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the crest of the mountains towering
above the little village. The inhabitants,
realizing the danger. abandoned school
house which stood in the course it was
popularity expected the avalanche would
take when it started. The miners kept
at work, however, trusting to good for
tune to protect them. 1t began its des-
cent at $50 o'clock on Monday morning
and plowed a furrow 800 feet wide and
two miles long dawn the side of the noun
tain, eliminating in a great mass of
snow, ice, and rocks at the bottom of the
gulch. A few minutes later another slide
started farther up the gulch. and ere it
had settled ten lives were lost and s50, 900
worth of property was destroyed. 1t was
the work of many days to recover the
bodies OF the men buried under the snow
and debris, and 1t was only by the united
effort of all the citizens Of the village
that it was finally accomplished.
In 1885 a snowslide swept the side of
Homestake Mountain, near Leadville, and
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HANCOCK
THE
FoVnDER Of THE TAVERN
A permit in the original reads as fol

permit in the original reads as fol-
lows:
Valley Forge. March 13. 177s.
| permission to Mr. Thomas Coates and
negro boy to pass pickets at the bridge
and on Morristown road after dark, till
| further orders.
GEORGE WASHINGTON"
A letter from General Jackson. four
| miles below Orleans, January ., 1915, re-
ports the battle that resulted in the over
throw of John Bull.
In another. William Henry Harrison.
writing from Washington, December 20,
1927. chides friend for not writing to
one who was so much indebted to him.
promissory note. signed by Alexander
Hamilton, and check drawn by Aaron
Burr for s224 les, recall sad American
tragedy.
Recoilections of Martha Washington.
Recollections of Martha Washington are
inspired by receipted bill of Susanna
Lockyer dated Philadelphia. September 6.
1871, for % yards of mantua. at e1s Is Cd;
and close by can be seen Washington's
orders for nails, salt, carpet, brushes, ak
handles and balls of twine.
Among the hundreds of autographs are
these of Samuel Adams Hawthorne, Whit
tier, Bryant, Holmes, Longfellow, Agassiz.
Alexander Stephens, Jefferson Davis. JOS
eph d. Story Freiinghuysen, EYarts.
Choate, Sam Houston and Dan Rice.
Lincoln's 0vershoes.
In a corner are the oyershoes worn by
Lincoln on the night of his assassination;
Washington's overshoes of leather; the
great iron lock and key from his smoke
house; a part of the scaffold on which
Mrs. Surratt and her aecomplices were
hanged; the hat worn by General Zach
airy Taylor at the battle of Okechobee,
Florida. December. 1887. and the pipe of
Father Hennepin. enc of the early Catho-
lie missionaries to the Indians. The pipe
was given him by an Indian chief and
was handed down from father to son until
it reached the old Sioux chief from whom
it passed into this collection.
There is a collection of South Sea
Islanders weapons, consisting of javelins.
cooking utensils and all sorts of blud-
geons; a piece OF John Browns vest; a
hickory cane from the Hermitage; Cap
tain Halls reading lamp from the Polaris:
liquor glasses from which jefferson Davis
used to drink while he was Secretary of |
War; and the cane and white umbrella /
that were carried on the streets of Wash |
ington fifty years ago by the noted ben |
vivant, Beau Hickman.
A Cherished Anecdote.
There is an anedote cherished in the |
place that one warm day in early sum-
mer, Beau walked into the dining room,
and. seating himself at one of the his |
toric tables ordered an elaborate dinner
of oysters. terrapin and reed birds. and |
other delicacies. After he had finished /
his meal he walked up to the desk, laid |
his umbrella and cane upon it, pulled out |
his great, green wallet as if to Sc ;tle, |
and ueiascding the amount of his bill, |
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| ard other famous men; the principles for
