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The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-02
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The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-02

A new disease has made it's appear
ance in New York. 1t has not yet
been named, but is called the bends"
and the "caisson disease" among those
who have seen it. 1t attacks and fire.
quently kills those persons who work
In the caissons Of the bridges and tun-
nels about New York In the caissons
the air is compressed to about forty
five pounds to the square inch, which
is about three times the normal pres
sure above ground. This great pres
sure affects eyes. ears and heart, and
the victims of THE bends" experience
severe, even excrueiating pains,
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-02
sAvANNAH.s COMMERCE.

The increase in the value of Savan-
nah's foreign commerce for the year
just ended is a strong argument for
an appropriation for deepening her
harbor channel to thirty feet from her
wharves to the sea. The increase was
$9,000000. OF course, this increase is
exclusive of the increase in coastwise
commerce, which must also have been
large.
In order to get an idea of how great
~ Savannah's commerce has grown
within the last ten years it is only nec-
essary to make a comparison of the
value of her foreign commerce for the
year just ended with that of 1898. In
1893 it was $2S, $685. SOB and in the last
year it was $5S.576,77S, an increase of
more than $35, OOO,00
During these ten years Savannah
has been growing along many lines.
Her industrial plants are more numer-
Gus and the capital employed in them
is very much greater. The city's bust
ness, both wholesale and retail, is far
greater, and the city has spread out
over a great deal more territory.
With such a showing as Savannah
can make there isn't much doubt that
she will get an appropriation for a
thirty-foo channel in her harbor. With
a harbor that will accommodate the
class of steamers that is now being
built for freight purposes her COM
merce will grow with leaps and bounds.
But Savannah must not depend who'll
ly upon her water facilities for the
improvement of her commerce. She
must reach out into new fields on her
own account. She must urge her rail-
advantages in the shipment of freights
that it will make her it's seaboard out
let, and she must invite foreign trade.
A few days ago we published some
facts furnished by the Cuban consul at
this port. showing what could be done
in trading with Cuba. On several &C.
casions we have pointed out the ad-
vantages there would be in a steam
ship line to Porto Rico. There is no
doubt that Savannah ought to have
lines of steamers TO Cuba and Porto
Rico. While there would be plenty of
freights to those islands there might
not in the beginning be a great deal
OF freight this way. but in the course
of a year or two there would be- A
trade could be built uD-a trade that
would be of great benefit to the peo-
PIE of this part of the South and also
10 the islands. They have products
which we want, and we undoubtedly
have things they want. This is a mat
ter that ought to receive early atten-
ton from our business men.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-02

The Philippine Islands are to be rep
resented at the ST. Louis Exposition
by a large exhibit and board of
commissioners. The commissionerships
will be sinecures, practically, since
those who hold them will have moth
ing much to do except look important
and have a good time. There is a
movement on foot in Manila to have
Arguinaldo, formerly insurgent lead
er, appointed to the craftsmanship of
the Philippine commission to the fair.
He has taken the oath of allegiance
and is now rated as good citizen"
While he has lost some of his in
fluence at home, it is pointed out that
he still has large following and that
to bring him to the United States
would have good effect.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-02

Automobile racing is paying bust
ness, it seems. Barney Oldfeld, the
champion chauffeur who holds several
records, is said to have melted $4,000
from his racing in the last six months
That is better pay than the Presi-
dent of the United States receives.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-02
COLD KILLS THE GERM.
Lieut.. Perry Says There are No Bald
Heads in the Arctic Region.

Heads IN the Arctlc Region.
The people who come back from
Klondike testify to the fact that no
native bald heads are there. The evil
dence is that the cold climate kills
the germs that eat the hair off at
the root. Lieut. Perry, who went to
the Arctic Regions, gives the same
evidence. Newbros Herpicide has the
same effect as the cold climate. 1t
kills the germ that eats the hair off
at the roots, and the hair grows
again. Herpicide is the first hair rem
edy built upon the principle of de-
stroying the germ that eats the hair
the correctness of the scalp germ
theory. Sold by leading druggists.
Send 10c. in stamps for sample to
The Herpicide Co., Detroit Mich.
Livingston's Pharmacy Company.
Special Agents.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-02
A BRIGHT PROSPECT.

