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Robbed of $4,000.

Rev. w. f. Little was robbed
of about $3.50 in cash Monday
night in Lancaster. He came
into town late in the afternoon
and had a settlement with the
Lancaster Mercantile Co. for some
cotton he had been hauling down
to them from his place and they
paid him something over $500.
de put the money into a hand
grip he was carrying and went
out into the lot, hitched his horse
TO the buggy and drove around
to the house Of Mr.. ID. +. Helms
with whom he had some business.
Not finding Mr.. Helms at home
but being told by his family that
he would be at home soon, he put
up Tor the night. Later in the
evening, after Mr.. Helms had
come home and supper was over,
Mr.. Little paid MIR. Helms some
money he had previously borrow
ed of him. About 10 o'clock
he went 10 his room to retire,
but before he retired he made
some little calculation as to his
business and took one package
OF the money out of his grip and
counted it, putting it back into
the grip and placing the grip on
chair which sat bv window
the sash OF which was up, but the
blinds were closed. Next morn
ing some time after breakfast.
Mr.. Helms daughter who Wa
sweeping up the room, noticed
that Mr.. Little'S grip which was
still Oh the chair where it was
lett the night before had Il long
cut In the SIDE. She called his
attention to it when he opened
the grip and discovered that ms
money was gone. Upon exami
nation, they found that some OF
the Stats in the blinds had been
cut. 1t then dawned upon them
that MIR. Little had been roubed
that night, the thief having cut
the Stats In the blinds, run his
hand IN, cut the grip sack open
anl took the money. But who
it could have been was a pro-
found mystery to him and to
every body else save the thief
who got the money.
Mr.. Little was going to Monroe
yesterday to pay some indebt-
edness there and had provided
this money tor that purpose. 1t
is a heavy loss on him and great
sympathy is felt for him. Tne
worst OF all is that the chances
are heavily against ms ever re-
the money.
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Short Locals.
Wednesday, November 10, 1902.

-Congress convenes on the
hrst Monday in December.
The Supreme Court meets
next Tuesday. Justice Jones
will go down Monday morning.
the Woodmen CT the World
OF Lancaster Camp will meet to-
morrow (Thursday) night at 1880.
-Brede's steam bread fresh
at Mackorells s24 tfI
Mr.. Louis N. Montgomery is
moving his family back to his.
farm in the Upper Camp Greek
section.
-"Carlo," the "lost black pug
dog" has been found and Mana
ger Lazenby is serene and happy.
Moral Advertise.
Managers of State and county
elections can call on me and get
their pay. jerry NJ. Knight,
Commissioners.
Lancaster, S. g.
There is cold wave out
west moving this way, and we
Will have cooler weather here by
tonight, possibly frost.
-Rev. ID. L. Montgomery who
has been located at ampbells-
vile, KY, has moved to new
held at Fredericton, Mo.
The Ladies' Aid society OF
the PreSby terlan church will give
an old-time candy pulling at the
Central telephone building FRI
day afternoon.
Reduction in Flour $I.9O
per sack-elsewhere will cost YOU
So 90. $500 per sack-else-
where will cost you 1925.
2t w. L. Bennett
--Ihe Bazaar meeting will be
at the home OF Miss Annie With
erspoon Thursday afternoon at 4
O'Clock. Anyone having fancy
work finished, will please bring
1T In at that time.
We are always in the mar
ket to buy mules and horses and
catCie. Ii you have any of either
tor sale, don't trade until You
see US.
ii Lancaster Mer. Co.
This has been remarkable
tall--Deautlful growing weather
with just enough rain to keep
vegetation In tlOurishing con.
diLlon. Cotton blooms can be
seen all over the country.
Communion services were held
in the a. Il. Z. church here last
week, beginning Thursday nignL
and extending through Sabbath.
The pastor was assisted by Rev.
j. M. Bigham of HuntersvIlle.
n. T..
Mr.. ]. f. Gregory is clerk
of court He received his COM
mission yesterday morning, and
Mr.. Chas. ID. Jones, the acting
clerk, turned the office over to
him during the day.
Rev. w. f. Little requests us
to announce that his next ap-
pointment at New Hope church
will be on the first Sunday in
December, instead of Sunday
week, as he inadvertently an.
nounced at his last service there.
Calvin Crawford, living on
Mr.. ID. S. Wilson's place near
Osceola, made II bales of cotton,
100 bushels of corn, l02 gallons
OF molasses and about 40 bushels
of potatoes this year and cult
waited the entire crop with one
mule.-Waxhaw Enterprise.
