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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1901-05-29
Pension Checks

The pension check came Mon
day and Clerk of Court Porter
went right to work drawing checks
for the pensioners in this county.
He is handing them out as fast as
they are called for. The number
of pensioners for the county is
222, of which s are in class B.
and the remainder, 214, in class
G. Class b. gets S19.60 each;
class G.. S14.7O
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Arrested in Charleston.

Robert Summers, the long
haired blind man who was here
some time ago, begging and selling
songs, was arrested in Charleston
last Thursday and put in Jail for
stealing from a negro woman.
The little thirteen year old girl
who was with him and led him
about when he was here, and
whom he claimed to be his daugh-
ter or niece, turned out to be Nancy
Jane McAteer, Of Chester, no re-
lation of his at all, but whom he
had hired from her parents to &C
with him. She was taken charge
of by the Florence Crittendez
Home and sent back to Chester
to her parents.
Summers told the Charleston
reporters that when in Lancaste
he had fallen in love with and be
come engaged to a pretty mil
girl,a Miss - 1--WE withhold he
name), but that she had gon'
back on him the day before tina
set for the marriage, and had sen
back his last letter and told hiI
to keep it and himself too. IL
seemed to think himself a muc
abused individual.
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Mr. Newbold Makes an Offer.

Chester S. G. May 23 1901.
Editor Lantern: In your
paper of the 14th inst, you copy
a letter recently published in
Lancaster paper, from J. A.
Montgomery, of Oxford, Miss,
about the recent Reese capture
fiasco. When | first saw this
letter thought that l would treat
it with the contempt that it and
it's a,tnur deserved, as | have nei-
ther the time nor inclination to
engage in newspaper controversy
with any one, but siAce these gen
tlemen have seen fit to doubt my
word and to intimate that | was
bribed by Reese in the Jail at Ok
ford not to identify Kim, L will
have this to say to them at least.
That if they will prove that r.
Stevens and Marien 4. Reese are
one and the same man, l will pay
them two hundred dollars $4,000
in addition to the rewards already
offered, and will pay also the
necessary expenses of such .identi-
fication, as we'll as the expenses of
bringing the man to this state.
Stevens was under lndictm ent
in the United States court in six
cases for using the mails for
fraudulent purposes. and in
twenty other cases for imper-
sonating United States officer
for fraudulent purposes, and the
United States district attorney
told me that he would have nc
trouble IN sending Stevens uE
for life, and this gentleman wen,
to the jail with me for the pur-
pose of delivering the man up t.
me if l "identiied" him al
Reese. Yet it never occurred tt
Messrs. Porter and Montgomery
that ifI had been "bribed" ant
wanted to benefit the man
would have "identified" him o.
Reese, and would have starte'
~ back with him and let hin
y escape en-route.
el / do not know Mr.. Porter, bu
h his kinsman, Mr.. Montgomery
took advantage of my arrival il
Oxford, Miss, to beat the hack
!. man out of q ride, up town an
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Senator McCalla of Abbeville
went to Greenville to hear Nc
Laurin speak and went home Il
strong McLaurin man. He says
Mel .aurin will have food in his
favor. He has all along been a
strong Tillman man.
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A little son of Comptroller
General Derham broke out Thurs
day with the small pox. He and
his father have been quarintined
in the outskirts of Columbia.
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Sc Mi W EtkLY
Ca Es a1lkrS,

