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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1899-02-22
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Generals Discharged.

Washington, d. c., Feb. 10.
The war department today
honorsbly discharged Major Gen
erals Butler and Sumner and
brlgsdier Generals Kline, Nc
Bee, Wiley, Lincoln and Combs,
all of the volunteer army.
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HONOR OF TIE PALMETTO.
The Tree to be Taken From
DiSponSary Bottles.
BIG BONDS WANTED.
Board of Control Must Gisa Se>
curity--Bser Privilege Repeal
Bill Stands Rivals for
Western Union
Lines Encour-
aged.
BIG BONDS WANTED.
Social to GreenvilIe News.

y.
Columbia, S. c., Feb. 17.-The
night vas renewed today on Jack
aon's bill to prevent the use Of
the palmetto trse on bottles and
labels, except the stock ON hand
Mr. jackson said he did it out of
respect to the Confederate .nd
Mexican soldiers. Messrs. Bell.
hiird and NcGiIl opposed what
they termed the sickIy sentiment,
aIity in this matter and said tho
discussion WAS wasting time over
useless matter.
III II Evans said he was moved
to deep Indignation whom he saw
y soldier lying in tho gutter drunk
with bottle sticking out of his
pocket upon which the palmetto
tree was the most prominent obs
Ject to he seen. Therefore the
palmetto tree ought to bs wiped
of those bottles, he SAID.
motion to recommit the bill
was lost by SO to 81. but an
amendment was adopted which
allowed bottles now in use to be
continued until they are all used
up and the bill wa. passed.
The senate bill requiring mem
osrS of the State board of control
to give bond made a big fight.
The bill required bond of
$50, 600 for each member and ,
proVlslon required that the pre-
mlums to the surety or guarantee
company should be paid out of
tne dI'ponsary profits and should
he charged to expanse account
lhe house voted against the Ia ter
provision and required the mem.
bers to pay for their own bonds
On motion of Sawyer tho bond
WAS fixed at $4,000. Mr. Ste-
Venson offered an amendment that
the commissioner give the same
bond rs the State treasurers. the
bond to 10 approved As his is
lhe treasurer's 5oad is $50, 600.
Mr. Sharpe offered an amend ,
ment that the bond be $50. 600.
Agreed to, and the bill was psss-
ed.
1T the opening Of tho session
Mr. BIease attempted to have fh.
beer privilege matter rccommit-
led. He desired that it he con.
sldored distinct from the hotel
business. The house
refused to recommit
Mr. Cosgrove moved that aII
speeches hereafter be limited to
five minutes.
Mr BIeaso wanted indefinite de>
bate on the archer bill. On mo.
tion of Mr. Wings this was tabled,
and all debate will be limited.
The South Carolina & Gsorpi.
extension railroad bill was passed
after several amendments hat bean
adopted. 1t was decided to tax.
up only senate bills for tho rs,t
Of the session.
The hospital for the insane va.
the use of convicts.
Mr. Bacon stated that pstis,t.
were coming in at the rate of forty
a month and more room was nssd. |
cd.
Inc senate passed tho greater
part OF the day in considerin o the
fertilizer tax bill from the bou..
Ihat turned all the proceeds of
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Facts and Figures Gathered bv
Government Officials.

