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Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1898-12-14
THE LANCASTER ERIDrp
!SCHOOL.
E."LDrt oJ' the superintendent /oI.
tIrst quarter IF Present Session
-- IWc iTOUOr ItOiIS.


examinations on the course for
the first quarter session $500
were finished.
During the term, at Intervals
nf three months, two more exam
nations will be held : thus. those
who failed on the first querter. IN
any subject, can, by close atten-
ton to it. and increased applica-
ton, attain sufficiently high
average on the years work for
advancement in June TO higher
Grade. Parents are requested to
examine the reports carefully,
note the deficiencies, and require
more time given TO the home
study Of those branches in which
the pupil is ba ward. 1t would
help both teacher and pupil for
parents 30 communicate TO the
former any difficulties encoun.
tered by the pupil IN the under
standing or preparation of his
studies, that m.y come TO their
obsnrvatIon. The progress Of the
child is dependent IN IN intelli
gent understanding and co.0pcrn-
ilon on the par, o; the parent.
teacher. and pupil.
The work OF the school in its
first quarter has been of such
character as to hold out the hope
Of very successful term. | wish
I" commend the pnpilS, especial
~ those or the hlGher grades. for
"Sceileh' oehaVi"r. On The other
hand 'here are none entirely sat
'S'ac'"ry IN "iiischce anu "pph-
cati"n 7" studies.
| beg TO turn IT." attention of
the people OF Lancaster to what
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Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1898-12-14

for DR.. Miles Remedies.
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n 1ld by all drug.
gist under l. positive
guarantee, fist bottle
benefits or money re-
funded. Book on dis
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THE FAMINE IN RUssIA.

There is a great deal of fertile land in Russia, but some of it has not pro- duced much lately. Most unfavorable reports continue to reach St. Peters, burg regarding the state of affairs in the Russian districts affected by the bad harvests. In the province of Ka- gan, where the distress is particularly acute, the signs of drought are said to be present everywhere. Not a single hayrick is to be seen in farmyard or meadow. Straw also is lacking, and cattle are already being fed on fodder taken from the matches of cottages, while some of the cattle are dying off from want of proper food and the sick ness resulting therefrom. Horses and oxen are being sold at half-price, or even at a third of what they would fetch in ordinary times. The authori- ties are now busy devising measures to prevent the complete destruction of live stock during the famine. Great purchases of fodder and grain are to be made in other provinces, and the cattle will be fed with supplies dis tributed from the stores thus acquired. It is likely also that peasants will re- ceive permission to gather fagots for fuel and dried leaves for fodder in the woods. Terrible as the situation now is, the distress not only shows no sign of abating, but is expected to be far greater in the coming winter, when the population, already impoverished and exhausted by previous years of want and scarcity, will have little strength to bear the priyation of long continued famine.
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4 FAMOUS VICTORY.

One of the most heated, heating and spectacular political contests that ever happened in Connecticut came to a climax in Meriden last evening, when the Leigh brothers" tackled the Tom linson hosts and after smiting them hip and thigh threw them down the bank.
 It is figured that the result of this great Greco-Roman-U United -States-Hi- bernian match gives MT. Walter Leigh a good majority of the delegates who Will make the nomination for sheriff, and that he will therefore be nominated for sheriff. If there is no slip between the cup and the lip he will be- And if ever nomination was earned MT. Leigh has earned the one he expects to have. He has fought powerful and peculiar aggregation, and at first his attitude seemed about as bold and hope less as the attitude of David seemed to the lsraelites who had been brought up to fear the big Philistine. It has been most interesting fight and "the Leigh brothers" have shown what can be done. AS two of them are good citizens or New Haven and popular men their triumph has in it somewhat of pleasure for many men of all parties here.
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4 QUESTION ANSWERED..

Some inquisitive people have been asking why some or many of the feeble soldiers have not been sent to or from Montauk Point by boat instead of by car. It appears that the contract made with the Long Island Railroad compa- ny expressely provided that the mili- tary authorities twill not contract with or employ any other carrier for trans portation facilities between Montaull and New York or Long Island points, and that no vessel owned or controlled by private individuals or corporations shall be permitted to land at or use the present or any future docks for passen- gers or freight to or from New York or Long Island points without the per mission of the railroad company There was a proviso by which govern ment transports or vessels might dis charge and load troops at Montauk, but even this privilege was not utilized until the camp is on the point of being aban- doned, when the War department gives orders that some of the few remaining troops shall be carried on vessels owned by the government.
 Too little management in some things, too much in others.
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.ICHTETED.

