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First Child Labor Bill.

In the senate Wednesday morn
ing Senator Marshall introduced
a child labor bill, the main pro-
visions Of which are: That after
May 1, 1908, no child under 10
years old shall be employed in any
factory; after May 1, 1904, no
child under the age of II shall be
employed, and after May /, 1905,
no child under - shall be employ
cd. After May 1. 1908, no Child
under i2 shall be permitted 10
work between the hours of s ..
m. and 6 =. M: provided, a child
may work after s p. m. to make
up for loss Of time owing to ae.
cidents to machinery and other
causes. Children of widow moth
srs and children of totally dis
abled fathers, tho children being
dependent upon their own labor
for a living, may be permitted to
work, an affidavit to be made by
such mother or father to the facts.
On an affidavit being made that
any child has attended school dur
ing four months of the current
year and can read and write, 1T
may be employed in mills during
June, July and August. 1t is
said that this bill meets the ap-
proval of large number Of mill
men. Col. Marshall has given
the subject much thought and
careful consideration, and he be-
lieves that the provisions of the
bill will prove advantageous to all
interests concerned.
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TIL 4, SECRET OF LONG
IIFE

Consists in keeping all the main
organs OF the body IN healthy,
regular action, and in quickly
destroying deadly disease germs.
Electric Bitters regulate Stomach,
Liver and Kidneys, purify the
blood, and give splendid appe-
tite. They work wonders in cur
ing Kidney Troubles, Female
Csmplaints,' Nervous Diseases,
Constipation, Dyspepsia, and Ma
laria. Vigorous health and
strength always follow their use.
Only soc, guaranteed by Craw-
ford Bros, and j. F. Mackey &
Co, druggist.
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Jumped From Train.

Prosperity Jan. L. Our off :
GERS of the law had some unnsal
experience with a negro last Sun
day morning. The offender had
been wanted for some time and
was found, arrested, handcuffed
and put aboard the car to be car
ried to the county Jail. The
cuIprit had evidently planned his
campaign and when Conductor
Hughes of the Southern was en-
gaging the deputy's attention for
tickets the prisoner leaped from the
running train, and thou gh tue
train was stopped and the deputy
went in hot pursuit that negro has
not been seen since.
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The Highland Park Mill
Company will build an additional
cotton mill at Rock Hill to cost
$3.50, 600.
Joe McFadden, colored, after
weeks confinement at his res
taurant on Railroad Avenue, died
Saturday Of smallpox. The body
was buried that night Rock
Hill Herald.
Governor MsSweeney has a
report from Mr.. DeLoach, of
Edisto Island, that there are one
hundred and fifty cases of small
po1 on Edisto Island and medical
assistance is asked Governor
AcSwseney has taken the matter
up with DR.. James Evans, of the
State board of health, who will
give it immediate attention.
The present legis lature will
have to elect a successor to Chief
Justice Mclver. 1t is uderstood
that Associate Justice Pope will
be elected to the chief ju.ticeship,
and = successor will be chosen to
him as associate justice. A num-
ber Of men are mentioned IN con-
nection with the vacancy already,
among them being ex Gov. Shep-
pard, &. A. Woods of Marion, J.
A. Mccullough, f. j. f. Cald-
well of Newberry, Senators Cru
Der and Aldrich, and Judge Jas.
Aldrich. Some of Attorney Gen
eral Bellinger's friends yesterday
urged him to become a candidate.
The State.
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81 81 pki ANktA
Notice Of DisCbarge.

Notice is hereby given that on
the 7th day of February, A. D.
1908. the undersigned as admin
istrn'or If the estate of II. A. M.
Steele, deceased, will file his final
return and settlement and make
alp Piea,ion to The Probate Court
for the County of Lancaster, S.
g., for a final discharge as such
administrator.
IoHN II. STEELE,
Administrators.
Lancaster, s. g., Jan. 6, 1908.
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Only Six Survivors,
Of the MOmentous Secession Con-
vention. Who They Are.

