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Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1903-05-06
FIRE az X ershaiU.

a fire started in the ware
house of Mir NJ. NJ. DePass,
broker at Kershaw Saturday
night and but for the timely
work of their fire department,
made very effective by the new
ly constructed water works, the
building and it's contents, if
nothing else, would have been
destroyed. AS it was the loss
was a mere trihe.
Since writing the above we
find this reference to the fire in
the Kershaw Era:
The Kershaw fire department
was given the second opportuni-
ty Saturday night to show their
ability to handle a fire. The
alarm was sounded about 8
O'Clock and in. a few minutes
the reel teams had three streams
playing on it and it was soon
eXtinguished. The scene of the
fire was Mr.. M. M. DePass'
office and warehouse. The
building, which belonged to Mr..
Il. l. SOwell, was uninsured
and was considerably damaged.
Besides the office fixtures there
was meat and peas stored in the
building The fixtures were
destroyed and the meat and
peas somewhat injured.
There were several frame
buildings and had it not been
for the water works system all
would have been destroyed.
Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1903-05-06
De TOe's Weather Forecast for
Man.

De Foes Weather Forecast for
Nay.
Favorable weather for farming
operations is Indicated for this
month except over the Atlantic
Coast States, where there is like
~ to be lack of rain until the
latter part of the month. 1st to
Sd, pleasant but cold over the
Northern section. 4th to 5th, a
storm will form over the upper
Mississippi Valley. which will
cause local rains over the North
ern section from 9th to 8th. 9th
TO 10th pleasant. 11th to 18th
storm will form over Texas and
move north ward, causing heavy
rains and thunder storms west of
the Ohio. 18th to 18th local
showers and pleasant weather.
10Th to 22d, a storm will form
over the Gulf of Mexico and
move over the Gulf States, caus-
ing heavy rains in its track break
ing the drought over the Attain
tic Coast States. 23d to 26th
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SHIdLE Fire.

Fire was discovered Sunday
night just before 10 o'clock in
the little frame cotton seed house
of the Lancaster Mercantile Co.,
situated on the south side of the
Southern's track at the depot.
The building was full of cotton
seed and cotton seed hulls, sack
ed. The fire was in the North
east corner of the building and
was beginning to blaze through
the paper root when it was dis
covered. A few buckets of water
put it under control. The dam
age was light to both building
and contents, neither of which
was insured.
Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1903-05-06
SdteSddy.

Two pieces of property were
sold at public outcry Monday
one by the sheriff and one by
the Clerk. The sheriff sold 80
acres at the suit of Leanna
Broom against L. Ii. Knight.
1t was bought by R. S. Floyd
for $143. The clerk sold a house
and lot situated in the town of
Kershaw in the foreclosure suit
of r. S. Floyd as administrator
versus Lula Williams. 1t was
bought by R. S. Floyd at $50.
Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1903-05-06
Death Of an Oct0gcnuriaI,.

MIR. James Blackwell, an aged
and highly esteemed citizen OF the
Flat Greek section died last
Thursday, aged about 81 years.
He leaves a widow ana three
sons, Mr.. ID. l.. Blackwell OF
Camden, and Messr5. Lemuel and
Fletcher Blackwell OF Flat Greek
He was buried Friday at Pisgah
church, of which he was a mem
Der.
Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1903-05-06

-"Strength and vigor come
of good food, duly digested.
Force ready-to- serve wheat
and barley food, adds no burden,
but sustains, nourishes, invig-
crates. " 3-25-tf.
Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1903-05-06
'cdCHepS' Examination

Tcdchers' Examination
The next regular examination
of applicants for teachers certlf-
Gates will be held at the court
house on Friday, May 22d, 1908,
during the usual hours.
A. 9. Rowell,
Co. Supt. Education.
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Short Locals.
Wednesday, May 6, 1908.