Mr.. Jas. W. Hallman, son
of Mr.. N. Ii. Hallman OF the
Jacksonham neIghborhood, and
Miss Ilennie IjttIa dau0btar Of
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There will be preaching ser
vice at Union Baptist church
Thursday Nov. q, at II o'clock.
Collection will be taken for Con
ME Maxwell Orphanage.
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his famous lecture "On Shamsn
for the amusement OF the crowd

oht VI tuo CEOwu.
Mayor Wylie is building a
storeroom on his lot near the
depot.
Bring me your butter,
chickens and eggs. Highest
prices paid for them.
s24 If j. b Mackorell.
The l.. & .. railroad people
are building car sheds for hous-
ing their rolling stock from the
weather.
Mr.. ]. A. Mccain is moving
his family from the Unity Sec
ton to the w. B. Miller place
near Primus this week.
Married, Nov. IS, 1902, by
b. F. Adams, N. P, Mr.. w. A.
Adams Of Rock Hill and Miss
Jane Mehaffey of Pleasant Hill.
A union Thanksgiving ser
vice will be held in the Metho-
dist church aud several address
es will be made. The pro-
gramme will appear in next
weeks paper.
Rev. Is. Frank White, pas
tor Of the United Presbyterian
church at Moundville, w. Va. =,
will visit his brother, Rev. J. NJ.
White, at Unity the latter part
of this week and preach either
Thursday night or Friday night.
The communion service at
Gills Greek church has been
postponed until December, but
the pastor will fill his regular
appointment there next Sabbath
at II m and at Pleasant Hill
at $50 p m.
The secretary OF state has
issued a commission to our
townsmen, Messrs. w Gregory
and A. B. Ferguson, who will
engage in the stock business on
the Latham farm near town un
der the corporate name of
Gregory-Ferguson Stock Farm,
with $4,000 capital.
-iu difficulty between Joe
Brown and John Thompson, both
colored, the former was seriously
cut in the abdomen. DR.. Poovey
was called. Thompson also re-
ceived several cuts inflicted by a
razor in the hands of Brown. A
woman was at the bottom of the
trouble.
DR.. w H. Wakefeld,of Char
lotte, N. c., will be in Lancaster
at the Cunningham Hotel, on
Wednesday, December 24th, for
one day only. His practice is
limited to the Eye. Ear, Nose
and Throat. On this day the
doctors fee will be reduced one
half. At
The Ladies Missionary So
ciety of Hopewell church will
give hot supper at the church
Thanksgiving night. They will
have music also. The follow
ing is the committee of arrange.
ments Mesdames r. Il Lang
ley and r G.. Elliott and Misses
Dora Flynn, Eula Flynn, Min
ME Steele and Ida Riddle.
Died, on Wednesday night,
Nov. II, 1902, of pneumonia,
little Tommy Davis, youngest
son of Mr.. and Mrs. J. Murray
Porter Of this place. lie was
about three years of age. The
remains were buried Thursday
afternoon in the new cemetery.
Much sympathy is felt for the
bereaved parents.
Mr.. w. b. Miller and family
le" yesterday morning for Wills
Point, Texas. Mr.. Miller was an
excellent citizen and we regret
his departure from our county.
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Mothers Worm Syrup.
Best worm medicine. Children
like 1T so well they eat it on bread
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n - TO IRA.
Bears the II Inc kind You HaTs Always Bought
signature Of &rMAslZx
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kitchen is built of bricks 20 inches
square the floor and portion of the
walls are intact. The firepot made of
bricks is perfectly good and shows the
marks of fire."
Almost every day new tablets were
discovered, and as these are the books
of ancient Babylonia. they are consid-
cred of the highest value. From them
may be lea :rned much of the business
and the social life of ancient times.
Here are contracts between bankers
and farmers for loans, marriage con-
tracts, and the documents of the en-
tire life of a highly civilized people who
lived six thousand years or more ago.
Strenuous Days.
One Of the exciting incidents OF the
time is thus told by Mrs. Haynes:
"Just about sunset one Sunday was
sitting in the court of our house, while
Mr.. Haynes was busy with his ac-
counts, when heard a commotion out
side, but before I realized that it really
meant something a bare-headed Arab,
with his face all covered with blood
from a cash in his head, staggered into
the court and dropped down almost at
my feet 1 rushed upstairs after Mr..
