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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1903-12-05
What 1t Means.

We're tired OF answering questions!
"Fewe' Gallons; Wears Loneern
means you don't have to paint your
house SO often, and you don't have to
use so much paint. Costs less for the
job, and you don't have to do the lob
30 often,
The new paint is not new at all. It's
the oiggest-se!ling paint in the United
States, and the firm that makes 1t is
l49 years old.
Devoe Lead and Zinc-fewer gallons
than mixed paints, wears twice as
long as lead and oil.
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w D w Camp Election

w o w Camp Election
AT tho regular meeting of Lam
cas- or Camp w. O. w. Thursday
night the following officers were
elected for the ensuing term: j.
A. Cook, Q. c.; @. N. Hardin,
Adv. L.; A. J. Clark, Clerk; 3.
7. Funderbnrk, Banker; w. T.
Blackmon, Watchman; A. j. Nc
Ninch, Sentry; q. F. Stoll, Escort;
w. b. Culp, N. b. Cousar and
j. Clark Robinson, Managers.
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Dowie, the self styled "Elijah
ILL.," has become bankrupt and
his property is in the hands of
law officers. His appeals to his
friends for aid avalled him moth,
ing
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The Confederate Bazaar will
take place on the 9th of Decem-
Der, in the Riddle building The
Daughters are making a desper-
ate effort to have i, q success.
We are not soliciting contribu-
tions individually, but ex.
tenda general invitation through
the papers to please help US in
this noble work. Each man,
woman and child is requested TO
send q contribution.
U. D. G.
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The S. G. Annual Conference
OF the A. M. E. Zion church will
meet with the colored Methodist
church of Kershaw this week.
Bishop j. w. Hood, D. D., will
preside. .-Kershaw Era.
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4, the only
Axzsz5 Candy,
q A trial
will convince you. At
MaCkorell'S.
See Auditors Notice.

-Cee auultOr' 8 Notice.
Gotten brought 124 on this
market yesterday.
For rent! 4-room cottage.
Apply to r. E. Wylie.
-Mrs. o A. Osborne of Blacks
burg visited friends here this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John A. c..
Mason of Baltimore, Md, are
hero for few weeks to enjoy the
hunting season.
Mrs. l. r. Rollings and
children of Oakhurst spent sever
al days bore this week with Mrs.
E. M. Croxton.
We omitted to state in our
last issue that Mr.. E. j. Sims &C.
companied his ssh Mr.. George
Sims and family to Oklahoma last
Tuesday. He expects to return
in two or three months.
Mr.. Burrell Hunter of the
Primus section killed year old
shoat last week which netted him
40 pounds of meat.
Mrs. r. "a. Dobson, of Ker.
shaw, is visiting her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. D. A. Williams at this
place.
There are only four weeks
remaining to pay taxes in without
penalty, and it is improbable that
there will be any extension this
year. The people are paying up
somewhat better, however, than
last year, cotton being higher and
times better.
The Most Worshipful Grand
Lodge, A. F. M, South Carroll
na, will assemble in annual com.
munieation in the Masonic Tem-
pie at Charleston next Tuesday at
noon. Jackson Lodge will be
represented by Capt. B. j. With.
erspoon, w. M, and w. T. Viii.
liams, j. ". They will leave on
Monday for Charleston.
Letters advertised az remain
Ing in the post Office at Lancaster
uncalled for for the week ending
Nov.7 1908 are as follows:
Miss Fettie McGse. Mrs. Aura
Thomson, Mrs. Lee Mary Nc
Murrry, R. E. West, William
Campbell. Henry Balls, George
Bolton, w. E. Furcron. Hugh
Baker, Nathan Crockett.
Belle Nance, L. M.
Mrs. Polly Catoe celebrated
her s0th birthday with big din.
ner on the 23rd ult., a large num-
Der of relatives and friends being
present. All had bountiful suf-
ficisncy Of good eatables and all
had a good time. Mrs. Catoe
has s5 grandchildren and SO great
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Era.
There will be a basket sup
per at Buford school house Satur>
day night, 10th, inst. The pro-
ceeds will be applied to the school
house. Public cordially invited.
Miss Minnie Steele,
Mas Ona Ennderhurk
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Guaranteed Shoes
For Little Folks.