AS the old year drew to a close the
Manufacturers Record invited a num-
Der of railway officials Of the South
to give it for publication their opin-
ions with respect to what had been
accomplished during the past twelve
months for the advancement of the
section, and what promises the new
year held out. The various replies
were all in one strain. namely, that
the progress had been marked and that
there was every reason to hope for
and expect a continuance of the Sec
TONS prosperity. In practically every
line of endeavor last year was a good
one. Farmers, fruit growers. stock
raisers. lumbermen, naval stores opera
tors and others shared in the pros
perity.
But what most of the railroad Of
ficials laid special stress upon, and
fact which they think means much for
the future of the section, was the in
creased immigration movement into
the South from the West and North
west. Practically every official re-
ported an increase in the immigration
along the line of the road represented
by him, and Increased Industrial ac-
tivity; and there is nothing but OPP
timism in their forecasts The good
crops and the high prices that have
obtained for some months have let
loose a flood of money in the South,
much of which will be spent for i'm
provements and in the furtherance of
the development of now latent re-
sources. The high price of cotton and
the fact that there is practically no
competitor of the Southern States in
it's production, have served to attract
a great deal of attention to the sec
ton. and it seems to be a common opin-
ion that many agriculturists from the
West will come South for the purpose
of engaging in cotton raising. Not
only is there an increase in inquiries
respecting the South on the part of
people of the North and West, but
the foreigners who reach our shores,
and who have heretofore gone else
where, are now inquiring about what
the ooulH mas 10 oHef, Inc Record
thinks that the psychological mo-
ment' has come in the matter of the
South's material interests when the
stream of immigration of a desirable
sort can be DETECTED in this direc-
tion, and it expects to see brought
about within the next five years a
greater increase of immigration and
greater movement of men and money
to the South than we have had in the
last twenty-five years"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-02

Some weeks ago a dispatch from
the oil regions of Pennsylvania said
that the oil supply was running out
and the Standard Oil Company adj
vanced the price of kerosene l cent a
gallon. A dispatch a day or two ago
from Pittsburg said that several big
wells brought in this week" had
caused the Standard Oil Company to
cut the price of crude five cents bar
rel Thus the Rockefeller interests
md an excuse for adding to the SELL
ing price of oil because the supply is
running short, and for cutting the
price of crude because the supply is
becoming too large. However, some
body has got to furnish the money for
John D. RockefeIler's contribution to
the University of Chicago.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-02

A peculiar incident of the Chicago
fire was that number of watches of
the victims were found to have stop
ped at the same instant, $3.50 o'clock.
This probably marked the moment of
the explosion, the conclusion of which
was doubtless sufficient to stop a
watch
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-02
PROPOSALS WANTED.

Fort Fremont, S. c., Dec. Is, 1908.
Sealed proposals, in triplicate, will be
received here until $3.50 a. M, Jan. IA,
1904, for constructing etc, brick hos
pital building. Information furnished
on application. u. S. reserves right to
reject or accept any or all proposals
or any part thereof. Envelopes con-
tanning proposals should be marked
Proposals for Hospital" addressed
Quartermaster,
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-02
CHANGING BLACK INTO WHITE.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin,
or the leopard his spots?" asked the
prophet jeremiah. Were the question
asked to-day, the reply to the first
section of it might be in the affirma-
tive. Science is credited with having
found a way of destroying the pigment
under, or in, the skin of the black
race without destroying the tissue
itself. and rendering the complexion
like that of the white race. The Won
derful x-ray is the means to the end
The discovery was made at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, where sew
eral negroes have been under treat
ment for lupus and cancer. The x-rays
were turned on the affected parts.
After a time the scientists noticed
that the skin exposed to the light be-
gan to lose color. After a years treat
ment. in one case, all of that part of
a black mans face that had been ex-
posed to the rays had become as clear
in complexion as that of any white
man, while the skin that had not been
SO exposed retained it's dark color.
DIR. Pancoast, of the university hos
pital. said that the x-rays simply de-
stroyed the coloring matter and that
it would not return. He refused to
discuss the possibility of the treat
ment being resorted to by colored peo-
pie who might be ambitious to become
white, further than to say it would
that he had no doubt that it could be
successfully accomplished with the
proper apparatus. He expects that the
time is not far distant when quack
doctors will take the matter up and
guarantee to make any negro a
white" man for a certain sum: that
is, white in so far as color of skin
is concerned. Such quacks would
doubtless reap a rich harvest and
richer one If they could at the same
time employ something that would
take the kink out of African hair and
make it straight. That the black peo-
pie earnestly desire lighter complex
ions and straight hair is to be seen in
a glance at their newspapers and other
periodicals. There is not one such but
has large advertising patronage from
concerns offering for sale certain
bleaches for the skin and certain oint-
ments for taking the kink out of hair;
and the vendors of these articles are
said to enjoy large patronage. DR..
Pancoast, however, gives warning that
bleaching by x-rays would be attended
with serious danger. Unless it were
done precisely right it would result in
the burning and destroying of the skin
tissues and causing horrible suffering
and death.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-02