which they fought and the deeds that in
| spired them. Poets, artists, actors. and
there, and many dignifed justices of the
| Supreme Court have not hesitated to en-
| ter the quaint little door.
Study of the Walls.
study of the walls discloses many in
teresting bits of history. There can be
seen the First Prayer in Congress- %
which was found in Thatcher's Military
Journal" under date of December. 1777.
1t was offered by the Rev. Jacob Duche.
a minister of renowned eloquence, who
prayed that God will look down in His
infinite mercy on the American States
that have fed TO Him for protection; that
He viii take them under his >rurturing
care, give them wisdom in counci! and
valor in the field; defeat the malicious de-
signs OF their cruel adversaries convince
them of the unrighteousness of their
cause; and. If they persist in their san
culinary purposes. constrain them to drop
their weapons of war from their unnerved
hands" 1t begs further that He will so
direct the deliberations of Congress that
order. harmony. and peace may be re-
stored and truth and justice, religion and
piety prevail among the people,
Photograph of Lincoln.
There is an original photograph of Lin
coin taken in Congress in 1s4S; pictures OF
the war President and his staff on the
morning of the battle of Antietam, the
chair in which he was sitting when as
sassinated. and the funeral procession On
the way to the Capitol; quaint prints f
the building in which Congress met after
the war of 1872 and which was used as a
military prison from 1861 to 1865, rare
print in colors of the battle of New Or
leans; an engraving of Zachary Taylor
made from daguerreotype. and one of
Edmund Coke. done in 1870.
A playbill. interesting as a relic of the
first theatrical season in Washington, an
nounces comedy. entitled THE Secret,
or Partnership Dissolved" to be done at
the United States Theatre on September
l. 1900; the comedy to be followed by a
farce. 1.-The Positive Man." and the per-
formance to conclude with the Sailors
Rendezvous" and a hornpipe. The doors
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him to the echo"
Bill of Winter Garden.
From a bill of the Winter Garden for
November %, 1858, one learns of benefit
for the Shakespeare statue fund, the play
being Julius Caesar" Junius Brutus
Booth impersonating Cassius; Edwin
Booth, Brutus, and ]. Wilkes Booth, Marc
Antony. On another of December IA, 1863,
is advertised presentation of Henry
w." Mr. Hackett, father OF the young
romantic actor, James X. Hackett, now
playing a Don Caesar drama, being cast
for Sir John Falstaff.
And then there is the bill Of the play
announcing the appearance of Miss Laura
Keene in her original character of For
enel Trenchsrd" in the play entitled "Our
American Cousin play that will ever
be famous from its association with one
Of the saddest tragedies in American his
tory-the murder of the beloved Lincoln.
Proclamation by Stanton.
A proclamation signed by Edwin NJ.
Stanton. Secretary of War, gives descrip
tions of Booth. Surratt. and Harold, and
offers a reward of s1OO, ,0OG for their cap
ture.
Another proclamation by his excellency.
the Governor of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts. calls upon all citizens &c
give thanks for the blessings bestowed
upon them during the past year. 1t is
signed in a bold dashing hand, John
Hancock" and dated November s, 1888.
II represents the first Thanksgiving Day
proclamation in America.
Autograph Letters.
Enclosed in case are autograph let
ters from Presidents Monroe. Pierce, and
Lincoln. and others from Calhoun and
Clay. A letter from the latter thanks the
person to whom it is addressed for SYM
pathy expressed in the loss of Mr. Gays
son at the battle of Buena Vista.
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TN A CERTAIN floral period of Eng
lish letters there lived in London a
score or moro of congeniaI spirits

