk the knife into
It the rind ripped and cracked for
two inches ahead of the blade-and
the melon Just laughed itself open,
Hold on! You didn't use a knife.
You lifted the melon above your
head and dropped 1t to the ground
and it burst open as red as a rose,
and a hundred times as sweet. And
you ate nothing but the heart-just
one chunky. crisp red heart
Nowadays the marketman shows
you an oblong affair done in pale
green and green-yallery stripes.
with white blotch on the under
side that he calls watermelon. And
you cut 1t into slices like bologna
sausage, and eat It with fork like
pie.
And you have forgotten whether a
watermelon goes plinkplink or
piunk-plunk when 1t is ripe, because
II doesn't make any difference now.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-12-10
ANNIVERSARY SYNDICATE.
Three Sisters and Cousin Married on
the Same Date.

st, Louis.-At the wedding of
Miss Rena NJ. Elliott, daughter OF
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Elliott, to Fred
l.. Dodge, of Sherman, Tex. at the
home of the brides parents, an un-
usual coincidence was discovered.
Tho ceremony was performed by the
Rev. w, NJ. Rhoads, cousin of the
bride
The date was the nineteenth we'd
ding anniversary of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. l.. Tober and the twenty-third
anniversary of Mrs. Thomas b.
Ruyle, both women being sisters Of
the bride II was also the thirtieth
wedding anniversary OF Mr. and Mrs,
Thomas l.. Bradshaw, cousins of the
bride, and the birthday anniversary
of Miss Elliott, also sister of the
bride, all of whom were present at
the ceremony.
Rev. Mr.. Rhoads was also the OFF,
ciating clergyman at the other we'd
dings.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-12-10
SEC'Y TAFT A HUSTLER
Made for Himself Queerest
Job i'm Washington.
ALL OVER THE WORLD
In Panama One Month, In the PhI-
ippincs the NcNt--Equippcd Win
High-gI'adc Machinery, He Runs
Overt 'mc-IIis Enormous Capac-
ity for Accomplish ng TIL ngs.

There never has been a man who
has had so queer a job as that OF
Secretary of War William Howard
Taft. For that matter there never
has been man like him in the SER
vice of the country, and In way he
has made his own job by giving
abundant proof of his extraordinary
abilities. one month he is down at
Panama seeing that they are not try
ing to run water uphill; the next he
IS opening the Philippine Assembly
50 that It will stay open, and then
laying aside his white duck suit and
Panama hat he puts on his fur cap
and fur overcoat and goes owe" to st.
Petersburg to talk China and Japan
with the czar. At times he runs the
War Department by foresight for
a month in advance. He car
ries his cabinet portfolio with It's
myriads of matters in his hat on his
long trips. and there never has been
n me when things were quite so up
to the mark as during his incumben-
6, though he has spent half of the
tine away from his desk.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-12-10

There are evident advantages in
specializing. 1t is pleasant to know
one thing thoroughly, If it is nothing
more vital than the Greek enclitic or
the wing of moth. Even a woman
may have an ambition to be quoted
as IAN authority"
Still. experts have their limita-
tions, If one may Judge by their di-
verse conclusions on the witness
stand. Josh Billings's wisdom re-
main true, and there is little virtue
in knowing things that amt So"
When all is said, life is many-sid-
ed. and there is call for some per-
sons who see II thus. as from their
natural point OF view. We may
sympathize with the old darkey who
defended himself from the charge of
being a preacher.
"Oh, no, Massa, | amt on preach
er. Is ony JUS 'zorter!"
why, what's the difference be-
tween a preacher and exhorter, Sam
boz"
"Oh. there's a deal o. difference,
massa De preacher amt much use
for plain folks, cause he got ter
stick to his tex. But de zorter.
bress ye massa--de %orter he kin
branchi"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-12-10