Quite a number from here
attended the annual picnic at the
Falls Saturday.
The appointments for preach
ing Sunday at Shiloh and Lancas-
ter A. r. z. churches have been
recalled.
For the only ORANGE
PHOSPHATE in town, call at
the Funderburk Pharmacy. 2t
The election in Chester yes
terday for mayor resulted in the
reelection of Mr.. w. II. Hardin.
This is his third term.
Capt. A. McManus who has
been examining the peaches since
the hail storm Monday says many
of them are badly bruised.
AT the Quarterly conference
at the Methodist church Sunday
night, Mr.. A. b. Ferguson was
elected a trustee of the church.
Memorial Day will be OBJ
served as usual next Monday
afternoon at the usual hour. The
address will be delivered by Rev.
John Bass Shelton of Chester.
The Lancaster Chapter of the
Daughters of the Confederacy
will meet Thursday afternoon at
4 o'clock, at the residence OF
Mrs. G. r. Foster. A full attend
ance is desired.
1t has been admitted that
the Funderburk Pharmacy is
serving the best ICE CREAM NJ
in town. Call and see Charley
The Lancaster Camp Wood
men of the World will meet in
their hall in the Catawba House
building on Friday night next
(Sth instantly. Full attendance
desired.
The Riverside school, taught
by Mr.. NJ. j. Green, closed a very
successful session last Tuesday
The board of trustees, consisting
of Messrs. j. z. G. Caskey, j. f
Latham and j. r. Thompson
unanimously reelected Mr. Green
to teach for the next year.
In a difficulty between John
Gregory, white, and Henry Kee
colored, at one of the stores neal
the cotton mill Saturday night
the former was cut in the face by
the latter. Warrants were issued
for both parties charging them
with disorderly conduct, and one
was also issued against Kee, char,
Eing assault and battery with
intent to kill.
The hail storm Monday was
much heavier in some localities
than in others. In the TRIAL
and Jacksonham sections north O.
town reports come that the ground
was covered about six inches deer
with hail-that it looked like &
big snow on the ground. In the
White Bluff section it is said tC
have been very severe, destroying
the fruit crop completely.
Persons having plots in the
Presbyterian graveyard are re
quested to send one or mort
hands with hoes during this weet
to assist il cleaning off the grave
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S"1dcn EARN Of MOther of GTTs.
Springs.

