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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-01-06

ton brought you back to America, and
at the little farm you remained till
sent you to school. Your mother
trusted you to my care, although l was
then only a boy in years, and your
father gave you to me, Ina, in his dy-
ing hour. If you can love her, Roland,
when she is a woman, let her be your
wife. shall die happy thinking it
may be So were almost his last words.
Shall it be so, darling?"
Mrs. billiard, coming for Ina a mo-
ment later, started back with a little
Shrek at the tableau she saw on open
ing the door.
But Roland, holding blushing, smil-
ing, half-weeping Ina firmly beside
him, drew his sister nearer, whispered
the story of the evening in her ear,
and sent her, quietly rejoicing (for
she had never really liked Miss
Stearns), to kiss and bless his BRIDE
Saturday Night.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-01-06
Mines in Korea.

Korea possesses gold mines, whose
output has increased from $1,158, 900
in 1898 to $2,50O,OO0 in 1902. 1t has
also mines of iron, silver, "copper" coal,
etc. The greater part of the gold is
exported to Japan. Iron, although
present in large quantities, can hard
ly be said to be exploited. AS mat
ter of fact, iron used in Japanese
foundries comes from China. Coal of
medium quality is equally abundant,
but it is hardly exploited. Copper is
extracted in several districts. During
the past two years 5G4 ,433 pounds,
valued at $51 ,044, were mined.
1t is said that the southern portion
of Korea belongs to the Crown. and
that it is necessary to have a special
authorization to develop it. A request
for such q concession should be pres
ented through the diplomatic repre-
sentative of the country of which the
petitioner is a resident AS a rule,
these requests are denied, owing to
the Koreans dislike of foreigners, and
there are many difficulties to be sur
mounted before work can be begun
New York Times.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-01-06
Just in Time.

When the bell at an uptown par.
sonage rang the other evening, the
clergyman was in his study and his
wife was busy putting an infant to
sleep, so Master Harold, aged Z, went
to the door. On opening it he found
a couple, both young and bashful. At
ter looking at the boy for a moment
the young man queried:
as the pastor at home?"
eyes" said Harold. do you want
to get married."
That's just what we're here for"
replied the prospective bridegroom.
well, come right in, then" said the
boy, ushering them into the parlor
'T'll tell papa, and mamma, too She'll
be awful glad to see you, for she
gets all marriage money. I heard her
tell pa this mornin' that she wished
some folks would come to get mar
ried soon, cause she wanted to buy a
new fall hat. New York Press.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-01-06
Get Out of Bed Slowly.

We are advised by high medical
authority that the process of getting
up in the morning should be exceed
ingly gradual There should be a Sc
ries of tentative efforts to get awake.
Some time should be given to stretch
ing the limbs, and prolonged yawn-
ing is said to be a prophylactic.
Jumping out of bed suddenly may pro-
duce apopleXy. Nothing should be ap-
preached with more conscientious de-
liberation than the act of getting up.
Deliberation takes time. Are we not
told that everything comes to him
who waits.-Philadelp Ledger.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-01-06
THE wlTHERED PEACH.

x was a tattered city child
With hagpard face and brave
Who found q little withered peach
A-lying on the pave.
saw him CLASP It swift and close
Beyond my greedy reach.
A. thoU-h oarth's richest treasure lay
Witan that withered peach.
oh. see," said that humble prize
How eagerly he thumbs;
perEaGs t will give him strength again
10 battle with the slums.
Perhaps a fathers drunken curse
Has cast him on the street
WIthout roof to call his home,
Without crGst 10 cat.
PERHAPS a mothers lying i'll
in need of nourishment
And he will take the peach to her
In yonder tenement.
"Perhaps a little sister kind
IL fading pa!ing fast
And lie VIII save the peach for her,
His one poor gift his last.
Perhaps" Just then an auto car
tame tearing round the bend
And brought my mellow rcverie
Abruptly to an end.
A window oppned someone yelled,
Hi Chlmmy soak 'em good -
The urchln poised the peach in air
And then ! understood
Wallace Trtcin in Puck
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-01-06
A FARMERS RAILWAY.
Projected, Financed, Built and oper-
at9d by North Dakota Wheat
Growers
Growers.

