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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1905-02-22
State of South Carolina,
COUNTY OF LANCASTER

pYJ. E STEWMAN, ESQUIRE,
ID Probate Ju.ige.
WHEREAS, Mr. w II Castles
made SUIT to me to grant him Letters
Of Administration Of the Estate of and
effects of John II Morrison
THESE ARE TIL HEREFORE to
cite and admonish all and singular the
kinhred and Creditors of the said
John It Morrison deceased. and that
they be and appear before me, in the
Court ofProbate, t. be held al Lancas>
ter on the 25th day ofF.brnary next AZ
ter publication thereof, ut III O'Clock in
theforenoon to show cause If any they
have, why the said Administration
should not be granted
Given under my hand. this 10th day
Feby Anno Domini 1905.
J. E. STEWM AN,
Probate Judge.
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Accident Near Barn well.

Barn well, February Is Yes.
terday evening about 8 O'Clock MIR
Barney B. Eas,erling, a very
thrifty and well-to do young farm-
or Of this city, was knocked from
his buggy and painfully injured
by the Florida limited north
bound train No. 80, on the South.
ern Railroad, and his horse killed
and buggy broken to pieces.
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FIENDISH SUFFERING

is often caused by cores, ulcers
and cancers that eat away your
skin. VIM. Bedell, of Flat Rock,
Mich, says: 81 have used Buck
lens Arnica Salve, for Ulcers,
Sores and Cancers. 1t is the
best healing dressing 1 ever
found" Soothes and heals cuts,
burns and scalds. 25c at Funder-
burk Pharmacy, j. F. Mackey &
Co., and Crawford Bros, drug
stores; guaranteed.
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NEW
LIERY AND SALE STABLE

We have opened up, at the El-
lott & Crawford old stand, Sale
and Livery Stables and are pre-
pared to sell stock cheaper than
anybody, for cash, or on time
with good papers.
eY Call and see OUR STOCK
before buying. Satisfaction
guaranteed.
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Notice..

My regular office days will be Sat-
urdays and first Mondays. All other
days you will find me at my office
near l. & G depot Will keep school
books at both offices and will be glad
to wait on you any day in the week
w NJ Moore,
Co Supt .f Education
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DIR X O Elliott.
Lancaster, S. g.

Residence phone No 1877. Office,
Davis Building. corner Main and
Dunlap streets; phone No72.
Will practice ir both town and
county Of Lancaster.~ TAIL calls. either
day or nigh. will receive prompt at
tantion
Jan. 10, 1905 If.
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Price OF COttvn,
Actual Value a Cent Higher
than Ruling Quotations
Factor Says Cotton Cannot be
Sold From This Territory for
Less Than s! Cents Spot
Market =
Columb bia Record.


;,
, :.
-, ,,u ,,,a ,,ton f,o,ors o,a
others il j. scertained that the
actuol nr,ce Of cotton = fuIlv one
cent higher than tho SPOT market.
This anomalous situation is true
NOT onlv in Columbia. but prevails
throughont the cotton belt. The
neculiar condition of affairs is
probably due to the holding move
melt inaGgurated bv the Southern
Cotton association at the meeting
held 10 New Orleans recently. The
farmers generally are abiding by
the resolution calling on them 10
hold their cotton, an l as result,
the actual value Of the staple has
been forced above the ruling
quotations.
The Charlotte Chronicle says Of
this.
cot,r :, ,,,,oa -. onor. II
oon,. On ,ho I,oa1 ,,o.,.n ,,.
oroo,;oor,, n,no - ho;nc .o,J
ro,,noso,.n,; &c ,ho $1,000. :.
60, Gn,, - r,o oo,,n,r, ;St,,o,
(hro,;,,o rooo..,o. .oao, u,,t
cotton couIdn,t he sold from This
torr;+orv urdor e1 oon,s onaho
added that it would be hard to get
Mt Tint linure. Good middling
can be purchased in Alabama and
Mississippi at from 81 to 81 cents.
Another anomalous situation
exists in the discrepancy between
spot and future markets rbe
cotton factor referred to above
said: cat this time spots should
really be about 10 points under
futures, but they are o good deal
higher as much as rs points IL
some instances. This can prob.
ABLY be explained bv the fact TIM,
the action of the farmers in hold,
their cotton has divorced the spo'
and future markets to such an ex
tent that neither has anv perceD-
tible influence over the other
TaIl;no olonstbo somo ,;,e
Charlotte mill nresident so;d.
,x
h..; ;.
49, ~ oo,,Io n,I
tb;n,0 IN tho;r 49,, 49,.
control tbe situation 90 lono q,
thew choose TO do So Ifthev st,cl
to the bold,no movoment and 70
duce their acreage thew will he
sure to receive higher prices.
Cotton ls'not at its real value to
day, because so MANY spinners ar,
supplied. When their stocks be
come exhausted. there will be
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Professional Desdheads.