A phone message received
here late last Tuesday afternoon
by Colonel Springs from Fort
Mill, announced the sudden
death Of Mrs S e White, moth
er of Mrs Springs Mrs Springs
herself was in Baltimore. Colo
mel Springs left at once for Fort
Mill by private conveyance and
Mrs Springs, who had been
notified by telegram, reached
there the next morning.
The following particulars of
the sad death occurred in the
Rock Hill Herald:
Mrs Esther Phifer White, the
beloved wife of Captain S F..
White, died suddenly in her
home at Fort Mill Tuesday after
noon. For several days Mrs
White lad been suffering with
an attack of gastritis, but ap
peared to be some better that
day. In the afternoon she was
on the piazza with her husband,
but about 5 O'CLOCK he left her
and TOOK his accustomed walk
down town When he had gone
Mrs. White went into the house
and thence TO the bath room
whore She had taken a bath.
From there she entered her bed
room, but had only taken step
or two when she fell upon the
floor, face forward, and it is
evident that she expired in a
few minutes, the cause being
acute gastritis, complicated with
heart trouble of some Lind
Mrs White had promised her
little grandson, Elliott Springs,
who was the idol of her heart,
that she would take a walk with
him, and as she did not come
as soon as he expected, the little
fellow went into the house and
found his grandmother lying
upon the floor and apparently
dead. The alarm was given,
and Capt. White with physicians
responded at once, but the sum-
mons had come to the good wo-
man as she was already lifeless.
The death was a great blow
to Capt. White, ALREADY in feeble
health, and the news as it spread
was a shock to friends every
where. She was one of the most
lOvable women in the county,
pure in heart and mind and
sweet of disposition, the friend
of the poor and distressed, and
a Jealous and most intelligent
worker in every cause. Her life
abounded in works of charity
and good deeds, and she will be
missed in the community she
blessed by her presence. A
worker expressed this truth
beautifully to us on Thursday
when he said: eyes, she will
be missed in Fort Mill, but her
loss to the pale-faced women
who work in the factories will
be a calamity"
Mrs. White was born in Con-
cord, N. c., November 27, 1S43,
and was the eldest daughter of
Robert Washington Phifer and
his wife Sarah Ann. She was
educated at the old Barhamville
Academy near Columbia and at
Burwell's school in Charlotte.
She was married to Capt. Sam
uel f. White November u 1866,
and at once went to Fort Mill to
live. TO them were born five
children-three girls and two
boys. All are dead but one
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ladies will be in the graveyard
each day experimenting the
work.
The Methodist people here
viii! observe the third Sunday as
Children's Day, and on the fol-
lowing Wednesday the Sunday
school will have their annual
picnic. The place has not been
decided on yet.
Capt. r. +. Wylie of Ian
caster, one Of the best lawyers
and most estimable gentlemen Of
the upper tier Of counties, was
here yesterday the guest of As
sociate Justice Ira B. Jones.-The
State, 30th instant.
Yesterday mornings State
announced that homes in Colum.
bla had been assigned to over
$500 veterans for next week and
that the committee feels no anx-
iety-that ample accommodations
have been provided.
The celebrated Wages fami-
ly, numbering five, will give a
musical entertainment here on
the evening Of the 10Th of May.
A rare musical treat is in store
for the public.
There will be no preaching
at Gills Greek or Pleasant Hill
next Sabbath, as the pastor, Rev.
}. M. White, will be absent, as.
sisting Rev. @. B. Belts at Union
in Chester county.
For a cool and refreshing
drink, try one of Charley's
STRAWBERRY PUREE at
the Funderburk Pharmacy. 2t
AT the Quarterly conference
held at the Methodist church
Sunday night last, Messrs. l.. G.
Lazenby and j. M. Riddle were
elected delegates to the District
conference to be held later on at
Tradesville. Messrs. w. p. Ben
nett and j. M. Hood were elected
alternates.
Judge Dantzler has filed his
DEGREES in the two cases taken
off by him for consideration, viz ::
Elizabeth Remington ct. al. VS..
Del Catoe, and Robt. Buist Co.
VS.. Lancaster Mercantile COM
pany. plaintiffs in both cases
made motions for new trial,
both of which were overruled by
the judge.
Rev. w. @. Ewart and fam
lily will leave for Abbeville to,
morrow where he goes to enter
upon his duties as pastor of the
A. r. p. church of that city.
Lancaster regrets to lose Mr.
Ewart and his excellent family
and his numerous friends will
always be glad to hear of his
successes.
You had better see us be-
fore you spend your CASH.
We've got some bargains.
Lancaster Mer. Co.
"A rain, hail and wind storm
struck Lancaster about l o'clock
Monday and the ground was al
most covered with hail, the stones
being about the size of large peas.
After the storm was over hail
could be raked up by the hands
full. The damage to gardens
was considerable, young vegeta-
bles being badly bruised and
many of the leaves and branches
beaten off.
The State Summer School for
Teachers will be held at Win
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-29
Etiquette of Registering.

From the Milwaukee Wisconsin.
 The question of the etiquette of regis tering at hotels has created no little in- terest among the clerks of the several Milwaukee hostelries Benjamin Scherer, the genial and capable gentleman who presides over the desk at the St. Charles hotel. disagrees with some of his col- leagues at the other inns on the point that the form, John Jones and wife. Racine. Wis" is not correct "The absolutely proper way for man and wife to regis ter" he said recently, "is as they do in some of the swell summer resorts-that Is, the mans name on one line and the wo- mans name on another and separate line John Jones. Racine, Wis., and Mrs. John Jones. Racine, Wis. It even has been carried to a still further extreme in giving the wife the same Individuality as her husband-for instance. John Jones, Racine, Wis., and Mrs. Helen Jones. Ra- cine Wis But to all lntents and pur- poses it is just as good form for couple to register John Jones and wife as it is to register MT. and Mrs. John Jones' If the man were travelling alone it would seem absurd for him to register as MT. John Jones. Why is it any less so for him to register as MT John Jones when ac- eompaned by his wife?'
 The form followed by a number of cor rect persons, John and Mrs Jones' Ra- cine, Wis.," seems to be growing in favor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-29