hands. str a II gely
calm, sat at a table, wrote a few
words to my uncle confessing my
crime and asked him, for the sake
of our family, to make good the
money that | had stolen. Then
took my revolver.
AT that moment the door OPEN
Cd and my silent companion came up
to me. His face was as serious as
before; but there was besides an ex-
preston of kindness and pity which
surprised me.
Handing me a bundle of bills,
he saia: Lock here, my boy Here
Is your money. Barchieloff is a
thief and a swindle-. He has cheat
ed you out of your money, playing
false. | watched him all the time
and discovered how he did it.
Il jumped to my feet and took
both his hands Who are you to
whom | Owe my salvat.on?'
I am PGroutschGin. chief of po-
lice of Moscow, he replied. and
pointing to the room where Bar
chielof was. he added For some
time | have suspected this man,
whose family is we'll known TO me,
and he will not escape his punish
ment. But you, my boy, must
promise me by everything you love
and consider holy, that you will
never gamble again
II promised, and | have kept my
promise. The white streak in my
hair which was the result of that
nights terrible excitement. reminds
me every day of my crime and my
salvation"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-12-10

'ered the small waiting room whicn
hal been placed at our disposal. and
were surprised to find splendid
spread of roast beef chicken. pat
ties, and even few Ottles of cham
payne.
After supper we sat down in front
of the open fireplace with our tea
and cigarette, and | enjoyed listen
ing to Barchieloff's many stories OF
adventure, as we'll as funny Incl
dents from society life at Kharkow
and Moscow
Later in the evening the post
master came in to tell us that our
beds had been made in three little
rooms next to the waiting room. but
my amiable companion did not APP
pear to feel like going to bed yet He
lit fresh cigarette and said with
smile:
I'm sure you do not feel sleepy
as early as this, and | think that as
long as we sit here so cozily together
we might have a little rum in our
tea and spend an hour or two at a
game of cards.
Il was willing, and we sat down
at the table and commenced to play.
The silent traveller did not 20 to
bed either, but sat down to read at
another table close to ours. appar-
emily not paying any attention to us
at all.
The stakes were rather high. At
first l was in luck, and when had
won a little over one hundred rou-
bles from Barchieloff | began to feel
rather bad about It, The loss did
not seem to affect him, however. and
he continued to be in excellent hum
or, and several times filled up my
glass with rum.
AT las, there came time when
began to feel that luck aad turned
against me, but now he wanted to
win back what he had lost. con-
tinued playing, and twenty minutes
afterward | had lost all my money.
Then don't know how-the des-
perate thought came to me to take
some of the money that | was car
r!lng lot tne AdJutant, and from
that moment it was as If had lost
every bit of common sense ever
possessed.
Luck continued to be against me
and one thousand after the other
went from the satche into Barchie-
lof's pockets. At last, when | had
rot a roub,e left, he stood up and
thought 1t was enough for tonight.
and proposed that we go to bed.
Il went into my room, and, crush
ed with grief, | threw myself on a
chair and burst into tears. My head
was now perfectly clear, and un-
derstood the crime had commit
ted.
II saw myself dishonored, for,
poor as | was. | could never think
of paying back such an amount.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-12-10
Devil ANSE' IN virginia
Former FcudiSt Visits "Cap" lat.
field, His Father.

Richmond. Va.--"Dcvil Ars,r
Hatfield Is once again in tie noun.
tains of West Virginia, after an alb.
scnce of years. Nineteen years n,o
James Hatfield, Jr., better known as
Devil Anse," was recognized
throur rhout the mountains of West
Virginia and Kentucky as one of the
quickest and surest shots in the Hat
field faction when he left West Vir.
ginia for the plains OF Minnesota.
Devil Ansc" is highly respected in
the community In which he lives.
Few in that section know of his past
life or of the exploits of himself and
his kinsmen in their family war
fare
He is on VISIT to his father.
"Cap" Hatfield, leader of the Hat
field, leader OF the Hatfield clan who
After spending some time at his old
home II is the purpose of Devil
Anse" to return to the wheatfelds.
West Virginia Is no longer like
homo to me-" he says, many lives
were lost during the war between
the two families. Tho Hatheld-Mc-
Coy fued, known throughout the
world for the ferocity with which II
was waged, started In Floyd County
nearly forty years ago and extended
over a dozen counties in the two
States Twenty years ago | grew
tired OF the eternal strife and blood
shed and went West"
John Mccoy was the head OF the
Mccoy family. OF which there were
fifteen children. Only one survives
cap" Hatfield was the father of
thirteen children, of which number
eleven were killed, the only two now
alive being Devil Anse" and girl
A mountain romance concerns IT.
self with the Mccoy who survived
and the Hatfield girl. The two were
about the same age. One day they
met on q mountain trail. Later the
little community in the hills was
startled to learn that the two had
elopcd and that they had been mar
ried by mountain preacher. This
ended the feud. The couple are hap
py. They live in pretty LITTLE wood.
ed glen In the West Virginia hills,
surrounded by growing boys and
girls carrying in their veins the fused
blood of the two old fighting fami-
lies.
At times the feud of former days
reached such proportions that State
troops had to be called out. The
trouble affected even the cousins Of
the two sides. Innocent women and
children were shot like rabbits in
the fields. In one instance two mem
bers of one of the clans. both mere
boys, were tied TO trees and burned
to death.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-12-10
BROOKLINE BABIES MAY YELL
ALL NIGHT.
No Law to Prevent Crying, Wise Se-
lectmen Decided.