Growers.
The movement of crops was former
ly a problem, but railways and trolley
lines almost to the farmers doors now
provide transportation, writes Isaac
r. Marcosson in the Worlds Work.
But difficulties arose, such as con-
fronted the wheat growers of Ramsey
county, North Dakota.
These farmers hauled their grain
often distance of 25 miles-to DEVILS
Lake, the county seat, through which
the Great Northern Railway passed. 1t
kept the farmers hauling grain all
winter They asked Mr.. James j.
Hill, president Of the Great Northern
railroad, to build a branch line from
Devils Lake up through their section.
Mr.. Hill said he could not build. Six
OF the largest farmers met at a
schoolhOuse. One of them was Mr..
Joseph Kelley, who owned 900 acres
Of land, and who hauled his wheat Is
miles to Devils Lake Mr.. Kelley
said, IF the Great Northern won't
build, we will build" And the farm
ers built a railroad 25 miles long.
They asked every farmer who haul
ed grain to Devils lake to subscribe.
Some subscribed $25; others, $500.
They raised $4,000. They sent a
farmer to Duluth to buy ties. and an
other to St, Paul to buy old rails. A
land-prOmoter was building a small
branch line out of DEVILS lake to the
south, and they got him to survey the
road. They hired section-hands to lay
the track. But they needed more
money. They bought land along the
line and laid out three towns, sold the
lots, and used the money to buy an
cid engine, a day-coach, and four box
cars from the Great Northern railway.
Then the road was started 1t will
stop for any farmer at any place.
Last year, the road made its expenses;
it hauled 10000 bushels of wheat.
This year, with the railroad at hand,
the farmers planted more wheat, and
the road will haul 100000 bushels.
l went to Starkweather the largest
town laid out by the farmers on their
road. Two years ago, the site was a
faX-field. l found it a bustling place,
with 80 stores and houses, 400 peo-
pie, a school-house that cost $4,000,
three elevators with a capacity of
100000 bushels, three banks, a news
paper, and a church. At the other
two towns, which year ago were
farm lots, | found grain elevators,
schools and stores.
Here is what these farmers had
done when they built their railroad;
established three towns, increased the
price of land along the way rs percent,
increased the yield of wheat, built
schools, established telephones. They
made G whole community richer and
independent.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-01-06
CANADA's OUTPUT OF GOLD.
In Eight Years the Dominion Yield
Amounts of 100000.

amounts OF 9I,OOO,OOO.
According to the report of the geo
logical survey of Canada for the last
year, recently issued, since 1896 upward
of $970OO,000 worth of gold has been
shipped out Of the Canadian Yukon.
The production of the precious metal
in this district amounted to only a
few hundred thousand dollars worth
eight years ago In 1900 it had leaped
to $22,000,000, but since that record
year it has steadily declined several
millions each year until last year the
production amounted to $12,500,000.
1t is reported that practically all
this gold has been taken out of the
wonderfully rich claims contained in
about half a dozen creeks in the Klon-
dixie district, and the decreasing pro-
duction Of this wealth is largely at
tributed to the exhaustion of the best
deposits. Although production is ap-
parrently decreasing, it is shown,
en- the other hand, that mining
activity in the Yukon is increas.
aing. Machinery is being extern
sively introduced for mining opera
lions, with the result that many aban-
doned claims and low-grade gravels are
being now worked with a good degree
of profit
1t would seem from the present con-
dition of things in the Yukon that the
day when the placer miner, with his
pan, could in a brief space Of time
secure a vast fortune is row thing
OF the past. The Yukon is experien-
cling the conditions that have resulted
to all other mining countries, and capt.
talists are new coming forward and
are acquiring the property and secur-
ing the wealth of gold which only re-
quires scientific Development of the
mines successfully to produce The
cost Of mining in the Yukon is conse-
quently being greatly reduced as we'll
as the output of geld
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-01-06
Seven Ages of Woman.

