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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-06-09

5 GANDERBONE'S FORECAST
{ FOR JUNE.
Copyright. 1910, by C II Reith.

Beside a day in June, my dears, all
other day are nothing, for then it is
ones eager ears may hear the soft
winds soughing by forest ways, aud
perfect days of brightly lowered
meads and joyous song are come
along just like string of beads.
A poet one time asked us what is
peradventure like it, and died well
knowing we had not the wit required
to strike it. He simply tried, before
he died, to give us one so hid we'd
work at it till time shall quit. land by
the gods he did.
The breath of summertime shall
rouse the festive calf to action, and
what with unrestrained carouse, he'll
d. for an attraction. He'll buck and
dance around the manse in no great
show of grace, and wave his tail
with brave assail in Mr. Halley's face.
The heavy-droning bumble-bee
shall kiss the blushing clover, and
skies as blue as any sea shall bend
the planet over. The graduate shall
right the State from Maine across to
Yuma, and the groom in stress shall
| S OS his dad for more mazuma.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-06-09
Time to Act.

For several. years past the COM
mercial interests of kingstree have
suffered through inadequate cotton
ginning facilities and it is sur
prising that the business men Of
the town should allow such a
condition to exist for so long a
time. This year, W &:e informed,
there is as yet no certainty that
a modern ginnery will be operated
of sufficient capacity for the prompt
and proper handling of the cotton
that would naturally be ginned
h re. The tendency seems to be
to put these things off until ne
cessity forces action and then
there is no time for equipping and
installing machinery for a new and
up-to-date plant such as the town
by right should have, and the old
machinery is patched up to last
through another year.
With proper ginning facilities
to attract cotton here the number
of bales ginned during the sea-
son could we'll nigh be doubled,
we are reliably informed. Think
what this would mean for our town!
Every business here would be
benefited, because it is safe to
conclude that where a man gins
his cotton he is apt to spend some
of the money for which he sells it.
With these facts before us how
can We lie supinely on our backs
and turn deaf ears to the call of
opportunity?
The business men of Kingstree
should get together before it is too
late and provide for ginnery of
the latest and most improved type
to be installed here in time for the
ensuing season. The time to act
is now; our temporal salvation
depends on it. Unless we are up
and doing other towns will outstrip
US in the keen competition for busi-
ness and the efforts Of all these
years will go for naught. Just
little effort, just a little energy,
is all that is required, but there
is no time for delay or procrasti-
nation.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-06-09

We are in receipt of an ex.
change copy of The. Mullins
Messenger Volume l, Number /,
with Mr. James Norton as editor.
The new paper is a neatly print
ed six column quarto and the
editorial column is plentifully fla:
vored with tabasco sauce. Judg-
ing from the animadversions Of
the Messenger local politics must
he at sizzling degree of heat
in the thriving municipality of
Mullins.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-06-09
THURSDAY, JUNE 9. 1910.
Ganderbone's Forecasts.

We are giving our readers this
week a column of genuine, copy
righted humor. This is sample
of what the large papers pay lib
orally for and are eager to print.
To quote the author and origin
ator of the "Ganderbone Fore
cast;
The sole province ofthe "Gander-
Ebone Forecast" is humor, and hu-
NOR has just as much a place in a
small paper as in a large one. 1t
isn't getting it in the average
small paper, but that's only one OF
the reasons why it is small paper.
The country editor who knows this
has discovered what has been known
in the metropolitan newspaper office
a long time. Humor rs all that
saves any paper from the common
place, and the man who can write it
or draw it is more in demand than
any other newspaper worker OF our
time.
Now, we are well aware of the
fact that a large percentage OF
our readers will regard the For
cast" as arrant nonsense and Won
der why we bother to print 1t.
Not every one is endowed with
sense or appreciation of humor.
AT the same time we believe that
among our readers there are
large number who do enjoy good,
clean, wholesome humor and it is
for the benefit of these that we
contemplate the creation OF this
department. Among consider
allie number of readers it is i'm
possible to get en- class OF mat
ter that is pleasing to all and we
have long since quit trying. The
best we can do is to aim at as
much variety as possible, in the
hope that some stray thought or
sentence may strike responsive
chord In the heart of every one
of our readers.
. Now, to return to our subject:
we can get the "Ganderbone's
monthly forecasts as a regular
feature of the paper, but 1t will
cost us something besides the ex-
pense of type-setting. Is it worth
paying for? BY this we meah'
does it appeal to sufficiently
large number of our readers to
warrant our giving it the space?
We want you to tell us. II you
like the "Ganderbone" and want
more of it, drop us card say
ing 50 and we shall be delighted
10 make it a regular department,
provided the demand is strong
enough. We cannot afford, how
ever, to pay for this class OF
matter and use it simply as a
filler" we want to know that
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-06-09

