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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1898-09-21
Our esteemed townsman, ex-
I S Marshal John p Hunter, is

l > Marshal John L Hunter, Is
being strongly solicited 10y his ru
merous friends to enter the race
for Superintendent of the State
penitentiary. We hope he can be
persuaded to make the race and we
would he delighted to see him
elected. We know no one better
qualified for the position. Hav-
ing been raised on the farm-be-
ing an experienced and successful
farmcr-nnd having served so long
rs Sheriff of our county aud then
four years aS United States Mar
shal, he is emIncntly qualified not
only to make a success of the
States farming operations, but
for the management. control and
proper treatment Of the States
convicts.
or the Stat, officers elected in
the recent primary not one resides
in county above Richland and it
would he hut fair and Just that
tn" Superintendent of the peniten-
tiary should be chosen from this
section ,t tbo St,tn Sn in oJI;
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1898-09-21

The Grccnville News has been
enlarged. The enlargement was
made necessary by the reading
matter space being crowded by
the business men of Grcenville
who are learning the value of ad-
yertsing in Il liv. journal like the
News. 1t has been heightened
and column added to each of
the four pages. The News is the
coming paper for the Piedmont
section. Watch
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1898-09-21

Ex- Governor John e. Shep-
pard returns to public life as the
Senator from Edgeheld County
and ex Lieutenant Governor w l.
Manllin rs Il member of the House
f Representatives from Green
willie County. Both are men of
ability and sense. -GreenvilIe
MOuntaincer
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1898-09-21
M alters.

MIR T NJ Fitzpatrick, buyer
for the Farmers Banking ard
Mercantile Company, has return
ed from the Northern markets,
and the clerks in that establish
ment are now busy opening up
one of the largest, most complete
and best selected stocks of dry
goods, notions, shoes, clothing,
etc, ever brought to Lancaster.
Found A key ring with two
keys on it. Call at this office.
"A protracted meeting is be-
ing held at Bethel church this
week. The pastor is being as
sisted by Rev j G Beckwith of
Kershaw.
Rev J y Dogget, pastor of
the Presbyterian church has re-
signed and will move in the near
future.
Rev J b Bosemsn, formerly
pastor of the Baptist church at
kershaw, has accepted a call to.
the Baptist church at Waltcrboro.
and will move 20 that place short.
~.
The planning shed and about
twelve or fifteen hundred feet of
lumber at Mr. X l. Sowell's saw
mill were burned the past week.
The planer was also damaged
somewhat. Era.
Misses Sarah and Jane Dun
lap are visiting the family of NJ.
w. Il. VanLandingham of Dry
Creek.
Rev. j w Little is assisting
Rev. Mr.. Stowe in religious
meeting at PinevilIe. He will re.
turn to Lancaster in time to fill
his appointments here on the first
Sunday in October.
DR.. w. II. Wakefield, of
Charlotte, \. G., will be in Lam
caster at Cunningham hotel on
Friday, Oct 7th for this one day.
His practice is limited to Eve,
Ear, Nose and Throat.
The Lancaster G. Ii sub alli-
ance will meet in the G II Satur-
day, Sept 24th, at O'Clock p m.
There will he service in the,
Episcopal church Thursday night
of this week, at S o'clock, con-
Quoted by The Rev } w Cantv
johnson.
List of letters advertised for
the wcck ending Sept 90, 1S9S.
Annie Mckinney, Retta Nither-
spoon, Parks Read, Fletcher
Clinton. J F Gregory, p NJ
At mass meeting held at
kershaw last Friday night, + d
Blakeney, Esq, was unanimously
nominated for Mayor of the town
to fill the uneNpired term of May
or Floyd, who recently resigned.
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Took Drink of Water Then Died.

