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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1900-02-03
Douthit Resigns as Comm ;ssioner
The State, 1st inst.

The State, 1st inst.
And now comes State Liquor
Commissioner j b Douthit aud
resigns, his resignation almost im-
mediately following the action of
the State senate in confirming bis
election to the position by vote
Of 10 to 16. Mr. Douthit sets
forth his reasons for his resigna,
tion iu the following letter to the
state board of control, which has
been sent to the clerk Of the
board:
To the Honorable State Board of
Control:
l hereby tender my resignation
of the office of state commissioner,
and ask shat it be accepted at
yo' IT next meeting. 1 beg to
sly that my resignation would
have been handed you us soon as
| was vindicated by your board
but for the request of some of
your members that | continue
until your meeting in January.
At that time | reluctantly con-
sented to continue until your
February meeting, but nv pri>
vate affairs demand my attention
and | now ask that YOU accept my
resignation
Since my vindication by the
senate | cannot consent to serve
you longer, as YOU know have
only fought for personal vindica-
ton, and my resignation has been
at your command ever since my
vindication bv you.
And since my confirmation bv
the senate | now consider it com
plete and insist on retiring. |
would have made this insistance
sooner but for the fact owing to
the uncertainty as to the action of
the general assembly you could
not sooner supply my place with
competent man. j B Douthit.
Now that MIR Douthit has re.
signed and has intimated that he
does not care for the position any
longer, there is much speculation
as to who will he in the race for
the position. Several have been
talked OF already in conuectiun
with the place in view Of the in
dications that the general assemb
ly would elect commissioner,
but no one lis as yet An avowed
candidate.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1900-02-03
Burned to Death.
Special to Greenville News.

Special to Greenvile News.
Charleston, Feb Miss Ellen
Barker, "a Yeas of age, was
burned to death at the residence
OF her nephew, Maj. Theodore
G Barker of this city, shortly
after 9 o'clock this morning Miss
Barker was standing before the
fire when wrapper, which she
wore, caught. When assistance
reached her she was UNCONSCIOUS
and soon died from the effects of
her injuries.
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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1900-02-03
NON Ely TO Loan.

n HA VIE NJ : DE arraugemen with
Il brokers in New York iry through
whom IN. able to pace loans seCur-
exs by first m0rtgag" on improved
@T ns for five year, time payab in
h,- lime ts. at The low rate 81 per
4Rnt Interest per anuum. The broker
age 4AD Ibe charge for abstract and
anspeetion are small and at the ex-
sense of the borrower
r. f WYLIE.
Atty at Law.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-01-03

1t is an interesting fact that when
the dahlia was introduced into Europe
1t was not as flower that il was
valued. but as vegetable. The plant
Is said to be really akin to the potato,
and ii was thought that it would prove
an important addition to our food re
sources. The single variety seems to
have been imported first. the Marchion-
ess of Butte having introduced 1t about
100 years ago. 1t came to us from
Madrid, the Spaniards having, it is be-
lieved. found 1t first in Mexico. and it
was introduced into France as well as
England.
A few daring Adventures appear to
have made trial of 1t as an edible root.
but 1t Is never an easy matter to popu-
larize a new article of food, and the
tuber of the dahlia did not take on. IL
1t had done so, the probability is that
we should never have troubled much
abou its cultivation as flower. We
never do grow things for fruit and
flower. too. and IL we had sacks OF
dahlia bulbs in Covent Garden we
should have had no dahlia show at the
Crystal Palace.-London Correspond
ence
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-01-03

There is story going about concern
ing a famous man of letters who Wis
tied Washington recently He appear
ed at but one dinner party. There
he sat next the young daughter of a
noted naval officer. Her vocabulary
is OF n kind peculiar to very young
girls. but she ratified away at the ia
nous man without moments respite.
1t was during n pause in the general
conversation that she said to him:
I'm awfully stuck on Shakespeare.
Don't you think he's terribly interest
ingT'
Every body listened to hear the great
mans brilliant reply, for as a Shakes
pearean scholar he has few peers.
Yes" he said solemnly, Il do think
he is interesting | think he is more
than that. | think Shakespeare is just
simply too cute for anything. Wash
ington Post.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-01-03
The Most Ancient Machine Tool.