The comet, having hung about un-
til we were converted, shall gradu-
ally peter out and leave us quite de-
serted. We must recall we are not
all the world it sets Alright, and bid
it speed where there is need to cause
another fright.
1t is a sort of cop upon a beat of
great dimensions, and must by then
be getting on to scatter its atten-
tions. They have John DIS and Nor
gan P's on many a distant ball, and
were it not for HALEY hot these few
would grab it all.
A Guggenheim would capture
Mars,a Rockefeller Venus, and Nor
gans on the other stars would utter
ly demean US. We'd even be, unhap-
happily, quite naked where we sit,
if it were not that HALEY got around
and saw to it.
1t will not all at once appear how
far the comet served us, or just to
what extent the fear prevailed while
it observed us; but safe to say that
for a dayor thereabouts somewheres.
the trusts won't find it half so hard
to tell our things from theirs.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-06-09

'Twere better to be in a club and
branded Ananias than languish sadly
as dub unsung or honored by rs.
The chance for fame since Afric
game wooed this extraordinary son
of the Dutch has not been much, and
he is welcome, very.
Old Mr. Taft's a good old soul ann
plugs along undaunted. but Theo-
dorus on the whole was rather what
we wanted. We never cease to pirate
of peace and say that war is bad, but
even so it does get slow with no one
very mad.
We rather liked the pleasant
sound of peace gone willy-nilly, and
someone being chased around the
White House with a billy. We've
missed him much for lack of Dutch
in smiling Mr. Taft, and mortal sin
but it has been long time since we
laughed.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-06-09

An esteemed contemporary
boasts of new hearse among
the industrial improvements of
its town. 1t takes a lot of en-
thusiasm and optimism to boost
a town on the basis of a hearse
" filling a long-felt want. "
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-06-09

Halley's comet and the Boyc-
Brock controversy seem to have
come in for undue newspaper
prominence, considering their in
trinsic insignifcance.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-06-09

However, and he it as it may,
The comet viii outpace US,
And Theodorus on day
Will happily embrace us.
The hemisphere will tip, we fear,
Beneath his mighty track,
But even to The liars will
Rejoice to see him back.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-06-09

OF June it may be said, indeed, 4
1t isa great invention.
And one We rather badly need
To somewhat ease the tension
If we're to fish. to loaf and wish,
. Or hearken Natures call,
Well 10 it soon or late In June.
Or not do it at all
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-06-09

The present Congress will conclude
Where freedoms latest squwak was
And turu to have its work reviewed
BY ali the big Chautauquas.
The President will pitch his tent
At Beverly again,
And the news anon will dwell upon
The likelihood Of rain.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-06-09

Upon the 21st the sun will reach
the line of Cancer, and summer not
too underdone will haply be the an
swer. This is, they say, the longest
day. however you may search, but
you will hardly notice it unless you
are at church.
At any rate, the swi1ming-hole
will get little warmer, and harvest
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-06-09
SPECIAL NOTICES

Transient Notices will be Published
in This Column at the Rate Of One
Cent Word for Each Issue. No ad-
vertisementt taken for less than Is cents.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-06-09

Impoverished all treatment cstarfh. Hin
DISeases, Ec1ema, Chronic Female
Complaints. Nsrcurial Poison, Tsssef.
ecaldhead. ETC., sse.
p. 2. P. Is . powerful tonis and a
e1cellsnt appitssf. building up the
sJstcm apidlv u you ars weak and
fssbla. and fesi nsaly ~ p. p. 2. ind
The Washington herald., 1910-03-13
SIDNEY BIEBER'S NOMINATION
Pennsylvania Railroad Not Inter
ested in Colleetorship.
Attorney Mckinney Visits the white
House 10 Give Information, but
Not TO Enter Protest.