TN A CERTAIN floral period of Eng
lish letters there lived in London a
i score or more of congenial spirits
who were wont to assemble socially
IN the afternoon or evening, and to the
clink of glasses drink the good health
and happiness OF their fellows.
Who has not heard of the Turks Head
in Gerard Street where the literary lights
Of the latter half of the eighteenth CEN
tury met in social intercourse and drank
bumpers OF musty ale or slipped Scotch
toddies? II was there that the states
man, itterateurs, poets, actors, artists,
and kindred spirits congregated in the ev-
ening. There Burke and Johnson, Gold
smith. Sir Joshua Reynolds, Davy Gar
rick. and others held their levees, and
while discussing socially the burning
questions of the hour regaled their souls
and bodies with good old English ale or
Scotch brandy.
Notable Patrons.
There ''The Club held its meetings,
when the 'hulking three-decker," the
dictionary maker, proclaimed his wise
saws; or Garrick. the mimic, was wont
to 'set the table in a roar" with his
brilliant flashes of satirical wit, or Gold
smith blundered like poor poll, or Burke
delighted with his delicious brogue. The
Turks Head will live in English history
for many years to come as the meeting
place OF some of the very. greatest Eng
lishnen that ever lived.
There exists in Washington a small and
uupretentious restaurant that will occupy
in American history place Of relative
Importance. More than half century
ago, when Washington was little more
than big village and Pennsylvania Ave-
nue. no more dignified than the main
street of any country town, citizen OF
Washington established on the Avenue
between Twelfth and Thirteenth Streets
a tavern that soon became the rendez-
vous of many Of Americas greatest men.
Opened in 1890.
The tavern was first opened to the pub |
lie in 1910 and it is still doing business
at the old stand, having passed from its |
founder to the third generation of the /
family. 1t is still renowned as a place
where one can get the best to be had of /
the good things of life. but without the
many luxurious appointments adorning
other modern restaurants, the little old
fashioned tavern has lost some OF its pop
ularity. 1t presents today almost the
Same appearance it did sixty years ago.
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| asked the, proprietor IL Bowser had re-
| Gently been in the place.
| When the host replied that he did not
| know Mr.. Bowser. Beau. turning his toes
| in and making on leg shorter than the
/ other, Hmped across the room. saying:
| why, he's the fellow who walks like
! this. and before the unsuspeeting pro-
| prietor realized what he was about, Beau
! had passed out Of the door. leaving as
| pay for mis- meal his old umbrella and
cane.
Original Manuscript.
Here also is what is said to be the orig
inal manuscript of the poem which Is
claimed by both Col. John A. Joyce. the
local poet. and Ella Wheeler Wilcox. and
which begins Laugh and the world
laughs with you Beneath the verses is
written the following: Written FOR the
poet and journalist, George d. Prentice.
Louisville, KY, January. 1868, by John A.
Joyce
Historic Relics.
In one Of the back rooms are other his
tcrical relics, among which are rare
steel engraving OF Andrew Jackson; az
autograph letter written by him; a let
ter from Horace Greeley: a check drawn
by John Quincy Adams on the Bank Of
the Metropolis of Washington City for
$500; copy of the poster advertising re-
ward OF so, 600 for information of the kid
mapped boy. Charlie Brewster Ross;
copies of the London Post" in 1874. and
the Pennsylvania Gazette of March 20.
1856; very rare photograph of the mem
bers of the Senate OF 1859, among whom
are Summer, Davis. Andrew Johnson,
Mason, and Slldell, Seward, Sam Houston,
and other great Americans Of the days
gone by.
Interesting Curios
4 case in the front room contains among
other curios a piece of the blanket in
which Booths body was wrapped after
he was shot; the socks worn by Robert
Emmett Odlum when he made his fatal
leap from the Brooklyn Bridge; numerous
political badges of the early Presidential
and badges, OF mourning worn
at the Lincoln obsequies.
Communication From Guiteau.
. An original letter of the assassin Gui-
teau expresses the belief that he will be
liberated from Jail on the ground of non-
jurisdiction of the court, and also prom
ises to pay his attorneys $4,000 for their
efforts TO have him released, which. he
declared, he would pay from the proceeds
of his book Below it are the signatures
of the jurymen who convicted the assas-
sin. Hundreds of other interesting relics
are hung on the walls or occupy places
in the numerous cases about the room.
Atmosphere of Age.
There is an atmosphere of age about the
place. but it is an age replete with in
terest, and from the kitchen can be de-
tected all the while the savory odor of
rare dishes being cooked by old Virginia
Every evening members of Con-
gress may be seen seated at the tables or
lined up in front of the bar-men whose
perhaps, in the years to come
will be invested with quite as much inter-
est as the men who are recalled by the
hundreds of relics inside the little old
rooms.
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TIE BAR: SHOWING DESCENDANT OF THE
ORIGINAL BARkEEPER :.