There can be very little doubt that
the potter's wheel, or potter's lathe, as
1t Is also termed. represents today the
most ancient form of machine tool
known. Among the many sculptured
records of the trades and occupations
which so wildly represent the customs
and habits of the ancient Egyptians
the potter and his wheel have been
found frequently depicted, and 1t Is
curious to note that through the al
most countless generations since that
time this crude type of lathe has under
gone no material modification.
The primitive form was evidently a
small, round table set on a pivot and
free to revolve, being turned by hand
at intervals, and to this device there
were added In the course of time such
simple conyeniences as table to sup
port 1t and foot or a hand power turn
Ing arrangement, displaced In recent
years In possibly few isolated cases
by actual engine power driving. In
general use however, the potter's
wheel of the present time bears all the
characteristics of the one which, 1000
years or more ago, served to turn out
pottery attestng indispensable taste
and skill.-Cassiers Magazine.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-01-03
BREAD FOR HORSE FOOD.
Liverymen in New York Find 1t Eco.
nomical and Nourishinp,

Liverymen in New York Find 1t Eco
nomical and Nonrishing.
A delivery wagon of one of the big
breadbaking factories of York vile stop
ped In front of an uptown livery and
boarding stable yesterday morning and
two men at once unloaded barrels Of
bread and carried them into the stable,
The bread looked good and was good.
There were all sorts and sizes of loayes
In the homemade" rye
Vienna" potato" graham" and cot
tage"
The curiosity of man who saw the
bread being delivered to the stable was
aroused and he ventured to ask the
proprietor of the stable what 1t ment.
There's nothing remarkable about
it." said the proprietor, with laugh.
Il simply buy it for horse feed. We
grind the bread up and mix it with
other feed and it makes first -class food
for horses. 1t is stale bread and costs
us 40 cents barrel and there are fifty
or sixty loaves to the barrel, so you see
1t comes pretty cheap. Some of the
bread Is only day old and is good
enough for any man to eat, but the
bread factories cannot sell it. What
you see here are returned loaves from
the groceries.-New York Press.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-01-03

A local sportsman. who has the repu-
tation of being very bad shot, recent
ly invited some of his friends to dine
with him. Before dinner he showed
them a target painted on the barn door,
with bullet in the bullseye. This he
claimed to have shot at 1000 yards
distance. As nobody believed him, he
offered to bet the price of an oyster
supper on It,
On one of his guests accepting the
wager. he produced two witnesses.
whose yeracity could not be ques-
toned, TO prove his assertion. As they
both said that he had done what he
claimed he won the bet. At dinner
the loser of the wager asked how his
host had managed to fire such an ex-
cellent shot. The host answered, 81
shot the bullet at the door at distance
of 1000 yards and then | painted the
target around t."-Cincinnat En-
Quirer.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-01-03
REARING THE CHILD.
Study Carefully It's Natural Growth,
and Nourish That.

Study Carefully It's Natural Growth,
and Nourish That.
In trying to understand child-life
make two mental pictures" advises
Barbetta Brown in the Ladies' Home
Journal In one, draw in the child as
a block of marble, with mother. grand
mother, teacher working away dog
gedly, relentlessly; chiseling, hammer
ing, pounding II into what they are
pleased to consider its proper shape.
In the other, draw the child as a plant.
with roots firmly set in the soil of cir
cumstance, with peculiar tendencies of
its own toward growth, naturally. glad
ly reaching outward and upward TO
what was meant TO he its blossoming
Then tell me which picture appeals to
you as more nearly approaching truth.
| have faith enough in human under
standing to believe that none will choose
the first, but all the last. TO hang In their
gallery of ideas. How much simpler
the beautiful growing process than the
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-01-03
Ground Floor Bedrooms.