Washington, Feb. IG.-Undcr
the supervision of the statistician.
Hyde, of the department Of agri>
culture, the cost of growing cot
ton has been investigated and the
results of the investigation are to
be published within few DAYS in
pamphlet. This report will
show thst the average cost Of pro-
ducIng an acre of upland cotton
in 1895 was $I5.42, sui. divided
into the following items:
Rent $2.SS, plowing S2.s1,
seed 2lc., planting seed 2Sc. =,
fertilizers S1.4O, Distributing fer
tlIizers 1Gc., chopping and hooIng
fl.31, picking 1897, ginning and
pressing SL.O2, repairing impls
msnts 4oc., all other expenses
4lc.
1t WAS ascertainsd that the
pounds Of lint produced per acre
were 1856, sold for &c. per
pound; bushels of seed produced
10, price per bushel 11.9c. The
total return to the planter was
$l9.03 which gave him anet
profit of So 81 per acre. The
cost of picking cotton per hupdre d
pounds WAS 44c., while the cost
OF producing the lint per pound
was 5.27 cents. Several thou>
sand cotton planters contributed
to these statistics and of the entire
number represented 20 per cent.
reported a loss, largely due to
deficient production, owing to
drought or other causes.
The sea island cotton costs sol
95 per acre, or an average Of II.
59c. per pound aad the total re-
turn for lint and seed of sea island
cotton WAS SOS, ,G5. which ravc
the planter a net profit of sc. 20
per acre.
The planters that report a pro-
mt IN the raisin. Of upland cotton
produced 1853 pounds per acre,
while those that reported loss
produced only 1T6 pounds.
The effect of the use of fertiIi
zors in the raising of cotton is
very distinctly disclosed, and the
genera result is that, in propor-
ton as the quantity Of fertilizers
uaed increased, the profit OF rails
ing cotton per acre also increas-
ed.
1t has bsen discovered in this
investigation shat cotton /. pro-
duccd to a limited extent, butat
a nigh ratio Of profit, by means of
irrigation in Western Texas and
the southwestern part of Utah.
In Texas irrigation had ths effect
Of producing 5I2.4 pounds of lint
per acre, which is 29O.% pound,
greater than the average for the
whole State. For 1896 many
special inquiries wore made by a
former statistician of the depart-
mont and the estimated cost of
producing lint cotton per pound,
IN gold, was S.32 cents. One of
the remarkable revelations is the
comparative cost Of marketing
cotton in 1910 and in 1897. The
comparison is ilsmized and shows
that in 1910 it cost S1S.15 TO
market a bale of cotton from Ala
bama to Liverpool, while in 1897
this cost was $3.50.
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High Wind at Seneca.

Seneca, S. c., Feb. 16.-A
heavy wind storm passed over
this town this morning at :
O'Clock. The Ksowes hotel was
unroofed and telephone linss wsro
blown down.
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A bill wns passed in the L. 5.
Senate Wednesday extending the
Appreciation of Congress to Hiss
Helen Could Tor hor patriotic
service during the late var. 4
gold medal wiz he pres .u'ol her
by the President.
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CLEN ELAND, BRYAN, CAR.
NEGIE.
The Three Anti Expansionists
Send Their Views to the People.

The Atlanta journal publishes
viows Of ex>President Cleveland,
Hon. W. j. Bryan and Mr.. An
drew Carnegie on the Philippine
question.
Mr. Cleveland said:
"Jf there is anything that can
arrest the attention or challenge
the thought Of our peopl. in their
mad rush towards yauning disas
ter, it is more likely to be tn,
earnest, well-informed and pstri
otto warnings of the decent pres,
than anything else"
MIR. Bryan says:
"I have confidence that the
American people, whsn they have
chance to speak, will reject I'm
perialism and militurism, and res
main true to the doctrine Of self
government"
Mr.. Carnegie says:
"Ths influence of 4 suuario,
race upon an inferior in tn
tropics is injurious, demoralizin
and never slevsting. Imperialism
is the craze of the hour. ThorougN
AmerlcaDlsm, such as the soutl,
now stands for, iS for all time
congratulate the south upon il
adherence to the principles o
Washington and jefferson, vhic!
are bound to prevail"
W n Williams, an old nerr,
convicted in Clarendon county q,
receiving stolen goods and sen
fenced to one year on the chain
gang, has been pardoned bv tn,
Governor, having served Just fou
months of his sentence.
The house of representative
doesn't like tho shame of South
carolina putting her paImctl,
token on ~hiskey TASKS, but i,
do"sa t mind the shame of set
ting the State herself up as -
barmsld, to fill and hand out the
haSks. Is the emblem Of the
state more sacred than the State
ltseIf!-Ths State.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-05-05