ahominable debt shirker with \
which every community has to
contend:
We imagine that the meanest
feeling individual we won't say
nan next to tho one who is just
getting over q drunk from "fust
X" corn liquor is the one Who
goes around day after day dodglng
creditors. He sees a man on the
street whom he owes probably II
small amount; 1t may be for store
account; rations that he has eaten
or il may be for the clothes he il
wearing, or it aay be doctors
bill, or wood or fertilizers, or a
subscription to his county paper;
he at once has business in an op-
posite direction. He has no de-
sire 10 meet the man be owes.
Now, my poor deluded friends,
is this rightl Is it hoLestl You
got the goods and gave q fair
promise that if accommodated, you
would settle by certain time.
You probably think it very smart
to thus beat the one who has be-
friended you one who hus prob
| ably made sacrifice in order to
accommodate you-you, by your
act, are not only hurting him fl
nancia.ly, but are making an enc
my of him, sud worst of all, you
are making for yourself an unen-
viable record A record that will
last as long as you live and cause
the blush of shame to mantle the
cheeks of your children after you
are dead and gone. SO if you are
one ef this class, 60 at once, if
you owe anything, and give the
person you owe satisfaction. 1t
may nearly kill you to part with
few dollars to pay ii the one to
whom il rightfully belongs, but in
u day or SO you will get over it
and feel SO gooI you will think
you are sprouting wings.
This thing of not paying your
debts is all a very pernicious habit
rather an affliction that might be
termed "short memory,.' and
strang eto say, it only works one
way; for if anyone owes you, no
matter how insignificant an
amount, you almost 60 crazy until
they settle with you; but if you
owe another, it is altogether dii
ferent matter. If approached on
the subject you have either left
your cash at home or forgotten
about the debt.
Now friends, let me suggest a
remedy, which, if adopted, we
will guarantee that your own
selfrespect will be enhanced fifty
per cent. and the respect of your
neighbors many fold of that
amount. 1t is this: In the first
place, make no debts, unless nec-
essity forces you to do so; in the
next, having made bebt, take a
note of it at the time and do not
rest until it is discharged.
Simply do unto others as We
would that they should do unto
you. You owe perscu and be
probably has sick child that needs
medicine, or his wife needs some
of the comforts of life, they wait
day afser day thinking that you
will pay them, finally he has to
mortgage his property to procure
money that rightfulIy, you should
be the one to procure. he, an
honest man is made to suffer while
you, a self-consclcus scoundrel.
simply because the law is such
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PILES! PILESl PILES!

iir. WiiiaDs' Ns',au Pile Ou;m .
y ID cu.e li:;.'.i Ss.dhL., JlGrra,e
"Hd 1tHh!ug PfI,i = 1's1ft-. '|ic g.
n!"rs nll.Pt de hpny.9 st nrl"e, aRf1
A. , "''iic<.. geV e !us}snt rt4jcj Nc.
" H'ians tGUrI Pie Oinfinemt ~
pr pared only fE piiGs and it0hing of
lie private para. ,r,d no;Mne else.
Every box gs,wn sod. Sold by
hrUggi-s~ S,nt ~ ,nMI fpr So, aAh
II 90 per hnx W: L&IAMS E'F'9
% Prp's, cicvs1.nA, Oh;D.
Bold by EundgbusG PhaymGry.
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Cabba 3o PIuntS

Dec 20. 19O4-3m
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CASE BA0E PLANTS

$3.50 PER THOUSAND.
/ am prepared to fill sny and ali Or
ders with the best varieti. Of Cabbage
Plants. Orders filled for any amount
and varieties, Write fer prices or lots
of 3 900 and over djre orders TO
w n Carr,
Meggeug, :; =
nan On 1QOi-9,n
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CONNECTIONS,

thester-SouSi,ern, teebcasl and
IGTiina G. Nopth"estsfs HAS$hss.
Lancaster Son'hern Rail wey.
= p. MCLUUI$, d5st Traffic mor
N(.JV sPb<N'its
&l",tanG I.efiic Manager.
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Notice TO the Public

will hold MI inquests in the
county. Phone TO my residence
at Pleasant Hill for ne whom
needed.
!. Montgomery CaskeY,
ept. 20-tf Coroner l. &
The San Francisco call., 1905-08-20
Opie Reed Writes
Of Ancient Rome

