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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1903-03-11
Notice

Notice
The gentlemen appointed in the
townships last summer and given
books for the purpose of cnroll-
ing the names of the living and
dead Confederate soldiers will
please return said books by Mar.
18th to the clerk of the court.
We want u record of all the old
soldiers, and ask the gentlemen
appointed to please be prompt.
Our worthy' Lancaster Chapter
Daughters of the Confederacy
will on that day present to each
living soldier badge. They are
doing all they can, so let us do
our part. Time is fast passing.
Let us have a record.
w. &. A. PORTER,
Co. Chr. on Enrolment.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1903-03-11
Special Term Asked For.

Gov. Hayward has been re-
quested by the bar of Barnwell to
order special term of court for
that county to be held commenc-
ing on the fourth Monday in
April and continuing for four
weeks. The bar requests the
naming of Hon. j. Z. Mcdonald
of Winnsboro, president of the
State Bar association, to preside.
The State, 7th inst.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1903-03-11

MANAGER WANTED! Trust.
worthy, either sex, by Wholesale
Merchandise Company of solid
financial standing, to manage Lo-
cal Representatives who will or.
ganize clubs among consumers
4O per cent saved or our custo-
mers. Business no experiment
out a proven success. Salary
Sls .OOa week, expenses advanced
experience unnecessary. Address
-. Is. Clarkson, Mgr, 334 Dear
born ST., Chicago, Ill. ,-24.7.
Our MIR. j. M. Hood il .I
ways In the mar ket To purchase
mules and cattle. And don't Won
forget it.
Lancaster Mercantile Go.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1903-03-11

When the butter won't
come put a penny in the
churn," is an old time dairy
proverb. It often seems to
work though no one has ever
told why.
When mothers are worried
because the children do not
gain strength and flesh we
say give them SCOTS Emul-
sion.
1t is like the penny in the
milk because it works and
because there is something
astonishing about it.
SCOTS Emulsion is simply
milk of pure cod liver oil
with some hypophosphites
especially prepared for delicate
stomachs.
Children take to it naturally
because they like the taste
and the remedy takes just as
naturally to the children be-
cause it is so perfectly adapted
to their wants.
For all weak and pale and
thin children Scct.s Emulsion
is the most satisfactory treat
mcnt.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1903-03-11

Cairo, Ill.,, March S.-The OBJ.
server at the weather bureau has
sent out warnings to places south
OF Cairo to prepare for ut least
nifty feet of water. Rain fell YES
terday aud last night over the
watersheds of the Ohio, Wabash,
Tennessee and Cumberland rivers
and many places where the rivers
were falling yesterday they are
rising again today. a vast ter>
rltory around and below Cairo is
now covered with water and MANY
OF the families have been forced
to abandon their homes. While
there is no immediate danger at
Cairo there is danger in the lows
lands between Cairo and Mem
phis. The Cairo levees are ex>
pected to stand II stage of 55 feet
as they have been raised and
strengthened during the few
years. The gauge tonight shows
As. feet.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1903-03-11
iOu K:lOaO U'hdt You are IuEi,0

When you take Groves Taste
less Chill Tonic because the form
ula is plainly printed on every bot
tie showing that it is SIMPLY lror
and Quinine in tasteless form
No Cure. No Pay. soc.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1903-03-11

Padncah, Ky, March S.-The
Ohio river, which is higher than
ever before since the great flood
of 1881, Is still rising tonight, as
are the Wabash, Cumberland Ten
nes'ee and other tributaries, and
the situation from acre to Cairo
Is the worst that has been known
for 10 Years
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1903-03-11

Louisville, March 8. The Ohio
river registers %. l feet in the
canal here tonight, ones enth of Il
foot over the danger line. 1t is
expected that 30 foot stage, the
highest in two years, will be reach
ed before the flood begins to sub.
side. The water is now well up
into -Four tn street. The rise was
caused by heavy rain up the river
within the past "a hours.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1903-03-11

Evansville, Ind, March s.
The river is still rising and stood
nearly ~ feet at 10 O'Clock to-
night. 1t is believed the river
will continue to rise for week
yet. All boats are delayed. The
river between here and Ovens
boro is more than ten miles wide.
Many towns tetween Owensboro
and Cairo arc now ut the mercy
of the high water.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-25
Ash "Wednesday.

