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The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-08-23
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The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-08-23

hereby acuounce myself az a
Candidate for Cotton WelSner at
North. s. c.. and pledge myself to
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-08-23

- / hereby announce myself can
didate for Cotton Weigher at Nor
Democratic primary.
C.. S. RUTLAND.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-08-23

] hereby announce myself can can.
Sdidate for Cotton Weigher at Cope
subject to the rules of the Deme-
cratic primary:
5s5.S OTIS F. SMOAK.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-08-23

I hereby announce myself as a
candidate for Township Commission
Ell OF Providence Township.
G. G. SHULDR.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-08-23

ss:, hereby announce myself can
5td,date for cotton weigher at Cope,
Ssubject to the rules Of the DeMoc;at'
&c primary.
32sss HERBERT N. ANTLEY. /:
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-08-23
Get Rid Of Mice.

Use formaldehyde in the house
freely II will not hurt anything.
Then shut the house up tight for
half a day. The mice will leave.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-08-23
S1.OO VS.. Ten Years Suffering

Il suffered with severe case Of letter for 10
years and tried doctors in nearly all the states.
am on the road. A Columbia druggist recon-
mended TETTERIEE. I laughed at him. but
another, aud nm entirely we'll. LEW WREN.
Chicago, Ill TETTERINE .s sold by all drug
xists. or direct for SOC by Tho Shuptrine Co.
Savannah. Ga.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-08-23
Notice of Final Discharge.

Notice of Final Discharge.
will on the 18th day Of Septem-
ber, 1910, Tile my final account vita
the Judge Of Probate for OrangebIrS
County, as Administrative OF the es-
tate of John r. Simmons. deceased.
and will thereupon ask for my final
discharge as such administrative.
Ada r. Simmons,
Administrative OF the Estate oil Jonn
+. Simmons. deceased.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-08-23
HERBERT N. ANTLEY

I hereby announce myself a can
5didate for cotton weigher at Norway,
subject to the rules of the Democrat
ic primary.
~. FLETCHER BALTzEGAR.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-08-23

W. J. ZEJGLER.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27
Uncle Sam in Cumberland.

One of the party leaders said to Ar
thur 1. Street, author of articles on the
United States treasury now appearing
in Success magazine: I'VE are not
statesmen. We can't be- We are pol.
iticians. A man no more than begins
to grasp the duties of his office than
somebody out in his district turns
loose on him and he has to shoot for
home to get himself reelected. We
have no time to make business study
of the government"
No time to make business study of
the government, Ell? Is it any wonder,
then, that business gets all the ad-
vantages and the government all the
losses? Is it any wonder that business
makes plumber of this ignorance? And
what is an Insignificant S125 station
cry expenditure for things that are not
stationery, as compared with all the
other possible $125 expenditures with
in total expenditure of a thousand
millions for things which are not what
they are reported to be?
No time to make business study of
the government. and yet the men who
are in this position are the ones who
direct every dollar of the governments
expenditure and originate every scheme
for the governments income! The au-
thority vests in them by virtue of the
constitution, and they guard it jealous
ly. annually each executive official is
required to submit his estimates of
needed appropriations for the ensuing
year in the most minute and intimate
details to the committees of both
houses of congress, and annually these
committees sit in grave and earnest
conclave ito pass or not to pass" upon
the demands put before them.
Is 1t any wonder that the result is
a recurring deficit, or an unnecessary
surplus, or financial policy that is
directed from without or tariff law
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27
The Argus Daily Short Story
My Double-By Donald Wallace.
copyrighted 1910 BY Associated Litsrsr Presa.