The death of Chief Justice Nc
lver leaves living today only six
of the 1S9 members of the mo-
mentous secession convention,
which was followed by the war
between the north and the South.
In May 1901, ut the time of the
Confederate reunion there were
ten survivors of this famous body.
Since that time the Rev. w. Ii.
Campbell, Capt. John II. Kinsler,
and Chancellor w ID Johnson have
passed away. Now comes tn,
death of Judge McIver, leaving
only six survivors. They are l..
w. Spratt of jacksonville, Hon.
Peter Stokes, Col. Joseph Daniel
Pope, DR.. James H. Carlisle, Col.
r. A. Thompson and Il. G. Lo-
gan.-The State.
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January 10 being Lees birth ,
day and a legal holiday the legis-
lature will net be in session. An
effort will be made to have the
members visit Winthrop college
or that day, and it is likely that
the arrangements will be made. -
COlum bia Record.
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TAX ON ALL DOGS FOUND
WITHIN THE LIMITS Or
The TOWN OF LANCAS-
TER.
BE it ordained by the Mayor
and Aldermen of the Town of
Lancaster, in council assembled and
by the authority of same.
SEC. That an annual tax of
One Dollar is hereby assessed and
levied against the owner of each
dog or bitch kept within the cor
porutc limits of said town to be
paid on or before Jany. 1st 1903,
and on or before January 1st of
each aud every year thereafter.
That upon payment of said tax,
the owner of any dog or bitch
shall be furnished by the Chief of
Police with tag which shall be
immediately placed upon said dog
or bitch by being attached to a
collar.
Sec. 2. That any dog or bitch
found running at large without
the tag prescribed III Section 1 of
this ordinance, shal. be seized and
impounded by the off GERS Of the
town and unless the said tax of
One Dollar, together with an adj
ditional amount of twenty five
cents for the taking up of said deg
or bitch, is paid within thirty-slx
hours from time of seizure, then
said dog or bitch shall forthwith
! be killed.
Ratified by the Mayor and AL
dermen in council assem- bled this
26th day of July, 1902.
r. E. WYL1E,
Attest: Mayor.
H. s G. d. JONES,
Clerk.
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AN ORDINANCE

PROVIDING FOR AN ANNUAL
TAX ON ALL DOGS FOUND
WITHIN THE LIMITS Or
The TOWN OF LANCAS-
TER.
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Why Do So Many Cotton Mill
Operatives Have Sallow
Compilations

persons who think that the sallow
and pale complexion, which SO
many mill operatives have, is the
result of their work. Just be-
fore | started on my trip of in
vestigatlon | read an article writ
ten by a young woman who visit
ed the Columbia cotton mills and
who made much ado about the
sallow complexion of the mill
help. In my visits to the various
eotton mills l found nuns ber of
men and women, boys and girls,
who did have pale, sallow look,
and | tried to find out why. 1t
Is not confined to the children.
: There are men and women Who
have the same look, and while the
con fining work of the cotton mills
may, to some extent, account for
it, there is other cause for it.
Working side by side with the
pale, sallow looking operatives in
many of the mills are operatives
who are just as bright and losy>
| checked and full blooded as any
that can he found in this State.
1t is not an uncommon thing to
60 into spinning room, or any
other department of the mills and
6nd ut one end of the frame a
bright, rosy checked child. The
complexion is not altogether the
result Gf mill life. A census
would show that there are more
pink, checked children than pale
in the mills. There are many
opinions on the subject. Some
charge the complexion to malaria; {;
others insist that it is prenatal.
| Others think that it is climatic,
and others that it is entirely due
to the cotton mill hands mode of
living and poorly prepared food.
| One man, who had been looking
into the question very carefully,
told me that it was the Hbook
worm. | do not pretend to say
what it Is or why it is, but it is
certain that there are to be found
in the sand hills of Rlchland,
Lancaster, and Chesterfield and IN
the mountainous section of this
State and North Carolina, men,
women and children with just the
same complexion as is found
among the operatives of any mill
in South Carolina.
| If some one can find out why
so many people who have never
been inside Of cotton mill have
the "cotton mill color.' 1T will
be practicable to account for tho
color of the cotton mill peo-
pie.
Over in Lancaster talked with
Mr.. Springs on the subject, and
he told me that the pale, saffron
colered operative of his mill came
there that way, and he would
make me wager that he could
tell exactly where every one in
the mill came from. We went
to the mill at the noon hour, and
every child that went IN we stop
ped. Those who we're rosy col.
ored and brlght-looking generally
came from Lancaster County and
from prosperous farms, and with
out even asking tho children
where they crme' from be recog-
nized those with the pale, yellow
skin that they came from eastern
Lancaster and Chesterfield Coun-
ty, and the complexion seemed to
be quite common with that Sec
tion of the country. Some of
them were free to admit that they
had been clay eaters before they
were employed in the cotton
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longer than those who are pale.
In this mill there is Misses Mary
Snlpes, formerly of Chester Coun-
| ty. She has as much color as
would be found in painted pic
ture; and by her side, in striking
contrast, is Miss Nettie Nyme;
and from the same county as Miss
Nettie Nyme is Will Remington
who has plenty of color. Miss
Ada Nye, at work in this mill, al
so has color and brightness of
complexion, and if there were to
be beauty show, it would be
hard to find better entry than
Miss Carrie Gale, who went into
the cotton mill at Lancaster from
her home, about eight miles be-,
low Lancaster, and who has ideal
rosy cheeks, although she ha.
been working In the cotton mill
for a number of years. Theodore
Starnes, who has been in the mill
for two years, has bright color,
and right by him is young fel.
low, named Robinson, who is pale
and sallow and uses tobacco. And
so, in this way, | could have gone
al! through the mill and
found one person who had
worked in the mill for mum.
ber of years, who had bright,
rosy complexion, and by his or
her side another, who had been in
the mill perhaps just as long, with
a most pronounced sallow COM
ple1ion. And then, again | could
find null help that had just lately
come there from the farms, with
skins as pallid, or more so, than
those who had been there for
years.
What | found at Lancaster was
the case at a number of other
places. While gong over to
Graniteville l passed little place
called Summit, and there, on a
lumber pile, standing out in the
open air, was little boy, proba-
ply Is years old, miles away from
cotton mill, who looked pale
and sallow and saffron, more so
than any boy l had seen in any
cotton mill in South Carolina: and
yet, in all likelihood this boy had
never seen the doors of a cotton
mill.
I Itis a mistake directly to charge
the cotton mills with being the
cause of the complexion of their
operatives. They have no more
to do with the complexion of
their operatives than the farms
have to do with the complexion
of the people who work on them.
1t would be an excellent thing
to have somebody go to the war;
ious cotton mill communities and
teach the people how to cook pro.
perly. They get the very best
food, but do not know how to
prepare it. In some of the homes
L saw food horribly sacrificed.
Merchants all say that the opera
tives buy the best flour and pro
visions of all kinds; but they do
not know how to prepare it. If
somebody, who wanted to do a true
charity, would instruct these peo>
pie how to cook, they would be
doing them kindness that would
have good results.
One of the cotton mill officers
told me that be attached so much
Importance to the question of
properly prepared food that he
was almost tempted to bull a
l'-ge dining hail, where the OPP
eratives could get their dinner, at
least during working hours, and
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Stops the CnU0h dnd Works of
M. C'.fE.
Laxative Brumo Quiniue Tab
let's cure cold in one day. No
Cure, No Pay. Price, 25c.
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Servants and Mantelpleces.