There is danger in the porous charac-
ter of plaster ceilings, which are
often very thin indeed The ordinary
ceiling Is 'only a porous diaphragm
permeable by gases with considerable
freedom" The vitiated air Of sitting
rooms therefore frequently finds it's
way through into bedrooms. The Brit
ish Medical Journal asks any skeptic
to compare his bodily and mental SEN
sations after sleeping in such n room
and in one situated over similar room
well ventilated and not occupied or
Illuminated by gas during the even
ing" The remedy, it says. is to have
bedrooms on the ground floor and liv-
ing. working and cooking rooms up
stairs. But how about noise ?-London
Chronicle.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-01-03

heart was laid to rest recently at Plain
field. N. J. He was Rev. Robert Lowry.
a prominent Baptist preacher. Dr.
Lowry was for years pastor of churches
In New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City and
other places and was at one time pro-
fessor of rhetoric in Lewisburg Univer-
slty. he wrote many hymns, among
them, beside the one already alluded to.
being Where Is My Wandering Boy
Tonight" "One More Days Work for
Jesus" and Marching On"
shall We Gather at the River" like
so many other gems of thought, was
written on an inspiration of the mo-
ment. On one very warm summer day
IA 1864 Mr.. Lowry was seated in his
parlor in Brooklyn mourning the loss of
several near and dear friends and many
acquaintances taken away by an cpl
demic that was then sweeping through
the city. All around him were signs Of
sorrow. Grape was on the doors of
many houses: the signs OF mourning
were on the dress of the people; gloom
of sadness had been cast over all. Ey-
erywhere there was death. And across
the mind of the pastor came the
thought, "Shall we all meet again; we
who have known and loved one another
here OIL earth-shall we meet in the
hereafter?"
Seating myself at the organ" said
Dr. Lowry one time in speaking of the
occasion, simply to give vent to the
pent-up emotions of the heart, the
words and music OF the hymn began to
flow out"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-01-03

1t was a Maine graveyard, and the
fence thereof was in a most disreputa-
BILE condition.
Some of the neighbors were trying to
start movement to put a new fence
around the cemetery, and it was meet
ing with general approval till the caus-
tic wit of Darius Howard was aroused.
what for?" he inquired. whats
the need of fencing the graveyard
There Amt no one inside that wants to
come out. and Pm darn sure there amt
any one outside that wants to get in.
So what's the need of the fence?"
And the fence was not built till folk
had ceased to chuckle over the thrust
OF Darius. Lewiston Journal.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-01-03
GOLD BUG FROM kLONDIkE.
Has Yellow Prongs that Tell Where
to Find the Metal.

mas fellow Prongs that Tell Where
to Find the Metal.
In the window Of shop on one of the
main business streets of Seattle is a
glass jar Of alcohol containing a rare
bug. Crowds jostle each other all day
to look at 1t. The label on the bottle
says only "Klondike Gold Bug" All
over the creatures body are little
prongs tipped with very pale yellow,
almost white.
However, the more superstitious of
the returning miners believe that the
gold bug has a mysterious liking for
the yellow metal and knows how to find
1t. This Is the story returned miner
tells:
Nav, | didn't have much t first.
Anyways, l got er poke of gold by long
work an hid it In the dirt floor o. nv
shack. Next spring panned and pan
ned, an didn't have no luck. But one
day noticed bug crawling over the
ground toward the middle of the shack
KEEP ketchin' him, an pretty soon he
started to dig right down toward where
had my poke buried.
so puts the bug ON the table while
buried the sack in another place. Then
| put the bug down. Well, the critter
seemed to sniff around, and then he
started to dig, by jinks, right down
where | had the sack. thought Pd
struck it at last. 1t nearly made me
crazy to think that my luck had chang
ed and had bug as good as Aladdin's
lamp. l didn't sleep any that night.
| waited till the sun rose, about 3
O'Clock in the morning, watching NV
bug so he couldn't get away, and then
started out with him. put him down
near where had been digging.
That bug crawled around for hours.
and was thinking myself fool, when
| noticed him changing his tactics. All
at once he started to dig. got shovel
and started after the bug. | dug all
that day, and along about 0 o'clock at
night saw something yaller. BY gosh.
II was a nugget big as hens egg.
amt going to tell you anything more,
but I've just been TO the assay Office.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-01-03
TWO MEAN TOWNS.
The storie. That the Travelling Men
Told About Them.