Small and Unpretentious Restaurant Established
Over Sixty Years Ago That Will Occupy
an Important Place in American History.
PaHoRizediR Pahny Days by Webster, Clay,
Calhoun, Sumner, Beau Hickman, and Other
Notable Characters--StaHds Today Un-
changed by the Flight Of Time o|
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Bill of Winter Garden.

theatre beyond its usual limits applauded
him to the echo"
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The interior has not been changed at all.
ard the outside is different only because
of fresh paint
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1902-11-01
The Presidents Birthday.

Washington, Oct. 81. Presl-
dent Roosevelt today quietly cele-
brated the 44th anniversary of his
birthday. He was down IN his
Office early, going over some mat
ters with Secretary Cortelyou who
had just returned from Canton.
Many messages of congratulation
were received and numbers of re-
membranes arrived during the
morning.
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Finley to Stump Mary land.

Special tC Charleston Post.
Washington, Oct. 20. Rep.
re>cntativc Finley, of South Car
olina, will probably close his cam
paign work this week with n ser-
les of Democratic speeches in the
State of Maryland Mr.. Finley,
IS announced, has been dong
some excellent work for the Dem
ocratic Congressional committee
in West Virginia, and it is be,
believed that he will be able to
make a good impression in Mary
land. III. L. ii.
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The President Coming South.

Washington, Oct. 29.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt will make a trip
through part of The south next
month if official business should
not make his presence in Wash
ington necessary ut that time.
The trip will be made about the
middle Of the month, the primary
object or 1T being to enable the
president to attend the reception
to be rendered by the citizens of
Memphis to Gen. Luke Wright,
vice governor of the Philippines.
subsequently, It is expected that
the president will accept an lnvit-
alton to participate IN bear hunt
In the cine brakes of Mississippi.
He may embrace the opportunity,
while in the south to visit the Tus-
kegee college at Tuskegee, Ala
of which Booker +. Washington is
president.
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THE LEDGER.
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EDITOR AND MANAGER.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER l, 1902.

Property Owners League
has been formed in Chicago for
the purpose of cndeavoring to
secure legislation which will pro.
vide that burglars and highway
men shall he whipped at the post,
in addition to being sentenced to
Jail terms. The whipping post
has been abolished in almost every
part OF the United States on the
ground that it is a relic of bar
barism. In Delaware they cling
to the Whipping post for wife
beaters and certain petty Grimm
ais, and clam that the influence
of the hogging is decidedly good.
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South Carolina Presbyterians.

In view of the recent assemb
ling of the synod of South Caro-
lima, the following statistics will
be of interest:
The presbyterian church in this
State comprises in all 1876 miuis-
ters and 20, ,644 members.
There are 272 organized Pres
byteriau churches in the State.
They average IS communfng
members to each churcn.
There are 27 young men in
training for the ministry in the
synod.
Of the 1876 ministers, nine ars
foreign missionaries. Of the rest,
1O4 are in charge of churches, the
others are professors or infirm or
without charges.
During the year ending March
81, 1902, the synod of South Car
olina raised for church purposes
S145, 339, or an average of S7O4
for each member. They gave to
foreign missions S11,1S3, an
average of 81 cents per member.
They gave for home missions
SIS, ,679, an average of 40 cents.
TO other benevolent causes they
gave SIT, 7S2, an average of Sc
cents per member.
The average salary paid all over
the synod Is ST42 TO each pastor.
In salaries 10 ministers the
church pays $70,995. In current
congregational expenses, besides
the ministers salaries, S35,61O.
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There is the man behind the
counter and the man behind the
gun, the man behind the buzz saw
and the man behind his son; the
man behind the times and the man
behind his rents, ,he man behind
the ploughshares and the man be-
hind the fence; the man behind
the whistle and the man behind
the bars, and the man behind the
kodak and the man behind the
cars; the man behind his whiskers
and the man behind his fist, aud
everything behind thing is en-
tered on the list. But they have
skipped another fellow of whom
nothing has been said the fellow
who is even or just little way
ahead: who always pays for what
he gets and whose bill is always
signed-he is blamed sight
more important than the man who
is behind. All we newspaper
people and merchants and the
whole commercial clan are indebt-
ed for our existence to this hon
est, noble man. He keeps us
all IN business and his town is
never dead and so you oil take
your hat off to the man who Is
ahead. -Ex.
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STARTLING, BUT TRUE

IF every one knew what u
grand medicine DIR. Kings New
Life Pills is, ~ writes D. II. Tur>
ner, Demseytown, Pa, "yon'd
sell all you have in day. Two
weeks use has made new man
of me. :" Infallible for constipa>
ton, stomach and liver troubles.
25c at j. +. Mackey & Co. &
Crawford Bros. drug store.
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a DastardIy Deed.