Special to The State.
Hopkins, Sept 17.-Yesterday
about noon a negro known as
jim Spann died very suddenly,
though in apparently good health.
The information, as given 10y an
eye witness, IS as follows: Jim
Spann is employed by BurreIl
Goodson as teamster, and after
finishing unloading bale of cot
ton, he drove to we'll nearby
and took IL drink of water then
complained of feeling badly and
assisted his support by leaning
against wagon body, and in a
brief space of time fell to the
ground and expired Immediately.
Coroner Green, of Columbia, has
been notified and is expected in
the morning.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1898-09-21

HYder Wylie, well known
colored man, committed suicide
Wednesday by drinking quanti-
ty of shcllac and wood alcohol.
He had been on spree and ended
the debauch, as he had befoi Q
threatened to do, in the manner
stated.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1898-09-21

GrccnvilIe County has once
more cXemplifed its former record
on prohibition by sending three
members to the Legislature who
favor this method of dealing with
Che liquor question: GrcenyilIc
NoUutuiuvvr.
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CONGRESSMAN d. +. FIN
LEY.
Voted for Hampton, Against the
Dispensary and AgSinst the
Metropolitan Police Bill.
From the Columbia Record.

|
d f Finley's ambition has at
last been gratitied. He has won
the seat in congress to fill which
he has for years aspired. His
last and winning fight was his
greatest, for in w A Barber he
had II foreman worthy Of his
steel. Twice before Finley at
tempted to 90 to congress, and
each time he was defeated because
Of the apathy Of those who should
have supported him. Finley has
been Rcformor in state politics,
but he has always been his own
man. Looking back now over
the days Of strife and bitterness
since the March convention of
1890. The Record unhesitatlngly
afirms that no public man in the
Palmetto State, kept his poise
better and was less swaycd bv
partisan prejudice than ID + Fin
ley. The factionNl whip never
dashed him into line. If n man
or measure received his approval,
he voted foc him or it, but ncvar
cast his ballot simply because the
man or measure was Tabled with
the name of his faction. He was
a South Carolinian first and a
Reformer second, and throughout
his Legislative career he voted and
worked on the high plane of what
was best for South Carolina. The
editor of The Record has dis.
agreed with him at times, but al
ways did honor to his sincerity,
honestly and fidelity. He did
that which seemed to him right.
Moreover, there could never be a
moments doubt as to where Fin
ley stood. Extremists denounced
him as "mugwumpy," but they
always knew where to find him.
He never lodged, he fought fair
and his critics knew 1t.
Finley voted for Hampton S
reelection, he voted against the
dispensary, he voted against the
metropolitan police and he was an
!, organizer of the Forty movement.
These and many other things
which might he mentioned de-
mOnstrate his independence. They
were acts which should have Sc
cured him the hearty support of
the Conservatives of his district
as against m extreme Rcfurmcr.
and yet in both of his former
races for congress he was defeated
because Of their apathy, their
failure to take the trouble to vote
for him. Somehow or other.
no,, :, ,, .I' :" """o St '"'' S'''''
ment Of Finley and desire to moEc
amends. This, coupled with the
fact that Finley split the Reform
Tote at iea't evenly W!th harhcr,
- '"S" "''"' us ''''''""'
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A New Era IDaWning
For Old Lancaster,

tw down the ont,toI IONpR
them TO ,ftu
Ihcour Tlciyh
a prices Our
the adjoining oftu
will look
o hsh hpnirs
upTla alton nn,uici
from pa we We
business nr rn,
The t. HON willis
immense Stoko Fruti
Mercantile tKcshas
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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1898-09-21
pon.t Tahaceo spIt ANA smols iour IIf. Aun..

To quit tobacco easily and forever. DO mag
netio, fun OF life, nerve and viEor, take NoTo-
Bac, the wonder worker. that makes weak men
strong. All druagists. SOC or tI. Cure Ruaran-
teed Booklet and srmpie free. Address
Sterling Remedy o. >'hicago OF New Yor6
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1898-09-21

More than third of Great
Britain is owned by members Of
the house of lords.
What stops Neuralgiaf DIR. Miles, Pain PILE.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1898-09-21

DIR. Miles NERVE PLAsTERs cure RHEUMA-
TISM. WEAK BACKS. At druggists only 25c.
Iron County register., 1898-12-08
Geological Deductions.

Geology was once defined by Lord
Salisbury as "the science of the what
might have been." Some American ge-
ologists prefer to regard it as the sci
ence of the what may be. Pictures
have often been drawn of the destruc-
tion of Toronto, and the devastation of
southern Ontario and Quebec by food
let loose when the great lakes are emp
tied owing to the continued recession
of Niagara Falls. Prof. G. z. Gilbert
now tells US that long before this dis
aster is due Niagara will have been de-
stroyed by other processes. Some slow
changes of level are now taking place
over the whole lake region. The east
erp outlet will be closed, and the lakes
drained by discharging from the south
ern end of Lake Michigan into the be-
sin Of the Mississippi. The change in
the river system will begin in about
1000 years time. The evidence ad,
duced by Prof. Gilbert in support Of
this prophecy Is of great interest, al.
though only his preliminary reDert has
yet been published
Iron County register., 1898-12-08
Big Reservoirs.