They were talking about bad towns.
"The meanest place ever was in"
said the man who travels for n Chicago
house. "is down In Massachusetts Say
do you know what happened while
was stopping there once? A man had
fallen through hole in sidewalk and
sustained injuries that resulted in the
loss of his right arm. He sued the city
for damages. and the case was tried
before jury, which, the papers said
was composed Of representative citi-
zens. Well. what do you suppose they
did to him? Brought in n verdict in
favor of the city, holding that inas-
much as he was left handed his injury
didn't amount TO anything
EYES," the cigar man said, that's a
pretty mean town. admit. but | know
OF worse one. This place is I'm Penn
sylvania. An acquaintance of mine
down there was injured some time ago
In pretty much the same way the man
you mentioned got hurt He fell on a
bad sidewalk and lost one of his legs.
He sued the city, and didn't get any
thing. | never heard just why, but
probably because the jurors didn't be-
lleve he needed more than one leg In
his business, seeing that he was bar
Der and couldn't hone razor or shave
man with his foot anyway. But
wait. haven't come to the point at
which the real meanness developed.
Being poor man, he couldn't afford to
buy cork leg, so he had to get along
with wooden peg, and one day while
he was crossing the principal street
this peg In some way got wedged be-
tween couple Of paving stones right
in the middle of the street car track.
1t took them nearly an hour to get him
loose, and what do you suppose hap
pened then? Blamed IL they didn't go
and fine him $40 and costs for obstruct-
ing traffic!'-Chicago Times Herald.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-01-03
WRITER OF SWEET HYMNS.
The Late Rev. Robert Lowry and His
Beautiful Song.

Ia many churches next Sunday the
beautiful strains and the soothing
words of the old hymn, 'Shall we
gather at the river?" will stir the
hearts of thousands. and tears will
come TO the eyes of those who may
read between the lines the sorrowful
story of some past day when they
stood by the bedside of one who was
about to make that unknown journey,
and the old doubt will come back to
them-the old doubt that has ever
troubled the heart of man when the
dearest on earth Is leaving. Shall We
meet again in the great forever? The
organ tones swell soft and low, and
sweet and reassuring comes the prom
Use:
Yes, we'll gather at the river.
The beautiful. the beautiful river,
Gather with the saints at the river
That flows by the throne OF God.
4 For thirty-four years the wonderful
hymn has brought peace to those who
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-01-03
Applause and Criticism.

1t was after the piano recital, and the
audience was still applauding. There
were two English women, though, who
did not clap their hands. But they
commented In tones that were audible
for some distance around thus:
THE poor man! Win they make
him play again."
Isn't 1t awful the way the Ameri-
cans applaud? It's so yulgarp'
Yes; it's the most vulgar thing they
do"
And the Americans took meekly their
lesson in manners.-New York Com
percial Advertiser.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-01-03
Belgian Queens Home.

The Queen Of the Belgiaps was
brought up in her fathers castle at
Pesth amid surroundings and customs
which remind one of the feudal ages,
AT night her father himself descended
the great staircase to lock the outer
gate and the door of the principal hall.
This hall was divided into two parts,
one end being raised a little above the
other. At the elevated end the daugh-
tiers of the house sat at their needle
work or painting or music, while their
attendants sat at the lower end OF the
hall
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-01-03

whats that there young mans
business?" asked MIR. Paryenu.
Hes tutor, l believe" replied his
wife.
What does he teach?"
zone of them old sciences. l s'pose, >"
answered Mrs. Parvenu. Il amt just
sure what 1t is. but last night Maybelle
told me he was giving her some lessons
in osculation."
"Well. s'pose she's got to he edu-
Gated" returned the old man. Il only
hope he won't charge no fancy price
for his lessons, Chicago Post.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-01-03

harsh chiseling process. All that we
who love the child have to do is care
fully to keep in good condition it's en-
vironment; to see that 1t gets its needed
sunshine; to study most carefully its
natural growth and nourish that, and
perhaps gently and Lovingly to prune
1t now and then"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-01-03
The Change of n Comma

Whenever she asks me to do any
thing" Soliloquized Mr.. Meeker pen
sively. 81 always go and do it. like a
fool"
Yes, said Mrs. Meeker, who hap
pened along in time TO overhear him.
Whenever | ask YOU TO do anything
you always 90 and do 1t like fool
Chicago Tribune.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-01-03

mourn. 1t has been sung in the great
churches in the great cities and in the
little chapels in the unpretentious
day schools and at the tireslde and its
melody has found place in the hearts
Of the people.
The author of this and many other
Aymns that have soothed the troubled
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-01-03
Virtue,

The elements of virtue are at the
bottom of every heart. and. though
they may be trampled underfoot and
crushed into the mud. they still exist,
and, when rescued and restored. nobil-
ity and manhood will grow out OF
them
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-01-03

We smile at the ignorance of the
savage who cuts down the tree in or
is that blunder of this description
is made by every person who is over
eager and impatient in the pursuit OF
Measure
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-01-03
Newfoundland Fogs.