| Ca MatltrS.
Bring IN your country produce,
Butter, Eggs and Chickens, espee
ci,A'y. j b Mackorel,.
First class Light Bread and
Cnnes, made by one of the Best
Bakers in the State. Fresh twice
a week. Sold 10y Mathis & Go.
Miss Mabel Bruce is visiting
her relatives at Heath Spring.
Rev. j. NJ. White will preach
at Newcut school house next Sab
bath at 4 O'Clock p. m.
The new cottages of Mr.. Plyler's
on the Secrest lot are being paint
ed. Mr.. Plyler is also having a
well bored on this lot.
d. f. Bridges was fatally
wounded by A. q. Mintz In n
difficulty at Blacksburg last Satur-
day
The graduating class from
Winthrop this year will number
"a. The commencement exercises
will come off June 2d to 5th. Hon.
W f Stevenson will deliver an ad
dress to the graduating class. Miss
Alice Mackey Of this county will
graduate tins session.
Work was begun on two new
cottages ia West End yesterday
mornlng-the Steadman and w vile
cottages.
Mr.. w. McD. Browns hand
some new residence on Main stree
is about completed. 1t is one o
the handsomest in town, and o
the best material and workman
ship, and is splendid advertise
ment for the contractors, Messrs
Porter & Deale. Owen & Griffil
are now putting the finishing
touches on the interior and tn
house will probably be ready fo
occupancy by next week.
Magistrate D. X. Hall of Pleas
ant Valley made his return to th
county treasurer of fines collecte
for the first quarter, last weel
The amount was $40, which wi
more than pay his salary for tt
time-and is the first money r.
ceived from magistrate in thu
township in over three years.
-
Up-to date trustees will . el
courage their teachers to after
the Summer School that opeI
here next week. The schools w
be able to accomplish more f
the children attending them if Il
teachers have meantime taken
thorough course of study in t
Summer School under iDstru etc
whose work has been in the bt
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Drs. j. c. Foster and r. c.
Brown passed their examinations
before the State Board Friday and
were licensed to practice medicine.
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foo ed with Bargains
Dollars bought much they d" we were De-
eged by Sellers by over>tOcked manufacturers unloading at any
We them with wadS of (OD "a SH and nave
here for benefit gains that tw" weeks we
impossible find The time spend that d"'ar Is "heh ina
dollar is most powerful, and that is here and now.
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Look! Listen!

pieces French Dimes fancy patterns the Is quail
ty, for
Pieces of Pretty coored lawns the quality for
$50 Pieces yard wide Percaes stripes best 2I quality
for One As pieces yard wide Madras worth
10 for 30 pieces of ''Bates Best Crnk-
led Seersucker satin stripes sell 80
II cents pieces of silk finished FoulaIds the 25 cents
quality, for Is cents.
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SENSATIONAL BARGAINS.

The opportunity purchase Importers line of
Boys and Chldrens clothing. We bought it all, enough
for six Now is chance want fit and quail
40 per discount 1O5 Boys Knee Suits, good
chcviot CLOTH cheap 81 % for 65 cents 75. boys
all wool Scotch Chcviot Suits worth 50 25 price 81 no
nobby of Mems Shirt them, will buy
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Now for Genuine hoe
BARGAINS: Are you Ready ?

The public have good for buying their shoes here No
does near the Shoe business do have such
large stocks sell so cheap Mr.. Heath picked up
values in Ladies and Misses Slippers
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Third Stock Of New Millinery

Here supreme where else find much qatG
style linked with such low prices Never before has
thoroughly merited its fame for Stylish Millinery and
moderate prices. We have it all
The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-14

ing the laughter which is conducive TO
good health.
one cannot help wondering if DR.. De
pew. the most famous purveyor of chest
nuts in America. or Mr.. Bangs, who is
the living link between Joe Miller and
the new century, ever made the acquaint-
ance of May Irwin or read the inimitable
letters of the late Mrs. Isabelle Mallon,
Familiarity known as Bah 1t isn't nee
essary TO go further for a comparison
with these critics 1t can hardly be
doubted that Miss Irwin could secure
ample backing for a tournament of sto-
ries with DR.. Depew. 1t is true that she
has no reputation as an after dinner
speaker, but it is probably equally true
that she knows as many bright anecdotes
as the Doctor, and she has the faculty
of telling them In a way that is quite as
fetching as that Of DR.. Depew. Miss r.
win and DR.. Depew have much in COM
mon in the humorous line. 1t is largely
a matter of business with them; the one
cracks jokes on the stage, and the other
with his legs stretched under the mahog-
any. And Bah possessed the art of ex-
plotting a funny situation with quiet,
though charming. humor. She made her
readers think as wen as laugh, which
Bangs often fails to do. His humor gen.
orally is of the bludgeon type, with every
point blunt. His style is often referred
to as American" because Of its rugged
ness. 1t is more complimentary to Amer
lea to think of Mark Twain's style as
being typical. Mr.. Clemens humor US
uslly has a world of meaning concealed
in it, While he compels laughter, he Of
ten gives US a view of the pathetic side
of life to think of after the paroxysm of
nirth has passed away. His recent treat
ment of the case of the Powers in China
is an illustration in point.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-14
Personal.