Says she's sixteen when she's
twelve.
Says she's eighteen when she's four
teen.
Says she's eighteen when she's
twenty-one.
Says she's eighteen when she's
twenty-five.
Says she's nineteen when she's
thirty.
Says she's twenty-one when she's
forty-five.
Says she's twenty-eight when she's
fty-five.-Yonkers Statesman.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-01-06
Hard on the Others.

Old Observation-Disclosures! What
are you doing in the city?
Ditto-Eh? Oh, trying to get an
honest living, you know.
Old Acquaintance-Ah, WE'LL There's
nothing like being the first in the
field.-London Judy.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-01-06

A Chicago girl gets her exercise by
beating a drum every morning. Shef
likes it. but her neighbors don't.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-01-06

The Lewis and Clark exposition at
Portland, Ore, has voted $4,000 for
premiums for big livestock display.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1905-08-30

and of all their acts as such county
board of control, and should be Ii.
able crimlnally for any violation
or the law, rules and regulations of
the dispensary law.
am opposed to the high license
system. 1t is too near the old
oarroom system, and would not
decrease the sales of liquor, what,
ever the restrictions might be, but
would increase them. The man
who pays the high license would
want to make all the profit he
could, and hence, the moro sales.
the more profits.
Personally l would like to sec
no liquor sold in this State as n
beverage, but it is condition
which confronts us, and the uues-
uon is how best to deal with that
condition. There is no law that
can be passed that will keep some
people from drinking liquor, still
l believe it to be the duty of the
State to pass such laws rs will
mini nize the use as much as pos
sible.
This is brief outline of my
views upon the liquor question.
Martin +. Ansel.
Greenvile, Aug. 26.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1905-08-30
BIease and Lyon Spat.
One Thought the Other Dlscourte-
Gus and Then the Chairman
Had to Get Between
The Two Made up.
Greenville, Aug. 26.
Columbia Record, 25th.

Columbia Record, 25th.
There was something else for
the spectators to talk about at the
dispensary committee meeting Just
before adjournment this afternoon.
Mr.. Charles was on the stand and
Mr.. Blease made motion for
recess, saying that Mr.. Charles
shou not be exhausted. The mo-
tlon came just after question by
Mr.. Lyon, who at once remarked
about 1t. Mr. Blease rose to his feet
andMr. Lyon started. towards HIM.
Mr.. Fraser, the chairman, got
between the two and said that moth
ing discourteous was intended.
MIR. Blease also said the same,
but remarked that he was ready
for Mr.. Lyon any time he came
for him. Then Mr.. Lyon remark,
ed that when he did come he would
smash his (Blease's) face. Mr..
Blease remarked that he would be
ready for it.
eyes l suppose you have pis-
tol," said Mr.. Lyon.
'No, | have not" said Mr..
Blease.
All this time the chairman and
the sergeant at arms were between
the two gentlemen and endeavor-
ing to quiet them. Mr.. Blease in.
sisted on being searched and moth
ing was found on his person.
Afterwards the two gentlemen
made up in the committee room
and mutual explanations we're
made.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1905-08-30
A NEW JERSEY EDITORS
TESTIMONIAL.

M. T. Lynch, Editor of the
Philipsburg, N. j., Daily post
writes: I have used many kinds
of medicines for coughs and colds
in my family but never anything
so good as Foley's Honey and
Tar. l cannot say too much
in praise of it," Sold BY Fun
derburk Pharmacy. q. o. Floyd,
Kershaw 3. G..
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1905-08-30
Tillman o Prohibltionist.
Southern Christian Advocate.

Southern Christian Advocate.
Recent utterances and actions of
Senator Tillman indicate that at
heart the senator is a prohibition
ist. The belief appears justified
that ii the dispensary were not his
creature for which he feels an
unusual responsibility, he would
join with all power to secure p.o-
hibition instead of the dispensary.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1905-08-30
Charleston Dispenser Short and
Skips Away.
Special to Greenville News.