There can be no doubt that the action
of the Board of Aldermen last night in
giving the Portland Electric Light COM
pany permission to operate in this city
will be gratifying to the great majority of
the people. The petition presented to the
aldermen on Wednesday disclosed that
public sentiment was overwhelmingly in
favor of granting the request, and the
seven aldermen who voted yes last night
correctly reflected it. 1t was declared by
counsel at the hearing that the electric
lighting business was not one which ad-
mitted of competition. or that competition
would not be productive of good results to
the people, but we think experience will
prove otherwise. Indeed in the Deering
district it has already been demonstrated
that competition has as powerful an
effect in reducing the rates of electric
lights, as it does in reducing the price Of
any other Of the neoessaries
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there, but they are free TO attend ns&
other place OF worship designated by their
parents Nor IL the school "hnn.,l.
capped" In any way Whatever liz "a
nearing the completion Of its ilrst year
since the reopening, In which IL has
made good record for itself and paid ira
own expenses entirely from Its Income
And has been asked from the parishes of
Maine oward the expense of retltting n
at the start, but Us no one from the R,v.
MIR. Shepherds parish has contributed
one cent toward that object. 1t is hardly
fitting in bin to belittie the success of a
S ihool which has been put in operation
through the labor and generosity Of Others
As for St. Marks church, i beg 60 say
that 1t is not preparing TO Introduce
any other ritual than has been followed
in the parish for many years. Ii is the
ritusl of the Prayer BOOK, with cai eful
attention to all rubrics and require
ments of said book, and In that respe
only does 1t differ from tie ritual followed
at st Paul's church.
Mr.. Shepherds only acquaintance with
the services as st. Marks church was
gained FROM n recent visit there, when he
came to beg money to help pay the cur
rent expenses of his own parish, and met
with a generous response Under the cir.
ou,nstances 1t would hardly se9m to have
been in good taste, to say the least, for
MIR. Shepherd to make this vicious snap
at the hakd that fed him.
Yours truly,
GEORGE FREDERIC DEGEN.
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AR Dor DAY.

again call attention to the importance
of planting trees and shrubs about our
homes. 1t adds to their comfort, renders
them more beautiful, is ever an indica-
ton of refinement and culture, and the
days work we'll done will merit and
receive the grateful commentator of
those who succeed us.
also recommend that the day be
especially observed by our schools
throughout the State, to the end that the
best results may be secured.
GIVEN at the Executive Chamber, in
Augusta, this twentieth day of April,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-nine, and
of the Independence of the United
States of America the one hundred
and twenty-third.
LLEWELLYN POWERS.
BY the Governor,
BYRON BOYD, Secretary of State.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-05-05

The people of Hallowell propose to
have an old fashioned neighborhood reun.
ion on June 2s in the city's new city
building, which is the gift of the late
Mrs. Eliza Lowell. Among the distin-
guished sons of Hallowell who are ex-
pected to return are Gen. Thomas H..
Hubbard of New York and Prof. Charles
H. Richardson of Harvard college. In
the arrangements the ladies Of the city
are very prominent. as is in evidence in
the list of the committee on arrange.
ments: Miss Elizabeth G. Otis, president
Mrs. Frank Russell aud Mrs. Beeman,
vice presidents; Miss Clara Stinson,
secretary; Miss Annie F. Page, financial
secretary; James Lunt, treasurer; Miss
Emmn French, G. A. Stafford, 5. +.
Davenport, S. G. Otis, W. II. Perry,
George II. Willis, Benjamin Tenny, g.
H. Seavy and j. Clary, executive com.
mittee.
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Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion OF tne ear, dhere IS only one
tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in-
famed condition of the mucous lining OF the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed
ing and when ii is entirely closed deafness Is
the result and unless the Inflammation can be
taken Out and this tube restored to its normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed forever
nine cases out OF ten are caused by catarfh.
which is nothing but an iniiamed condition of
the mucous surfaces.
We viii give one hundred Dollars for any
case OF Deafness (eaused by catarrh) that can
not he cured by Hairs Catarrh Cure. Send for
circulars, free
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Halls Family Pills are The best
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We fail to see how the Democrats are to
keep anti-imperialism or anti-expansion
to the front with Bryan as their leader.
10 be sure Bryan is talking now against
empire and all that sort of thing, but he
Is the same Bryan who advised the Demo-
Gratis of the Senate to ratify the treaty
without amendment or reservation
which put US in possession of the Philip
pines and imposed upon us those obliga-
tions which we have been trying to dis.
charge ever since. and which are at the
root of our troubles. Bryan as an
anti -imperialist champion would be con-
tinually running up against this own
advice, the following of which made I'm
perialism possible If not absolutely neces
sary.
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PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