Boston.-The babies of Brook
line, wealthiest town In the world,
may yell at the top of their healthy
young lungs and as long as they
please now. Let nervous old maids
go in Mysteries and crusty bachelors
tear their hair; it makes no differ
ence to the crying babies.
Very small Donald Howard, who
lives with his papa and mamma, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Howard, at VIII
liam and Harvard streets, Brook
line, has had pain under his rib
recently, and has cried great deal,
Neighbors of the Howards COM
planned to the Board of Selectment
that little Donald disturbs their
peace by day, murders their sleep
and is a public nuisance generally.
Very gravely, the Selectment con-
sidered the complaint. They decided,
and the precedent now stands in
Brookline. that there is no law that
forbids a baby to cry, and that
therefore, cry as he may. he cannot
legally be considered a public nuis-
ance.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-12-10
The
PROMISE

By OTTO EDWARD.

"You don't mean to say, Prince
Orloff, that you don't intend to try
YOUR luck at Irene ct Quarante or
Roulette?"
"Yes, my dear doctor, there is
nothing in the world that could
tempt me to change my mind, and
you will have noticed that l don't
even go near the gaming table
81 had noticed that. but | never
thought there was anything behind
that-simply believing that you
wanted to look around a little be-
fore starting to play yourself DR..
Bermulphi replied, looking kindly
Al the young man who was sitting
opposite him on the terrace outside
the Hotel D'Argleterre at Monte
Carlo
Captain Count Orloff was a Rus
sian. tall. handsome man about
thirty-fve. There was in his face
/ certain melancholy expression, but
what especially attracted ones at
.ention was a broad streak g white
hair running from his forehead to
the back OF his head. which was very
conspicuous, as the rest of his hair
was jet black.
II suppose it is impossible to be at
Monte Carlo and not to talk of gamb-
ing" the .'oung officer said, after a
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-12-10

There is reason for this capac-
ity for work. Every human being
is a sort of productive manufactur-
ing plant. Some have small outputs
and some big outputs. Taft Is one
great, big, gigantic plant, equipped
with high-grade, high-speed mach.n-
cry, and there is such a demand for
his goods that he runs overtime. 1t
looks as If his reward is going to be
more hard work.
No man who has not an infinite ca
pac.ty for effort should ever pre-
sumo to put himself in the position
Of trying to keep step with the big
plenipotentiary. The best of them
have tired it, but before long they
find that Taft begins work before
they do and Is hard at 1t long after
they finish. and seems to enjoy il
and thrive on it, He works harder.
plays harder. eats harder, and lives
harder than any man in public life
to-day, and yet there is always that
good nature about him that makes
association with him a pleasure.
There Is nothing quarrelsome or
pragmatical about him, but he has
never allowed anyone to impose on
him. That was his record from boy
hood. Around his old home in C!n-
c!nnati he was the boy who never
had to whip the other boy twice.
Some men have the faculty of al.
lowing assistants to gather inforIna-
tion, digest It, and present 1t for use.
Taft pursues a different course. He
has a discerning eye and the same
judicial ability which made him so
great a success on the bench. When
one stops to consider how much
there is to know about Panama,
Cuba, Porto Rico. Hawai-! and
the Philippines, which no statesman
living in the United States could pos
s'Oly get from reports and corres-
pondents, and which could only be
learned by the average man in long
residence in each region. one is
astounded that the big Secretary in
his hurried trips should have been
able TO form conclusions which in
the end have been proven SO Just and
accurate. The American policy in
each has been successful because
TAFT framed It on a correct knowl-
edge of conditions.
The scope of this knowledge ia
tremendous. Imagine one man go
Ing over every part of the grounds
encompassed by the pans for the
fortiiications of Subig Bay; studying
the needs of the planter in Pinar del
Rio till he knows what Is fair to him
as well as to the man in Santa Clara :
delving into the sanitation of Colon
and the transport facilities of the
railroads 10 .he Pacific 'oast for
troops, and meantime keeping in
touch with the financial situation.
the tariff, and the temperance move
ment in the south and west Re-
member this is not other mems print
ed knowledge he enjoys, hut his own
knowledge drawn from ten thousand
sources and weighed by master In
differentiation.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-12-10
FARM WORK by PRISONERS.
A Danish Plan TO Improve Barren
Heaths of Jutland.