Where does Bella get her good looks fron-her father or her mother?" Stella-"From her father. He keeps drug ore"-Household Words.
 Rural Ragges-"Say, Tatts, do you think it's right to raise the price of beer?" Tramping Tatters-"rve been trying to raise the price of one fer week. Life.
 Subscriber-"How is it that you have printed that long poem three times in your columns?" Editor-"Well, really, I didn't suppose any one would find it out. "-Fliegende Blatter.
 Hicks-"Bowers has been telling me some of his experiences" Wicks-- And I suppose you believe all his yarns?" Hicks-"Oh, yes; they are so uninteresting I'm sure they must be true. Boston Transcript.
 T understand you won the blue rib bon, so to speak, in the examination for the civil service" 'I-ah-would hardly call it that" answered the mild young man. Let us say l won the red tape. e."-Indianapolis Journal.
 First spanish statesman (RlOOmlly)- "If we had only known of this power ful ally, and waited, we might have won in the end" Second Statesman What ally do you mean?" The great American transport ship. p."-Life.
 Little Jim is crazy to have school begin"
 "Is he so fond of study?"
 No but he says he wants to see how much his teacher knows about the new y."-Detroit Free Press.
 Horsedeaer-"W John, how about that horse l sold you?" Was he quiet enough?" Undertaker-"Well, sir, he did give us a little trouble at first We put him in one of the mourning coach es you know, and parties don't like to be shook up in their grief But we've put him in the hearse now, and we haven't heard any complaint so far. r."- Household Words.
 Turning Away Wrath.-"It really made me indignant, Henrietta, said MT. Meekton, ''when you intimated that l had not accomplished much in this life" "Indeedi'' Yes. I don't like to dispute your opinions. But to suggest that a man who had succeeded in be- coming your husband hasn't achieved much does seem just a little bit un- just. .''-Washington Star.
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black lace ruche at the hem, and was trimmed with two rows of black Chan tilly insertion. The blouse waist was entirely covered with black Chantilly, and the fronts opened over white silk yoke that was edged with lace trimmed double ruffles. The sleeves were also covered with lace. Beneath the chin was a large white chiffon bow. Simple by alteration in the belt the dress could be made suitable to figures for which it would not be safe as de- scrbed
 A rat" is no longer worn under the pompadour. The new role is as soft as the rat, but it is as glossy and smooth and Is made so cunningly that the comb passing through the pompadour penetrates the roll, too, thus giving added security to the outside hair. The under roll must exactly match the out4 CT hair. At the base of the roll are ar ranged little closely coiled flat curls that comb out all right only to gather themselves tightly into curls again. Thus if ones own hair happens to sep arate a little at the roots about the forehead, these little tendrils peep out.
 Side combs are out. The hair sweeps back unconfined, rolling gracefully up- ward and smoothly gathering into the soft back knot. If your hair has not grown out long enough to accomplish this you might as well hide your head under basket till the fashion changes. If you had been taking proper care since bangs went out, your hair would have grown long enough to reach the knot right from the forehead allowing for the roll of the pompadour. It would be glossy, smooth and trained to the sweep of the pompadour, too. If it does not do all this it is too late to do anything but cry, go buy false pom- padour and wear a hat all the time, even in bed. FLORETTE.
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MEN AND MONKEYS.

The last meetings of this congress for scientific business were held yesterday. In the morning the members assembled at the Guildhall to hear discourse by Professor Haecke1 on our present Knowledge of the descent of man.
 Professor Haeckel began his address by reference to the brilliant progress achieved during the last seventy years, since 1928, when Darwin began his stud ies at Cambridge and Von Baer pub lished his famous embryology. After yesterdays discussion he would limit his survey to the origin of the prinates and of man. He quoted Huxleys fa- nous thesis on Mans Place in Nature" as offering complete proof of the iden- tity of structure and composition of man and the monkeys. The only differ ences between them were details which, from the point of view of comparative anatomy, were valueless. This identity was so unquestionable that the effort had been made to prove that the mon- keys were degenerate men, the old evo- lution being reversed to satisfy theo- logical requirements. The evidence of palaeontology was now as conclusive as that of comparative anatomy. The most important evidence recently dis
 covered was the Pithecanthropus of Java most valuable addition to the rich series of fossil monkeys, the first of which was only found in 1S36 The fossils filled up the gaps between the existing genera and showed so clearly the general phylogeny of the group that only ignorance of the palaeontolog
 ical evidence could excuse Virchow's statement in 1894 that man was as like ly to have been descended from the ele- phant or the sheep as from the apes. The phylogenetic connection of the pri- mates-i e., of all lemurs, monkeys and men-Professor Haeckel declared was no longer an hypothesis, but an estab
 lished fact. He exhibited a diagram
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colored like spectrum Illustrating the development of life on the earth, and he drew picturesque analogy between the sequence of life and that of colors in the sunrise.
 The meeting then adjourned to the Cavendish laboratory, where MT. w. l.. H. Duckworth exhibited series of photographs Illustrating most of the specimens of gorillas available to stu dents. The series included several at Cambridge which the speaker has be- gun to dissect, though his work has not yet progressed very far
 Canon Tristram having taken the chair, M. Dubois read a lengthy paper on the further evidence obtained re- garding Pithecanthropus erectus, which he had described at the previous meet ing of the congress, six weeks after his return with the specimen from Java. Since that time he had been able to re- move the stony material that filled the brain case, and was thus able to meas ure its capacity and make cast of the brain A second praenaolar tooth from the lower jaw had recently been discov- cred The capacity of the brain was in Lerneuldle petWteH tlidI Ol IiSl dHet monkeys, and was nearer to the for mer. Since his previous paper he had examined more than one thousand hu- man thigh bones, and was convinced that the Javan bone was different from that of man, and indicated that the Pithecanthropus was less exclusively bipedal He claimed that the cast of the brain disproved the suggestion that the characters of the skull were patho- logical.
 At the conclusion of M. Dubois paper a resolution was carried urging on the
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Comrade Mckinley, "Beware of the
 wtdders.';

