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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1904-01-09
Auditors Notice.

Notice is hereby given that this of
nee vii he open from the lst day OF
January to the Goth day O. February,
1904, fo' the purpr Sc Of receiving the
returns ofthe taxpayers OF Lau cast er
County
Al persons having property in
their prSs ession or control, as man
ayers, holders or as husband, psrent
guardian, trustee, executor, admins
TRAITOR, receiver, accounting off er.
agent, attorney. or factor on the Ftrst
day Of January 1904. are required
list the same for taxation within the
time r'quired by law. or incur the
penalty or Fifty per cent. which at.
taches In case OF failure to do so.
Ths ful tax Of One Dollar is laid
upon all male persons between the
ages of Il and go years, except persons
who ale manned and unable to earn a
support. and Confederate soldi, rs.
For the convenience of the public
the Auditor or an assistant will attend
the following places in the County on
the days named.
Osceoia, Tues Jan 5ih, 12 to 8 O'Clock.
Pleass"t Valley, Wednesday Jane
Belair, Thursday JAM
Van Wyck. Friday Jan 9Th, 8 10 y
'eAN'b r. ihbS hoIud1
Tradesville, Tuesday Jan 18th.
Taxahaw. Wednesday jan 18th.
Fla reek church, Thursday Jan Ia.
Or. &. & We!sh's, Friday Jan l5th.
Primu. Saturday January 10Th to IL
O'clock.
Halle Gold Mne. Monday Jyn 18th.
Kershaw, Thursday aud "Wednesday
Jan i9 h and goth.
Heath Springs, Tuesday Jan 2lst.
Pleasant Hi |. Friday Jan 20 lc2p m
Dry Creek. Nor day Jan 25th.
Under an act of the legislature. all
person having gross income of ST.
900 or more, are required to make a
return OF the same 10 the Auditor at
the tineof making their other returns
Ii will be to the Interest of every
taxpayer to make his return promptIy
OF all personal property; also of ali
transfers or improvements on real
estate, and save the penalty Of so per
cen which attaches aft r. the Goth
of February 1904.
Respectfully,
JNO. a. COOK,
County Auditor,
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OF the expense among the counties
directly benefited. 1t is further
provided that no money shall be
advanced by the Uuited States IN
payment of its proportion of the
expense except as the work of
actual construction progresses, and
in no case shall the payment or
payments made prior to the com
pletlon of the work be in excess
of so per cent. of the work actually
performed.
To carry out the provisions of
the bill an appropriation of $24, =,
900, 900 is provided, $s,OOO,OOO
for 1894, Ss,Ooo,00O for 1905,
and IS, 900, 200 for 1906. Ifany
part of this is not expended in the
year ma ned it shall be available
for the sue ceeding year And it
Is further provided that no State
shall receive IN any ono year a
larger proportion of the sum ap.
propriated than it's population
bears to the total population of
the State of the United States.
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CHILDREN POISONED

Many children are poisoned and
made nervous and weak, if not
killed outright, by mothers giving
them cough syrups containing OPT
ates. Foley's Honey and Tar
Is q safe and certain remedy for
coughs, Group and lung trouble,
and is the only prominent cough
medicine that contains no opiates
or other poisons.
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Gathering War Clouds.

The situation in the far East
seems to be reaching that stage
whore war between Russia and
Japan 10 momentarilye expsctsG,
although the war dogs may not be
turned loose until tho belligerent
countries secure the necessary
funds for hard campaign a, it
will undoubtedly prove to be.
Korea is the bone of contention.
While some of the friendly pow
srs are sndeavoring to avert the
conflict. Japan is apparently anx-
lous for it to begin, much more
so, in fact, than Russia. 1t istoo
late for diplomacy and there is q
growing feeling that nothing will
be satisfactory except blood, and
plenty of it. Both nations are
prepared, and while they will re-
qulre large sums of money Russia
Is more hard pressed than ito
enemy. The world is watching
the course which England is ex>
pected to pursue, and while there
is no intimation that the poverful
strength of Great Britain will be
a factor lin the threatened war,
the bitterness of that nation to.
ward Russia leads to the belief
that IN the event of trouble it's
sympathy and it's help will be with
Jspan. Many complications are
almost sure to arise, which will
seriously affect the conditions in
the Orient and it is not possible
to say whether or not the conflict
will be localized.
There is diffelen of opinion
as'to the effect tho var might have
10 this country. Already, the
influence has been felt in the
markets, and the authorities tell
us that it is bound to have a de-
pressing Influence on the high
price of cotton. Others, however,
are equally certain that it can in
no way concern the South and the
movement of its great product,
but we are not so sure about this.
AT any rate, war tone has already
been REFLECTED in our markert.
Greenville News.
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AVED FROM TERRIBLE
DEATH.

