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The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23
Gives Dangerous Power.

It is a question in our minds as to
whether the decision Of the United
States Supreme Court in favor of the
corporation tax is a good or Dad
thing for the nation. 1t is true that
this tax brings into the treasury
something like s25,OOO,O0o per an
mum, which is badly needed to help
nav up the deficit created by the Re-
publican party white it has had en-
tire swing of the government. But
the samount of the tax collected from
the corporations under this law, Is OIL
relatively small Importance COM
pared with it's far reaching political
effect. There are more sides than
one to view a question Of this kina
from.
The court has decided that the law
does not provide for tax on prop
erty, but for an excise tax, or tax
to do business as corporation. Thus
the government is given the power to
investigate, for the purpose of as
sessment, all the corporations of the
country that have a net income OF
over $4,000, the Tax being one per
cent Of the net income. The law
gives the government, for It's own
purposes, the right to publicity, regu-
lation and control Of all corporations
of Importance. II puts at the dis
posal of the officials of the govern
ment the most important secrets OF
the corporations.
In the hands of INSCRIPTIONS pol
iticians, the law is premium on po-
litical black mail for partizan pur-
poses. A secret collector of cam
paign funds, with the inmost secrets
of the corporations in his possess
sion, could bleed about every cor
poration In the country, or expose
their trade secrets to their compel
itors. Such a power is almost too
great to entrust 10 any set of poll
ticians. If, put In the hands of the
"right kind of fat fryers,' there
would be millions in it, with which
"
to corrupt the voters and influence
electors. Think of a Mark Hanna
with such a power to raise money!
The next secret Republican cam
paign fund from the corporations
alone, may rival the enormous
amount that was spent by the Re-
publicans in 1895 to defeat William
Jennings Bryan and elect William
Mckinley. The chairman Of the Ma
tional Republican Committee need
know nothing about the collections
or disbursements. A secret and
ruthless agent CT the oligarchy Of
the Republican party can collect and
the oligarchy can arrange for the
disbursement. Addition, division
and silence" will do the business
now, as it has in other memorable
campaigns. We would warn the
Democrats to be on their guard.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

Wanted to sell a nice nine room house
No. 25 East Russell Street on lot
110x 729 feet, known as the Or
angeburg Hospital Property. High,
dry and healthy and will not stay
on the market long at the price
We are now offering. See me quick.
F. R. Simpson Real Estate Co.,
33 West Russell St., Orangeburg,
S. G..
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

In view of the fact that twelve
States can prevent the ratification OF
the income tax amendment, 1t is evil
den: that the amendment stands very
little chance. After it is dead, why
don't the states levy a tax on inheri-
tancas. That is fair tax and can't
be lodged.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23
She Hesitated-But Was Saved.

A story is told-and very beauti-
fully-of a lady who, though she
hesitated, was not "lost" according
to the old adage, but was saved.
"She That Eesitates Harris
Dickson-a good story in a beautiful
binding, for fifty cents. Sims Book
Store.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

I hereby announce myself as a
candidate for Judge Of Probate and
Special Referee of Orangeburg coun-
ty, and pledge my best services to
the people If elected.
Edward B. Friday.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

The Newberry Herald and News
says 'the more you dig in the meshes
of the dispensary muddle the worse
it gets It does look so, and. for
the sake of the State. we hope the
new board will stir it up just as little
as possible.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

That was rather a funny scrape
Booker Washington got into in New
Yorl: the other night. He was found
in tae vestibule Of fiat and badly
beaten by white man. whose wife
says Washington insulted her short
time before.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

South Dakota has ratified the AL
drica income-tax amendment and
Utah has rejected it. Recently Ar
kansas, like Virginia, rejected it be-
cause of the paralyzing blow which
State sovereignty would receive. The
count now stands nineteen Tor to ten
against.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

We publish two letters from Mr..
T. B. Fielder in reference to the
charges made against him in letters
given the. press by Gov. Blease. We
only publish them as news, and as d
matter of justice to all concerned.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

Fielder says Blease ought to be in
convicts stripes. That Is just about
the opinion Mr. Blease has of Mr..
Fielder, so they are about even on
their chunks.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23
They Play With Fire.