my homeward journey. Two years
passed during which I had gradually
driven the matter out of my mind when
/ saw the vision again.
Singularly enough, ] saw 1t under
circumstances somewhat similar to
those connected with its first appear
ance. 1t was the second summer after
the one during which 1t had first ap-
peared to me. when / was at -
Springs. 1 had a room in an extension
Of hotel. facing another extension.
One morning on arising / went to
window, and there at another window
in the other extension stood my dou-
BILE We were both, as before, in night
dresses and wore our hair plated on
our backs.
Nothing could have induced me to
remain at that hotel for another day.
/ was with friends and surprised them
by announcing that 1 would leave by
the next train. They wondered. ex-
postulated. pleaded, but to no purpose.
One of them. a girl OF my own age.
with whom I was very intimate, beg
ged me to tell her Why was leaving
and what was the matter with me. for
it was plain that i had received
shock of some kind. would not have
told her for the world. declined to
tell any one but my physician. and
wished to consult him as soon as pos
sible. was sure that l suffered from
some kind of mental breakdown. and
1 only hoped that he would ind means
to arrest its progress.
On reaching the city / sent for him
to come to me at once and told him OF
this second vision of myself He tried
to reassure me by telling me that had
seen some one who looked very like
me. refused to be comforted- / had
seen myself or my exact counterpart.
i told him that only one of my own
nesh and blood could so closely resem-
BILE me and that had no sister or even
cousins so far as ! knew. Besides. If
this vision were real person would
see her in a different dress from my
own. The doctor explained this by
saying that as had seen her at night
and In the early morning would nat
urally see her j the dress wore my.
self. both of US wearing nightgowns.
tried TO consider this within the limit
OF coincidence. but IL was impossible
for me to believe that two persons
could be so identical in appearance
that they should meet twice and both
times see each other In q nightdress.
No; had seen this vision first at
time when my physician had warnedI
me that ] was breaking down. had
been overstrained What had / been
straining7 My mind; therefore 1t was
my mind that had been giving way.
This temperance of the vision would
naturally denote that my mind was
again giving way. ! shuddered-
saw myself confined In a lunatic asy-
lum, a mental wreck.
Ny friends to whom my malady be-
came known used every argument to
disabuse my mind. some OF them assur-
ing me that my vision was a real per-
son closely resembling me. Others
averred that people In disordered state
OF the system were liable TO see all
sorts Of things. A theosophist declared
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27
The Commission Plan.

BY the last count SO cities have
adopted, or voted to adopt, the Calves.
ton or Des Moines form of government
by commission. The movement is
progressing so rapidly that any enum-
Grafton is likely to become obsolete as
soon almost as it is made Twelve
states have enacted permissive laws
enabling municipalities of certain
classes to vote on the question of max
ing the experiment. In Colorado and
California the state constitutions au-
thorize cities TO modify their charters
without Intervention Of the legisla-
lures.
The time is drawing near when the
short ballot and commission govern.
ment, two reforms which go hand in
hand, viii be live issues in this state
also. The experience of the munich.
palities which have tried the plan gives
promise that it's general adoption would
mean the downfall of the city boss and
the end of ward politics.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27

remember well the night received
nay FIRST shock received another lat
.ey that affected me more than this one,
but in different way. The hrst was
In the nature Of a surprise: the second
was terror.
was but eighteen at the time and
was going home to my aunt. with
whom lived. having just finished my
education. The journey was a long
one, and had somewhat broken down
my nerves from hard study. l did not
like to stay overnight at a hotel alone.
but did not feel like taking sleeping
car. / was rather timid girl any
way and had not been used to going
about without protector.
/ reached the hotel about O'Clock
and went Immediately to bed and to
sleep. was awakened in the night by
a noise in the hail. Several persons
passed hurriedly and were talking rap
idly. have always been afraid of
fire. especially in hotel. got out OF
bed. went to the door and opened It
At that moment l received my first
shock.
Standing In the open door of the
room directly opposite mine stood a
girl in her nightdress peering out anx-
iously, just as was doing. The cor
ridor was lighted, and l could see her
plainly. The marvellous feature was
that she was myself. There was not
the slightest difference between us.
We were both in nightdresses. the hair
of both was worn in braid hanging
down the back, and her face and figure
were replicas OF mine.
Both gave a little scream Of surprise.
and both drew back into our respective
rooms. shut my door and CROPPED my
way to my bed. All thought of dan
ger was put out of my head in this re-
markabIe apparition of my other self.
The physician in charge of the SEM
mary I had attended had warned me
that If did not give up study would
break down. But, DESTROYS OF being
graduated with the class as well as
at the head of it. l had disregarded his
warning. Now, it seemed TO me. was
paying the penalty Of my obsdnacy.
My mind must be giving way. 1t was
long past midnight when / bethought
myself that on opening my door must
have looked into large mirror. i
would have got out of bed and salts.
fed myself Of this. but feared to find
the contrary, and If ! did would not
get any more sleep. So l comforted
myself with the assurance that would
in the morning find mirror opposite
my door and dropped into slumber.
/ was called early for the train. and
when left my room looked for the
mirror. Alas. there was no mirror
there. but door just as l had seen ir
in the night. ] had no time TO make
investigations. needing to go down to
breakfast and to the station.
BY the advice Of my physician
spent July and August that summer at
the seashore. By September l was
much improved and spent the month
in the mountains. This restored my
health but did not relieve me OF an
uncanny feeling ar having seen myself
or my other self at the hotel during
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27
that serves those who are strong and
EFFORTS from those who are weak?
The Growth of Battleships.