The largest water storage reservoir
in the world is now in process of con-
structien in the city of Boston, its in
tended capacity reaching the enormous
figure of $4,000. 100000 of gallons, or
enough to supply that city for 31s years,
and four times as much as the capacity
of all its existing waterworks reser-
voirs. The vast capacity is twice that OF
the new Croton reservoir of New York,
thrice that of the six reservoirs of Bir.
mingham, in England; 80 times that OF
the Cochituate, of Boston, and will hold
more water than Boston's inner harbor.
The dam is located at Clinton, Nass.,
and the vast volume of water, covering
over 1000 acres, will be entrapped and
retained by a dam some 1850 feet long,
127 feet high above the ground, and 15s
feet high above it's rock foundation.
no such immense engineering work has
ever before been undertaken in New
England.-Chicago Tribune.
Iron County register., 1898-12-08
Delagoa Bay.


Delagoa Bay, on the southeastern
coast of Africa. is owned by Portugal
1t is of great strategic Importance in
any future contest for control in South
Africa, because if it were in hostile
hands the South African Republic
would be prevented from getting ac.
cess to the sea. President Krueger's
recent large importations of war ma
terials have all been forwarded via Della
goa bay. England has been for some
time anxious to acquire the bay, either
by purchase or lease from Portugal;
and the recent appearance there of a
British squadron of eight ships. and
the landing of guns at Inyack island,
at the entrance of the bay, indicates
that the arrangement, though denied,
has been made.-Youth's Companion.
Iron County register., 1898-12-08
OUR BOYS IN CUBA.
They VIII Be Received with Open
Arms by the Patriots Under
Gomez.

'How will the United States troops be
received in Cuba?" said DIR. Joaquin
Demetrius Castillo to a reporter, as he
repeated the question that had been
propounded to him by the newspaper
man. The doctors snappy black eyes
sparkled as he answered his own ques-
ton:
''They will be welcomed with open
arms by the Cuban people, you may be
sure. More than 95 out of every 100
are heart and soul in favor of the Cuban
republic. The American people are our
best friends; we know and trust them.
The inspiration of freedom and en-
lightenment makes the whole liberty
loving world kin.
First of ALL" exclaimed DIR. Castillo,
in burst of enthusiasm, and in answer
TO questions, "the American army
should take at least $4,000 rifles and a
large quantity of fixed ammunition for
distribution among the Cubans. AS a
war measure this is of the very highest
Importance. The Cubans do not wish
to stand around Idly and see the United
States soldiers do all of the fighting
to free the island. Liberty is so pre-
cious that every man in Cuba wants to
have hand in it's establishment. It
would be a grave mistake not to carry
over big supply of arms for the ma
tive population. Gen. Gomez informs
us that he can easily muster in at least
$4,000 more infantry, provided he has
the guns. All Cubans know how to
shoot, and while uniforms add pictur-
esqueness to the army and are in every
way useful, still our people are perfect
ly willing to fight for liberty bare
footed and in tattered clothes. The
boon of freedom is too precious to be
postponed an instant for any mere mat
ter of personal appearance. Liberty
will be accepted joyously, even in rags.
The Cubans now under arms in the
island aggregate about $4,000 men. If
the wise commander of the invading
forces would furnish us with arms to
double the army of liberation, all he
would have to do would be to look on
while we did the rest. And I desire to
say right here that while the Spanish
soldiers in Cuba do not seem to like
fighting, it should be remembered that
they have now become mostly accli-
mated, and their numbers are sufficient
ly great to become very troublesome to
an invading army. They should not be
underestimated." - Army and Navy
journal
Iron County register., 1898-12-08
Topdressinx Meadow Land.