hangaroo Cal, first quality at 90c
to$l 90.
Flint grain, first quality at s5c
and 95 cent.
Flint grain. smaller sizt at 65c
vici Kid, all solid, at 90c and 81 100
Vici Kid, small size at SOC, CSC and Toe
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BY JOSIAH FLYNT
And FRANCIS WALTON

And that's soon said replied lied the awysr laying 3
a gesture that neither left them. TRY
seat, he said, standing before an open fire Take
off your coat and hat and make yourself at home
Judge Barwood had good gray eye with a twinkle
in it and the accent of his invitation was ocular
I am much more comfortable with them the
room is cold, said the visitor.
Just So" said Barwood appreciatively; and now
about the business"
The business is the height of simplicity have
stolen $4,000 For personal reasons 1 object 70
ones attempting to pursue me and to take away the
The visitor also had good gray eye,
And that's very natural objection too. said
the man of law The plainest way to avoid it is to
If had been looking for the plainest way should
not have had to come to your honor for advice
The two pairs of good, gray eyes looked into one
This" the judge, looks like 1shy business.
And what is much to the point in affair of this
small to be looked at without discomfort"
That bundle of notes is not small fee for listen
dollars That is all I have asked for it. When you
have told me how to keep the fifty thousand the bun
die on the table will be bigger
1T would have to be great deal bigger"
Would it set a limit to its bgness if the
of whom the fifty thousand has done you dirt?
There We're not a great many men men in Cornviie
Not Englar
Bar~oOd's face broadened into grim smile.
You are quite resolved not to be advised put
the money back?"
1t IS really my duty 10 urge the point
You have urged it"
BarwOOd. with grim smile still lingering his
face, STROBE for time up and down the room.
at last to halt in his former station before
the FIRE.
Gould you steal any more?" he asked graveIy.
How much more, for eXampe?'
well, say a second fifty thousand could
hardly make deal with less
7 have stolen a second fifty thousand said the
visitor. drawing considerable parcel from under his
cloak and laying it the table. Il calculated my
self that would take just second fifty to protect
the first"
You seem to be client of great forethought,"
said the lawyer
TT needs client of great forethOught employ
attorney of great penetration, said the visitor.
1T is only to settle where and when I to let
you know what I have done. I suppose you can trust
yourself get caught said Barwood.
This unkind; the powers that rule be
joke in COrnvile and Renshaw, who had been
BarwOod's rival the point of the joke.
Il myself good deal better get
caught if don't any else with my address
When I want to know what you have done 1 viii
and ask you Good night, Mr. Attorney"
Good night, Mr. Scamp
The two men parted with mutual respect and good
will.
Barwood had made it point of conscience in the
agreeable TO himself and disagreeable to some
one else, never to prOcrastnate There besides
another in the present for dispatch. 1t
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Handled the More Important