Ash Wednesday, the first day in Lent, will be duly observed today at the Cath olc and Episcopal churches.
 At the Catholic churches the faithful will be crossed on the forehead with the ashes preserved from the burning of the palms used at services on last Palm Sunday.
 An eminent Episcopal authority writes of the day as follows:
 Ash Wednesday, the first day in Lent Is also known as Caput Jejunii, or the head or beginning of fast. It Is called Ash Wednesday because In ancient times 1t was the custom for penitents to appear in the church covered with sack-cloth and ashes. In the English praper book the Communication service is used on Ash Wednesday as a provisional substitute for the 'gody discipline to which, of old offenders were subjected on this day Por- tions of this service were incorporated into the Ash Wednesday office in the American Book of Common Prayer in 1799 and A Penetential Office for Ash Wednes- day has been appended to the Special Prayers and Thanksgiving in the Stand ard of 1892
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-25
Next Mondays Great Issue.

The voter will say one of two things when he votes next Monday for mayor, namely, he will say to any man who holds the office, build machine and perpetuate your power, or else he-will say to him, serve the people well and faithfully in the two terms allotted to you, for you cannot have third term. If a mayor knows at the outset that he cannot prolong his term beyond four short, quick years, he will not go to the trouble and yexation and ex. pense of building machine that can serve him but brief time.
 This is the sum and substance of the case-shall we promote and encourage machine politics. or will we have in our city affairs government by the people, of the people, for the people? This is the real issue, and this issue will be before each voter next Mon- day.
 The primary relates therefore not only to present time, but also to the long future. If the voters of next Mon- day veto a third term, the rule which applies to all other executive officers will be fully established in this city and we will have reasonably clean  city politics. This is the great issue involved in the coming primary-dont forget this. It is not merely a ques- tion of individual choice for the office; it is not merely selection from tho names of two men-it is the ratifica- ton or rejection of an unwritten law directed against third terms and ma chine politics. Don't forget or confuse the issue. George B. Ward and Will liam Melville Drennen are mere incl dents of a battle that relates to this unwritten law-this law that the na. tion and state holds dear, and that this city cannot afford to disregard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-25
ALASKA AND ITS VAST
 AND VARIED RESOURCES

from Port Clarence, nor,hN est of Nome, and Golofin bay. about seventy miles east of Nome, also extends many miles inland. These two bays arc Joined by deep valley, so that sixty miles north and inland from Nome it is possible with enc short portage 10 cc f-nir saa 10 sea. Council City lies in this depression, Ophir creek and innumerable other rich creeks emptyng into it from both sides. Gold has been found in paying quantities on nearly all of them, but it is impossible yet to develop them, owing solely to the cost of transportation.
 The yield of one claim on Ophir creek in one year has paid for the whole trans portation, equipment and operating cost from San Francisco to Op,lir Owing to the absence of transportation facilities nothing is being done further inland hut a railroad from the nearest port to the interior, narrow gauge railroad, should pay for its cost each season for many years to. come. There Is nat only gold here, but also what gives promise of be- ing one of the richest lead and silver dis tricts ir the world. ss ,ent., miles inland from the ocean, ur the Fish river and it's tributary, Omilak creek, silver and lead ore has for eighteen years past been quar- ried out.
 The island dependencies of the United States are densely populated, small ~ area, and fairly well devsl ,naG They are in the tropics and unfit for white men and their families Alaska leeds l0.Ojo miles of railroad, 2O0OO niles of wagon roads and telephone lines, and can. r s fast as transportation is available. give homes and employment to 10OO0,O0O
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-25
ROSARIES AND HOW AND
 WHERE THEY ARE MADE