The family of Mrs. N l.. Bob
bitt OF Bargerton, Tenn, saw her
dying and were powerless to save
her. The most skilIful physicians
ard every remedy used, failed,
while consumption WAS slowly hut
surely taking her life. In this
terrible hour DR.. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption turned
despair into JOY. The first bottle
brought immediate relief and it's
continued use completely cured
her. It's the most certain cure
in the world for all throat and
lung troubles. Guaranteed
Bottle soc and S1.OO. Trial Bot
ties Free at Crawford Bros and
j. +. hackey & Co., and T. Eu
gene Funderburk Drug store.
Former Senator Blair of Now
Hampshire makes the prediction
that tho isthmian canal business
will cost this country 81, 900, OOO,-
600 before it is ended. We make
the prediction that Mr.. Roosevelt
will cost this country more than
that if he is reelected next fall.
The Norfolk Landmark.
ALI persons indebted to me
are requested to call at once and
settle. j. E. Rutledge, Dentist.
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Happenings In The State.
AS Chronicled by the Alert Cor,
respondents of The Columbia
State.
YOUNG FARMER KILLS HIMSELF.

YOUNG FARMER KILLS HIMSELF. .
Dillon, Jan. 4.-AIex Nc
Clellan, a farmer living about
three miles from Dillon, aeroas
the Pee Dee, committed suicid .
this morning by swallowing abost
two ounces of carbolic acid. 1t
appears that he made an attempt
at suicide very early this morning
but did not succeed. An effort
was made by phone to procure .
physician from Dillon when II
was discovered that he was trying
to take the poison, but eluding
the vigilance of his attendants be
finally succeeded in swallowing
enough to produce instant DEATH,
He was about 25 years of age,
clever and industrious but addict.
ed to occasional sprees, and it was
while on one that he took his own,
life. He leaves a wife and seyer.
al children.
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He had been sent here for safe
keeping. The escape was made
by prying off a section of a steel
cell in tho corridor and removing
the bricks in the outer walls
There is no trace Of the men
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MASKED MEN HOLD UP STORE
KEEPER.

MASKED MEN HOLD UP A STORE
KEEPER.
Society Hill, Jan. 6.-Tonight
about 8 O'Clock two masked mon
walked into j. S. Dickson's store
near here and at the point of q
gun made him unlock his safe and
hand over the contents, something
over 5000. Bloodhounds have
been telephoned for and a crowd
is preparing to leave for the
scene. Dickson is respectable
colored man and runs a large farm
three miles from town.
NINE NEGRO PRISONERS GET OUT
OF A JAIL.
Raleigh. N. c., Jan. 5.-Nine
negro prisoners escaped from the
Wake county Fail at an early hour
this morning. Most of them were
awaiting trial on charges of lar
ceny, but one was . federal pris-
oner, and another q prisoner
awaiting trial for an alleged Grim
inal assault on a white woman.
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PNEUMONIA AND LA
GRIPPE

Cough cured quickly by Foley's
Honey and Tar. Refuse substi-
tutes. I. E. Funderburk.
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Wilhelm Won Polenz, noted
German traveller, who wrote a
book with the title "America, the
Land of the Future" is dead.
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Senator Latimer's
Good Roads Bill.
An Outline of the Provisions OF
tas Important Measure Just
introduced in the Senate.
Special to The State.