dence Of their beated Joy they going TO watcn
go up in the Balloon.
When the Natal Day of our glorious Liberty daVned
on the zap Settlement and the local population be-
gan to cOagulae along Main street it discovered
that the daring Aeronaut had been taken with Cold
Feet and refused to
The Committee in despair Now comes the Parl
showing the Value of a Manager. The Brains of the
Concern went O the Committee and agreed 10 send
his Partner up Balloon IN consideration Of 100
Plunks to him. in the Hand paid Then he sought out
the Patsy end of the Sketch and broke the Good News
him.
Where do you IMP" asked the Mark If
give the Whole Show and take all the Chances, why
not Long End for me2'
You forget that it was my Master Mind that
evolved the whole Plan" said the Manager I nave
promised send you up Therefore, my Reputation
as a Manager is Stake. think am entitled TO at
If you should let of the Irapeze ana splalIeT
yourself all the Landscape think of the injury
that would be done my Professional Standing. In
thinking all the details of this Under
that Skill Sagacty which usually lacking IN
the Common Skate known the Producer In other
Words / made them hand the Currency. IN Fact,
figure done practically everything con-
nected with this Job except the minor detail OF
going up in the Balloon. have been relieved of all
Worries and Responsibilities I have smoothed out
the Preminaries and now all you have to do is 10
make the Ascension
I can see that m lucky get Half" said the
Mark. slip the Fifty and will take a Chahce-
I the Money
Manager Il should prefer not to give it to you
now If anything happens. it will be of any Use
C you and might fall Tito the Hands of irresponsible
Strangers. is the duty Of every good Manager to
protect the Financial Interests Of those associated
But when I am up there lodging Clouds how
I going keep Tab you down here?" asked the
Mark
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to understand that you are looking for
for your detective force. I have had considerable
experience in the detectivef business. and should like
to be your man, if you're satisfied with my
The reform administration allowed that it would
like Rudereks credentials
I see that you certified to as being very
wise man.: remarked Mr. COwIes. after a hasty
wise is merely a technical term in police paTlance
That's what it is. Mr. Cowles."
You have some acquaintance, have you, with the
understands the ways of thieves"
traordinary Mr. Cowles. but you've got my record
in those papers I certainly ought to know something
well. M MeKIowd, I'll take your name into con
SHERATON ana notIy the authorlties tha You nave
their decision tomorrow. Good afternoon sir"
Good afternoon, Mr. C0wles'
Three days later there was establishment bewilder-
MeKlowd had been appointed chief of detectives in
the town of Cornvie. and the under world wondered
Office was beseged by guns who desired to know what
was what and what was doing" Among the be-
segers were three VINO mad come by special summons
The three bad men invited into Ruderick's pr-
made to declare that they had nothing whatever ON
and had not done any business in the since the
had been "ditched" by Rudericks idea and were sick
Of the place and ready to quit it
When they had finished his reply was exemplary and
.'BIokes." he said. Il amt much on chewin' the
but I'm moren little glad O what you've told
glad you're not mixed in that tunnel business
under Englar's bank. The felIers done that
has got choke it of-see? I can't stand for it.
Anythin else It's been done fore got amt any
o my business For yourselves. my tip old
pal you're sick town. to get shet of it
by the next RATHER. I guess you've made your pile
here anyhow. an its time t you get your graft
elsewhere If sprint catch that 1880 this
evenn'. 1t ud give pain to you here after
O'Clock tonight. SO long, blokes. Take o your
selvesi'
One evening-sx days and fraction. to be accurate
after Rudericks historic warning to the three bad
men--Judge BarwOOd summoned from his bed By
importunate visitor, who made himself agreeabl
by opening his business with the tender retain
ing fee. The fee a bundle of ffty-d notes.
the man in appearance perhaps so years of age,
powerful, deformed nordinately SLOUGH hated great
coated. long haired and whiskered
The bills, to the best Of my belief genuine;
beard to the best of my belief, is not, said
lawyer
4 do not offer you the beard retainer. I offer
the bills
And the voice in which you offer them so far
from being your that you make doubt whether
the bills, however genuine gen-u-ineIy yours
You seem to be person of some penetration"
said the visitor.
If you had not thought before you came you
would not be here" said the lawyer.
so long you do not know my real beard
real voice don't how well you. know my false
beard and false voice As for the money, you may
take it leave it
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hanging onto the ragged Edge of the Jumping-O Off
Pace, his one Desire in Life is make Swift Touch
Ior enough to carry him to Jersey City. He figures
mat he can swim the rest Of The Way
The two polite Grafters very keen to get back
70 the throbbing Metropolis, where much hap
pening that may go Broke without exciting Com
ment and where the CarnatiOn in the Button
often doing Double Turn with the expired Meal
Ticket
But when they Committee on Ways and Means
they found that they sitting the Hard
Pan. with no Assets except some Laundry ready 20
be sent out and several Letters wishing them kinds
of Luck.
In every Business Combination of two or more there
Is one Human Fox who is known the Outside as
the Brains of the Concern He ribs up the Schemes
and then allows Mr. Patsy Bolivar climb the
transom and take all the Chances.
If the Deal eXplodes he is sitting outside of the
Danger Zone tanning himself and explaining that
Partner did not follow Directions
Any one who has attended a Physical Culture Soiree
may have noticed that the Artist who gets the De-
cisiOn, after being walloped a Pulp never col
lects the Purse The Coin is passed over to a pale
Gentleman of thoughtful Mien who is as the
Manager He attends to the Intellectual part of the
Game and holds out about 70 per cent Of the Gross
If a Manager is very Successful and owns Spark
Wagon carrying five People ne becomes known as a
Promoter. If he induce a large bunch of Good
Things to go out and connect with the Wherewithal
and then bring most of up to him where
he is sitting the Front Porch drinking Hickey
then he is known Great Financer.
The Bunko Team stranded the Prairie Wilder
ness had a Manager. who had sufficient Gall be
a Promoter, and who hoped to be a Great Financier
some day, in case the Public forgot to lock up at
Night.
The other half Of the Outfit was the Customary
Mark He went out and dug up and then whacked
with the Brains OF the Concern He afraid cut
loose, for the Manager often told him. ANY time you
lose me, you stop eating
And what would do if you lost me?r asked
the Mark, who was weary Of splitting the Receipts.
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PARLIAMENT AT Il