E. A. Darling has been elected presi-
dent of the American Jersey Cattle Club.
Miss Julia Dent Grant, daughter Of
Gen. Fred d. Grant. and granddaughter
of the late President Grant, is engaged
to Pvince Michael Cantacuxine, of the
Russian Imperial Guard.
The president has appointed Herbert
W. Bowen of New York as minister to
Persia. MIR. Bowen was consul general
at Barcelona before the Spanish war
broke out.
The Military Order of the Loyal Legion
OF the United States has elected Rear
Admiral Schley commander, and
dropped from the rolls General Eagan,
the notorious commissary general, who is
now suspended with full pay.
martina l.. Vinal, who conducts a
periodical store, has been refused admis-
sion to the Somerville (Mass,). Board of
Trade, on the ground that women, while
highly praiseworthy persons, are not ad-
missible to boards of trade.
Mr.. Stanton Sickles of New York has
been appointed secretary of the U. S.
legation at Madrid, and will join Mr..
Bellsmy Storer at that place as soon as
the legation is reopf ned. Mr.. Sickies is
a son of Gen. Daniel Sickles, formerly a
minister to Spain,
The win OF the late Col. Charles A. Sin
clair of Portsmouth has been admitted
to probate. One hundred thousand dol
lars is left in trust to his widow, and
$200, 900 in trust for his daughters. The
only public bequest is $4,000 to the Nj.
E church of Rathlpham N H. in memo
~ of his mother
I Mrs. Schuyler Hamilton, Jr., of the
famous New York family, met death in a
peculiar manner ON Wednesday. She had
On uncomfortable fear of tempests, and
when onelbroke over the city Tuesday
night, she went into dark closet and
remained there until 1t had passed. She
was in an excited condition, and 1t is
surmised she took an overdose of NOR
phine tojquiet her nerves after the fright
accustomed by the storm.
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MAINE NEWS NOTES

The grist mill of Arthur ID. Brown of
East Wilton was burned Wednesday with
the contents
Senator Louis l.. Stearns Is to be the
orat or of the day at an immense Fourth
of July celebratioan tbas Is to be held 10
Patten.
Hon. S. W. Matthews has accepted an
Invitation to the q. A. X. at Canton, to
deliver the Memorial address in that
town.
The mayor and aldermen of Lewiston
have elected aohn 4. McGillicuddy liquor
agent for the coming year to succeed
James o. Niokerson. Is
The framing Of the monitor Connecticut
at the Bath iron works has begun, and
the yellow pine planking Is being put on
the practice ship for the Annapolis
cadets.
The many friends of Mrs. Richard ].
Marr OF Lewiston, are seriously alarmed
about her mysterious disappearance. She
made a complaint about her husbands
assaulting her, and then she disappeared.
The Central Congregational society
of Bath has voted to extend call to Rev.
David Yale of Andover, Mass. Mrs. Yale
has preached five years ct Ellsworth. Me-,
but has not as yet accepted the call, al
though it is believed that he will DO SO.
Gardiner q. Deering, OF Bath, has
named his big five -masted schooner which
Is to be launched next Tuesday, the
Henry o. Barrett. She Is 227 feet keel,
A feet beam and % feet deep. Capt.
Davis of the David P. Davis is to COM
mand her.
Rev. J. 4. Sawyer of Syracuse, N. T.,
will deliver the grafton in Searsport Me-
mortal day; Forrest Goodwin of Skowhe-
gan, In Fairfield; Hubert Saunders. Esq,
in Fast Machias: Rev. David Boyd of
Presque Isle in Mapleton, and Henry
Hyde of Somersworth, N. H., in South
Berwick.
The memorial addresses on the life and
character of Nelson Dingley. Jr., that
were delivered in joint session OF the
Legislature F,b. IS 500 are out In bound
form. In the front of the book is fine
half-to engraving of the late congress.
man.
Mrs. DR.. s. NJ. Imam of Cherryfeld
has received the news that the body of
her brother, Frank Noggles was found
near Grand Rapids, Mich, his jaw
broken, throat cut and skull badly
wounded. A man known as Frank Fer
guson has been arrested on suspicion.
Will Messer. of Augusta, was awakened
the other night by alarming noises in his
hen house. He hastily went out and
fou nd four rats shaking hen as dog
shakes IA rat He killed the rats but the
hen is very lame. it was bitten in the
throat and legs, and it is doubtful II it
RECEIVERS from the fight
Discoveries of gold in the district OF
Cooper, few miles from Calais, the
latest assays of which showed value of
SIS per ton. practically surfaces digging,
andthe leasing or purchase of the land on
which the precious metal was found, by
w. l., Eaton of Calais, who now has
force of m en- boring with steam drill,
10 appouucad
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and the newspapers all over the country,
those that denounoe them as treason
able. just as much as those that regard
them as perfectly proper-srs publishing
cop:ous extracts from, their news
Instinct getting very much the better OF
their patriotism. So 1t is coming about
that within few days almost everybody
will know everything about the Hell Of
War" as set forth by MIR. Atkinson and
the danger to our troops in the Philip.
pines, and the chances aro that many Of
the newspapers with these extracts will
go to the soldiers In Luzon and thereby
the latter get Knowledge of Mr.. Atkin-
sons pamphlets which they never could
have got In any other way. Furthermore,
the branding of his pamphlets as sedi-
tious or inoendiary is likely to confer
upon them an Importance which they
would never have got on the strength of
their own merits.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-05-05