vous ?'-with a shrug of his shoulders ''the women must eat, and they can't go home, as it's piecework here, so the chil- dren must come to them and risk it."
 However, time presses. so we turn our attention at first to small circular saw. It is going at great speed, and beside 1t sits woman with a branch of boxwood in her hands. She presses this against the saw quickly and quite unconcernedly, al- though her fingers are perilously near it's edge, I think. and each time the sharp teeth take off slice of about quarter of an inch thick. or less. It is cut ob- liquely, not straight across, and reminds me exactly of a slice of bologna sausage, except that it is of pale primrose color. and not red and lard spotted. These slices fall with great rapidity into a receptacle under the saw.
 Then we go to the other end of the room, picking our way among wheels and children. Here is a long bench or table, something like a turning lathe; only, in- stead of one, it has sixteen lathes in a row; all working together. Opposite each lathe, if I may so term it, sits a woman with her head tied up in cloth and only her eyes and nose showing Everything is thicltly covered with the fine dust, and l notice that I am already taking on a yellow tinge. Boxwood is remarkably hard and close grained, and the sawdust is as fine as flour. Each woman has her lap full of slices of the boxwood, and a girl goes round with big shovel filling the laps of the women from the recep- tacles under the saws
 A woman takes a slice in her hand, and, with hardly any perceptible pauses, presses it against the drill many times in succession until the whole surface is covered with the little circles that are so closely packed as to nearly touch each other; the smallest perle made has a diameter of three millimetresl Then. like lightning, she turns the wood and begins again, only this time she must place the spike unerringly on the almost pin points of holes that stud the surface of the slice; but she does it as rapidly almost as the first side. and so she works for hours at time a continuous shower of perles dropping from her adroit hand into box below. So expert do these women become that a first class hand can cut np as many as four gross, or little over. of the smallest peales a day. A gross is large tin measure, and I took one and filled it from a sack of small pearles which stood beside me.
 And how much do you pay a gross?' I asked.
 "Ilixty-five centimes, sir" (sixpence halfpenny of our money.
 For this small sum these women work ten hours day amid unfenced ma chinery, their persons smothered and their lungs choked with the fine dust. An ordinary worker will only do from two to three gross day. so that some only earn one shilling and a penny for ten hours work. Yet, poor as the pay is, 1t satisfies these simple mountain people; and I was told there is never any lack of hands,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-25
Death of Dr. Davis.

This entire city was shocked by the death of Dr. w. F. B. Davis at the Twentyfourth street crossing about midday yesterday. The remorseless wheels crushed out a life that had saved to usefulness many, many lives in the course of a long and honored career. He held not only high place among the surgeons of this state, but he was widely known in other states. It may be said that he was esteemed by eminent surgeons throughout this country, and even in other countries. Here at home those to whom his skill and deep knowledge of the human frame had come are inconsolable, and in their homes the loss will be griev- ously felt.
 Perhaps no man is so much missed in this world when he leaves it as the beloved physician. The eminent citi- zen who lies dead was both a physi- elan and surgeon, one upon whom many households had become accus- toned to lean when physical ills or serious accident overlook them. Anf the universal testimony is that.Ie was as tender-hearted as he WIS skillful, as genial and lovable os he was help full and scientific. Ae was loved as man and respec,ed as a great surgeon. The loss es this people is heavy, and the s.ief of those to whom he was d companion and friend is beyond the power of words to express.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-25
md training of tne militia at federal

and training of the militia at federal expense.
 A new department of commerce and labor was also created, including a new bureau of corporations. The irri- gation act, too, should not be over looked for in the course of twenty years it will add millions of acres to the productive area of the country. The civil government bill for the Philip pines gave ten millions of people in those islands assurance that they will be treated justly and fairly The Phil ippine coinage bill is also a far-reach- ing measure, touching the welfare and prosperity of millions of little brown Americans. The census bureau was made permanent and the salaries of federal judges were increased.
 This congress, too, passed the Elllins bill directed against rebates by the railroads, and also the publicity amend ment to the department of commerce bill-both nominally antitrust bills. Their efficiency remains to be tested. The EllSins bill provides for fines only, and the Nelson amendment leaves pub licity in the discretion of the Presi- dent. The trusts are not at all alarmed.
 The Fifty-seventh congress will, however, leave a fair record in import ant aets and it's Panama canal bill is alone sufficient to give it place in the political history of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-25
Richard Henry stoddard.