1t is always best if manure is to be
put on grass land to do it in the fall.
Both the leaves and roots of the grass
keep the manure from being washed
away and wasted. There is, as expert
ment has shown, very little teaching
of manure through the soil, as its fer
tility is held in the first few inches near
the surface. Besides, if the top dress
ing is applied now the benefit from the
manure can be greatly increased by
passing heavy drag over the surface,
displacing each particle of manure and
carrying it into contact with part
of the soil it has not before reached.
Iron County register., 1898-12-08


have better country roads. "
The whole state is interested in the
improvement of all the roads, and since
the city people are insisting that they
shall be improved, it would be fair to
levy tax ON city property as well as
country property for the improvement
of country roads. This is what is meant
! by state aid The state does
not undertake to conduct the country
district schools, but it does say that,
if any school district shall run school
of a certain character a certain num-
Der of months in the year, it will con-
tribute 20 the expense. The state aid
proposition, then, is an application to
building country roads, of the practice
now in operation for running country
schools
Summing up the principal points
Mr.. Choate finds that:
1. All taxes should be equal.
2. Taxing farm property to improve
all country roads. and city property to
improve city roads only, results in un-
equal taxation.
3. City people desire to have country
roads improved; equal and just taxa
tion requires that they contribute to-
ward the expense.
4. State aid simply requires all bene-
flied property owners to contribute to
the expense of road improvements that
benefit them.
5. State cid for road building is the
same in principle as state aid for pub
lie schools.
6. State aid is not a new experiment
in road building. but has proved sue
cessful in New Jersey, Massachusetts
and elsewhere.
Iron County register., 1898-12-08
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BASIS OF STATE AID.
Summed Up by the L. 4. w.
Highway Committee.

That highways should be built and
maintained by those who live along
them is an ancient doctrine, but an un-
just one. Fifty years ago Macaulay
described how unfairly the practice
operated in the seventeenth century;
how toll roads succeeded it and, finally,
free turnpikes. But in this country we
have only recently begun to see its in
justice, and to realize that the relative
ly sparsely-settled country, with its
comparatively small amount of taxable
property, cannot equitably shoulder
the burden of constructing and main
tanning the major part of the highways
of the country for the use of every
body.
This subject is treated by A. B.
Choate, of the L. A. w. highway COM
mittee, in circular No. 81 of the Gov
ernment Office of Road Inquiry, on
"State Aid" after years of agita-
tion," he says, land condemnation of
the farmers for failure to build good
country roads, the agitators have dis
covered that they have been trying to
work an injustice upon the farmers.
The mistake was not in demanding
good roads, but in asking the farmers
to build good country roads without
taxing city property to help pay for
them"
Equality of taxation is a familiar
principle, yet nothing could be more
unequal than to tax farm property
alone for the construction of roads
which ultimately benefit the entire
community. In the newer states the
taxable property is more nearly equal
ly divided between town and country;
but in the older ones the preponder-
ance is greatly in towns and cities, in
New York the proportion being about
six to one.
THE bearing which this fact has"
says Mr.. Choate, upon the question OF
state aid for building country wagon
roads is very apparent, for, if the farm
ers are required to pay taxes on their
proportionately very small amount of
property to improve the long stretches
of country roads, while the city people
pay only enough taxes on their great
wealth to improve the roads within the
city limits, it will be necessary that the
road taxes levied upon the farm prop
erty shall be very much heavier in pro-
portion to the value of that property,
and the principle of equal taxation will
be violated. #.x
The business men in the cities have
learned that it is to their interest to
Iron County register., 1898-12-08
CABLE BREAKS.
According to a Chicago Electrician
Can BE Easily Located Within
Half q MsIe.

