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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1898-08-24

B + Robertson has been elected
assistant chemist at Clemson Col
lcge; S Nj Martin teacher in the
sub collegiate department and VIM
IL Boehm of st. Louis, professor
of mechanics and head of mechan-
icaI department.
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A Good Engine for Sale

A Good Engine for Sale
A six-horse engine mounted on
wheels, in good running order
just as good as new-for sale
cheap. Apply at this Office for
further information.
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Terrible Freshet-A Number of
Bridges Washed Away.


Last Friday night it didn't sim.
ply rain but it fairly poured for
two or three hours in sections
north and northeast of town. OF
course great damage was done to
crops both by the land washing
and by the overflow of creeks
Camp creek was said to have been
higher than it has been known TO
be in 40 years, and a gentleman
living on Cane creek says he has
not seen it as high in 25 years.
The county supervisor estimates
the damage to bridges at about
$1,000. The following bridges
were washed away or SO badly
wrecked as to have to be built
anew Bridge over Cane creek
on road leading from Potter road
to Monroe road, bridge over same
creek on Charlotte road, bridge
over same creek on Monroe road.
and over same creek near ID \
Crockett place. On Camp creek
the following bridges are gone /:
On Charlotte road near Draffin
place; on Monroe road near Rob.
inson place, and ON the road lead.
ing through the Carter place.
The bridge overWaxhaw creek on
the Charlotte road and the bridge
over South Wild Cat creek near
Tradesville were also washed away
The Supervisor has arranged
for the replacing of all the above
bridges at once except the four
which he advertises in this issue
to be let out to the lowest respon-
sible bidder on September 1st.
A ton of oil has been obtained
from the tongue of single whale.
More people are suffering from
drink than from famine or cruel.
| ty.
When you are lying down your
heart makes ten strokes less per
minute than usual.
Though the world was moi
made in day, there rre worlds
of mischief made every hour in
the day.
A year of pleasure passes like
q Aeeting breeze, but moment
ef misfortune aeems an age o.
pain.
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bless Dr.Miles' Nervine.
DR.. Miles Remedies
are sold by all drug
gists under a positive
guarantee. first bottle
benefits or money re-
funded. Book on dis
eases of the heart and
nerves free. Address,
DIR, MILES MEDICA
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ita Sota1, Asritu1tural and Gommerral Snerests Of


than the day he started. Those who
90 this season expecting to secure
claims will be disappointed. Every
thing within 35 to so miles Of Dawson
City has been taken, and compare
lively few of these will pan out a
fortune. Those who are starting now
will get to Dawson City early in the
spring, two months before supply
boats are able to get up the river.
They will find no claims worth having,
and no work to be had, and unless
they have plenty of provisions they
will find it the most expensive spot on
earth in which to exist.
II found Dawson City to be town
of about $500 inhabitants, $50 of
whom were women. 1t has Catho-
lie, Presbyterian and an Episcopal
church, and saloon, gambling halls and
dance houses without number. The
commonest whisky and beer man
ever swallowed retails at so cents
drink. Everything considered, though,
it is a very orderly place. The place
was about out of illuminating mate
rials when left, several mines having
shut down because no lights could be
obtained. I remained in Dawson City
six weeks, and the longer stayed the
more became convinced that there
was no show for me to strike any
thing.
son the 4th of December, in COM
pany with six other men, I started
back to the United States. We had
provisions enough of our own for the
trip. They were loaded on sleds and
drawn by dogs. The day we left the
thermometer registered co. below re
70. The Yukon was frozen, and we
followed it back to the lakes and cross
ed the Skaguay pass. We met two
parties on their way TO Dawson, two
men having 800 pounds of condensed
or evaporated eggs on sleds. The
surest way to make money up there
is to take provisions across the pass
before spring and boat them to Daw-
son City as soon as the ice begins to
move. Boats going down the Yukon
will get in three weeks before steam.
ers can get up the river, and, of course,
will find great demand for goods at
big prices"
Mr.. Young weighs so pounds less
than when he left Paris in August.
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attisfellansuus 8saaiug.
HIS ROUGH EXPERIENCE.
Congressman Bodine's Partner Shows the
Dark Side of the Klondike Picture.