'The Authors club of New York city invite their guests to a view of the books, autographs and other literary memora- bilia given to the club by the poet Rich ard Henry Stoddard, for many years an active member, and since 1888 an honorary member of the Authors" said a member of the Cadmean Circle.
 This collection, the fruit in It's line of fortunate and noble years In the profess sion of letters, Is of extraordinary in- terest to all lovers of English and Ameri- can literature, and 1t is the one invalua- ble possession of the club, dgnlfylng 1t beyond any previous incident In its history, The exhibition will be given on Thursday Friday and Saturday of tins week, inclusive, from 3 to D. m, and from 8 to 10 D. m.-the evening of Thurs day being reserved for members of the club and their personal guests.
 Tt has been hoped that the poet him. self may be present on that evening, but this is doubtful. Since his serious sick ness, and the deaths of his only son, the dramatist and actor, Lorimer Stoddard, and his wife the poet and novelist, Eliz- abeth Stoddard MT. Stoddard has been In frail health. He is now halfway ad- vanced in his 79th year, having been born July %, 1925. The committee of arrange ments are Edmund Clarence Stedman, George Cary Eggleston, Ripley Hitchcock, Calvin Thomas, Frederick s. Dellenbaugh and John Denison Champlln."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-25
The Thomas Orchestra.

'The trustees of the Chicago orchestra, led by Theodore Thomas, who are mak- ing an effort to raise the s750,0OO required to build a home for and maintain the musical organization, say that progress is being made as a result of their ap- peal" remarked music lover. "The amount in sight, however, is still far short of the desired sum.
 There is now a total of s170.000 pledged. Last week $7O,O00 was subscribed: Cyrus II. McCormic. s1OOOO; Victor F. Lawson, s1O,O0O; Stanley Mccormick, $1O,O0O; Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page $1o0oo; William B. Walker. s10,000; names not yet ready for announcement, $20,0O0.
 "The citizens of Chicago now feel con- fdent that the full amount needed will be subscribed within the next few weeks. High class music is a luxury that costs much money. The guarantors of the Chicago orchestra have made up deficits in nine years amounting to something like s150000. And this country should not fail to appreciate how much these plucky guarantors have done for the cause of musical art"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-25
Cloiure in the Senate.

It is a known and confessed fact that a majority of the senate favors and would vote for the statehood bill which has already passed the house. Knowing the will of the senate the minority led by Senator Beveridge have started what is practically a rev olution. They say vote shall not be taken upon the bill in the senate-in other words, that they Will talk against time until the Fifty-seyenth congress is ended next Wednesday, This is revolution by the tongue rather than by the sword, and the former is fully as reprehensible as the latter.
 It is the Beveridge revolution that induces some senators to favor cloture in the senate-that is to say, rule that will enable majority of the sen ate to control the business coming be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-25

here and is especially popular in news paper circles, having been for four years president of the Ledger company. L. w. Foy of Eufaula is registered at the Morris
 James Q. Ralph of Tuscaloosa is at the Metropolitan.
 Alfred Alexander of Boston is stopping at the Hillman.
 G. B. Deans of Mobile is at the Morris. H. w. Freeman. w s. Herren and R. L. Johnston of Dadeville are at the Metro politan.
 Albert E. Barnett of opelika is stopping at the Morris.
 