Among successful novelists of the
time the name of Rider Haggard takes
high rank. for few modern writer's have
made greater success than he did with
his earlier works, like King Solomon's
Mines" iShep and Jess" At present
he is specially interested in farming
questions, on which he has written
great deal, but he still finds time to con-
tinue his fiction work, and already this
year he has published a novel. Mr..
Haggard was IS years old on June o.
DIR. Logan Campbell, who In his Off
cial capacity as Mayor received the Duke
and Duchess of York at Auckland. New
Zealand, is one of the grand old men of
the Antipodes. He hsa seen Auckland
grow from an untenanted fax swamp in
to the largest of the New Zealand cities
Born in Edinburg eighty-four years ago
ne studied in the Scottish metropolis and
and then took to rowing. He eventually
squatted on a small island in the har-
Dor of Auckland before a single house
was erected on the site of the present
city, and has since been intimately iden-
tilted with the growth and prosperity of
the northern capital of New Zealand.
The bark Obed Baxter, says the Phil
adelphia Record, came to port from
South Africa this week with a story
about Lord Roberts that Capt Sinclair
tells with pardonable pride At Port
Elizabeth, while the Obed Baxter lay at
anchor there, a reception was given to
Lord Roberts which the captain was in
vted to attend. He went, a tall broad
shouldered man, straight as his main
mast and muscular as the god Hercules.
In due course he was presented to 'Bobs,'
and the small, slim English General said
to him, looking up in his brown face:
Capt. Sinclair, are you an Americana
I am that, sir the captain replied, and
native Philadelphia to boot That
makes me an American twice over.
Well resumed Lord Roberts. If all the
Americans are as big and broad Shout
dered as you, it is no wonder that they
have carried away the worlds trade
The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-14
BRIGHT BITS.

No Need for That THE doctor SAYS
I must go away for change Of climate"
said Mrs. Dukane. 'If that's all YOU
need" replied Mr.. Dukane, stay right
here, and the change of climate will come
to you."-Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegrap
Just the Same.-Bobby-'M Mamma, if
God is as good as you say he is, why
doesn't he always answer our prayers?"
HE does, Bobby, when they deserve to be
answered" well, 1 prayed that I might
not steal any more jam out of the buffers
pantry but 1t didn't make any differ
ence. Life.
The Sale of Intoxicants to Children
Bill.-"It's another hinjustice to hus pore
wimmen, it is! They won't let us send
the kids for it now, an if my heldest
boy goes for it e as 'arf of II 'isself
an if my old man goes e never comes
back; so the bend of it is, ave to go
for it myselfr'-Punch.
Merely Buying.-Mrs. Jones-''w What's
your hurry? You're not off for the sea
shore now?" Mrs. Smith-"No. not until
tomorrow. I'm going down town now +"
Mrs. Jones" Shopping?" Mrs. Smith
mo. l haven't time for that there's so
many things I simply have to buy
Philadelphla Press.
"A Letter from the Janitor.-'Mr. Top
floor. Dear Sir: Replying to your favor
of Jan, 10, stating that you must have
more heat in your fiat, take pleasure
in informing you that the entire building
is now thoroughly heated, and in express
ing the hope that you are satisfied. July
8. Mike Muggins, Janitor. Baltimore
American.
Keeping Up His Reputation wife
Il think it's too bad you should throw
away money on such expensive umbrellas
You are always losing them. why don't
YOU get cheap ones?" Husband-"Huh!
That's all you women know about bust.
ness. Do you suppose l want to adver-
tise the fact that / have a poor mem
?"-New York Weekly.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-14
AN INTERESTING QUESTION.