Congressman Bodine's Partner Shows the
Dark Side of the Klondike Picture.
Special Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat.
PARIS, Mo-, February 3.-Hon. Geo.
w. Young, Congressman Bodine's law
partner, returned to Paris today, after
an absence of six months in Alaska.
On August 6 of last year he was grub
staked by a company of Paris capital
lists, composed of Hon. R. N. Bodine,
Dr.. F. NJ. Moss, Judge D. H. Moss and
H. G. Stavely, and started for Dawson
City to prospect for gold. His return
was entirely unexpected, no one know
ing he was on the way back until he
reached Seattle. Since his arrival in
Paris he has been besieged by pros
pective gold seekers, and the account
he gives of bis observations in the
Klondike has had tendency to chill
their ardor. To a Globe-Democrat
correspondent Mr.. Young said
sit took me nine weeks to make the
trip from Paris, Mo-, to Dawson City,
and if I live to be 100 years old, I will
never forget that journey. l went in
by the Skaguay trail. At that time it
was one struggling mass Of excited
gold seekers, and was strewn with
horses that had been killed, or aban-
doned. After a series Of hardships
that no man could describe I reached
the lakes and made the rest Of the
trip down the Yukon with compara-
tive ease. When l reached Dawson
City, in October, winter had already set
in fully and 1000 men had been forced
to leave for Fort Yukon by high prices
and scarcity of food. My brother,
whom l had expected 10 join, had
gone to Fort Yukon several weeks be-
fore, after locating and prospecting a
claim that proved to be worthless.
The stores had long before quit filling
orders for supplies, and I could not
have bought enough food for month,
even if 1 had begged for the privilege
on my knees. Flour was S12 per 100
pounds, beans IL cents pound, and
coffee, tea, bacon and other provisions
81 pound. The stores still had a
limited amount Of supplies, but were
holding them for those who had been
in the country all season, and who
were depending on them, and even
they could only get small amount
per week. A newcomer or tenderfoot
could not buy at any price. Wages
lad been cut from $3.50 an hour to 81
an hour and there was work for only
limited number. Many of the mines
were not in operation because of the
10 per cent. royalty the Canadian gov
ernment is exacting on the gold taken
out, the owner claiming that at the
present prices of supplies and labor
they cannot afford to operate their
mines and pay royalty.
81 remained in Dawson City six
weeks. I found that the richness of
the country had been terribly exagger-
ated, and that we had only heard of
the bright side of it. OF course there
are a few mines that are making i'm
mense yields, but there are also hum
dreds of claims on which men have
spent months of hard work and great
sums of money and have got nothing
in return. I know one man who
worked for weeks and weeks Shedding
80 cords of wood to his claim, and that
was worth a small fortune, and after a
season of hard work he was poorer
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-02-12
SICK HEADACHE.

Attacks of sick headache could Of
ten be avoided if the cause Of them
were known. In many instances the
cause is disordered condition of the
stomach. In such cases there is Of
ten a regular recurrence of the attacks,
the person in the meantime feeling
perfectly free from the complaint.
Here it will often be found that by
some error of the diet the patient is
gradually accumulating in his system
some noxious substances, which it
takes special effort of nature to throw
off. Then the whole internal machin-
cry refuses to do its ordinary work.
The stomach, the intestines, the liver
and other organs which produce
the digestive juices almost entirely
cease their regular task of rendering
the food taken into the mouth fit for
absorption into the system at large.
Sometimes habitual overeating will
produce this result. Or person who
has been constantly active may con-
tinue to eat his usual amount of food
after exchanging his occupation for
some more sedentary one. In either
case the result is the same; the over
burdened organs become partially par
alyzed, the undigested food acts as an
irritant, and headache and general dis
order in the digestive tract prevail.
A person who has no symptoms of
stomach disorder, or who has been
taught by his physician to avoid indis-
cretions which formerly resulted in
trouble, and who still has regularly
recurrent attacks of sick headache,
must look to some other than these,
the most common causes of such
attacks.
One not uncommon cause of sick
headache is irregularity of the cornea,
or some other eye arrangement. The
skillful oculist will be able to detect
any such irregularity, and to judge
whether or not it is sufficient to cause
the trouble.
A curious case of sick headache was
lately reported, in which the cause was
found to be the absorption of a certain
proportion of lead which was contain
ed in a kind of "composilion" hat
band. A change to a leather band
was followed by an entire cessation of
the symptoms.
Sick headache is very apt to occur
in school children in leaning forward
over books, from imperfect digestion,
or from too little exercise in the open
air, and not unfrequently from a COM
bination of these unhygienic condi-
tions. A child who suffers from sick
headaches should be promptly relieved
from such unwholesome Influences
Youths Companion.
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SMOKERS WHO NEED CHANGE.