The Sumter Watchman and South
ron says if as the result of Japants
effort to secure foothold in Mexico
it becomes necessary, as a matter Of
self-protectioa, for the United States
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

sell nice Groom
house On E. Palmetto Street on
lot s5x200. Good barn and gar
den. This property will not stay
on the market at the price we are
Offering. Terms to suit purchas-
er. r. R. Simpson Real Estate
Co., Orangeburg, S. C. 2-16-1m'
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

After Woodrow Wilson is nomi-
mated, elected and inaugurated, we
want you to remember that The
Times and Democrat was the first
newspaper to put his name at its
masthead. which it does for the first
time today
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

One of Orangeburg's prominent cit
Szens said he wished we would star.
a daily, as he liked it so well he
would like, to read it every day. We
are too old to undertake daily, ana
SO this friend will have to wait a
spell.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

why was not the letter of Fielder
to Hub Evans made public before
now? Why was not Felder's letter
about Blease made public before
ncw? And why were they given pub
licity just at this time? 1t is plain
that there is a great deal that has
not yet been made public about the
oil State Dispensa-y that the public
ought to know. Let US hope that II
will come out now that the thing is
started.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

For Sale-Eggs for Matching. Mann
moth Pekin Dusk eggs. Price
s1.25 per setting of II eggs de-
livered at your house in city or
express office, s1.00 If you send
to my residence for them. J. L..
Phillips, IS Sellars Ave. 2-11-tf
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

Feltaar totes a pretty bad slush
gun, IL the letters we publish are a
fair sample Of what is can do when
in. action.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

IGr. Fielder says the letter Gov.
Blease gave out is a forgery. And
yet Mr.. Fielder evidently knew great
deal about the inside workings Of the
old dispensary board. If he had not
known so much about the business
he would not have been able to "re-
cover" so much money for the state
as refunds. So let it all come, and
be done with.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

The Mexicans want a young, Wig
orous man for president; not an old
fossilized has been" like Diaz. his
day OF usefulness is past and gone,
and the quicker he recognizes that
fact, the better for himself and
country.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

Take the matter up and down,
round and about, Fielder was as
smooth an article as any who ever
worked the old State dispensary for
his own gain.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

Wanted every man in the city of Or
angfeburg to own his home. We
have a nice cottage. No. 255 East
Russell Street on lot 125x729 feet,
just the right distance from the
city on Main street. Special prices
for a quick sale. See me quick.
F. R. Simpson Real Estate Co.,
33 West Russell St.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

Having been told that Teddy was
a progressive now, one of his friends
wanted to know what it meant. A
progressive, said the one he had gone
to for information. is man who
wants something and then something
else. And then some more, and all
for his own benefit, as a rule.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

When all the slush guns that are
likely to be brought into play in these
closing days of the old State Dispen-
sary get into action, we would ad-
wise bystanders to hold their noses
tight.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

I hereby announce myself as a
candidate for Judfe Of Probate and
Special Referee for Orangeburg
County, made vacant by the election
of Judge Robert S. Copes to the Cir
cult Bench.
Andrew G. Dibble.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

There is no doubt about there be-
ing something dead up the creek, .
as old man Ben used to say.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

May be the new board can make
Attorney Fielder do some refundlng
himself. He found way to work his
old pals. and the new board may
and a way to work him.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

Let us all pull for Orangeburs IN
the next few years, and we would
be surprised at the result.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

Diaz, the President Of Mexico, who
reelected himself is one Of these olo
fossils who do not know when his
welcome is worn out. If he would
first step down and out, there would
be no more trouble in Mexico.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

For Rent-After April 1st one house
and lot on Amelia street, No. 100.
Apply to Mrs. M. /. Collier, 165 E..
Russel Street. 3-4-4*
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23
Notice to Creditors.
For Judge of Probate and Special
Referee.

At the suggestion Of several of my
friends, I hereby announce that am
candidate for Judge Of Probate and
Special Referee. Should you see fit
to entrust this office to me Leg to
assure you that I shall use my best
efforts to discharge the duties of this
important position carefully and ef'
ficiently.
Yours very truly,
l.. K. Sturkie.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

Wanted-to sell a nice 10-room
house No. SO e. Glover Street OIL
Lot 9Ox220. This is a desirable
piece of property close in. See
me quick. F. R. Simpson Real
Estate Co., Orangeburg, S. C. I'm
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23
CLASSIFIED COLUMN
One-half Cent Word
Found Notices Free.

For Rent-Six room cottage on CAL
houn street. Apply to J. w.
Smoak. A-9-4
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

Dominick of Neeses, S. c., wants
chickens and eggs. 3-21-3'
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

" Wanted-You to list your city and
country property with US tor qui *
sale. We turn it into cash and get
your price. F. R. Simpson Real
Estate Co., SO W. Russell street,
(upstairsj, Orangeburg, S. c.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23

Andrew G.. Dibble.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-02
Pricing Human Beings