Now, the man who is pursued by a wo- man for whom he does not care. hates even the sound of her voice. It grates or do strikes a discordant note that twangs through his whole anatomy like the cold blast that catches him coatless and hatless in a drizzling rain.
 And the more agreeable she tries to be the more discordant the twang.
 And the woman who pursues him in tears.
 There is nothing that has the same da- bolical effect on a man as a womans tears. They never awaken one throb of sympathy in his manly breast but does oren a valve of profanity that few men have the inclination to shut off before the flood escapes.
 There are two sides to this story. One for the man, the other for the woman. For the latter it is pitable, and yet she hardly deserves pity. It may be her mis- fortune rather than her fault. But be that as it may. the woman should sum- mons all her pride and self-respect to hide the pain she may be enduring, instead of seeking the man avoid him, when the chances are that she will suffer less than when confronted with the evidence of his looks, voice and manner that she is not the one woman on earth for him.
 On the mans side it is a problem most delicate, if he be the right kind of man.
 A man never appreciates a love that comes unbidden. If he be single, the situ- ation is embarrassing even If he be not in love elsewhere, and if he should be, the affair is simply intolerable.
 If he be married, and In love with his wife, as sometimes happens, he spends many agonizing moments on the anxious bench in a paroxysm of fear, lest his wife become cognizant of the facts
 Now, a woman and a cyclone are the most uncertain things in the world, and a woman may not care so overly much for her husband, yet she insists that he shall be her personal, private and exclu- sive property If she finds out about the other woman she will never stop to req son, nor will she make any allowances, but with one fell hysterical swoop she knows that hubby must have done some thing naughty, or given some encourage ment to the other woman, and forthwith she goes to bed-done up in sterilized cot ton and witch hazel, or something that smells equally druggy, and from imagin- ing she is i'll, becomes so acutely, and it's a question which is the most smiserable, she or hubby.
 If the wife has just a little common sense with a few grains of confidence of righting itself in time, but there are precious few women whom you could make believe that it was only wretched mistake.
 The average woman will listen to no ex-
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the turnout which was not to be despised.
 And where is he now? Is it possible that he can have turned into that awful thing known as the "ehauffeur?" Is 1t possible that this Is he with goggles on his eyes and a disreputable-looking cap on his head-he who never wore anything less than a silk hat in the old days?
 There Is nothing stylish about chauf- feur. He can truthfully be called any thing. but that, even murderous. And there's nothing up to date about him. He Is just simply an Object. with a big O..
 But. as for that even her ladyship can't look beautiful and ride at any sort of pace in her automobile at the same time. In the old days her carriage costumes were dreams of beauty. Nowadays her carriage costume consists of a long and shapeless dust colored coat and a hat which has a veil tied over it, so that 1t will best hold 1t on, and not so that it makes for beauty. She, too, wears gog- gles at times, and, altogether. she Is as little like herself as 1t Is possible Ito be. But nothing Is to be so much regretted as the passing of the tiger" and his spick-and-span livery When he Is really gone for good there will indeed be some- thing to regret
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-29
BY "coLoNEL KATE"

with strong dash of disgust thrown in, and woman never gains an inch in such a pursuit.
 It is inherent in a man to want to do the pursuing. and when he finds positions reversed it shuts off the power. as it were, and slows up speed.
 Then, too, a man is always the butt of ridicule in such a case. His friends are sure to get an inkling of the situation somehow or another when they tease and torment him with a sort of savagery that makes the woman a nightmare to be dreaded if infected with smallpox.
 The woman who seeks to win a man In this way is bottling up misery for her. self by the case, and 1t would take an earthquake, cyclone, or some other equally disastrous upheaval to kindle any thing like q spark in his manly breast He may get used to seeing her around and cultivate a sort of spirit of tolerance towards her, but as for ever acquiring any tender passion. she might as well try to light a snowfall with a match.
 Women are such creatures of impulse, who reason with such obliquity of vision as to see things always from the wrong end of the angle. and the woman who is in love feels sure that she could make the man love her if she could but manage to be with him from time to time.
 To this end she will follow him any where, at any time or any place. until he bites off and swallows a few bad words whenever he sees her looming up, and her moods are as aggravating as her per- sonality.
 At one meeting she will be the plead ing maid, so anxious to make herself agreeable, while he could not see her in that light if she were haloed with an electric display. She Is to him like an augur that bores him through and through. Again she corrals him when taking his constitutional, and there is the choice left, either to go with her to the nearest park, sit there and let her talk it out, or knock her down, and there is something in a mans nature that has a wee bit of the spark of the divine that holds his hands long enough 10 restrain the impulse to knock her down, which she really deserves.
 The man who lays violent hands on a woman is a brute, but very often the man who refrains from doing so is God-like.
 There is nothing in the whole range of dreadful mixups savoring so utterly of satanic connections that is millioneth part as aggravating as the real thing in the woman line when she settles down to business.
 Boys, isn't this the truth?
 There are other times when she is bent on being so very agreeable forgetting that even at her best she is always dis agreeable to him, yet she fancies that perhaps even when detailing a choice con- lection of gossip she will interest him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-29
Man Who is Loved by the Wrong Woman