To the Editor of the Journal and Courier:
 The famous advice of the great phi losopher, MT. Weller, to his son was, "Samivel, I say, beware of the widders." The advice was sound and accurate. One of those ingenious fellows, whose meat, drink and lodging are in the ap- plication of mathematics to the census has established the following proposi- ton: ''Given a man in the matrimoni- al market, and after him, a 'widder' and a spinster, the 'widder's' chances of success are in a certain fixed ratio to those of the spinster, and nearly two to one" It is, however, only corollary to the general rule, that the better ex- pert can and will win as against the merely good expert.
 Mir Weller's accurate advice to "Samivei' ought to be needed by Uncle Sam. He has on his pension roll only a very few thousand short of one mil lion of pensioners, and l venture the assertion that one-third of them are widows or minor children of widows,
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FASHION NOTES.
A Gown and the Warming to If.

The skirt of the dress pictured below was of pale green cloth and the belt was in one with it. That means that this dress should not be considered by a short waisted woman, for any belt that closely matches the skirt makes it's wearer's waist seem shorter by all most the belts full width. Of course, most women realize this, but the occa-
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small advertisements, One Cent Worw each h. serton Five Gents Word for full week (seven times).
 Display advertisements, per inch, one in, sertion, 20; each subsequent insertion. 40 cents; one week, $3.20; one month. $1o; one year, $40
 Obituary Notices. In prose or verse;. 15 cents per line. Notices of Births. Mar rages, Deaths anl Funerals, 30 cents each Local Notices. 15 cents per line
 Yearly advertisers are limited to thelr own immediate business Gall matter to be Include Wants, To Let For Sale, etc.
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An Alabama man is quoted as fol- lows in a Washington paper: "The war with Spain was lucky thing for General Joe Wheeler, in that it will probably enable him to realize within a few years the acme of his ambition, which is a seat in the United States Senate. Both our senators, General Pettus and General Morgan, are far ad- yanced in years, and it is improbable that either will be chosen to serve in the same capacity after their present terms expire. General Wheeler is yet a young man, compared with either of them. and as his fame has become na- tional through his splendid war record, it is almost certainty that his people will promote him to the Senate. If it had not been for the war he would have had an exceedingly hard struggle to secure another term in congress" !" Well. if General Wheeler wants to be United States senator he ought to have the promotion unanimously handed him on a gold platter.
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4 TRADE OPPORTUNITY.