Whether or not Judge Alton B.
Parker, will attend the big Tammany
dinner in New York on Monday even
ing has become d matter of much in
terest. Judge Parker has yet given
no intimation as to whether or not
he will be present. This is being in
terpreted in two ways; first, that he
regards himself as so much of a can
didate for the Democratic presidential
nomination that it would be indeli-
cate for him to attend, and second, that
he is so averse to putting himself for
ward that he fears his presence might
be construed as bid for adherents
to his boom. However, we shall not
have long to wait to see what Judge
Parker is going to do about the din
rer
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-02

1t is probably worthy of remark that
Sir Henry Irving is somewhere in this
country transforming. Nobody seems
to know just where he is, and nobody
cares. A few years ago, when he came
over here with Miss Terry on a SINH
lar trip, every stop he made was duly
chronicled in the newspaper dispatches
and Sir Henry" was all the rage.
He was fad, to be sure. but the peo-
pie tried hard to convince themselves
that he was the real thing" and
great actor. This time they are UNI
dertaking no such impossible task, but
are reading about "Parsifar' and shud-
dering over the Chicago fire.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-02

Vital statistics of New York show
that the city's death rate is gradually
decreasing. From $3.50 per 1000 in 1893,
the percentage has dropped to 1910 in
1903. At the same time there has
been an increase in the relative pro-
portion of deaths due to heart and
kidney diseases.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-02

Republican politicians are much ex-
ercised over Cuba's proposed tariff
changes. 1t is the understanding that
she proposes to increase her tariff OH
certain articles so as to get back the
revenue she loses on account of the
preferential reductions agreed on in the
recent treaty with the United States.
This might be done by selecting GER
tain articles that she imports almost
If not quite exclusively from the Unit
ed States. and raising the duties on
them. Such a tariff would of course,
be general in its nature. and directed
against imports of the idads name
from all countries. not from any spe-
cited country. And there could be no
legitimate objection raised to such ac-
ton on the part of Cuba. 1t is her
right and privilege to make her gem
eral tariffs to suit herself. 1t would
be great joke on the astuse Repuh-
lican leaders who framed the Cuban
treaty II the Cubans should turn Il e
tables on them, an6 beat them at their
own tariff games
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-02
The weather.

The indications for Georgia for to-
day are for fair weather, on coast, rain
in interior, with light to fresh south
winds. Eastern Florida fair weather,
with variable winds.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-02

The Pensacola (Fla.) Journal has is
sued a progress and prosperity" edi-
tion that is a credit to itself and Will
prove Of great benefit TO its section.
The edition is in magazine form and
contains seventy-two pages filled with
fine half-tone cuts and descriptions Of
the city and surrounding country. 1t
is an exceptionally handsome special
edition.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-02

Both Russia and japan are said
to be buying coal, beef and other
supplies in this country, evidently in
anticipation Of war. There are GER
tain interests here that would not re-
gard a clash in the Far East as an
unmixed evil,
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-02