A Harvard professor says 320 would be an excessive price for the average body, but other economists put baby's value high, the price ranging from s70o to ssooo.
 All this is. however, academic, for there exists at present no way of as worth. supposedly average baby may become a Beethoven or @ Lincoln, and there Is no way of measuring and ap- praising it's worth while 1t is small.
 The average baby becomes, however, as a rule the average man, and 1t is the average man that makes the world go round. Leadership is valueless unless the led are intelligent and capable of discipline. The superman is a doubtful investment, while the average man fills the armies and conducts the average business of the world No one knows what an average baby is worth to an imaginary investor or to anyone else ex- academic figures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-02

From the Washington Post. The first work Lord Francis Bacon ever wrote, if we may put faith in the recent investigations of Parker Woodward, a London author, was entitled "Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit" which he prepared for publication 332 years ago in the month of December, 151S Bacon was then scarcely IS years of age, and 1t was un- doubtedly his first attempt at secret pub lication, for which practice the book it. self contains the following argument and apology:
 He that cometh in print because he would be knowen is like the fool that cometh into the market because he would be seen. l am not he that seelleth praise for his labour, but pardon for his of fence.
 This last remark suggestive of the thought which editors sometimes bestow upon contributors, more especially those addicted to verse, is illustrative of the scope of the work. which, not unlike the humorist's lecture on "The Dark Conti- nent" seems to treat of almost every thing else except the subject
 The work was published in the name of John Lyly," of fictitious existence, and consists of yelled account of some per sonal love experiences, translation from Plutarch on education, discussion con- corning the Deity and some letters from "Euphues to Botonio urging him to take his exile patiently'-traced to and be- lieved to be copies of letters which Francis Bacon wrote to his foster brother Anthony, who at this date had been re- quired to go and live abroad
 The work is an interesting fragment of the Elizabethan period--of the gray dawn of that enlightenment which we pride ourselves on having reached The book is significant of it's title-first, in the fact that 1t is brief, and we are told in Hamlet that "brevity is the soul of wit and, secondly, in the epigrammatic expressions and suggestions of the love experiences contemplating this quality of the mind much as expressed in one of the Shakespearean sonnets:
 If it might teach thee wit, better it
 were.
 Though not to love, yet, love to tell me so.
 Of course. the element of brevity as an complication of wit in this 'an- atomy'' has been surpassed many times Though not all brevity is wit the latter may consist entirely in the former, as in the correspondence between Voltaire and Piton in their strife to see who should write the shortest possible letter. Yoltaire, when about leaving for the provinces, wrote, "Er rus q am going to the country Piton replied, 'I' Latin for "go.D
 Still briefer is the recorded corre- spondence between Victor Hugo and his publisher. Anxious to know how Les Miserables'' was selling. the novelist wrote, "?.' And to his delight the pub fisher answered "!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-02
NO GUM DROPS. SAYS COOK

Dr. Cook, in Hamptons
 As a popular illustration of the sort Of yarns that were told let me refer to the foolish fake of the gum drops. Some one started the story that I expected to reach the pole by bribing the Eskimos with gum drops-perhaps the idea was that was to lure them on from point to point with regularly issued rations of these confectons.
 Whenever I went on my lecture tour after my return to the United States, much to my irritation I saw Cook gum drops conspicuously displayed in con- fectionery store windows. Hundreds of pounds of gum drops were sent to my hotel with the compliments of the man. ufacturers On all sides I heard the gum-drop story, and in almost every paper read the reiterated tale of leading the Eskimos to the pole by dangling a gum drop on a string before them. l never denied this, as never denied any of the fakes printed about me.
 The fact is that I never heard the gum-drop yarn until l, came to New York. We took no gum drops with us on our polar trip, and, to my knowledge no Eskimo ate gum drop while with me.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-02
Value of CottoDsesd

The Wall Street Journal says the farm- CTS of the south will receive for their cotton seed this year approximately $l65,- ooC00O, or about one-hfth of the value of the staple itself. The seed has brought this year from 40 to 50 cents a bushel. Seed equally good was formerly thrown aside as worthless Many a man now living can remember when seed was re- garded as a bother and nuisance ana was used to fill gulies or thrown into waste places.
 Now the crushing of the seed is a great industry in the south. and the southern city that has no oil mill Is. indeed. excep- tional. On account of transportation the crushing of the seed is confined to the cotton states. Three concerns alone own in the south 400 crushing mills and a number of refneries. These big companies are the Southern Cotton oil company, the American Cotton oil company and Proc tog q Gamble. There are, however,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-02
Testing Cotton Fertilizers

Either the state should appropriate more than $3o0 to work out local tests with fertilizers or else she should ap- propriate nothing at all. Professor Dug gar of Auburn says about 1000 local tests of fertilizers for cotton should be made on the appropriation of s3ooo Auburn does not need a larger appropriation for this purpose, but the farmers of the state do need it.
 The boil weevil will have ravaged the state before the legislature of 1915 meets, and 1t therefore becomes the duty of the legislature that meets next month to make appropriations for all needful experiments looking to the ravages of the pest that is relentlessly advancing across the cotton belt.
 The farmer will need all the help he can get when the insect has spread itself over the state and the legislature will have before 1t no more difficult problem than the one relating to the farmers and their needs in the boil weevil era of the state
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-02
AT THE NEW "RECTOR.s.