Haynes, who went at once to the door
to prevent other Arabs from coming in.
Several, however, had followed the
wounded man in, and the whole party
was screaming and gesticulating as IL
each one were wildly determined that
Beg should hear his side of the story
only.
"In the meantime the frantic efforts
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Ar Work q The ExeANATloNs

looked kindly down into mine with an
expression which seemed to say: You
are very much out of place, but you
probably mean WELL We looked at
each other only a few seconds, 1 to see
a great sheikh for the first time and he
to inspect the first white woman he
had met, and 1 then withdrew. The
crowd watched the introduction in ST.
lent respect and then melted quietly
away"
From that time Mrs. Hayes was
popular with the workmen and the ma
tives round about, and many of the
women came to her to be treated for
sore eyes and other Affections. A child
that had fallen into fire and been
badly burned about the legs was one
of her first patients, and the skill with
which she cured it's wounds did much
to establish her in the good graces of
the multitude.
Popular with the WOrkmen.
After her popularity seemed estab-
lished, when no danger to her person
appeared probable, she took her share
of the direction of the excavation
which was going on simultaneously in
various parts of the. huge mounds of
Nippur. Ultimately the workmen in
her division became so much attached
to her that at nightfall, when the work
was done, they bore her to the house
upon their shoulders. The finest flow
ers and fruits, and various curiosities
were brought to her by the Arabs, es-
pecially by the children, whose de-
votion to 1.-THE Beg's haren," as she
was called, was remarkable.
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The workmen lived with their fami-
lies in little reed huts, and Mrs.
Hayes was often asked to visit these
to tend sufferers from fever, burns or
some disease. At first they called her
derisively the Giaour (Christian), but
they soon reverenced her knowledge of
healing drugs. The discovery of the
treachery of one of the Arab sheikhs,
the beating of the postman by his pre-
decessor in office and various like Incl
dents divided attention with the pro-
gress of the work. Days of the un-
covering of large number of graves
containing bowls, rings and different
bits of jewelry, as we'll as tablets here,
and there, were red letter days, of
course.
The wall of the city was traced for
482 feet, and the gateway of the an
cient city, with the stairways on either
side, and the large open space into
which the chariots were driven to
await their masters, were all
laid bare No better idea of the
work done by Mrs. Haynes can
be given than by copying an
extract from page of her diary at
which I have been permitted to glance.
This entry was made month after
reaching Nippur:
81 am kept very busy and wonder
that the time passes so rapidly in this
place where we are so much alone. The
finds of to-day were clay image, or
idol; As sound tablets; one fine and one
coarse seal; one perforated prism; a
kitchen unearthed by Hazam and pho
tcgraphed, and Is graves opened. The
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of the man to get up and get at Abad
ell Mohammed told us that he was the
man who had done the deed. The
Turkish commissioner tried to arrest
Abad, but 1 refused to let him go, and
in trying to pr -tect him pushed the
commissioner with such force that he
tumbled over backwards. DR.. Haynes
afterwards settled the matter satisfac-
torily, but this is only one of the trying
experiences to which his wife was ex-
posed
A few days later she had trouble
with the cook. DR.. Haynes reproved
him, and in serving the tea that night
he brought up on the tray, besides the
tea, Bible and a large butchers knife
This was an open threat to do violence,
and it is not surprising that Mrs.
Haynes did not sleep we'll that night.
On the next morning the cook was sent
away.
One night DR.. Haynes and his wife
were awakened at midnight by an aw-
full din. They found that the daughter
of one of the workmen had died, and
the mourners had assembled to weep
and wall with the mother. All of the
women clapped their hands on their
breasts and walled In chorus: Your
daughter is gone; where have you put
her? What have you done with her?
/ want to go with her. She was a
chaste and comely maiden with long
and flowing locks The mother gave
expression to her grief in the form of
divers and many loud screams, bowls
and walls. She repeatedly called upon
her husband, saying: Your daughter
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- ~ -~sS
a PleAL
ARAe SHEIK

they and their wives would do what
ever she wished.
Finally all was in readiness for the
departure from Bagdad, and the men
and boxes were ferried over the river.
Then the desert journey of fifty miles
to Nippur began.
1t took ten days of adventurous
travel, mostly on camel back, though
the last stage was by boat on the wa
tiers of the ancient canal leading to
Nippur. And all the way the party
was in danger both from the savage
Arabs all about them and the natural
rigors of the region.