Wadeshoro Messenger -Intelligen-
Ger.
There is no more despicable act
in the entire catalogue of crime
than the wllful manning of do
mestic animal. There was
crime of this sort committed at
Ansonville Sunday night that
makes one feel that no punish
ment would he too severe for the
bastard who committed it, if he
can be caught. Some tiend enter
ed the stable of Rev. q. 0. Wills
holt at that place, ut the time
mentioned above, and stole his
fine 2year,old colt. The colt
was led through the pasture a dis
tauce Of about 200 yards when
the fence was let down to permit
or Its beng taken In to the road.
AT this point there was evidence
of severe struggle, indicating
that the colt refused to leave the
pasture. and that the thief made
desperate efforts to force it to do
SO. 1t is supposed the mai be,
came enraged at the colts obstin-
acy and drew his knife and cut a
cash, to the bone, running from
the upper part of the shoulder to
the shoulder blade of the animal.
The cash is Is inches long. The
wound was sewed up and it is
hoped the colt will recover.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1902-11-01

To-day a larger proportion of
the worlds men of note and pow
cr than ever before are over sew
enty years of age. Fifteen mem
bers of the United States senate
would have been eligible as DR..
Hurd's guests under the seventy
year limit. Justices Harlan,
Gray, Fuller and Shiras, of the
supreme court, have reached or
passed the SEVENTEEN year. The
longevity in recent times of for
eign statesmen of the first rank -
Bismarck, Gladstone, Beacons-
field, Gortschakof, Salisbury,
Crispi--is significant. New York
World.
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Boy Dies as the Re suit Of a Mock
Hanging.

Oxford, Miss, Oct. 20. Ems
manuel Crump, an IS year cid
negro boy WI, had witnessed the
recent hanging of Mathis and Les
ter here, secured pIow line and
hung it over a tree limb and ar
ranged moose for Il mock hango
ing of himself. He stood on a
milk jar and placed his head in
the moose. In some manner he
knocked the jar away and his
hanging developed into the genu-
inc article. When found he was
dead.
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Second New Trial Granted.

Raleigh, n. c., Oct. 3O-In the
notable 800, 900 suit of Rev. r.
j. Gattis, of the North Carolina
Methodist conference, against
Rev. DR.. John G. Kilgo, presi-
dent of Trinity college, for libel,
the supreme court for the second
time has granted Il new trial.
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Made the Boy a Pair of Ears.
Bowling Green CO., Dispatch.

Bowling Green CO., Dispatch.
a most unusual surgical opera,
ton was performed here yester-
day, when Burtscll Roe, an eight
yearold boy, was provided with a
brand new pair CT ears.
The little fellow was born with
out ears, but could hear all right,
rs the interior parts were present
as in any. human, but there was
nothing out of the skull to indl-
cate that be would ever have ears.
His parents took him TO many hos. +.
pitfalls and all the physicians re-,
fused to undertake the operation.
Finally local physicians became in
tcrested in the case and after OBJ
tHining the parents consent they
performed what is known as the
plastic operation, and in two hours
the little fellow was the possessor
of prcsentable PAIR of ears.
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TRESPASS NOTICE.

All persons are hereby warned
not to trespass by hunting, fishing
or in any other way on the lands
of the undersigned in Cane Greek
township. Said plantations ad-
join each other and are situate
between three and four miles
Southwest of the town of Lancas.
ter. j. WREN TILLMAN,
l.. Z. FUNDERBURK,
w. T. SIsTARE.
Oct. 81, 1902 I'm.
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YOH KnOaO Whnt You are Taking
When you take Groves Taste
less Chill Tonic because the form
ula is plainly printed on every bot
Me showing that it is simply Iron
and Quinine in tasteless form.
No Cure. No Pay. soc.
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The friends of Mr.. DAVID b.
STOvER announce him as candi-
date for the office of Coroner IN
the a approaching general election.
If elected Mr.. Stover will reside
in the town of Lancaster.
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A Mistrial in the Case of w. d.
Freeman.

Greenville, Oct. 2S. w. ID.
Freeman, former Government
storekeeper, was tried yesterday
in the United States Court on the
charge of numbering Holland
Durham. The case was given to
the jury at 6 O'Clock, and after
remaining in the room all night
the foreman announced this morn
ing that they were unable toayree
and Judge Brawley ordered a
mistrial.
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While a negro farmer living
near Wynne, Ark was absent
from home Wednesday, a negro
brute entered his home and mur.
dered his three daughters. after
criminally assaulting one of them.
a crowd of white and colored cit
izcns is in pursuit of the criminal.
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ANNOUNCEMENT.

L hereby announce myself as u
candidate in the approaching gen
eral election for the unexpired
term of the late lamented Il.
Young, as Coroner of Lancaster
County.
j. MONTGOMERY CAsKEY.
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TO Cure Il {, Id ie One ran.

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine
Tablets. All druggists refund
money if 1t fails to cure. E. w.
Grove signature is on each box
csc.