1t was announced in our dispatches a
day or two ago that Turkey had finally
paid the amount of the claim--$95, 600
which our government had been trying
for a number of years to collect. How
long will 1t be before our government will
pay the money to those to whom it be-
longs? That is an interesting question
The money belongs to a number of claim
ants, one of them being a Mrs. Lentz of
Pittsburg. Her husband was murdered
while travelling through the domains of
the Sultan, and the amount which was
allowed by the Turkish government to his
widow was $4,000. II our government
pursues its usual course in distributing
this $4,000 received from the Sultan's
government. 1t will be much longer be-
fore those to whom 1t belongs get 1t
than it was before our government col
lected it from Turkey after the claims
were adjudicated.
A few days ago we called attention to
a claim that had recently been paid to
a Tennessee claimant. 1t seems that in
that case the claimant was too honest
to accept a check that the government
sent him because the amount 1t called
for was more than he was entitled to.
He sent the check back and asked that a
check for what was actually due him be
sent. Il was more than thirty years be-
fore he got his money.
1t may be that it will not take that long
before the money received from Turkey
is distributed among those to whom It be-
longs. but II would not be surprising il
several years should elapse before
Mrs Lentz and the other claimants get
their money. 1t viii certainly be long
time unless some congressman takes hold
of the matter and gets a bill through
Congress. authorizing the distribution OF
the fund.
There is altogether too much red tape
connected with claims against the gov
eminent. There ought to be some simple
way in which those who have claims
against the government could have them
adjusted quickly and settled Under the
present system Il takes, In some cases,
generations TO get the government to pay
its obligations. There is no disposition
to refuse to pay. II is simply nobody
business in particular to see that claims
are promptly paid.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-14
THE PRICE OF CORN.

The rapid advance In the price of corn
is calculated to create the impression
that the hot and dry weather which has
been prevailing in the West for several
days has practically ruined the corn
crop. The advance has been so great
that the impression now prevails that
corn will soon be selling at sixty cents
bushel. That would be an extraordinary
price. 1t would go a long ways towards
making the corn growing sections of
the country not injuriously affected by
weather conditions extremely prosperous.
1t is doubtful, however, Il the dry and
hot weather has done as much damage
as the reports indicate. 1t is probable
that In Kansas the corn is badly hurt.
and there are other states in which the
damage is considerable. As a rule how
ever. reports respecting damage to crops
are greatly exaggerated. 1t is not the
intention Of course to mlslead but when
bad weather conditions come the farmers
get panic stricken. and they see nothing
but ruin. Later, when they have a
chance 10 investigate. they generally ind
that the situation is not so bad as they
thought.
In this state there was very depressed
feeling among the cotton growers during
the latter part OF June. The reports in
dicated that the cotton crop was pretty
nearly ruined by the wet weather Since
the dry weather has come the cotton far
mers are discovering that they are going
TO make some cotton-a pretty fair crop
la many sections. II Is only IN spots
that tho damage Is 20 great as 10 make
farmers feel that their years work will
amount 10 practically nothing. The crop
IN tho state will probably bo q short one.
but Il viii not be- "a failure by any mehna
Bui There does not seem 10 be- any REQ.
900 20 doubt that ihe corn crop viii be-
short one. The higher price. however,
The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-14
common SENSE IN SUNDAY
SCHOOL,