Charles ii. Summers, electrician OF
the Western Union Telegraph company,
was asked concerning the interruption
to the cable between Hong-Kong and
Manila. Mr.. Summers said the cable,
with slack, is doubtless 700 miles long.
With delicate instruments, such as the
cable companies have, the break in the
cable could be located within half a
mile, he said, and the test would un-
doubtedly be made from Hong-Kong,
where the English government is sup
posed to have all the facilities for build
ing and repairing cables.
To illustrate how closely the tests can
be made by delicate instruments, Mr..
Summers referred to test made on the
five-mile cable at the Straits of Mack
inaw. A break was located within three
feet. Mr.. Summers thinks the break in
the Hong-Kong cable has been correctly
located within so miles of Manila, but
the delay in repair may have been
caused by not having the necessary
graphing machinery for pulling up the
cable.
Once the fault is brought to the sur
face it is comparatively an easy matter
to make a new splice and cut out any
injuries that may have been made to
the cable.
There has been considerable discus
sion as to what time and what day
Dewey fought his marine battle at
Manila, whether it occurred Sunday or
Saturday morning. Lieut.. Wilson, in
charge of the photographic Office To-
Gated in the Masonic Temple, says:
'While in theory a man might figure
either way around the earth as to time,
still it is necessary in actual practice to
have fixed starting point in order that
all may figure on the same basis and all
maps, charts, ETC., may have their lon
gitude and latitude numbered to CORE
spond with each other.
"These two points have been arbi.
trarily selected and are the equator
for latitude and the meridian OF
Greenwich for longitude. Most time
calculations, therefore, begin at Green
wich, and the almanacs which deter
mine the astronomical calendar days
use this as a starting point. If the bat
tie of Manila was fought at five o'clock
Sunday morning the corresponding
local mean time at Chicago was
three hours, five minutes and thirty sec
onds Saturday afternoon, because the
sun did not pass over Chicago until
thirteen hours, fifty-four minutes and
thirty seconds after it passed Manila"
Chicago Chronicle.
Iron County register., 1898-12-08
The Prince of Liars.

Baron Munchausen, the prince Of
liars, was not entirely a creation OF
Raspe, a German refugee, who was :
protege of Horace Walpole, and who
published s'The Surprising Adventures
of the Baron" in 17S6. The FatherlanG
only the other day celebrated the one
hundredth anniversary of the great pre-.
varicator, who was really a German of.
ficer and served in several campaigns
with the Russians against the Turks
His whole name was Jerome Charles
Frederic Won Chicago
News
Iron County register., 1898-12-08
Deafness Cannot BE Curea

by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way to cure deafness, and that is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an infamed condition of the mu.
cous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube gets infiamed you have rumbling
sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is
entirely closed deafness is the result, and
unless the inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to its normal con-
dition, hearing viii be destroyed forever;
nine cases of of ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an inhamed condition
of the mucous surfaces.
We viii give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness (caused by catarrh that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
Send for circulars, free
F.. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, q.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Iron County register., 1898-12-08
white wormn Ana the seiI.

If plants are troubled with white
worms in the soil an easy method of ex-
termination is said to be sulphur
matches stuck well down into the soil,
sulphur end down. A few drops of car
bolic acid in diPper of water is also
good, and lime water in the proportion
of a cupful of unslac!Sed lime to pail of
water is the old standby. Put a cork in
drainage hole of pot and saturate the
soil thoroughly with the clear lime
water before allowing it torun away
Narional Stocl1man.
Iron County register., 1898-12-08
Give the Children n Drink

called Grain-O. 1t is delicious, appetizing,
nourishing food drink to take the place OF
coffee. Sold by all grocers and liked by all
who have used it, because when properly
prepared it tastes like the finest coffee but
is free from all its injurious properties.
Grain-O aids digestion and strengthens the
nerves. 1t is not a stimulant but health
builder, and children, as well as adults, can
drink it with great benefit. Costs about as
much as coffee. Is and 25c.
Iron County register., 1898-12-08
The Options were Extended.

Cincinnati, Dec. lit was ex-
pected that the deal whereby an east
ern syndicate, represented by Senator
Foraker, w. E. Hutton and Herman
Cooper, was to secure eight brew
cries here would be closed at noon.
No action was taken and the options
were extended to February 1, 1899.
Iron County register., 1898-12-08
a Race Against rire.

crew of a steamer from Spain recently ar
rived in Baltimore. In mid ocean it was dis
covered that flames were raging IN the yes
sells hold. For ten long days the crew brave
ly fought the flames. If men would fight as
persistently against disorders of the stomach
and digestive organs, there would be fewer
premature deaths. The best weapon for such
a fight is Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. 1t is
the greatest of tonics, and the best of RENE
dies for kidney, liver, bladder and blood dis
orders.
Iron County register., 1898-12-08
For California Tourists.

The Burlington Route has Weekly Tour
ist Sleeper Excursions, personally con
Quoted (by Burlington Route AGENT every
Wednesday from st. Louis, and Thursday
from Kansas City and st. Joseph to Los
Denver, Scenic Colorado, Salt Lake City
with 98 per cent. sunshine throughout the
year. Ask Ticket Agent or write for de
scriptive folder to L. w. Wakeley, Genera
Passenger Agent, StS SLouis, Mo.