then perpIexing the rulers of England. The boy
was invited everywhere, and men holding the most
important offices listened to his advice and asked his
opinions.
His friends wanted him to go into parliament
when he was 20 and all predicted for him brilliant
career 1t curious to this delicate stripping.
boy in looks and meeting the great and wise
even terms with the most learned scholars of the day
Young Pitt used to like to listen TO the debaters
in the British parliament. and Mr.. Fox the great
statesman, meeting him once after debate
tOnished at the manner in which the boy criticised
the eminent men who had spoken and pointed
where they could have made their argument stronger
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and all through his course there he was in so
poor condition physically. that it doubted if
he ever would be able to finish the
But hard study seemed agree with him,
when he graduated, at the age of Il he much
stronger than when he entered the university.
At age when most boys are preparing to enter
college, if they very clever have just become
freshmen young the degree master OF arts
from of the greatest universities world
began to study law.
At p he elected to the bar. and the same year
elected member Of parliament to become prime
minister three years later.
While he vet a law student and only IS years
old he attracted the attention prominent men by
his clear views the question of government which
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written a book called "Cassandra' written by
man named LycoDhrOnis- 1t is written in Greek.
\ learned placed the book in the hands of young
Pitt when the boy is years old he read
at first sight ranslatng into English he read and
explaining it in manner which made the learned
man declare that had he not IT he would have
believed it to be beyond the power of human intellect
When Pitt 16 his father declared that he
would be great statesman, and the hope of the
country. Other folks became of his fathers way
of thinking and that is why they put parlia-
ment when he young and made him prime
minister after
He fulfilled all that was expected of him and ruled
England during thirteen the eventful years of
history.
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WONDERFUL WILLIAM


Latin almost as well as he could English. He also
was wen informed the politics of the day and
variety of subjects about which only learning
supposed to know anything.
At IA able take the Of Thucydides.
written in Greek and read page after page turning
into excellent English he read and this On-hand
translation of his is said almost without
d flaw.
His father spoke of him eager Mr.. William.
the counselor, the philosopher At the age of IA
entered the great University of Cambridge in Eng
land. and at once spite of his youth, took a high
place among the students that celebrated place of
learning
When ne went TO Cambridge the boy in such
feeble health that he had to be accompanied by
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Buffalo News.)

(Bu6alO NeWs)
One Of the most remarkable boys the world ever
William Pitt. He astOnished folk with his
learning the age Of Z. He became prime minister
Of England when he "A.
He sickly boy but he took all the out Of
door exercise his delicate frame could bear, and was
eager to study most boys to play. He would
not let his weak body stop his work and he read
ing ancient history at age when most children are
reading stories written in words of one syllable
His father was the great Earl of Chatham and the
boy brought into contact with all the great
III the time IL England. When he Is years old
he wrote tragedy which he called 'Laurentine sing
o Clarinum.
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treat. when. on looking back. we saw one
of our men standing upright on the field
The fact was the poor fellow had such
feet that he never fell down when he was
shot.
Well. said horse dealer who sat in
she corner. that's rather tail. but let me
have try. A fellow came down to our
stables the other day in a hurry 10 hire a
horse for a journey he was going on / II
nave that one he said. pointing to
morse in the yard. Why. there isn't
man IN the world can ride that animal. I
said, Hell work in cart or pillow, but
no one can stay on his back. I'll try
MIN. anyway, said the stranger. as he
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One night he dreamed that he was
making a sewing machine for savage
king in a strange country. As in his
actual waking experience. he was rather
perpleXed about the needles eye. He
thought the king gave him twenty-four
hours in which to complete a machine.
and if not finished in that time death
was to be the punishment.
Howe worked and worked, and puzzled
and puzzled. and finally gave It up Then
he thought that he was taken out TO be
beheaded- On his way to execution he
noticed that the warriors carried spears
that We're pierced near the head. In
stantly came the solution OF the disfic0l-
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Stories Of Huge Feet.