The famous fogs OF Newfoundland
are only found as rule on the east
and south coasts and on the banks. =
being caused by the meeting OF the
arctic current with the gulf stream
The interior in summer is described
as a most delightful climate. resem-
bling that Of the south of France
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-01-03

The Persians in sic B. G. invented
q transparent glass varnish. which
they laid over sculptured rocks to pre-
serve them from bad weather. This
coating has lasted to our day. while
the rocks beneath are honeycombed.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-01-03
No Street Smoking.

The town of Westhofen, In Germany
still enforces an old ordinance which
forbids any one walking In the street
with lighted cigar.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-01-03

The hours of work in the Calcutta
jrte mills are from 80 a. IN. to D p. M.
or l6l2 hours per day, Saturdays in
Guided. and all repairs and cleaning OF
machinery have to be done Oh Sun
days.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-01-03

and didn't come out from the Klondike
busted this year. Don't laugh at them
little bugs. Some of them may fool you
some day"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1900-01-03
Public Land In Idaho.

IuuitC Lanu IN luunO.
Eighty-four per cent Of Idaho IL pub
lie land.
The Huntsville star., 1900-01-26
HEAVY ON KANSAS BANKS.
Congressman Bailey EndeayOring to Have
the Bank Tax Modified or Repealed-A
Statement by the Congressman.

Washington, Jan. 22.-Congressman
Bailey, of Kansas, says he is endeaver-
ing to have the bank tax modified pr
repealed. Said he: ''There are So
banks in Kansas. with capital s9f
$4,000 each. The tax of $50 on every
bank is imposed without discrimina-
tion as to the amount of capital stock.
These small banks exist in many Kan
sas towns, not as an investment, bat
as a business necessity. They gener-
ally represent contributions of money
by pubIic-spirited citizens. There are
also 81 banks in our state with cap
ital of $4,000 each, and 2S0 other
banks with capital of less than $2j,-
900 each. Banks with small capital
find the tax especially burdensome.
In the case of banks with $1,000 cap
ital you will observe that the tax
amounts to one per cent. of the
amount of capital represented"
The Huntsville star., 1900-01-26
PLEADED THE STATUTES.
Capt. Frederick j. Mills, of Salt Lake City,
Acquitted of killing Man Who
Despoiled His Home.

Salt Lake City, Jan. 21.-Capt. Fred
erick j. Mills, former lieutenant gov
erncr of Idaho, was acquitted of the
charge of murder. The jury was out
only quarter of ali hour, just long
enough to elect foreman and take a
ballot. Capt. Mills killed John O'Mel-
veney, chief engineer of the Oregon
short line in this city on October 3
last. The evidence showed that while
the defendant was absent serving as
an officer of the volunteer army of the
United States, his wife and O'Mel-
veney became criminally intimate.
The captain learned of these facts on
the day of the tragedy, his wife max
ing a full confession. The killing fol-
lowed. The defendant pleaded the
Utah statute. which justifies the act
of a husband who kills his wife's Sc
ducer and also sets up the plea of in-
sanity,
The Huntsville star., 1900-01-26
Rroken Commandments.

The brilliant young preacher when
he makes his parochial calls endeavors
to cultivate an acquaintance with the
development of the younger minds,
thus after fashion keeping tab upon
his Sunday school teachers.
While he was waiting in the draw
ing room of Cass avenue residence
for the appearance of Elsie's mamma
he was entertained by the little
daughter herself. He began a review
of the church lessons that had been
given to a little maid of five. "Car
yon tea me, Elsie, how many com
mahdments there are?" eyes, sir;
seven or eight ''Oh, no, dear; there
are ten" "Yes, know there use6
to be, but 1 heard papa tell mamma
yesterday that you had broken two
or three of them at least, and thai
would leave only seven or eight, yol
know. w."-Detroit Free Press.