 J. F. Kane of Montgomery is at the Hillman.
 C. W. Ray of Indianapolis is registered at the Morris.
 The Rev. Father Giles, o. S. B., of St. Bernard college at Cullman, after spend ing several days in Birmingham, returned to the college today.
 W. T. Cox of the Cox Shoe company will leave today for the eastern markets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-25
From the New York Trlhune.

rTOm the New Ofk lflDune.
 HHE possession of rosary. or WD chaplet as it is called in France,
 is indispensable to all good Ro- man catholics-at least to the female DOT ton, says Chambers Journal
 Rosaries are made of different mate rials; wood bone, glass and dried seeds being the chief. The former takes first place. and 1t is only of wooden chaplets that I write
 Every little Pyrenean village, however small, is sure to be the centre of a com mune or parish owning extensive forest and pasturage rights on the wild noun tain slopes around it. Once yearly, on Sunday, It's mayor and councillors sol emnly assemble in the little Marie and put up for sale these rights the bid- ders being. of course, only the inhabi- tants of the commune. The box trees fit for cutting are an important item. After a spirited competition the sale Is over, and he who has bought the box trees is alternately congratulated and chaffed by his friends. and he wonders what on earth made him do it, and whether or no he will make anything our of his purchase.
 In due course he cuts a load, and pro- ceeds to sell 1t to the chaplet makers; so let us now follow this load of the ugly. whty-brown, crooked sticks-none thicker than a lady's wrist-to the saw mill. and watch them being converted into rosarles. It will interest us
 The building is very much of the ram shackle order and is thickly coated with a fine white or pale yellow dust that gives 1t at first the appearance of a flour mill There is hum and whirr of ma chinery In the air; but 1t does not come from downstairs. Here are only the big saws. idle now, that are used for cutting up trees when box Is wanting and does not come in quickly enough But it is different above. Up the dusty, rickety stairs we go, through an i'll fitting door at the top, and we stand on the thre shold of a long, low room filled with rapidly revolving wheels, flying leather belts. whirling drills and screaming vicious lit- tie circular saws not fenced or guarded in any way. You hardly like to move for fear of coming into contact with som,. twisting devilment or other. grown np person as you are: and your heart stands still, or ought to-I know mine did--to see wandering around in, out and everywhere. children of years old ana upward
 l asked the foreman anxously: What are the babies doing here? Surely it's dreadfully dangerous for them amid all this unfenced machnerv-''
 But the cheerful peasant only .aughs. It's the tea hour he explains, "and the children have brought their mothers and sisters up some bread from the village. The babies will come with the bigger chit. dren; but they will all be off soon, back again home''
 But don't they get hurt?" I ask
 "Of course they do sometimes, and badly very often; but they soon learn their danger up here; and que voulez-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-25
MEDICAL DISCOVERY.
New Cure for Muscular and Nervous
 Diseases.

Special to the New orleans Times-Demo-
 crat.
 Chicago February 23-Dr. Jacques Loeb is said to have discovered facts that sug- gest cure for muscular and nervous diseases such as St. yitus' dance. parsly- sis, agitans locomotor ataxia and sleep lessness, namely. by administering cer- tain salts of calcium.
 The former head of the department Of physiology in the University of Chicago announces, In one of the publications just Issued by the university, results of his experiments on lower forms of life to human beings.
 The subject of his paper is "The Pro- duction and Suppression of Muscular Twitchings and Hypersensitiveness of the Skin"
 Dr. Loeb says: Our muscles do not normally contract or twiteh rythmlcally, but they do so in certain diseases. From experiments l have concluded that we owe 1t to calciumnions in the blood that our muscles do not twitch or beat ryth- mically like our heart.
 When we inject Into the body of anil nal any salts that are liable to pre- cipitate calcium. we notice almost imme- diately twitchIngs of all the muscles. It seems, therefore, that in the pathology of muscular twitchings the concent,atio of the calciumions (very minute partcesj in the blood should be taken into consid- eration
 "The experiments mentioned In this pa per were undertaken with two aims in view, a practical and theoretical one AS far as the former is concerned, 1t follows from our Investigations that abnormal muscular twitchlngs and contra etlons may be brought about in an organism by a reduction of the proportion of cal cium Cor magnesium in the muscles.
 "1n view of the fact that, thus far, no explanation has been found for photo logical phenomena of the kind, 1t becomes of some importance to see whether or not in certain of these diseases the relative amount of calcium In the blood Is drnin- ished. If this should be the case the administration of calcium would be the cure for these disease, which, thus far. have been beyond medical control"