Washington, Jan. 6.-Twsnty,
four million dollars for good roads
to be expended at the rate of S.
100000 a year during the next
three years! That is the amount
of appropriation carried in the
good roads bill which Senator
Latimer Of South CCarolina has
Just introduced. His bill sets
forth an elaborate scheme for
federal aid Of the good roads
noVemsnt, for which purpose he
proposes to establish in the de-
Epartment of agriculture a bureau
ito be known as tho bureau Of
public highways.
The object of this bureau, ac-
Icording to the terms of the bill,
shaH DC 10 cooperate with the
various States IN the imprsve-
.nent and construction OF perman-
emit public roads in accordancevitb
with the scheme set forth in detail
in the bill. This bureau i, to
consist of three commissioners to
~ known, as commissioners OF
ghwsys; two of them shall be
appointed by the president, one
from each of the two LEADING
parties; these to be men who have
had practical knowledge of road
engineering and construction. The
third member Is to be an officer
OF the engineer corps of the army
of rank not below captain. Each
is to receive compensation at the
rate of s., 900 per year for their
services. These commissioners
shall be under the general super.
vision of the secretary of agri-
culture.
After the expiration of six
months from the time of the pass.
age OF this act. any State, through
l.
the proper officers having juris-
dlction OF public roads, may ap-
ply for aid in the Improvement or
construction of public roads, un-
der general rules to be made by
the commissioners. No State
shall be entitled to receive tho
benefits of this act until it shall
have established to the satisfaction
OF the commissioners of highways.
First. That the highways or
section thereof sought to be in
proved or constructed is of suf-
iclent public use to como within
the purview of this act, taking
into account the use, location and
value OF such highway for the
purpose of common traffic and
travel, and for the delivery of the
mails.
Second. That the requisite
light of way shall have been se-
cured.
Third. That the highway will
20 improved or constructed in ae-
'ordance with the regulations of
he bureau, and when so improved
will be maintained and kept in
epair without recourse upon the
United States.
Fourth. That the State has
provided for the payment of it's
'ortion of the total cost.
One half the expense is to be
orne by the federal government,
ne other half being borne by the
tate, but it is provided that the
tates may distribute their portion
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The Cotton Ginning Report
The Figures Gathered by the U.
5. Census Bureau.

Washington, Jan. 5.-Ths
census bureau today issued re
port showing that there had been
ginned up to and including Sat
nrday, Dec. IL, S,S4s,747 com.
msrcial bales, compared with o.
3l1, 335 bales up to and including
Dec. 13 Of last year.
The census found that 29,97l
glnneriss had been operated thi.
season, against 80, 1914 up to Dec.
Is Of last year.
Counting round bales as half
bales, the number ginnsd is S,526,
224 this season, against $685.
SOB last season. This report will
be followed by two others show
ing the quantity of cotton ginnsd
from the growth Of 1898 up to
and including Jan. 16, 1904, and
a final report at tho end of the
ginning season, about March Is,
which will distribute the crop by
counties, segrsgate upland and sea
island cotton and give weights in
bales. OF the total Of s, S4S, TAT
commercial bales for the United
States, S,144, 493 were square
bales, 59,24S sea island crop bales.
The report by States follows:
Alabama, 946, $50 commercial
bales, against 500, ,994 last season;
$3.50 active ginneriss, against
$3.50 last season.
Arkansas, 544, $50 bales, against
7ss,s6 last season; 2,O59 active
ginneries, against 2,51O last sea-
son. ss-
Florida, 5O,Os4 bales, against
"a, 443 last season; 266 active
ginneries, against 2S4 last season.
Georgia, 1909, s15i bales,
against 1876, $50 last season; A.
97S active ginneries, against So
O46 last season.
Indian Territory, 2SS, 1872 bales
against 372, O42 last season; 4S5
active ginneries, against 42S last
season.
Kansas, no crop reported.
Kentucky, 42s bales, against
1927 last season; two active gin
nsries, against three last season.
Louisiana, 6S6,60 bales,
610, 4S5 last season; 2,167 active
ginnsries, against 2, 143 last sea-
son.
Mississippi, 1,211,744 bales
against 1885, 557 last season; A.
1872 active ginnsries, against A.
276 last season.
Missouri, %, ,S11 bales, against
80, 1S5 last season; "a active gin
neries, against SO last season.
North Carolina, 500, ,S91, bales,
against AT, ,O6S last season; @,
715 active ginneries, against p
6S3 last season.
Oklahoma, 155, ,242 bales,
against 1853, 100 last season; 232
active ginneries, against 21s last
season.
South Carolina, 747,S ,S2S bales,
against S63,9SO last season; 81
173 active ginnerlss this season,
3, 1S7 last season.
Tennessee, 210,66 bales,
against 272, 1876 last season; IT'S
active ginneries, against SIS last
season.
Texas, 2,31o,725 bales, against
2, 1877, 472 last season; 4,431 &C.
tive ginneries, against 4,452 last
season.
Virginia, II, 143 bales, against
1851 last season; 116 active
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NEGRO BOY KILLED BY ACCIDENT.
Yorkville, Jan. 4.-On Satur.
day last, while Wesley Bolin, Z
young white nan 1s years Of age,
and culored boy named Estall
Froneberger, aged 10 years, were
out hunting near Smyrna, in the
western portion of this county,
the negro boy was accidentally
shot in the back of the head by
young Bollin, and-died from the
effects of the wound.
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-11-04