From the London Globe
Many reasons have been given for the
difficulty with which servants are found
and retained. but apparently one or two
are still left. The latest culprit Is SAID
by a lady. who writes as much from eX-
perience, to be mantlepieees. The modern
mantlepieee is enormous, and with judi
cious management can be made to hold
almost as much as a moderate-sized shop
window. By the same token, the fashion,
ably dressed mantelpiece takes an i'm
mense time to dust and set up; and the
time spent in taking up each little knick-
knack and the anxiety produced in put
ting 1t down again work, it is alleged, on
the mind Of the maid servant so that she
gives up the task to the less irritating
work Of a factory 1t is quite certain
that our reat-grandmothers, often took
the trouble of busting their precious
''pieces" off the hands of their servants
and that they kept their servants a long
time; but 1t is not necessary to go deeply
into logic to find the fallacy In the argu-
ment After ALL it is the cook, not the
housemaid. who is wanted. But perhaps
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Cures "LaGrippe"

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every two hours. It prolongs life. Ask
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ROBUST AT Io4.

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nurses until tn enemy should take then
n charge.
Withdrawing From Pennsylvania.

Leisurely on the night of the 4th the
confederate army began its withdrawal
from Pennsylvania with the swollen Po-
tomac in its front. The federal army was
too much crippled and exhausted for ag-
gressive pursuit. From day to day 1t mem
aced our rear, but made no determined
assault And for ten days, this condition
of affairs. varied with occasional skirm-
ishes. On the evening of the 18th ana
morning of the 14th Lees entire army had
safely crossed the south side OF the 70
tomac-the infantry crossing on a pom
toon bridge at Falling Waters while the
greater part of the artillery and wagon
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March Weather
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DUFFY'S Pure
EEHET EaEgalAWW
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the eulogsts of past methods will argue
that our t-grandmothers also took
into their own hands the making of many
dishes. 1t is suggested that in this re-
spect, too. the modern mistress should
try to meet the existing difficulty If So
any of the many suggestions-no SER
wants, yellow labor distributing kitchens
would be preferred to this remedy
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Dorothy Got at"

From Spare Moments.
Dorothys Papa-So tomorrow's your
birthday, Ell? Well. well. l must give
you nice present. Come, now, choose
one as handsome and expensive as you
please.
Dorothy-I will take Jack Harduppe,
please, papa dear.
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fredericksburg.