Few Men Able to Continue Using the Same
Brand Of Tobacco.
A nervous man dashed into large
tobacco store down town the other
day and said to the proprietor:
"Look here, Billy, I've been buying
smoking tobacco from you for long
time, and no sooner do 1 find brand
that suits me than you begin to adul-
terate it, and it doesn't taste as it did.
This blank brand which l have been
smoking for four mouths now has gone
all to pieces. Iwant something new."
"Why not try the tobacco you liked
so we'll before you took up this brand ?"
asked the proprietor. ut has been
improved, and think that you will
enjoy it,"
The nervous man accepted it and
went out.
"He will come in in about three
days for another box of that tobacco,
and tell me that it is just what he has
been looking for" remarked the pro.
prietor to another customer. "He will
smoke it for three or four months, and
then be will complain bitterly that the
manufacturers are adulterating it with
cheap tobacco, and he will make a
change. Does the tobacco change ?
Why, yes, a very little bit, but not
enough for him to detect the differ
ence. 1t has happened that when he
complains the loudest about it the to.
bacco is the best. The explanation is
simple. He gets tired of brand in
about three months, and then it doesn't
taste right to him. That is true of
many smokers. To enjoy their tobac-
co they need change occasionally.
General Grant was the only hard
smoker l have ever known who didn't
require a change. He wanted good
cigars, and he wanted them strong.
He was not cranky about their shape
or make so long as they smoked easily.
have one customer-he is now near
ly 70 years old-who bought cigars
from me when I first began selling
them, and he buys nearly the same
brand. His taste in tobacco has not
changed, but he is an exception. 1t is
a fact, though few smokers realize it,
that man needs change in his tobac-
co just as much as in his food. No
man would enjoy the same dinner day
after day. Few men can smoke the
same brand of cigars or smoking to-
bacco month after month without hav-
ing it pail on their taste at times.
This man who was in here a moment
ago think that the tobacco itself
changes. He considers himself a
Judge, and I humor him by seeming
to agree with him and give him an
other brand when he complains" IN.
N. Sun. .
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NOT TO BLAME.-Sir Walter Trev-
elyan, who died in 1879 at the age of
80, had inherited an immense cellar of
wines, said to have been then the
rarest collection in the world. Soma
of the wines were bottled in 1852, and
others in 1777.
But the baronet was himself total
abstainer and bequeathed his wines to
Doctor Richardson, his colleague in
temperance agitation, to be "employed
for scientific purposes"
Sir Walters wife would have wine
on the dinner table. A visitor, after
glass of port from bottle bought by
the baronet's father in 1884, offered to
purchase the whole at guinea bot
tie.
"No, sir" said Sir Walter, 81 mean
to have the whole carried out some
day and emptied into the Wansbeek !"
One night Sir Walter had such
severe attack of gout that he was oo-
liged to ascend the stairs on his knees
-he was too self-reliant to permit
servant to carry him. A friend sug.
gested that he might console himself
by rejecting that he was not to blame.
"No!" he answered, "my father and
grandfather drank the port, and L
came in for the gout.'
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dark one. There was a moon, though
it's light was shrouded by the heavy
drifts of clouds which somewhat fit
full wind was driving across the sky.
Her blind was drawn up, according to
her custom, to catch the earliest morn
ing light, and now and again when her
eyes had grown accustomed to the dark
ness she could watch the flying clouds
as she lay with her face turned toward
the window.
It was while she was thus occu-
pied, having made another vain effort
to get to sleep, that she fancied she
could hear a noise, though whether it
was in her room or out in the corridor
or in the next room or outside she
could not say. Thinking that it might
be Lady Walcote moving, she listened
very intently.
What sbe heard next made her heart
beat quickly. She was a brave girl.
full of resource and daring at need, but
the noise she heard might have made a
man nervous.
1t came from outside in the night,
and it seemed that thieves were break
ing into the manor house. What she
heard was the sound Of a ladder being
placed close to her window. She heard
the end as it struck the wall and again
as it was moved into different posi-
tion.
She could think rapidly on occasion
and act as we'll. Now she jumped out
of bed, slipped OH some clothes and a
dark dressing gown and turned to alarm
the house.
But with her hand on the door she
paused, and, moving swiftly back across
the room to the window, she looked out
cautiously, keeping herself we'll out of
view.
Just as she reached the window the
head Of man who was creeping stealth
lily up the ladder reached the level of
the lowest pane Of glass, and, putting
his face to the glass and shading it with
his hand, he peered into the room.
Beryl saw the man and shrank back
shuddering and cold as she recognized
the handsome, cruel face of Pierre Tur-
rian.
Then in an instant the meaning Of 1t
all flashed upon her.
He had begged for the delay in order
that he might destroy the evidence Of
his villainy and murder her, the only
witness who knew of it.
To RE CONTINUED,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-02-12