From the New York American.
 The main dining room is the pride of the new restaurant and hotel, built ut a cost of $30OO.000, and in record time for a building of the kind. Last night it was profusely decorated with plants and cut flowers, and made a very beautiful picture. The attractive feature of this room is the great chan ,deliers sparkling with cut glass and hundreds of lights.
 Guests last night were shown over the hotel, which was ready for occu- pancy, but without single guest. To- day, however, the hotel will begin tc fill rapidly. It is intended for the ac. commodation of both transient and per. manent guests, and has 2J0 room with bath.
 The old sign of the Griffin, which hung like a guidepost to the brightest and gayest restaurant in the heart ol the White Light district of Broad way in front of the old restaurant, hal been given a coat of gold paint, and will hang in front of the new hotel And, like in the old days, the sign ol the griffin will be the nightly gather | ing place of the leading citizens ol that attractive country called Broadway
 to judge by the tnrong assembled las night at the new building at Forty-fourtf street and Broadway.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-02
MEDICINE HAT

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 Citizens of Medicine Hat the cold place up in Canada, which holds a close second to the north pole for low tenn peratures, have been talking about changing the name of the town In- cidentally they appeal to Rudyard Kilpling for his opinion. MT. Kilpling stands pat for Medicine Hat. He is opposed to change.
 Medicine Hat, Mir Kiplng asserts, is an asset land as the years go on 1t will become more and more of an asset. - The name, he says, "has the qualities of uniqueness and originality, of asso- ciaton and power" Wherefore he ad- vises the Medicine Hatters to adhere. as it were to the prescription of the fathers. And Mr. Kipling is right. The whole world knows about Medicine Hat and all ways looks for it in the weather tables when a new cold wave comes along. Even here in Kentucky when the mer- cury starts down towards Cairo" and the wind comes piercingly from across the peach orchard we rise up shivering 1TOfn our uOWHy couuciico anu Sioo 'iiS morning paper to look for the temper ature at Medicine Hat. Then we brace up and break the icicles off our whiskers, and solemniy resolve to complain never again about Kentucky's climate.
 Medicine Hat is a comfort and a con- solation in the hour when the blizzard rages and the coal pile shrinks. It is an unfailing antidote for the metero- logical "reminiscences of the oldest in- habitant Alongside of a thermometer reading from Medicine Hat 15 below zero in Kentucky looks like sunshiny day In June It wouldn't be worth while for anybody aside from Doc. Cook and Jack London to undertake to describe the rigors of the weather at Medicine Hat. Indeed there is a reason for believing that the doctor underwent course of training there preparatory to writing his marvellous stories of how he did or did not discover the north pole.
 By all means our Canuck brethren should spare Medicine Hat We folks in the United States need that town in our business. We've got it down pat in our memory. We know what 1t stands for and we don't want to have to spend the rest of our lives forgetting it and getting used to some bloody British substitute or some unpronounceab abomination of French Canadian extraction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-02

I himself into slavery and will bind himself
 to unlimited servitude, in return for board and clothing He announces that he is l a college graduate, a bookkeeper and
 typist and says he has a knowledge of
 medicine He gives his age as % years. It is needless to say that no argument against a college education, business
 training in bookkeeping, or knowledge | of medicine can be deduced from this
 young mans predicament. A man of
 25, with reasonable health and the ac- complshments indicated, makes an ab-
 feet picture in the column of For Sale advertisements What he lacks is the courage to stand on his feet and play the game" If he finds that any one of the accomplishments he mentions proves to be handicap, he can omit reference
 to such accomplishment when applying ir manly way for honorable employ ment.
 In all human probability this man rode through his college on the convenient pony" neglected to perfect himself in bookkeeping and typewriting. and had only desultory training in medicine; and is therefore a dismal failure To pur- chase such a man, even at the low price of his food and clothing, would be bad investment, from a business standpoint, for he would not earn their cost.
 The demand for college men in busi- ness and industrial activities is insistent; but even a college man cannot earn his salt if he is imbued with the coward,ce indicated in this young mans debasing advertisement The business world is teeming with college men who have utilized their training in making good. Even as bookkeeper, typist or embryo physician. that training should be valuable asset. But no degree of accom- plishment would be an asset, in the case of any man who would advertise himself as a failure at the age of p years.