when the vessels of the merchant
marine increased to the size OF the
Lusitania and the Mauretania 1t was
evident that the same tendency would
manifest itself in the construction OF
battleships; but when or where 1t will
stop none can foresee. The launching
of the battleship Florida a few days
ago with the displacement of 21,S25
| tons is reminder that this vessel will
cost $4,000, 600; that it will require
| 900 men taken from the ranks of pro-
ducers to man it; that it will be able to
hurl ten Pinch shells distance Of 10
miles or more, and that it will soon be
followed by three other ships costing
$4,000, 900 and requiring the services
of 1000 men.
The Florida is the biggest sea fshter
now af1oat that will sail under the stars
and stripes; but it will enjoy this SUI
premacy only for short time, because
| it is considerably less in size than the
Arkansas and Wyoming, which it is ex-
pected will be launched before long,
and which in turn will be eclipsed by
the two ships to be authorized this
year.
The main battery of the Florida will
consist of &c guns-ten of 12-inch cali
bre and sixteen 5-inch rapid-firers.
That it will be powerful vessel there
is not the least doubt, but the Arkan-
sas and Wyoming, the construction of
which is well advanced, will have a
displacement of $4,000 tons each, and
carry in their main battery twelve II
inch guns and twenty-one 5-inch rapid
firers, making total of 33. Unless the
plans are changed the ships to be au-
thorized by congress this year will have
displacement of $1,000 tons or more
and a main battery of ten or more IA
inch guns.
But the tendency. is toward still big
ger naval vessels, and it is known that
England is now experimenting with
the idea of building battleship of
10000 tons.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27

1t was scarcely necessary for the
president to assure the public through
a magazine that his confidence in Sec.
rotary Ballinger was undated. So
long as Mr.. Ballinger remains in the
cabinet the presidents confidence may
be taken for granted. But in view of
the vast amount Of fraud that has been
committed in the management and mis-
management Of the public lands, indi-
cations of friendly relations between
the secretary of the interior and syn
dicates that are after lands rich in
minerals are calculated to arouse dis
agreeable suspicious, not of the per-
sonal honesty of the secretary, but of
the spirit in which the public domain
will be administered.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27

ing, questioned the existence Of the
Washington elm and Plymouth rock.
He was speaking about entertaining
President Taft and the visitors who
will attend the convention OF the Ma
tional Educational association on July
2 in hospitable manner. He said the
convention would be a failure If the
entertainment committee only showed
the chief executive places IKE Plym-
outh rock and the Washington elm, If
Washington had anything to do with
the Washington elm.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27
Meester Marka Twain.

In appreciation of the late Samuel L
Clemens Mark Twain).1
Dey say eet was hees Job for joke
An polka fun at seempla folk
I don'ta ondrastan'.
I nevva read watts cen hees book:
! only see da way he look
] don'ta ondrastan'.
An ezra time he passa by
He show to me so kinda eye
Ees beautiful to see.
For, dough I'm domba dagoman.
So strange. SO queer cen deesa Lam,
He nevva laugh at me.
An dey dat say he only joke
An maka fun weeth seempla folk
Ees mebbe so dey lie.
Ees mebbe so dey no could see
How n7oocha sweeta charity
Ees srnila from hees eye,
An now dat he ees gon' an'Schangs
For 'nudder land dat eesa strange
To heeTn as eet can be,
I can baylieve dey dere are kind
To heem. poor stranger. as I find
Dat here he was TO me.
IT. A. Daily In Catholic Standard and
Times.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27
Diseernment

Diseernment.
Show me the fellow
Who is looking for a snap.
Show me the party
Who Is ready for a nap:
Then with my finger
] will wager 1 can point
To one who Is certain
That the times are out Of Joint
1t is so easy
To complain and make a kick.
II is so simple
At the times 20 throw . brick,
Pointing 20 baronB
Who are busy frying fat
One who Is busy
Hasn't time for sport like that.
Life Is a struggle
And q foot race and a scrap.
Nothing worth having
Ever falls into your lap.
It is to hustle
From the very day OF birth.
A war tug with the fellows
Who are out 10 own the earth
Nothing Is easy
II It's worth the taking homo.
True here today
AS it was IN ancient Rome
Constant endeavor
And a pleasant line OF talk
Win you the marbles
And the money and the chalk.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27
Hurllor and
Philosophy
PERT PARAGRAPHS.
D. DvNcAW ~. sN4ITH