The two houses shown in the accom-
panying pictures have an interest in
themselves, on account of a recent phase
of the campaign for governor in Min
nesota. Secret ISLANDERS have been cir
culated against John A. Johnson, the
democratic nominee, accusing him OF
unhlial conduct toward both his father
and his mother.
The true story Of the family shows
John A. johnson to have been a noble.
self sacrificing son. His unfortunate ia
ther, made worthless by a passion for
trink, deserted the wife and Young
children when John was only IL years
old The boy left school to work in a
grocery store and thus help support his
mother and sisters. From that time on
he has worked for living for himself
and his family. He soon became the
sole support Of his mother and sisters
and helped to educate a brother and a
sister.
The father fingered about the streets
of ST. Peter till the town authorities
took charge Of him. He was pronounced
ictim OF alcoholic dementia. and sent
! for safekeeping and care to the county
poor-f farm, eighteen miles away, anl
free from temptation. The craze still
possessed him there, and it was neye1
safe to let him return to the town. He
remained there till his death.
One of the pictures shows the home
occupied by John A. johnson and hi'
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natural size and several operations
were necessary. Surgeons believed the
only means Of saving her life was to
remove the hand. The poison was
thrown out of the system finally, and
the hand was left shrunken. Miss
O'Hara had practically no control
over it.
She was advised by her physician to
go to St. Vincent's hospital, where the
baking process is being successfully
used for rheumatism. The hand is laid
in a steam jacket and the temperature
is gradually raised. Every day the
member is massaged for an hour and
every week the patient is put under the
influence Of an anesthetic, the fingers
are drawn out and the bones and
muscles subjected to kneading
process.
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THIS IS 4 REAL
HARD LUCK TALE
Onlv that He Lived Charmed Life
Explains This Mans
Survival.

Stockton, Nov. 3.-Charles Ditz of
San Andreas, was brought here today
for medical treatment for frightful
wound received under peculiar circum-
stances.
Ditz was cutting timber two miles
out of San Andreas. In his cabin he
had box Of pistol cartridges on a
shelf.
Saturday night he stuck lighted can
die in miners candlestick directly
over the shelf and lay down on his bed
to read. The candle burned down
dropped out Of the stick and set the
cartridge box on fire. The cartridges
began exploding and Ditz raised up in
time to receive bullet in his right eye
The eyeball was torn entirely from the
socket.
The bullet smashed the bones behind
| the eye socket and came out of Ditz
! left cheek. He fell back unconscious
recovering his senses later to find his
bed and cabin on fire.
Wounded as he was, Ditz went to g
spring for water, with which to put ou,
the fire. He then walked to San An
dreas, from which point he was sent tt
this city.
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wife, in St. Peter. Mr.. johnson s moth
,er lived with them until her daughter
Then, Without any Disagreement, but
because she preferred to be with her
daughter in a home of her own, Mrs.
Johnson occupied the other house shown
in the picture, where she and her
daughter now live in comfort. Her love
for her son, now the candidate for gov
ernor, is strong and beautiful, and her
tion to her will shame any one who
would stoop to drag the erring father
from his grave in order, by falsehood
and misrepresentation of the facts, to
iniure his son. AS fellow -townsman u
Of Mr.. johnson expresses it:
"John A. johnson became man at
ever since.'' s-.+
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placed in each cage under the guard Of
two judges and two timekeepers. The
iron. gates in the outer entrance were
kept closed and when the final arrange
ments were made the gates to the
cages were all. closed. The con-
testants were principally tellers. .
Hatch was a favorite from the first,
as he is one Of the older men,. He c2a
throw the rags all right,'' shouted his
fellow clerks. And he did: At the
word "go' from Mr.. Wadsworth his Is
body stiffened, his face became express
sionless, and his light fingers ran thru
the piles Of bills SO swiftly that they
could hardly be followed
Before the counting contest men from
the different banks added up 500 checks
on the machines. The record for this
work is 8 minutes fat,a but owing to
nervousness the men who have made
this in practice were not able to repeat
their feat.
The first prze of $25 was won by Fred
Robyn of the First National in
lll:39 As. The checks ran from 90
cents to $350,000 and aggregated
ST, 100000.
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BAKING Her HAND
TO REGAIN USE
New York Woman Submits Daily
to Ordeal of 800 De-
grees.