If there is any man on earth who merits both the prayers and sympathy of his fellow man, it is the fellow who is loved oy the wrong woman.
 Women may become indignant and want 10 throw a rubber plant, or something equally stunning at my devoted head be- sause of the unqualified assertion that many women literally throw themselves It mans head, while he, poor fellow, staggering under the impact, torn by all Iorts of conflicting emotions, being at ,otal loss how to act, or what to do to i'd himself of the incubus.
 Now, the man who is loved by the wrong woman is in a far more embar- lassing position than the woman who is owed by the wrong man, from the fact that a woman is privileged to say and 10 many things making a beautiful exhi- otion of herself and her temper, that nan, refined and possessed of the proper innate spirit of chivalry, cannot bring himself to be guilty of, and 1t is very irving position for him under any cir mmstances.
  hetions and one who under other con- itions may be refined, proud and thor ,ughly ladylike, will develop the most urprising traits should she unfortunate Y fall in love with a man who cares ab- ,olutely nothing for her. In fact her anty might with reason be questioned, md a man may be embarrassed into mat imony before he has actually digested he situation. More men than receive redit for 1t have married women after earning that they were loved, sympathy md chivalry prompting the climax, while he woman, though not exactly making proposal have, more properly speaking legged the man to marry her.
 Nothing on earth makes woman so mad as to have the wrong man making love to her It would convert an angel into a fiend, and the man who could per- severe against such odds is leavened of the stuff of which heroes are made. but the woman will manage to get rid of him at whatever sacrifice of dignity and self-respect. She is too mad to care what kind of scene she makes, just so she &C., eomplishes her object, and the man quits In sheer self-defense.
 The man who is loved by the wrong wo- man is so bored and aggravated that he chews up his cuss words when too much of a gentleman to spit 'em out"
 The woman In the case loses all sense of pride and even of common decency.
 There is nothing that a man hates more than to have a woman running after him. Even If 1t be the right woman, the one whom he loves. it makes him mad
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-29

planation. and while hubby may love her as dearly as it is in a mans nature to love any woman, yet her confidence Is shattered, her nerves on a strike, and the bird of Paradise that is supposed to roost on the right side of the domestic hearth hath flown to the demnition bow VOWS.
 If there is ever a time when a man should remember the prayers learned at his mothers knee, it is when he is loved by the wrong womani
 It is Just awful. But, boys, what are you going 10 do about it?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-29

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-29
PASSING OF THE TIGER"
Vogue of the Automobile Has Done
 Away With the Natty Footman.
rrom the Detroit Free Press.

From the Detroit Free Press.
 There is one thing perfectly certain, and that is that while the automobile may be the "sportiest" vehicle now known. and the fastest. by no stretch of the imagination can it be called the smart est looking The trap in which her lady shin used to drive was always graced by a tiger" a nice-looking, clean-faced lit- tle fellow, in top boots and with his arms folded gloomily over his tighly bnttoned up chest. He regarded his fellow, the eoachman, with marked distrust, while that individual returned, but, neverthe- less, he gave an air of up-to-dateness to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-29
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