Opie Reads new story. "The Son Of the
Swordmaker," is the life of a Roman
soldier told by himself. The time was
the reign of the Emperor Tiberius. and
the latter half of the tale IS about Christ
as this Roman soldier knew him.
Old Gallo, the father of Eradmus, is the
swordmaker, and Eradmus is the SON.
Early in life Eradmus Is fired with the
desire to become soldier and his wish
is granted. ANY one who had ever
faced steel was of great anc admiring In
terest to US, the young legionaries. No
distillation Of the gods could have seemed
more precious to us than the blood of an
enemy" The young soldier passes
through many haxdships and adventures.
The chief romance of his warrior career
came when he was serving in Britain.
He is captured by Marlii1e British Prin-
cess who falls in love with her handsome
Roman captive. Her name Is vloden. She
is described as magnificent creature,
"a maiden tall and splendid slightly
clad in lamb skins She was of great
courage and drove a chariot into battle
with her peoples enemies. A young
Brfton, whom she had selected as her
husband because of his splendid manly
beauty, proved timid In war. and there
fore she kiileu him.
At the time the story reaches the part
which tells or Christ the young roman
is in command of the soldiers who mock
Jesus after hfs trial and put the crown
of thorns upon his brow. lie also COM
manded the guards at the execution upon
the cross. 1t is bold attempt to imagine
how the Roman soldier felt as a witness
and participant in those judgment-hail
and Calvary scenes. He represents the
soldier as saying this: II pressed down
upon the thorns. and he looked at me,
and, my God, heard the groaning of my
heart within mel 1t was a<1ook so ten
der. so. full of forgiveness. that l shut
my eyes and moved back from him. but
still I saw tnat soft and forgiving look.
and blood coming up about thorn. and
something within me was almost burst
ing"
The story's explanation of Pilates mo-
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California Woman
Tells Pretty Tale

"Zula," OF which H. Esselstyn Lindley
Of Laton. California, Is the authoress. Is
the story of & gypsy girl who became a
novelist. The first glimpse. We get Of
her she is attempting to steal spoons
The lady of the house calls her dread
full. sinful little creature and she Is ar
rested and sent to jail. Not. however.
before the son and daughter of the lady
had noticed. and taken pity on, the child
with the coal-black eyes and the little,
brown, pilfering hands. Scott and June
Wilmer were these two sympathizfng
ones. Because June was insistent. Scott
went to the Judge next day and got the
dusky little beauty released. She thanked
the young man and said ne was SO kind
that she would be willing to give her
life for him.
"Why do you think you would give your
life? he asked.
Cause IT'S true. and I hain't got anything
else to give"
When the youth, Scott Wilmer, grew
10 manhood, his mothers ambition to
have him make a wealthy marriage re-
suited in the spelling of the first half OF
his life That happiness blessed the lat
ter half of 1t was due to Zula. She kept
her word indirectly by giving her life to
him instead of for him--which was much
better after all.
The terrible beatings the little gypsy
got In the camps Ol HcE DuoSCo CaNoCN
her to run away, and she was fortunate
enough to find shelter. and later loving
help. from a respectable family. So she
had opportunity to come to the estate OF
q weiI-brought-up womanhood, wnicn
was hers by right of birth any way. for
she was a changeling and the old gypsy
woman who taught her to steal was but
pretending to be her mother.
A part of the story relates the admir-
able conduct OF a true man under the
ordeal of having false wife abandon
him. and later, return to him. Inundated
and begging for protection He gave her
a home. but love and caresses never
again. When she grew sick he sent to
Der room the choicest flowers and the
finest fruits. and the books he knew
she loved, but to her room he never
came. The woman. who was a very
handsome one. was much surprised both
at the completeness and the incomplete
ness of the forgiveness which he gave
broadway Publishing Company, New
York 81 50)
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Mary E. Braddon
Writes Another