On arrival the clay house occupied
by DR.. Haynes on his previous stay
there was unsealed, and found in toll
erably good condition, but fur
Their improvements were neces--
sary, for there the doctor and
Mrs. Haynes were to dwell
for more than a year. The walls were
very thick to protect the Americans
from the extreme heat of the sum-
mer, and yet the degree of comfort at
tainable was only limited. even after
all practicable repairs had been made.
Fighting Public Opinion.
Mrs. Haynes had to fight her chief
battle with public opinion. Her hus-
band was popular with his workmen,
but 1t was a novel enterprise to bring
civilized woman among them. Her
reception was chilly, and had it not
been for the friendliness of the
sheikh of the district, Hail Tarfa by
name, the outcome might have been
disastrous. Knowing how much de-
pended upon him, all preparations
were made for receiving him with due
ceremony. A sheep was sacrificed, and
a tent pitched for the reception of the
sheikh, who would not enter the
house, as it was considered a harem
on account of Mrs. Haynes living in
it. Her account of this visit had bet
ter be given in her own words.
"As the curious crowd gathered
many of the more officiouS members of
the sterner sex crowding around the
place where my maid and
were sitting, it grew to be a
serious question whether
should hold my ground or seek the
house. 1 decided to stay where l was
| and seem not to notice. tried to read
and indeed was reading when l heard
the name 'IIatoon' spoken. Looking UP
I saw a very tall Arab, whose whiskers
| would have been gray had they not
been colored a bright red with henna,
! and whose dress of yellow silk clearly
. indicated that he was a man of wealth
; and position, standing directly in front
i of me. He was introduced as the great
sheilxh, Hail Tarfa.
81 quickly arose and salaamed to
| him, then advanced, and extending my
| hand, salaamed again. As he took my
! hand his great black lustrous eyes
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weren't. There were indications of a
split in the police lines. One of the
tight shut" precincts was the one gov
erned from the West Forty-seventh
Street Station, where McAuliffe was
murdered Capt. Schmittberger has re-
Gently been put in charge of this pre-
cinct. The change was taken to indi-
cate a lapse of interest in the McAu-
life case on the part of Commissioners
Partridge. 1t was followed almost inn
mediately by the formal notice from
Gov. Odell that the case would not be
permitted to drop. So the police are
still on Uneasy street.
With the passing of Georgia Cayvan
who may have died before this gets into
print, there closes one of the most
tragic and mysterious chapters in the
annals of the American stage. few
years ago Miss Cayvan was leading
lady at the Lyceum. While not
great actress, she was thoroughly
capable one. Probably no other wo-
man of the profession possessed to so
great a degree the confidence and re-
gard of the theater-going public. In
a profession full of scandal and eVll
report her character was never called
in question. Yet there is some reason
TO believe that SANDER was the cause
tain man of semi-public character was
sued by his wife for divorce. Among
the names brought into the suit was
that of Georgia Cayvan. The man,
who did not seem particularly inter-
ested in defending the suits, declared
emphatically that he had met Miss
Cayvan only twice. and then in the
most formal manner, that the mention
Of her was utterly unwarranted' ana
that he would horsewhip the lawyer if
he pursued the investigation along
lines calculated to reflect on Miss Cay
vans character. The actress many
friends came forward ana II was con-
cinsivelv shown that Miss Cayvan's ac-
maintance with the defendant In the
divorce suit was that of the slightest
character. A withdrawal OF the
charges so far as she was concerned
followed. II ever a woman was tri-
umphantly indicated, IT was she. New
ertheless. thereafter she shut herself
away from the companlonship OF her
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-27

acquaintances. Only her intimate
friends were admitted to her home.
Presently even these were shut out.
Then the world was shocked to learn
that the gifted actress had been re-
moved to a sanitarium. There she has
been clustered: dead as nun OF the
strictest order. Even information as
to her condition was denied to her
friends Now comes the news that she
is at deaths door from Daresis.
Two more land marks are disappear
ing from the places that knew them.
The old United States Hotel was a
picturesque ruin of former greatness,
preserving, through its decay, its at
tractive frontage on one of the little
parks that open upon the East river
far down town. It's front windows, in
season, were always ornamented with
big boxes of growing flowers in strange
contrast to the surrounding dinginess.
The hotel once achieved wide, If not
good repute, as the place where the
notorious woman, Shakespeare" was
murdered. It is believed that the Arab
"Frenchy," who was sentenced to life
for this murder, but was pardoned last
week, was railroaded by the police be-
cause they could find nobody else on
whom to fasten the guilt. Of late
years the rear of the hotel has been
used as an exit from the elevated road.