There is no foundation for the report
that the Pennsylvania Railroad is an
tagoniZing the nomination Of Sidney
Bieber 10 be collector of the port of
Georgetown and is responsible for the
holding I'D OF his nomination.
AS matter Of fact, favorable action
on the nomination was recalled at the
suggestion of Chairman Frye, of the Sem
ate Committee on Commerce, in order
that inquiry might be made into charge
not connected with the Anacostia fiat
legislation by Congress, in which Mr.,
Bieber was concerned. This charge, 1t
Is understood, was contained in a letter
sent to Senator Frye by Attorney Henry
E. Davis, and it's nature is not made
public.
Mr.. Bieber was strongly commended for
his appointment by Postmaster General
Hitchcock, members OF Congress, and
Washington newspaper men. Since the
nomination was held up the President
has sought further information regarding
the appointee, with especial reference 10
the water front land transaction, which
formed the basis of Senator Carriers ar
raignment OF Bieber some months ago.
Among others, the President yesterday
conferred with Frederic D. Mckinney,
attorney for the Pennsylvania Railroad,
and his visit 10 the White House led 20
the report that the railroad was oppos-
ing the nomination.
II am making no fight on Mr.. Bieoer.
said Mr.. McKenney. and certainly the
Pennsylvania Railroad has no interest In
the Georgetown collectorshiD. All the
facts as to the Anacostia fats transaction
are in the records printed at the time the
The Washington herald., 1910-03-13
BLOW AT SOCIETY.
Supreme Court Interferes with Spe-
Cial Privilege Plan.

UnoflclaIly. but very effectively. the
Supreme Court OF the United States yes
terday dealt a severe blow at special
privilege. Incidentally, it set at naught
the plans Of many of Washington's most
prominent society folk.
It all came about because J. NJ. Wright,
marshal OF the court, conceived the idea
that It would be a good plan to have
fashionable audience tomorrow when
the highest court in the land hears the
opening of the arguments IN the Standard
OH case, which promises to be one of
the most famous with which il has ever
had to deal He prepared tickets of ad-
mission and judciously distributed them.
Postmaster General Hitchcock, who Is
a bachelor and a shining light in the
younger society set got a big bunch and
handed them out among his friends. Il
was to have been brilliant occasion.
Then the grave justices found 1t out.
They were troubled. and sent for Mr.
Wright He admitted that It was true,
and promised to Withdraw all Of those
invitations.
Anybody who gets into the tiny, silent
courtroom tomorrow win have to stand
in line for q long time and take his or
her chances with the crowd when the
doors are opened at noon. The society
folks won't have any better chance than
the man without a job that hasn't any
thing to do but stand around and kill
time They probably won't have as good
chance.
The Washington herald., 1910-03-13
PRESIDENTIAL PARTY LEAVES
FOR FUNERAL In PITTSBURG

President Taft. accompanied by his sis
ter-in-law, Mrs. Louis More, OF CincIn-
natl. and Capt. A. W. Butt. his military
aid, left Washington late last night over
the Pennsylvania Railroad for Pittsburg.
where to-day he viii attend the funeral
OF his brother-in-law. Thomas X Laugh
lin. who died Friday. The Presidential
party viii return to Washington early to-
morrow.
According 10 plans announced yester-
day. the President will not be compelled
to call off his trip 10 New York, which
was to begin Tuesday. March Is. When
the news Of the death OF Mr.. Laughlln
was received here the President let it be
known that he did not expect to go to
New York on March Is. 1t was said yes
terday, however. that he is likely TO go.
The Washington herald., 1910-03-13
BUREAU CHIEFS DECIDE
GOVERNMENT CANNOT MIX
IN PHILADELPHIA STRIKE