THE simon pure kicker is always de
lighted when he can see that he Is
getting the fraction OF an inch the
worst Of IL. for IL gives him the chance
he is sickening for TO indulge In his
speciality.
It may never be too late to mend
but It IS sometimes useless.
In the school Of experience the vaca-
tons are apt to be expensive.
Nothing succeeds like a good time.
A no account dog is harder 70 get rid
of than a no account boy is to keep
employed
There is nothing that goes against
the grain like having to take favor
from a person whom we have Just at
fronted.
You have to be both boss and work
man in yourself II you expect to turn
out a good Job.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27
May ~ in American
History

1794-Cornelius Vanderbilt, capitalist,
born; died 1877.
1S3e-Jay Gould, financier, born; died
1872.
1866 Southern Illinois and eastern
Missouri devastated by a tornado.
In st. Louis the damage amounted
to over $10.000,000.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27

There are really well meaning peo-
pie who insist upon regarding all bill
collectors with something Of suspicion.
Now the only thing that seems nee
essary in order to unmarry is TO
marry.
It isn't safe to judge either by ap-
pearances or reappearances
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27

That fellow who has been stealing
the roofs from Philadelphia churches
must have served his apprenticeship
with the gang that built the Pennsyl-
vania state capitol.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27
is PLYMOUTH ROCK A MYTH

Harvard President Also Questions Au-
thentieity of Washington Elm.
President Lowell of Harvard uni
yersity, addressing 5000 schoolteach-
en-. of Greater Boston the other even
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27
Man Wants 20 OIL

only wnen a lazy liver and sluggish
bowels cause frightful dependency.
But DR.. Kings New Life Pills expel
poisons from the system; bring hope
and courage. cure all liver. stomach
and kidney troubles; impart health
and vigor to the weak. nervous and
siling. rs cents At all druggists
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27

Cured Them.
"Do your city relatives spend much
time with you in the SUMMER
mot so much as they used to-"
"Have found other attractions, sup
pose"
81 suppose So When they got to
overworking a good thing got home
late about three nights in the week
and left them with the chores TO do.
and they soon found they had a call to
the city"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27
Tombstone For Dog Baseball Fan.

tombstone For log Sasepait ran.
Hundreds Of people attended the fu-
neral e+ Huntington, w. Va, Of Cola,
a French bulldog belonging to Garland
Robertson, which had the reputation
of never missing ball game. Pail
bearers were school children, and they
scattered wild flowers on the grave,
while a baseball bat was placed over
the CANNES grave.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27

The courts have just decided that
hash is not merchandise. The decision
is well enough in its way, but it doesn't
solve the world-old problem of what
hash really is.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27

The government has devised plan
Of washing bank notes. The chief end
of which process is no doubt to remove
the faint from the Rockefeller brand.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27

with Heinze and Mary MacLane both
located at Butte there is liable to be a
beaut Of a story from there soon.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27
Hard 70 Obey.

"Not another word out Of you"
Cant ask just one question:
mo. What In IT."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27

Their Utility.
"He is so pleased with his own good
looks"
Indeed
dead stuck on them"
''What good does he think they will
do him"
"well. they may cause his wife 20
get divorce"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27

Remember that your automobile
should be placed at the disposal Of the
old soldiers for an hour next Monday
morning.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27

It may be hardship to be a king,
but the man who holds three likes the
job.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27

Where are the brave youth of the
land that none dares wear a straw
hat?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27

True.
cit is a dull season."
ais that SOP
att is"
81 don't see how you make that out"
"Why?"
Because everybody Is held close
down on the grindstone."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27
Curious.

Curious.
money can buy anything"
"Cal it,"
''You bet IT can"
''Brains?'
"Brains. sure"
wonder you wouldn't supply your
self with a few"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27

"Young man. / began at the bottom
Of the ladder and worked my way up"
"what could you expect? They
didn't have elevators IN those days"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27

All e. peaches. cream and honey
In the stored honeymoon.
It's a heyday until pay day:
Then there comes a different tune.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27

May is nearly gone and not sugges-
ton yet about the old swimming hole.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27

He who has the truth In his heart
need never fear the want Of persua-
sion on his tongue.-Ruskin.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27
MT Ennunk

Not Enough.
''That man is thief"
"What did he steal?"
''Ten dollars"
Hardly enough to make him finaD-
cier."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27
THE ARGUS.

sY THE ). W. POTTER CO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27

1t may never be too late to mend
but it is sometimes useless.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-27

In the school Of experience the vaca-
tons are apt to be expensive.