Realizing that crime in many in
stances is the result OF early envi-
ronment, which made the criminal
what he is, the Danish Government
takes a paternal interest in those
who are brought within the charge
of the prison authorities" said Eric
Herland. lumber merchant Of
Traverse City, Mich, who has been
on visit to his native land, Den
mark.
Denmark still possesses in the
heaths of Jutland large undevel-
oped territory that requires much
labor to make It suitable for agricul-
tural purposes" continued Mr.. Her.
land. "Of late years, however,
many farms have begun to dot this
Jutland landscape. Through per
sistant efforts trees are now in evi-
dence where formerly the heaths
were barren except for unbroken
stretches OF ling. Acres OF grain
bearing soil have replaced the
tough underground that was good
for nothing but the torch.
The work of reclaiming the Dan
ish heaths has been accomplished
largely through the cooperation Of
the Danish prison authorities and In
dividuals who wished to embark In
farming on their own account and
had no means of buying ground. In
such instances every inducement Is
offered the agriculturists to become
the owner OF plot OF ground on the
heath. For him to break up the
earth single handed and start bust
ness would be physical impossible
ity. 1t is here the prisoners do the
preliminary work.
"A freedom which will not IN
fringe on the regulation necessary
TO keep up discipline is enjoyed by
the prisoners on the Danish heath,
but the work is no childs play. Sc
we're as is the labor, however, sell
dom is a prisoner heard to complain.
for II such complaints should reach
the ears OF the officials the convict
would at once be deprived OF this
semi-liberty and returned to the con-
finement of the prison. The aver
age human being loves liberty too
well to voluntarily exchange It for
the prison cell.
AN important adjunct is found
In the large dogs which are a feat
tha
heath. There is little doubt that
these four-footed guards inspire re-
spect."
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-12-10
Will Loan Money 10 Farmers.

The Transyaal government, though
the medium of land bank that is
being opened, is about 10 lend APP
proximately $5l2.O00,00 to the far
mers OF the country to enable them
to p"rchase modern agricultural ma
thinery and implements.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-12-10
KILLS SKUNK; GETS DAY OFF
Motorman Told to Soak Himself and
Burn His Clothes.

Tacoma.--On his way to work, and
little behind time. X. Hanson, mo-
torman on the Tacoma street trolley
line, coasted over polecat on his
bicycle and nearly caused panic
when he entered the lobby at the
street car Offices, where fifty men
were waiting to go on duty.
Hanson was given a twenty-four-
hour vacation by the superintendent
Of the car lines and ordered TO spend
twenty hours OF It in a bathtub and
10 burn his clothes and bury bis
bicycle.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-12-10
Gets 100000 for Butterflies.

Reading, Pa.-The famous collec-
tion OF butterflies and moths belong
ing to the late Herman Strecker, OF
this city. has been sold to the Field
Museum of Natural History, Chica.
go, by Mrs. Strecker for $4,000.
The collection is said TO be the finest
In the world.