The 18th of December found Lees army
IN front of Fredericksburg, facing Burn
side with his federal hosts on the north
side of the Rappahannoek. The morrow
brought forth the great battle of Fred
ericksburg. In this battle Wilcox's. brig
age was on the extreme left of, the in
fantry hnea The assault of the federals
having been made chiefly on the right
and center of the confederate lines. The
Tenth Alabama suffered little in this
great battle. The defeat and carnage of
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trains forded the river at Williamsport
Wilcox's brigade now moved to Bum
ker Hill, where for a few days it was ell
camred. Moving ON with stay of day
or two at Winchester, when 1t continued
it's march by Front Royal, Flint Hill and
on to the south of the Rapidan, and
about the first of August went into camp
near Orange courthouse
(To Be Continued)
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nigh impregnable stronghold. No more
gallant charge was ever made.
The division moved without wavering,
although exposed to the murderous fire
of the enemys artillery on both TANKS
and in front
In this desperate charge of Picketts,
Wileox's brigade was ordered to his sup
port. Unmoved by the unequal contest,
and seeming hopelessness of the under
taking, the brigade net only promptly
moved to the support o. the Virginia div
ision, which it could not see for the
smoke of battle, but went as far to the
front on the right of that division as any
other confederate command in that his
toric charge.
General Wilcox seeing that the under
taking was hopeless in the absence oe ar
tillery ammunition, and to remain on the
field was a useless sacrifice, finally order
ed his command back. 1t etired with or
der, under heavy artillery fire but was
not pursued by the enemy. The brigade
had acted with great gallantry, but
without inflieting much injury on the
enemy.
On the first days engagement 1t was
different. Three of the infan try lines of
the enemy were broken and driven from
the field A fourth line was repeatedly
ade from its position.
In the second days fight the command
of the Tenth devolved on Leut.-Col.
James T.. Shelley: Colonel Forney having
been desperately wounded in the first
days engagement. In the two days en-
gagements the loss of the brigade was TIT
killed, wounded and missing. OF this num-
Der 259 were missing. The casualtie, of
the Tenth regiment We're Killed Is,
wounded 81
Drawn Battle.
Both the confederate and the federal
armies seemed now exhausted after the
three days of terrible conflict On the
18th there was no boom of cannon nor
rattle of musketry, but in the field hos
pitfalls the brigade and regimental sur
geons and their assistants. were busy in
dressing the hurts of the wounded and
preparing for the transportation of all,
able to bear 1t, to the rear. The quarter
masters and ordinance wagons were now
empty. These were filled with straw or
hay y
The less severely wounded we're placed
in them and sent to hospitals at Winches-
ter and other points In the rear Quite
a number in the brigade received wounds
of such character as to forbid the at
tempt Of removal by such means. These
were therefore made as comfortable as
possible in camp, provsioned and left in
charge of two. excellent surgeons-Sur-
geon Minor of the Ninth and Assistant
Surgeon Parker of the Eighth, with
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The Montana Way.

From Tit-Bits
In a Montana hotel there is a notice
which reads
"Boarders taken by the day week or
month. Those who do not pay promptly
will be taken by the neck
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Munterville.

Munterville, Sept. 15.-Last Saturday ev-
ening a large number of friends of Mr..
and Mrs. l.. l.. Swenson gathered together
and formed a surprise party and all We're
dressed to represent Hard Times and
about $50 p. M. marched into the home
of l.. L. Swenson amid much amusement
and laughter The crowd was surely a jol-
~ number from the antics that We're car
fied on from that time until about o'clock
when they removed their suits of rags,
ETC., and were then dressed as usual. They
presented Mr.. and Mrs. Swenson with a
beautiful picture, which was very much
appreciated, and after passing pleasant
evening all returned to their homes about
u o'clock.
Miss Ella Hall will leave here to-
day for a few weeks visit with her broth
er, c. f. Hall, near Comnanche, Oklahoma.
Quite number of the farmers in this
vicinity are baling hay at the present time,
and intend to store it away in their barns
for future sale, if the price will be favor
able for sale, otherwise they will keep it
until next year for summer feed.
Herbert l.. Swenson visited with his
brother and other relatives this week, hay-
ing Just returned from the Pacific coast
where he has passed pleasant months
vacation, visiting from Seattle, Wash, to
Los Angeles, Cal, and during his stop on
Catalina Island he fished for black sea
bass, which is one of the special sports
there. He was fortunate enough to hook
and land an immense sea bass which he
has had photographed so as to show his
friends.
Alec Peterson left yesterday for Detroit,
Mich, for an indefinite stay.
August Burgason was an Ottumwa visit
or Friday.