Not so old but almost as distinct
i've. because of it's surroundings, is the
Broadway Tabernacle, Congregation
alisD at Thirty-fourth street, Broad
way and Sixth avenue, which has
Just been sold for a million dollars.
It's somber, brown stone sobriety was
out of place in that rushing whirlpool
of traffic and nightly gaiety. The re-
gion all about there is to be given up
to great stores and the Tabernacle Will
find more peaceful quarters in its new
place on Fifty-sixth street.
Shortly after the news of the shoot
ing Of President Mckinley reached this
city, a man who Is very close to John
Pierpont Morgan went TO him ana
said:
Mr.. Morgan. don't you think II
would be well for you 10 be guardedY'
Guarded how" asked the great
dnancler. With characteristic gruffness.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-27

good this summer; nobody expects it
to be good. and it is hardly too much to
say that nobody wants it to be good.
Things are permitted at Coney Island
that would be out of place in New
York city, and yet aren't particularly
harmful after all. There are more
outrageous, open-gauge fakes on that
strip of sand than in any equal area
Of the world; but nobody minds, be-
cause everybody expects to find little
trickeries and frauds there and the
most you can lose at them is an occas-
ional dime. Then there are the in
nocuous gambling games where you
throw Kinks in the futile hope of en-
sharing a cane, or baseballs at a live
darkey's head for impossible cigars, or
slash at mark for a reward that you
might get If your rifle barrel weren't
modelled after a rams horn. The re-
pressive eye of the law is on them all.
And the concert hall ladies. No more
may they gracefully amble down from
the stage in the pride and beauty of
their fifty-odd years and invite them
selves to drink beer or more expensive
beverages Qf they think they can. get
'em) at the expense of the celebrating
stranger, and to the profit of the
house. This has been adjudged to be
immoral, and the soubrette must
henceforth spend her old age behind
the scenes when she is not doing her
song-and-dance. There are even dread
rumors that the excise law is to be en-
forced. If all these things are done 1t
needs no gift of prophecy to see huge
summer crowds fleeing to Jersey and
the utternost ends of Staten Island
and to predicate the decadence and fall
of Coney. They may destroy the ISL
and but they can't make 1t good.
Duane.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-27

Copyright, 1902, by C. H. Levy.)
mat woman should take her life
IN her hands and go among the bar
barous Arabs of Assyria to take part
In the work of excavating ancient ruins
Is unique. This has been done by an
American woman, Mrs John H.
Haynes, who accompanied her husband
in the latest expedition sent out by the
University of Pennsylvania to continue
the excavations begun by him in con-
Junction with DR.. Hilprecht at Nippur
some years ago.
1t was during the last campaign, in
which DR.. Haynes was accompanied
and assisted by his wife, that the now
famous library of $4,000 clay tablets
was discovered. When deciphered
these cannot fail to shed a flood of
light upon the life led by the men and
women in one of Assyria's greatest
cities, 1000 years before Christ
The journey from New York to Bag
dad was no different from hundreds of
similar journeys taken by tourists
but at that point Mrs. Haynes adven-
lures began. Some of her adventures
she described to the writer in New
York the other day. I'VE stopped
IN front of a fruit stand in
the Bagdad bazar," said Mrs. Haynes,
to look at the oranges. Soon a
great crowd gathered, completely
blocking the street. When we tried
to move on the crowd followed, and
at last grew so noisy that we could
not in safety remain. Koshoud, the
guide walked in advance, scattering
tne people, but they were much in
censed at seeing a woman in Euro
pean dress in public, as was evident
from their jeering and threatening
gestures. Koshoud led us safely up the
street a short distance and put us in
side door which led into a private
stall or alcove. Here he closed the
door and stood outside on guard.
do not in the least question that we
would have been stoned had not Kos
houd acted so wisely.
A few days after this adventure
-FOUR Of the workmen formerly en-
ployed by DR.. Haynes at Nippur walk
ca In to pay visit to their master
after trip of fifty miles through the
desert. They talked and laughed vo-
clferously. kissing their masters hands,
kneeling at his feet, stroking his
clothes, and calling upon God to
bless their Beg When DR.. Haynes
told them that Mrs. Haynes was his
wife Qharem) she thought they would
devour her upon the spot. They at
once began saluting and greeting her,
kissing her hands and telling her that