One sometimes gets funny stories Of
Democratic politics from Republican
papers. A case in point is the New
York Press story of Mr.. Bryans plans,
that are to be worked out upon his re-
turn to the United States. According
to this story, Mr.. Bryan is determined
to have another nomination for him
self, and purposes to accomplish 1t by
booming Mr.. Hearst until the Cleve-
land-Olney- Gorman-Parker Democrats
are so sick of it that they will be
willing to compromise on Bryan. Bryan
and Hearst, according to this funny
story, are to work together, the under
standing being that which ever shall
prove the weaker in the convention
shall give his support to the other.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-02

Calvin had just invented the bat
terry, says the New York Sun.
1T is a wonderful thing" he ex-
planned. at makes frogs legs jump"
But we don't want them to!" shout
ed the Infatuated Italians; 1--WE want to
eat them''
Convinced that he was depriving
them of their rights, they immediately
decided to cast him into prison.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-02
Hnwe had Invented

Howe had invented the sewing ma
chine.
II am afraid it will be a failure" he
said, sadly; tits noise will drown what
people are saying about their neigh
bors."
Despairing of adapting it to the sew
ing bee, he succeeded in fixing it IN
for the instalment agent.
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Notice of Election.

The resident electors and free
holders of School District No. 90
having requested of the Board OF
Education of Lancaster county an
order for an election to decide
whether or not two mill special
tax shall be levied for Educational
purposes, and said election boin @
granted by said County Board Of
Education, we, the School Trustees
OF District No. 80, in accordance
with the laws of the State of South
Carolina, do order said election {,
take place at CASTOR School House
August Goth 1903
W. 7. Floyd,
Clerk Board Trustees, Schoo!
District No. 80.
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Death OF Mr.. L,s lseik

Death OF Nr. Il Z iSslk
Mr.. Larkin Il. Belk, al nged
citizen of the Bethel section, died
Wednesday night, August 3,
1904, at the home of his son, Mr..
w. L.. Belk, aged about 80 years.
He was very decrepit from age
but wa able to be up ard -
about the house rs usual up to tnc
day of his death. lie was a men,
ber of the Methodist church and
was esteemed good man md
citizen. He served through The
war and made faithful soldier.
Only two children survive him,
Mr.. w. Il. Belk and Mrs. S. a.
Latham. Three brothers, Capt
Eli Belk, Fl. l.. Belk and Capt j +.
NJ BeIk, still survive him. His
remains wore inferred in Tirzah
chnrchyard Thursday.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1904-08-06
9th or Deaths.

9th er Deaths.
Mrs. j. D. Godfrey, nee Miss
Della Starnes, died July 30, 1904
She was about 81 years of age and
leaves her husband and five chill
dren surviving her. She was a
member of Waxhaw Baptist church
and a pious, good wo man, affec :
t,onate and kind as wife and
mother.
Mr.. Croxton Blackmon, aged
about 90 years, son of P. B. Black
mon of The Richhill section, died
Thursday, Aug,4, 1904, after an
illness of several weeks of fever.
His remains were inferred yes
terday, atHammond graveyard, the
funeral being conducted by Rev.
r. j. Blackmon.
The infant child of Mr.. and
Mrs. s. B. Culp, of this county,
died on Monday night last, Aug.
l, 1904, aged about 4 months.
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LAneas - tnc h3s5ci TaxOay'u.
County a. the sSta1e.
Under the ABOVE caption th>
following, very complimentary t.
Lancaster county and its eificier
officers, was published in the Go
lnmbia correspondence of The
News arA Courier of TuesIoy.
The ColumoiG Kenor,' lld other
dG'iies in tho Stat 40 published I
the ComrtrCller's remarks. Fol-
lowing is the special to the News
and Courier:
Colum bia, Aug. 1.-Comptrol :
ler General Jones has just return
ed to the city, after having made
a series of settlements. He found
a remarkable condition of affai, =
III Lancaster, and one that is sci
dom, If ever, equalled. Out OF a
toteI of 2,65S polls charged, only
loS were charged off as under and
over age and non est, and only Is
had to be turned over to the mag.
istrate for collection. If other
couoties did half as we'll they would
congratulate themselves. Out Of
total three mill educational lax
of over 81, coo charged, 1882 was
charged as nulla bona and SO 54
was deducted by the Comptroller.
Out of State tax of S11, ,675.66,
the total charge for uulla bona and
delinquencies was only $12.21.
Sheriff Hunter reported on
every execution turned over to
him, and County Auditor John A
Cook and Treasurer Cauthen are
the officers who got things into
such fine shape. Other counties
would do we'll to get up such a
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Items "rom the Kershaw Era