We have no doubt that Senator Depew
is right when he says both parties Will
declare against trusts In their next nat
ional conventions. The fact is that the
trusts have become too obnoxious to the
people for any party to attempt to support
them or apologize for them. To do so
would be committing political suicide.
The question of the trusts is not a par
tisan one and cannot be made such. Each
political party would abolish them, If
they could only find a legal way to do it,
But right here is the difficulty. We
have had legislation against them in
abundance from Republicans and Demo.
Gratis. yet as a rule it has either failed to
hit them or has not hit hard
enough to do them much harm. Tbs
trusts have fiourisbed equally well under
Democratic and Republican administra-
tions, and growing adverse public SEN
timent has, apparently, had no effect to
check their development. That they con-
stitute. a serious menace cannot be
doubted. The charge that they raise
prices is true doubtless in some cases, and
untrue in others. But this Is not the seri-
Gus Indictment against them. That Is
that they tend by their vast aocumula-
tions of capital and the power which flows
from them, to deprive men Of opportuni-
ties of gaining livelihood except in the
capacity of servants. Small stores, small
mills and factories. small establishments
of all sorts are crushed out by them, and
industry and business are dominated by
an oligarchy bent entirely upon Its own
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. The concentration of
mercantile and industrial power in II few
hands is quite as dangerous as the con-
oentration of political power and te-
sides the latter easily flows from the
former
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MR.. SHEPHERDS SERMON-A RE-
PLY.
To the Editor Of the Press:

To the Editor Of the Press:
My attention has been called to SER
mon preached by the Rev. j. B. Shepherd
of this city and reported in your columns
last Monday. am not inters sted to
reply TO Mr.. Shepherds contentious ex-
cept with reference to one paragraph. He
says, "St Catharines Hall has been re-
opened, but it is handicapped at the start
because the parish church where its
students are expected to worship is pre-
pairing to introduce an extreme ritual.
10 serve the Episcopal church with a
ritual which suggests the livery of Rome
is not only to ALLEVIATE the great body of
our people, but also to arouse the hostility
of the Protestant population of Maine"
AS am rector of the parish church in
question and also the business manager of
st. Catharine's Hall, l wish to denounce
this paragraph as Islander. In the first
place, the pupils of St. Catharine's Hall
are not compelled to attend the Episcopal
church. Seats are provided for them