To the long, long list of novels writ
ten by Mary E. Braddon. she has added
another called 1.-THE Rose OF Life This
means very close TO half a century of
literary activity. Her first distinct sue
cess, Lady Audleys Secret" was ac-
complished in 1862, and 'The Trail Of the
Serpent was done some time before that.
One would think that her inspiration to
invent a story and her energy to spread
II upon pages would be exhausted by the
continuous output and the lapse of years
(she was born in 1S3O, but in 1903 she
wrote "The Conflict" and in 1904 "A
Lost Eden," and now, an 1905, there comes
this Rose of Life written apparently
with unabated fiuency. What she means
bv the title of the rose of life she does
not say, but it may purport that our life
IS a beautiful flower given US to tend in
this garden of the earth. The girl who is
the chief item of this book was about to
throw her life away, via the drowning
sea. because IL was not roseate.
"Oh, child, you would have been hide
Gus when they found you--swollen and
bloated and purple and horrible!''
She was of a fate entitled to our
deepest sympathies-a good girl born
Of a disreputable mother. She had evil
heredity and evil environment to con-
tend against. Her mother was named
Perdita, and her father made no effort
to save her from the risk Of perdition
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Books RDyed for Enlightenment

not return it to her He kept it as a
talisman. and because success attended
him when he had it near, and disap-
pointment came when it was not with
him, he grew superstitious. No transac-
ton of Importance would he make unless
the little brooch was in reach of his
hand Wonderful was the good luck 1T
brought him., When at last he came
across the girl again. he offered to return
the trinket, but she put both hands be-
hind her, saying:
"And if it has proven such blessing
to you, or even if it has only seemed
to do SO, do you think / could take 1t
away?"
The artist gives US a picture of this
cashier at Macari's whose power OF con,
ferring talsmanic potencies to trifies gave
marvellous good fortune to her admirer.
Here is just one flower l gather for you
from this Bohemia:
OVER THE ROSE.
The rose lay soft in her two pink palms,
AS red as the lips above 1t,
And the petals seemed to ask an aims,
AS she leaned to kiss aud love. 1t.
1t gave its fragrance ana Beauty, too.
To the lips that bent to press 1t,
It's life went out and its nour was through.
When she cared not to caress 1t.
1t lay unnoticed breathing space.
A broken thing, neglected,
And then across her fair young face
Regret was swift reflected.
II am so sorry. nlurnlureu she,
Poor, shattered. faded flower
And on her warm heart tenderly,
1t nestled for an hour.
Oh. NJ Caldwell & Co.. New York
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wooed girl waits Belmont's decision,
thinking, He will not do anything un-
kind; he will come gravely and gently
and lCok at me with sad. compassionate
eyes, and he will say, Good-by, Helen :"
The two arc married in double igno-
rance. He does not know her history.
but she thinks he knows Lady Beau
minister had planned this in hate. She
tried to tell the ugly story immediately
after the marriage, but overcome by her
evil passions she became III and in
coherent and the secret could not be told.
Later the truth was revealed by accident
to Belmont, and out of that the authoress
makes the crux of her story. Hereupon,
will any reader dare decide what should
be Belmont's conduct to Helen after the
revelation? Surely to him there would
come thronging thoughts of love senti-
ment to her; of the stern non-sentiment of
heredity; of race suicide, and of his fam
ily pride. Mercifully for the strain on
their nerves novelists do not have to de-
eide what ought to happen-they merely
relate what did happen
Brentano's, New York, Union-square;
81 50)
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SSABook:AboutHl1 Hl1uic; ande/61ne 'Od1eEIz

The present is the twenty third edi-'
tion. 1t is now issued biennia1ly about
! the month OF July in each odd num-
bered year. On it's title page we get
this quotation from Milton:
10 know
That which before lies in daily life
Is the prime wisdom; what is more. is fume.
Or emptiness or fond impertfnence:
And renders US. In things that most concern.
Cnpractisd d, unp-enared. and stfn to seek
Nothing could be more apt than the
/ two-Iine quotation which begins the
preface: knowledge is OF two kinds.
We know a subject ourselves or We
know where we can find information
on it,
Were II not for that second kind OF
knowledge probably some of the most
! learned in all trades and professions
would soon be lost in a maze of IN
! acouracies and confusion of half-for-
gotten data, and per consequence their
occupation would be gone. To knew
THE Statistician and Economist" is to
have very important part OF that sec
ond kind of knowledge Its office is
Ito condense and represent in convent
ent form for reference the practical
facts of knowledge and science"
(L- p. McCarty. San Francisco; cloth.
So so; leather. 81 500
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Some of the Persons and Places Noted In