Copyright, 1897, by the Author.
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS INsTALLMENTs.
In order that new readers of The En-
oUIRER may begin with the following in
stallment of this story, and understand it
Just the same as though they had read 1t
all from the beginning, we here give
SYNOPSIS of that portion of it which has
already been published:
Lola Turrian, whose father, an exile for
crime, is at the mercy of her husband,
goaded by Turrian, pushes him from the
DEVILS rock and supposes him to be dead.
Sir Jaffray Walcote, partly pledged to his
cousin, Beryl Leycester, proposes to Lola
and is finally accepted. Beryl, though
she loves Sir Jaffray, magnanimously ac-
ouiesces. Lola and Sir Jaffray are mar
ried and leave England. Turrian makes
his appearance at the home of Beryl Ley
cester and learns of Lola's marriage. Sir
Jaffray and Lola return to England,
where Lola meets Turrian and ignores the
fact that she is his wife, introducing him
to Sir Jaffray as musician from whom
she had taken lessons, but secretly grants
him an allowance. Turrian tells of a
friend who was pushed from the DEVILS
rock by his wife, and Beryl recognizes
those referred to.
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purpose or courage be lacking, and it
is time for the party to die.

purpose or courage be lacking, and it
is time for the party to die.
Take one of the great questions that
now divide public sentiment: the tar
iff, the silver question, the liquor traf-
6c, or any other. The party that
lodges the question simply tries to
catch votes by false pretences. If it
has no convictions upon public ques-
tions, its only object in the election is
to get the Offices, and that is not suf-
fcient reason for the existence of
party.
A party resolution which does not
speak out is a device to cheat voters
into thinking that the party, if it Sc
cures power, will do something which
it does not intend to do, or that it will
not do something which it does intend
TO do.
In politics, as in other relations of
life, candor and honesty deserve res
pect; evasion and prevarication de-
serve contempt.
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PARTY PLATFORMS.

Parties exist only to carry out GER
tain purposes in government. In
some countries the determination what
those purposes shall be is left more
or less to the great leaders. Lord
Salisbury, for example, on the one,
side, and Mr.. Gladstone on the other,
not only lead a body of followers in
carrying through plan, but conceive
the plan which is to be executed.
In this country a party draws up a
statement of its principles and pur-
poses, and this statement, adopted by
a convention representing the party,
is termed its "platform."
Our way is the better for Repubi-
can form of government, provided the
party has definite purpose, and has
courage enough to announce it. Let
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sg. There is still one state, Mississip-
pi. that does not observe Christmas
as legal holiday, and there is but
one day that is so recognized by all of
the states, and that is Sunday. The
Fourth of July is ignored as holiday
in the laws of Minnesota; and Ar
kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Min
nesota, New Hampshire and Rhode
Island do not recognize January l, as
a legal holiday. Memorial day is OBJ
served as such in "a states.
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s6r Barnham, when boy, went with
another schoolfellow into a Quaker
meeting where the congregation were
all sitting in dead silence. Holding
up a penny tart, he said, "Whoever
speaks first shall have this tart" $50
thou away, boy" said drab Quaker
gentleman, rising. $50 thou away,
Or" "The tart's yours I" cried the
boy, placing it before the astoDished
Quaker, and quitting the building.
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Of the day and evening. Lola and her
husband did not come back until close
to the dinner time, and thus be saw
nothing Of her.
Mrs. De Witt he met with an inde-
scribable air Of repentance mingled
with pleasure that he had been led on
to such pitch of audacity, and she
was fooled by his manner till she for
gave him.
"If you do not forgive me, I shall
leave the manor tomorrow morning, 1"
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LOLA CRAWSHAY.
BY A. w. MARCHMONT, B. A.