Special to Greenville News.
Charleston, Aug. 26.-Dispen-
sary Inspector Floyd, has an
nounced that shortage of about
so, 700 has been found in dispen.
sary No. 5 on East Bay street and
Dispenser o. f. Fortune has dis
appeared, leaving his bondsmen in
the lnrch. This dispensary was a
resort for dock laborers, teamsters
and negroes generally, and did an
enormous business in "old hog"
as the negroes call "Palmetto One
x" Empty cases and empty
jugs by the dozen were found in
the stock and these had been count
ed as full, no doubt by the agents,
who made recent inventory.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1905-08-30

Charles explained ue1all why
the dispensary was ha'rd up and
why ITS capital has been s1oing to
meet the profit accounts.
One OF the questions asked in
the resolution was whether rela
tlves of mem hers of the board act
ed as selling ngents. In the course
of Mr. Charles evidence he stated
that Mr.. Cuntey, who is a brother
in-law of Mr.. Boykin, indirectly
represented Fleishmann & Co.,
who sold tho dispensary. Mr..
Cantey simply did some clerical
work fot the regular representa-
tive of the iirm and was not and
had been for only short while
employed hv Mr.. Earl, the regu-
lar agent Of Fleisbmann. Mr..
Charles was positive that Mr..
Bovkla had never represented
Lanaban, as had been testified to,
and he had no knowledge of his
ever having represented a liquor
house.
There was considerable testi
mony as to the Weiters case, from
Charleston. 1t was shown that
the State Board held up IS, 277.75
out of the profits of Charleston be-
cause of this Welters case. Of
this amount $5,152.2S has been
paid for fees to eminent counsel.
for fines, printing, expenses,
travelling and the like. The at
torneys are to be con graduated as
they received SO, 700 of the money
and if it was to be spent it was
fortunate that such good folks got
the money for their legal talent.
Mr.. Harris added to the stock
of letters the committee is accum-
ulating and presented several let>
ters from the MalIard Distilling
Co., which gave some interesting
side lights.
Mr.. Harris denied that he had
ever received cent for getting
Howie job, but he was candid in
saying he was satisfied HOWE had
paid some one for trying to get
him his job. Mr.. Harris went on
to say that while he never accepted
cent, that offers were made him
and that 1t seemed to be recognized
at that time as being quite the
thing to pay some one for work
necessary to get jobs on the con
stabulary and other places, al
though he had no idea that it did
any good.
The CO mmittee will meet here
again on September 5.
August Kohn.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1905-08-30
USED FOR PNEUMONIA.

DR.. G. J. Bishop of Agnew,
Mich. says, "I have used Foleys
Honey and Tar in three very Sc
we're cases of pneumonia with
good results in every case. Re-
fuse substitutes. Sold by Fun
derburk Pharmacy. G. O. Floyd
Kershaw, S. e..
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1905-08-30
MAKES THE LIVER LIVELY

Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup
gives permanent relief in cases of
habitual constipation as it stimu-
iates the liver aud restores the
natural action of the bowels with.
out irritating these orgars like
pills or ordinary cathartics. Does
not nauseate or grlpe and is mild
and pleasant to take. Remember
the name Orino and refuse sub
stitutes.
Fnnderburk Pharmacy,
Q. .. Floyd, Kershaw, S. G.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1905-08-30
Whiskey Houses Letters to
Col. MixsOn Read.
Show Debauchery and Corruption
says Mr. Gaston-M More
About Attempted Brie-
bry.