At the recent annual convention of the
American Society of Religious Education
a Chicago educator made an address on
1.-The Sunday School as 1t Should Be-"
In the course of his remarks he strongly
attacked the weak and silly character
of much of the literature of the Sunday
school, and particularly the songs that are
sung He especially objected to the song,
Il Want to Be an Angel" and others of
it's class, which, when carefully analysed,
mean nothing at all. According to this
Chicago critic there is neither poetry nor
reason in them; they are merely junnbles
of words having a certain rhythm, which
when set to music pass muster as songs.
He says further, that the average Sun
day-school song book is full of such
pieces, which ought to be cut out because,
being meaningless, the children cannot I'M
derstand them. They may catch the tune
and sing with great gusto, without hav-
ing the least idea of the import of the
words they are singing. 1t is probable that
almost any one, in an hours examination
of about any song book, would be able to
ascertain that there is a real foundation
for the Chicago mans criticism. Yet is it
unquestionably true that many of these
same songs that are weak from literary
and theological point of view have given
comfort to troubled souls and cheered 9TH
ers as they approached that dark tide be-
yond which is eternity.
Another weakness of the Sunday school,
the Chicagoan says. is the namby -pamby
character of the story books in its library
Nearly all of them are of the milk-and-
water class, in which the hero is the
good little boy who died" 1t is the ex-
ception to find the leading characters to
be strong, athletic boys given to boyish
ways, and girlish girls who love fun and
frolic and tree climbing. The authors seem
to think 1t necessary to repress the
healthy animal spirits of their characters,
and ring in tears and sobbing at frequent
intervals. In short, they seek level of
mediocrity, in the belief that silly stories
are $50 NICE for little children. The con-
sequence is that it does not take a
healthy child long to outgrow the typical
Sunday-school library story book, to des-
pise it, and to read it only upon compul-
sion and as punishment. 1t is refresh
ing to note, in this connection, that there
Is already growing movement in several
of the denominations towards improving
the character of the Sunday-school
library books. The Sunday school Times
is strong advocate of higher degree of
intellectually in such books.
Common sense" says the Chicago
critic. is what is wanted in the Sunday
schools" and there can be no doubt that
he is right. He does not mean, of course.
that there is total lack OF it at present.
but there should be a more general appii-
cation of common sense to all of the work
OF the Sunday-school, much of which is
now performed in a perfunctory manner.
and as If all children were of equal men
tally and would always remain small
children.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-14
A Shrewd Contractor.

Two good Tammany contracts at the
lowest bid will make a mans fortune,
says the New York Press Under a form
er administration bids were invited for
the opening of a certain cross street far
up on the West Side. The city engineers
had surveyed it and prepared plans which
called for an excavation twenty feet deep
in some places, in others ten and in
cuttings of the contiguous streets indicated
others five. Surface indications and the
plainly that the work would involve the
removal of many thousand yards of solid
rock and a few hundred yards of earth.
The cost of earth excavation is about %
cents a yard, and of rock, when blasting
is necessary, about SO cents, both depend
ing largely on the length of haul There
were nine bids at something like those
figures.
The tenth bid provoked considerable
merriment. The contractor was an Ohio
an, unknown here, but with very sound
backing. He offered to remove the earth
for 81 a yard and solid rock for 10 cents.
The engineers and experts figured out
that according to their estimates of the
proportions Of earth and rock his bid
would save the city a handsome sum,
therefore it was accepted AT the same
time they felt rather sorry for the poor
such prices Their sympathy changed to
terror and rage when the excavation
proved to be practically all earth and no
rock. and the expected saving to the city
turned out to be a tremendous loss, for
with plows and scrapers the light soil
was being removed for nearly five times
what the work cost the contractor. The
customary profit is about 10 per cent,
but here was a Westerner making 400
per cent!
1t happened that our Ohioan did not
put in his bid until he had carefully in
vestigated. While the city authorities
were sleeping, and other contractors were
figuring on the engineers estimates, he
and an assistant or two were sinking
light steel rods here and there in the
proposed street to test the character of
the soil. His establishment was great
when he learned there was no rock worth
speaking of. but he kept his own coun-
sci and bid accordingly. This man is now
a millionaire railroad builder, and moth
ing gives him so good a laugh as the
recollection of how he fooled the Tam
many administration and plagued the nine
Tammany bidders. The latter have never
forgiven him.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-14
WOMEN AND HuMoR.

That some women are witty. bright
and very clever cannot for a moment be
successfully questioned. But has woman
the sense Of humor2 The question has
recently been asked OF several men who
have won regulations for their humor.
among them Chauncey M. Depew and
John Kendrick Bangs. Both OF these
plead guilty TO the soft impeachment OF
being humorists. and they agree IA say
ms that there Is not and never has been
a woman humorlst. Every feminine char
actor that has over posed IN a humor-
Gus rolo IN literature was tho creation
Of a masculine brain. aud every woman
who ever created a humorous altua ton IN
her writings has done 10 unconscloualy.
according 10 these experts. They appear
20 think that n o. woman'a nature 10 take
herself ana ail ~ her surroundings with
uondcros Honou6neas. when che makes
play with her vit % IL for attack o. Do
fcnse, raiher ihag Coz the sake % Great.