New York, Nov. 4.-To regain the
use Of her right hand, Miss Lucy
o 'Hara is having it baked in 800 de-
grees of heat for half an hour every
day in st. Vincent s. hospital. Owing
to the absence Of moisture in the high
! temperature the tissues are able to
withstand the high caloric, and the
patient, altho she WINGED at first under
the ordeal, is able to undergo the treat
ment with little discomfort.
She is about to win a years battle
for the restoration of q member which
twice was to have been removed. She
has resolutely refused to consent to an
amputation, and the physicians at the
\ hospital say it will now be asaquestion
of only a few weeks before her hand is
almost, if not quite as good as it ever
was.
Miss O'Hara, who lives in Scranton
Pa, contracted septicemia a year age
thru pricking her hand while washing
clothes. The hand swelled to twice it,
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BANK CLERKS IN
COUNTING TEST
Chicago Chapter Members Go
Thru Huge Piles of Bills
| for Prizes.
New York Sun Special Service

New York Sun Special Service. go
Chicago, Nov. ,4.-Enough money was
displayed in the tellers' cages Of the
First National bank last night to make
a hold-up man green with envy Under
the direction Of G.. K. Wadsworth,
president Of the Chicago chapter Of the
American Institute of Bank Clerks, a
money counting and adding contest was
held, in which First National bank
clerk took first honors.
Twelve packages Of mixed bank bills
of $5, $40 and 500 denominations and
aggregating $4,000 each were carried
into the cage under the guard Of twelve
special policemen. Twelve representa-,
tives from as. many Chicago banks
sorted the money, "proved' it, counted
it into $500 packages, strapped it up
and initiated it under the critical gaze
of 500 of their fellow clerks.
The first prize Of $25 was won by
Lemoyne S. Hatch Of the currency
rbin' of the First National in q
minutes, 6 As seconds.
Neatness, accuracy and speed were
the essentials. Two contestants were
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Millinery Specials.

Secoud Floor. -. First Avenue =,
EOR Saturday we have another great pur
/ chase Of fine trimmed Hats and Tur-
bans, mostly in black velvet, hand
made hats; trimmed with ostrich feath-
ers, Pompons and breasts. .:.
Hats that are we'll worth $500,
$500 ard 100 each, in two great
lots for Saturdays selling; choice
$l.98 AND $3.98
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GROUND AND LOFTY.

OHlCUkO
'where are your coffee mills?' asked the Gus
toner
I'm the basement" said the foorwalker.
The customer went to the basement and bought
coffee mill.
''Now L want some cups and saucers," he
said.
"Houll have to go four floors up for those, -
the saesgirl told him.
He went as directed and purchased bis cups
and saucers.
'Now," he said, 'Id like a pound Of .cof
fee' =
you'll find that on the top foor.'
He proceeded to the top floor and got his
coffee.
''Say," he asked. sis there a department or
the roof?'
"On the roof? No. Why?"
because my wife told to buy cook book
and I didn't know but I'd have to 60 up there
to get it,
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DISTANTLY RELATED.
Chicap0 .Trihune. u y.

F. "And who you, my dear?' asked Methuse-
lab, little girl appeared at the door Of his
tent and wished him many happy returns of his
latest birthday anniversary. r
Don't You know me-, grandpa?" she said.
"I'm the greatest granddaughter you've got"
Thereupon the old man took his little rela-
tive, thirty y-seven generations removed, upon his
knee and told her she mustn't mind his forget
fulness-he couldn't possibly keep track Of all of
them. ~. 4.a
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Silk Petticoats.
Second Floor. First Avenue.

- Second Floor. First Avenue.
I 90 Silk Petticoats just in. Made of ex-
i cellent quality pure silk taffeta; cut
extra wide and full, deep accordion pleated
Spanish hounce, trimmed with two rows
silk ruching and group Of tucks; in pink,
blue, navy, royal, brown, green, tan,
champagne and black, also red changeable
and green changeable. These are $3.50
values and consider them good values at
that. They are undoubtedly g. M
the greatest value offered at ~OzVU
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THE PENALTY

;. = :. :. THE PENALTY.
: Detroit Free Press.
Daisy-I wish I'd told the truth to Jack.
Pearle-:What about? rs
Daisy-My gloves He asked me what size
wore. and 1 told him 5h Yesterday he sent
me a dozen pairs for my birthday, and they're
all too small. y @.'-.-g
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-11-04
HOWL FROM A VICTIM.

Chicago Tr1Dune = !. q - a
Fido-What's the matter with you?
Towser-Ive got to 60 to of these con-
founded dog suppers tonight.
Fido-Are you getting too proud to associate
with other dogs? . .~=--.
Towser-No; 1t isn't that. 1t throws me into
the company of all sorts Of human beings.