Author Hoadeys Secret "The Mystery Of Mormoe Strange
"By Hand ?" and "The Old Mill Mystery"
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1898-08-18
Died.

Miss Hildegarde Duggan, daughter
of Col. and Mrs. A. W. Duggan of
Canon City, Colorado, died this mern-
ing at the residence of her uncle, P.
W. Duggan, two miles east of Neo-
desha, aged Is years and Z months,
Deceased was born in Leadville, Colo
RADIO She was taken i'll last March
at her home in Canon City and her
father brought her to this place
thinking the climate here would bene-
fit her. She was afflicted with rheu-
matism of the heart. Col. Duggan
was obliged to return to Colorado,
but Mrs. Duggan, her mother, arrived
here about two weeks ago and re-
manned by her daughters bedside until
death came. The funeral will occur
tomorrow at 10 a. m, with services
in the Catholic church and burial in
the Neodesha cemetery.-Neodesha
(Kansas) Derrick.
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rnIBurE no xns. snAErrEs.

She has passed on to the spirit life
where sorrow and care NO more Is rife;
Sad and lonely IL the apirit home,
For the guardian spirit onward has dovn.
From the fount OF heavenly biessings
shs has connod sweet. earnest lsssons.
Gaining knowlsdEs for diffussion lent.
Divide. with her. was heavens nrsf bent.
She has left to ell. q boon most rare.
For Christian grace was her constant care.
Her candle ne'er under cloud coucealed,
But her light shown in perpetual zeal.
Upon whom shall her mantle faIlf
Who'll taks her work by the Masters calf
The cup OF cold water" so sweetly offered.
Nusf be born By another and kindi y pronered
To count her virtues. words are suaiss,
Her deeds of mercy the poor will misc;
Her wisdom aud counciiths rich will regret
And all the ministers, thsy'li ns'sr forget.
For husband and children we breath prayer
That they may be blessed BY that
empty chair
That shs by whose presence home was SO
blessed,
Nay ever be present in the spirita behest.
We will not recall her to labor again
well done" echoes back a. the angels
refrain.
Tho science she taught was kindly light
And upheld many hearth by Its God given
sight
Adieu. dear sister. We weep not for thee,
But for those who are left In iife's mystery
You Will wait for Us all At the ''peariy gates
While you watt back to us good thoughts
have weight
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And the Shoe Sale Continues

l60 acres, beginning about where Geo.
Bakers residence stands, Ninth and
Main, and extending north and east.
Taking his filing to the county clerks
Office fee of S2.75 was asked which
he considered more than the land was
worth. Considering that this same
land is now held as high as $1,000 a
lot (44xl20 feet, it is easy to see
where Mr.. Mcclure might have made
a "speck." 1t also shows something
of the changes that have taken place
since the early sixties. One not IA
miliar with Colorado soils could
scarcely imagine that less than thirty
years ago land that is now supplying
the markets of the world with cele-
brated Colorado fruits was considered
practically worthless Such is the
case, however, as is abundantly Illus
trated here in this fertile valley Of
the AIkaQSdS.
During the panic just reaching an
end w. H. Mcclure & Co. have
carried 1000 acres of land here, be-
sides S33, ,000 invested in Salt Lake
realty, have, with the assistance of s.
H. Atwater, plowed and fenced 400
to GOO acres, built Sc houses, and
have constructed II miles of irrigat-
ing ditch and seven storage reser-
voirs- They have since the compile
tion of the ditch sold over $4,000
worth of their own land.
Mr.. Mcclure, it will be observed,
has seen Canon City grow from .
shaniy town semi-annually deserted,
to staid city of modern business
blocks and costly residences, and has
had much to do with the transforma-
ton.