Items "rOm the Kershaw Era
Miss Ethel Hilton has been
elected teacher of the Hail Gold .
Mine school.
Mrs T.F. Clyhurn, who has been
visiting her son Mr.. T. B. Cly-
burn, returned home yesterday.
- Mr.. NJ. B. Witberspoon and
family of Sumter spent from Sat
urday to yesterday with the for
mer's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J.B.
Witherspoon.
Mrs. l.. M. Spann and daugh-
ter, Miss Annie. of Moss Point
Miss, are visiting DR.. and Mrs.
j. E. w. Halle.
Rev E. H Beckham, and
family, of Denmark, are visiting
the formers parents, DR.. and
Mrs. X. S. Beckham.
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- Dr.. j. j. Rngins, Cpticiap,
will he IN Kershay Stu and 9tb,
Heath Springs 10th; Lancaster
18th and 18th, fitting spectacles.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. G. Payseur
| left yesterday for an extended
| pleasure trip. They will stop at
Tybee for few days, then go by
steamboat from Savannah TO Phil
! adelphia, and will spend a week
or 80 at Atlantic City and Cape
May. Mr.. Payseur says this is
his bridal tour.
Hon. L. Yancey Williams,
of Lancaster, candidate for Con-
gress from this district, was a
visitor to Fort Mill Saturday.
Mr.. Williams has many friends
in this section, ali of whom are
much pleased at the prospect of
his election in the approaching
primary. Fort Mill Times.
-CongressmAn Finley re :
quests us to announce that he has
West Point cadetship to give out
and that the appointee will be BE
lected by competitive examination
to be held in Yorkville on Sep.
tember Is. All male white resi-
dents of the district between the
ages of II and % years eligible.
-Yorkville Enquirer.
Mr.. l.. l.. Robinson of the
Pleasant Hill section has sold ten
loads of Elberta peaches at this
place within the past few weeks,
at an average, we arc told, of $50
per load. He expects to set out
large number of trees this full and
if mis- nelghbors will do likewise
there is no reason why in few
years Pleasant Hill should not be
shipping as many and as fine
peaches North as Ridge Spring.
Mr.. Geo G. Heath, who has
been in charge of the Heath Bank
ing & Mercantile Co, here for
several months, has bought third
interest in the cotton business of
0. =. Heath & Co., and has NOV
ed to Charlotte to devote his at
tention to that business. MIR. S.
w. Heath of Kersoaw will be in
charge of the Heath B. & NJ. Co.'S
business here for the preseut, man
aging it from Kersbaw. = Enter
prise.
Letters remaining uncalled
for in the post. office at Ian
caster for the week ending Aug.
9th, 1904, are as follows:
Misses Pearl Steele, Daisy Lang
hart, Maggie John-on, Ola Cook,
(2), Mrs. Lillian Stokes, Mrs.
ldean Sanders, Mrs. S. w. Van.
landingham, Mrs. Maggie Piglen,
Messrs. s. w. Robertson, j. H.
Pryor, o. F. Rogers, F. Pierce
Beam.
j. NJ. Stewart, =. M.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1904-08-06

Five good second hand sew
ing machines at bargain, for
cash or on time.
j. IS. Nackorell.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1904-08-06

70 par on Ladies shoes ool =.
cents, ~ pair of ladies' patent oahcr oxio1d worth s. so
SI.4o. 81 pair or ladies Clay Davis oxords
pair ~ pair of ladies' oxors 81 So for gc Nor n
PAIR or men oxtord worth 50 SO will et them slide for 81
ITO par OF men pants Will ne
cent lawns to at ner yard ,.oa few lod bos
Will go at half price. ' ''''