A step in the right direction is the establishment at Caracas, Venezuela, of an American sample warehouse for the promotion of trade. Consul Gold schmidt urges manufacturers to take advantage of the movement and to ex- tend American trade in Central and South America. The exhibition at Ca racas is probably the most effective means of introducing American goods to South America that has ever been devised. The expense of shipping goods from this country to Caracas sufficient for exhibition purposes, the rent of space and show cases at Caracas and the care of such an exhibit altogether, will cost a manufacturer the small amount of from $50 to $75. The man. agement of the exhibition assists manu- lecturers in securing agents and stands ready in every way to further their in- terests. Consul Goldschmidt states that there is an especially good market in Venezuela for hardware of all kinds, including carriages and bicycles, paints and varnishes, machinery Of all kinds, electrical goods, drugs and chemicals, bottles hides and leather.
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l.. Edwin Dudley, consul at Vancou- yer, thinks that British Columbia af- lords an excellent field for American dealers in live stock. Good driving horses, he says, are scarce, and good draft horses seem to be unknown A market could be found for stallions of good blood and for brood mares. Anil mals imported for breeding purposes are brought in duty free. The cattle are of poor breed and shorthorns and Jersey bulls could be sold to advantage. The country is we'll adapted to sheep breeding, but few sheep are bred. The trouble with British Columbia seems to be that the farmers have only common stock and are afraid to raise higher class horses because of the increasing use of electricity as a traction power. The consul adds that the demand for fine horses is everywhere as good as it was before the introduction of the troll ley car. Electricity has displaced only the cheap horse.
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The Flemish language has been vast ly improved and increased lately. It lacked a word for Automobile" as the French call it. So at a recent session of the Flemish academy at Antwerp this word was proposed: "snelpaardel- ooszonderspoorwegp
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A Householder's Opinion.-Wickwire -"I don't exactly like the idea of call ing one of the new ships-of-war The American Girl" Yagsley-"What is the matter with it?" Wickwire-'I It sounds tame. Fhe Hired Girl would give a much better idea of destruction and desolation. indianapolis Journal.
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It Is related that Scripture exam ination was being held recently in an English school, the lesson being Elijah offering up sacrifice on Mount Car mel. As the children looked like good scholars, the inspector gave them a question, saying: Now, you have told me that Elijah put the bullock on the altar. Why did he put water round ed, except one little boy, who stood up and said: Please sir, to make the gravy
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sional examples of error in this direo- tion are so serious that the caution is worth mention. Having set the warn ing, the gowns details are in order The skirt was edged with 8 marrow
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The women of Ohio are uniting in 8 movement to have the word ''obey" stricken from the marriage service. Probably the men of Ohio will not real ly lose much if the movement succeeds.
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Dutch colonial department the para mount importance of systematic exca- vations in the beds where the remains of Pithecanthropus had been obtained. London Times.
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DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CrTY, 1t CENTS A WEEK, 50 CENTS A MONTH, SSFoR SIX MONTHS, SC A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL.
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IhE ToNPURLISHINGC co.
 OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.
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According to the consular reports two towns of France are now illumin- ated by means of acetylene gas, the one having population of 3,024, the other, 1,506 A cubic meter of the gas costs 38.6 cents, but the lighting power is fifteen times that of coal gas, with the result that there is an economy of 50 per cent. in favor of acetylene gas. The calcium carbide from which the gas is made by simple process costs at wholesale about s7O a ton. The re- tail price is about $5 per hundred pounds, exclusive of packing.
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Of every ITO Baptists 116 are women and fifty-four are men. Probably the proportion of men to women is about the same in other churches; at least it is not larger. Skeptics explain this by declaring that women are more super stitious than men. The devout explain it on the ground that women are natu- rally more devout and have more faith than men. A Baptist statistician sug- gests as a reason for the condition of affairs the fact that preachers can more easily get access to the women and do actually reach them much more constantly than the men.
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THE WEEKLY JOURNAL. Issued Thursdays, One Dollar Year.
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GOOD LUCK is not chance, but a result of intelligent forethought. In buying paint, stop, think, and consider where what you want can be found. You know what you want IS well as we can tell you, and one the article. Don't make experiments when it isn't necessary Knowledge is certain ty, and certainty is economy and satisfac- ton. THOMPSON & BELDEN, 396 and 39S State street.
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HE OLDEST DAILY PAPER PUB-
 LIsHED IN CONNECTICUT.
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 campaign of 1896 was largely influenced by the hope of ameliorating the harsh conditions then existing in the pension bureau. We submit that this expected amelioration has not taken places x The iniquitous rule is maintained up to this hour, and we submit it is not such treatment as we had a right to expect from Comrade Mckinley
 A motion to expunge the last sentence above quoted from the report of the committee was withdrawn upon an amendment which only intensif1es my objections to it. For still the com plaint is made against and the appeal taken, not to William Mckinley as president of the United States, but the complaint is made against and the ap- peal taken to William Mckinley, "Comrade of the Grand Army of the Republic" Is Mckinley to act as 'comrade" or president? There is no doubt which course is demanded by his other comrades. So, too. the avowal that the pensioners voted en nasse en- tirely for and because of their pension interests, and so beyond doubt q agree to this) largely influenced the political campaign of 1896. Can the American people learn nothing from this?
 Talk about injustice" and "harsh conditions,' with one million of pen sioners and the list increasing, and one hundred and fifty millions of dollars annually for pensions, more than the annual cost of the German army and navy, and this, too, thirty-threee years after the close of the war! Yet there is no word against it. not even from the New York Evening Post!
 You can fool all the people all the time" on some subjects; for instance, on pensions to widows married since the war. J.