The conversation turned on big feet
when one OF the company said he believed
his nal. smith. would take some beating
IN that line
Il was out walking with Smith one day
when he slipped down. with the soles Of
his boots pointing TO a sroCer's window
THE grocer rushed out TO inquire who was
rutfine the shutters un'
That's pretty fair said soldier who
mas present. "but fellow in our COM
many beat IL hollow. After "a sharp fight
with the enemy we W. 'iisg@@ 70 re-
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it Is safe to presume. has never been lost
on the Bowery. or even in the vicinity of
the Devery four corners But il is d fore
gone conclusion that he has been out of
his reckoning on the country turnpike,
for his bill compels the placing Of sign
posts at every cross-road in the state.
Nay. more, the bill compels that the
signs shall set forth the distance to me
nearest hotel where man and beast can
be accommodated
Said one assemblyman, commenting on
the bill:
Mr.. Mccullough must have lost his
way some time coming from the hop
fields
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By George AIDE.

4 always find one" replied the astute Man
ager- They born al the rate of a Minute,
and they never get next until it
desert this Crisis If you stick. think may
be able to find Work for do"
1t befeH that the Village in which they were she'll
roaded had advertised Balloon Ascension for hide
pendence Day. The Natives re5Oced in the that
the Colonies had thrown of the Yoke Of British
Tyranny and Oppression and in order to give evil
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MODERN

once there We're two Nerve Specialists who had
gone out into the Clover Belt to separate the
" Jays from their Bank Accounts.
When they arrived in the High and Unknown they
found that the gladstone Reub had been reading the
Papers and their Scheme hattened out So they were
trying to back to New York.
In any part of the u S A. when Pneumatic En-
terDrse blows up and leaves a Napoleon of Finance
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~, and while the inventor was begging
for time he aWoke.
1t was then O'Clock in the morning
Howe jumped out of bed hurried to his
work shop and by O'Clock needle with
an eye at the point had been rudeIy mod
ele5. After that the rest was easy.
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Not Needed 81 the Bowerv.

New York Mail and ExDress)
The weary traveller on the country high
way will bless Assemblyman Mccullough
who halls from one Of the east side dis
tricts in Manhattan. il q bill introduced
By. him becomes a law. Mr. Mccullough.
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Giving Proof.

indianapolis News1
I hear there was some romance con
nected with your marriage"
Nothing romantic about it. Our re-
ligious views differed; my wife maintain
ing that the only he'll there is is 5Ipcu
earth, and she married me 10 prove il.
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FABLES.

Don't worry was the Reply. 'If you come
alive today going send you up again. fact.
think / shall keep sending until something
happens As long you are good for the Cola II
quit you
MORAL; Never doubt a Business Man.
Copyright 1908 by Robert Howard Russell.
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EIias love- Lnckv Dream.

Elias Howe. the inventor OF the sewing
machine. almost beggared himself before
he discovered where the eye Of the needle
should be placed It never occurred TO
MIN that it should be located near the
point. and he might have failed altogether
had il not been for a remarkable dream.
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spTang into the saddle / expected to
see him pitched off. but the horse looked
around. saw the mans feet and trotted
quietly off He thought he was between
q pair of shafts
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sid another.

Said another.
Funny that Mccullough would intro
duce such bill Down on the BoWerv
there are always guerrillas readt- and
willing TO guide YOU