Secretary OF Commerce and Labor Nagel
and Commissioner of Labor Nell. to
whom President Taft referred the tele-
gram of z. L. Greenawait, president Of
the Pennsylvania Federation Of Labor,
asking the President to urge arbitration
between the striking carmen and the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company,
held a conference yesterday afternoon
and decided there is no way in which
the Federal government can intervene
Commissioner Neil and Chairman
Knapp, of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. have been successful in adjust
ing differences between railroads and
their employees. but they have acted under
the terms of the Erdman mediation and
arbitration act. which only applies TO
carriers engaged in interstate commerce.
The Washington herald., 1910-03-13
ASQUITH AT The TEST
Will Force Show of Govern
ment Power After Easter.
MONEY CRISIS NEAR At HAND
Should House Refuse TO Pass the
Budget Premier Is Going TO Re
venge Himself on Country by Leav-
ing II without Means OF Carrying
On Its business, Argument Of Press.

London, March i2-But for an unex-
peeted defeat on a snap division which
might well have happened last Monday,
peace and quiet are looked for In the
House OF Commons little after Easter.
Once more. however the political situa-
ton has undergone a change as a result
OF the most ingenious move that the gov
eminent has as yet made.
It is a simple and obvious piece of po-
litleal sabotage, which, for the moment.
at any rate. seems to put the ministry
in a stronger position with regard to it's
opponents and its no less dangerous allies
than It has yet occupied during It's short
and turbulent career.
BY taking vote on account only suffi-
eient FOR six weeks expenditures, in
stead OF, as usual. for five or six months,
the money crisis has been engineered so
that 1t viii become desperately acute by
the middle OF May. when the resolutions
dealing with the veto Of the House of
Lords will be sent to the second chamber.
Governments Power shown.
In mid-May, which is also the date
suggested for the recess" says the Times,
''all the power to carry on the ordinary
business Of the country is to be brought
to an end. There will be no money to
pay the civil service or even old-age pen
sions, and as the money voted for the
navy has been postponed, there will ap-
parently be no money 10 pay the men Of
the feet
Premier Asquith has just declared that
before the May recess he will ask the as
sent Of the House OF Commons TO the
budget OF 1909. Should the house refuse
TO pass the budget Mr.. AsQuith Is going
to revenge himself on the country by
leaving IL without means OF carrying on
its business and without the possibility of
getting any until after another general
election. The resolutions against the lords
are to n:eeede the budget. II they are re-
jected by the second chamber. the same
situation will arise
Have Only One Alternative.
The government. in fact. argues that
the opposition does not dare TO put 1t in
the minority over the budget. because II
they do they viii be obliged TO take Office
| themselves. a course which is impossible
for the reason that the Liberals, with
their allies. could Immediately refuse them
supplies. In the same way, if the Lords
reject the veto, the government will be
able 10 put the screws on them. owing
to the financial situation. In any case
whether an appeal to the country ii
forced by the House of Lords refusing tc
pass the veto resolutions or by the Houss
Of Commons rejecting the budget. tht
government Will be able to go to the
electors with the claim that the Lord:
or the Unionists have made the payment
| Of old age pensions temporarily impos,
sibls. while IL the Unionists swallow the
budget through fear Of taking Office with,
out power the government will be able Il
disregard the Nationalist, whether th'
| latter abstain from voting or even vote
against the budget. which win thus b.
| passed after all.
The Washington herald., 1910-03-13

matter was before Congress-. I do not
expect 20 make an attack on Mr.. Bieber.
I have been asked some questions by
some OF those interested and have an
sWered them. 1 do not see how the idea
originated that visited the White House
10 attack Mr. Bieber. did not do so, and
do not expect 10 do so. The records in
the case are open TO anybody
The President, in his return 10 the city,
will give further attention to the case.
Meanwhile. Mt Bieber and his friends
are confident OF a favorable outcomu
It was stated yesterday that Senator
Carter was not concerning himself in the
matter at all
The Washington herald., 1910-03-13
B. so. STRIKE OFF.
MediatOrs Agree with Concessions
Both Ways.