When the legislative lnvestiga-
ting comhittee was appointed,
Arthur l.. CASTOR was named ss
member of the committee nv
virtue of his craftsmanship of the
dispensary committee of the
House lie has ever been decld-
edly the champion of the dispen-
sary. 1t was therefore all the
more significant when he arose to-
day and stated calmly and with
force that he was satisfied that the
whiskey houses we're debauchins
the people of the State and that
the debauching and corruption was
not alone in the lowly places, but
that it extended to the highest of
fcials connected with the dispen /,
sary system. This, he said, was a
result of facts that he has gathered
and particularly of the letters that
had been secured by the commits
tee, notably those from Kelly &
Co., surrendered by Col. Mix
son.
Today closed the second session
OF the committee. There will be
other meetings and from the way
things are developing there are
likely to be very many more ses-
sions because the. several commit.
tees seem to have taps all along
the line and about all that is nec>
essary is to start the ball rolling.
Messrs. Spivey and CASTOR, of
the special committee on business
methods have developed great
deal and when the tables and f.
cures that they have in hand are
all studied there will be more force
IN the work. They are keeping
the pace of the Lyon and Chris
tensen committee, and the Fraser.
Blease committee is yet TO be
heard from and it evidently will
have much to report and many
witnesses to present. There was
much lively evidence today and
some of If dramatic.
THE KELLEY LETTERS.
Mr.. CASTOR stated without any
equivocatlon that the Kelley let
ters, while extremely guarded,
meant very much and showed a
worry bad state of affairs. 1t is to
be noted that this firm sold only
$4,000 of nearly 100000 of
liquor used by the dispensary an
nually. Mr. CASTOR had studied
the letters during the night and he
read extracts from the Kelley let
ters TO their agent Col. Mixson SO
as to give point to what be wished
to develop. From the letter oi
March 18th he read:
'tOur Mr.. White will write Mr..
Evans in few days and ask him
when he will be in Atlanta, when
our Mr.. White, or Lesxinsky will
meet him there.''
In the letter of September 1st,
there was this paragraph:
eve will endeavor to keep the
gentlemen mentioned on our side,
and will trust you to look after
Messrs. T.& B. In regard to the
cases of whiskey which you asksd
us to ship Messrs. Towill and
Boykin, we beg to advise that we
shipped them promptly, and wrote
you twice to this effect"
Then came these seqnels:
"Oct. 10th, 1908. Mr.. White
saw your friend IN Atlanta the
other.day and fixed things up witt
him. We feel sure that we will
get an order for some Silye,
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1905-08-30

houses to the, dispensary. Evi-
dence was presented to show that
during twelve months the dispen-
sary bought from the Ricrland Dis
tillcry Co., 1902, 1000 worth of
liquor. The records show that
the dispensary for the same year
bought from all sources $4,000
OO7.23 and that, therefore, the
Richland Distilling Co., secured
40 per cent, of the total business
and that for sixteen months that
the same distilling company of
Colum bia secured about S1,212,-
600, worth of the business. This
detailed statement is in the Inter
nal Revenue reports. The statis-
tics also show that Lanahan & Son
the firm that Col. Mixson says
offered him $50, 900 for n part of
the business - sold the State in SIX
years S543, SOO.99 worth of Ii
quors. Figures along this line
were presented Ms to other firms
bus these two seem to have been
the best patronized.
Col. Willie Jones, cashier of
the Carolina National Bank testifi-
ed that soon after ho went on the
Board of Control, ten years ago,
that Lanahan placed $4,000 on
special deposit in the bank of
which he was cashier. He did
not like this and asked the presi.
dent of the bank to have the specl
al deposit removed and that such
was done as he did not think it
right to have such a sum on de-
posit in the bank of which he was
cashier and at the same tine be
chairman of the purchasing board
of the dispensary.
Quite number of the witnesses
| today, including Col. Jones, did
not think much of the present
system of purchasing by the board
and thought there was no compe-
tition whatever under the rules of
the board. The competition as TO
quality they thought purely nomi-
nal as few, ifany, could really tell
anything and that competition as
to price is entirely eliminated by
the present board.
A STAR WITNESS.
There is young man connected
with the dispensary by name of
6. II. Charles. He is a wonder.
He was on the witness stand TODAY
for several hours. He gave a
multitude Of figures, records and
data, and practically all of 1t from
memory. He was accurate and
careful and thought it all ever
careful not to say thing that
would hurt the feelings of anyone.
He was familiar with every detail
of the shortages, the stocks, the
ins and outs of bookkeeping and
satisfactorily explained whatever
may have appeared as needful OF
explanation. Mr.. Charles sale
that he had no knowledge of the
members parcclling out the purch.
ases, each member taking thirc
of the purchases and then Jumping
the thirds to make up the entire
purchases made, and that he die
not think such to be the case. TIL,
evidence today again indicatce
that the dispensary has been SLOW
pay, but that the slowness wa,
agreeable to the sellers and tha
they understood the situation. Mr.