that make the elusive promised be-
come the tangibly possessed.
Thomas was born in East F'riesland in
1885. He emigrated TO New York in 1S45
He played the violin well when he was
i've years old. He perfected himself in
that, and then passed from the ambition
of being master of a solo instrument to
that OF being a player upon the hun
dred players Of great orchestral choir.
In 1862 the big ambition came TO devote
his energies to the cultivation OF the
public taste In instrumental music. In
the long struggle TO do this the conyic-
ton came TO him that he must have that
untrammeled orchestral home. The Chi
cago Orchestral Association gave II to
him Through thirteen years difficult
ties they struggled to establish the in
stitutfon. 1t was December before the
dedication concert took place. Eight
thousand subscribers, rich and poor had
given $4,000. In less than month from
the time of the dedication concert Theo-
dore Thomas was dead. 1t was forty
two years span from the inception of his
larger ambition and this consummation
of it in the Chicago Orchestra. 1t might
seem a cruel fate that thus let him labor
so long and with such admirably per-
sistent faith, and then not let him live to
enjoy the accomplished task-but listen
to this last:
The greatest orchestra leader OF the
world, the passionate lover of sweet
sound, was slowly dying. He was sur
rounded by tenderest love, and the pub
lie and private prayers of the nation were
pleading for him He made little jokes
with the doctors and his sons and talked
to his wife about their White Mountain
home, 'Felsengarten. which was always
much in his thoughts" He paused
a while and then said to her in dreamy,
almost ecstatic voice, II have had
beautiful vision-a beautiful vision, and
then drifted of into silence. His wife did
not know his spirit was so soon to go;
she thought he slept. She went down.
stairs to a little chime of silver bells he
had given her a few days before for a
Christmas present She played a call
which she found engraved upon a metal
plate above the bells, not knowing what
K was she was about to play. Afterward
she noticed that 1t was "Reveille"-the
soldiers signal to arise.
CA c. McClurg & Co. Chicago)
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Bohemia Discussed
In a Pretty Book

Fresh from the press. and very beau
tiful, is the little book of two hundred
and seven pages called In Bohemia. -
written by James Clarence Harvey, au-
thor and after-dinner speaker. The COM
biiied work of three good artists decorate
it--Mucha, Outcaut and Sagerson. Mu-
cha is the greatest French poster artist.
He contributes the frontispiece and some
title page ornaments. The briefest and
best description of the whole thing, tex
tual and pictorial is to say that 1t is
Bohemian. There are short glimpses of
various Bohemias in different parts of
the world, little poems, stories, and a
few toasts, the faces of some attractive
women, the whole figures of some others.
dancers, cupIds, kissers, and x-rays in
Egypt under the revelation of which the
Sphinx is seen to smile broadly because
of the charms Of an Oriental beauty pos
Ing there upon the sands as If she knew
the Sphinx could see.
Because Bohemia is SO indefinable it will
be interesting to note how this clever Bo-
henian partly defines 1t by telling some
of the things which 1t is, and some others
which it is not. Betwixt these two de-
marcations the elusive line that circum-
scribes it may perhaps be as closely To-
Gated as anything SO free and unconf1ned
as Bohemia will allow its limits to be
fixed bv deiners.. He says:
Bohemia is not place. IT is an atmosphere.
1t is as subtle as electricity and as change
able as a woman's smile. 1t may exist at the
banquets of the opulent, or 1t may flourish at
the table d hote of the comparatively poverty
stricken, for only rich or poor by COM
parison.
You may find II tonight where corks are
popping and not counted, and tomorrow, like
the smoke OF yesterdays cigar. 1t has ioated
away.
He speaks of those who want to be
known as Bohemians, and the eagerness
to be known defeats their purpose.
Bohemia is not ostentat1ous. 1t is uncon-
scious. Here and there little Boheniias spring
into being. through the natural cohesion OF
congsnial spirits. and the unconsciousness Of
it all charms and stimulates
Bohemia Is not synony ssious with license
to look upon the foibles of fate and the powers
OF chance with philcsophic eye.
The author expects that here and there
q line or rhyme will recall to the read
er some similar experience with renewed
delight: and he wishes to radiate a few
of the million atmospheres in a remirlis-
cent way.
One of the short sketches is called
"The Cashier at Macari's," and tells Of
how her face interested one of the fire.
quenters there. Aecidently he came In
to possession OF an inexpensive brooch Of
hers. The girl disappeared and he could
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tive in surrendering Christ to death Is
given in this fragment of conversation he
had with Eradmus:
As the Procurator came near me said to
him: The man is innocent"
Yea. of any charge Whatsoever" PLATE re-
piled, t1s.:t TIE Jews are mad and know not
the meaning of justice. Our force is small :"
But valiant" / replied
True, but should be overpowered and
the cause OF Rome would suffer"
l realized this, and was resolved to do my
duty.
In the close OF the story Eradmus be-
comes q Christian and Vloden comes to
him 10 be his love from far-away Britain
saying to him, Your Master shall be
mine
Laird & Lee Chicago. 81 5e.)