Baltimore. Md. March i2-The posi-
bility of adjusting di6ereaces between
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and its
employees, through mediation under the
Erdman act, has been satisfactorily
demonstrated. Messrs. Knapp and NeiH
have induced such concessions by both
the company and men as to effect set
Element OF the questions,
Uaaer an agreement. Is an equalizing
Of pay increase on the mileage basis.
with raise in the guarantee as to the
monthly minimum Of conductors. bag
gagemen, and brakemen. The increases
run from per cent In some cases to 8
per cent IN other instances, the average
increase remaining to be figured out from
the pay rolls before il can be definitely
determined. Questions as TO the work
ing schedule were satisfactorily disposed
Of; that as to doubie-heading being drop
ped. with the understanding It would be
taken up later for consideration with the
Eastern roads.
The Washington herald., 1910-03-13
.LAUGHLlN'S DEATH
DUE TO OWN HAND
Coroner Finds Presidents
Kin Shot Himself.
SUFFERED FROM MELANCHOLY
Physicians Concealed Truth of sui-
eide in Behalf of Family-Taft VIII
Attend Funeral in Pittsburg To-
day. Accompanied by Strong Police
Guard, Returning Tonight.

-Pittsburg. March 12-Following coro-
ners inquiry to-day It became known
that Thomas McKinnon Laughlin, mil
lionaire assistant treasurer OF the Jones
& Laughlin Steel Company and broth
er-in-law of President Taft, had died
from a bullet wound In his head. self
inflicted, early yesterday morning.
With this disclosure came the announce
ment of the family physicians that for
some months Mr. Laughlin had been a
sufferer from meiancholia and hypochron-
dria.
Mr.. Laughlin returned only last Sun
day from a trip to Europe for his health.
That the news of the suicide was not
made known TO Pittsburg sooner was due
to extraordinary efforts OF the Laughiin
family and of the family physicians to
create the impression that death was
due to cerebral hemOHhage, caused nat
uralIy. The news OF Mr. Laughiin's death
first reached the coroner's office at /
o'clock yesterday afternoon. shortly after
the body, full dressed, cold and rigid, was
discovered by servants.
Hardly had the official investigation
been started when an anonymous phone
message to the coroner was received.
Mr.. Laughlin shot himself" was all IT
said. and the phone was hastily hung up.
HurrIes TO Investigate.
Deputy Coroner Richard Carney worked
on the case all yesterday and last night.
This afternoon at o'clock Carney leaped
into a taxicab, which was driven at full
In half an hour ne came out.
1T was a suicide. wasn't it?" he was
asked by a visitor.
YES said the coroner Mr.. Laughlin
shot himself In the head"
When President Taft and his party ar
rive tomorrow they will be met by a
formidable police guard Of fifty men In
out the same detail he had Ised when the
President was here last Mr. Taft was
guest at the Laughlin home then. and
arrangements for his safety by Secret
Service and police tomorrow VIII be the
same as then The Presidents carriage
VIII be escorted in the funeral procession
TO Allegheny Cemetery tomorrow after
noon by twenty-five policemen besides
the Secret Service detail under the dlrec-
ton of Capt, John Washer, OF this city.
The sermon will be preached by the Rev
Maitland Alexander and services viii
begin I'm the home at o'clock.
Return 80 Washington.
After the funeral services and entomb-
ment. the President viii return 70 the
Laughiin home. and the party will leave
for Washington o. the Pennsylvania
train leaving at $40 o'clock tomorrow
night.
Representatives of nearly all the prom
inent and wealthy families Of Pittsburg
will attend the funeral.
After the news of the suicide became
known. Drs. T. NJ McKennan and w.
II. Ingram, Mr.. Laughlin's personal
physicians. refused TO discuss their pre-
vious statement that death resulted nat
urally
The honorary pallbearers at the funeral
will be F. n. Schwartz. ]. BiselI Speer,
Douglas Stewart Herman Griffin Frank
Sprout. F. c. Perkins, John Ricketsos,
Carroll Fitzhugh. Fritz Buyers, W. G.
Moriena, B. F. Jones, jr.. and William L.
Jones.