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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-01-26
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Everybody in Lancaster County to come to the
COTTON MILL STORE COMPANY this week
(January %, "a, 25 and 26) to see the best line
of SHOES that has ever been seen in Lancaster
With all the ''cost sales" going on, you will find
that our goods did not cost so much. We have
The independent., 1907-03-21
dearly shows, Is IKE stretching q seine
h>H way across river and expecting
TO catch hsh.

One Of tho largest Wyoming ranches
is to be put on the market, as large
ranches in Nebraska and South Dakota
have been, because Of the government
enforcement of the laws forbidding the
fencing of government lands. Here
seems to be precedent for the present
railroad policy. The government orders
the stockmens fences off the govern
ment domain, where they have been al
lowed for years in violation of the law.
The stockmen go out of business. The
states assert the right, long dormant
under free pass opiates and inherent
sleepiness of ordering the railroad
fences off the political domain. The
railroads take off trains, stop grading
new lines, and decline to build a Lin
coin viaduct If they can't be bad they
won't be good
The independent., 1907-03-21
MARCH 81, 1907.

Divine Right Baer, In attempting to
defeat the two-cent fare measure in
Pennsylvania soothingly suggests to
the members of the legislature that
prediction promises are subject to
reconsideration by men who have as
sumed official responsibility. This Is
interpreted by the Philadelphia North
American to mean, BE willing to con-
fess that you are parcel of shameless
liars, so that you may effectively serve
the railroad corporations. !" Members of
the Nebraska legislature who are on
record in favor of municipal taxation,
and all of the other planks Of the re-
publican platform, are invited now to
accept the advice Of Mr.. Baer but it
Is encouraging TO know that only three
or four of them have manifested d
disposition to take it, and even these
will probably vote with the majority
when the final test comes.
The independent., 1907-03-21

Ocean disasters appear to have
anything but commendable tendency
to compete with the railroads in the
way of wrecks. The laundering of two
steamers in the North sea late last
week adds to rapid series of wrecks
since the beginning of the year, and
the losses last year as a whole were
such as TO cause serious talk OF a
raise in marine insurance rates.
EightytWo sailing vessels of all ma
tions and thirty-nine steamships last
year suceumbed to the various sorts
of mishap that threatend those who
go down To the sea in ships The
United States lost twenty five OF the
eighty-two sailing ships and one Of
the steamers. Forty three sailing
vessels were lost by stranding. and
selllslons disposed Of forty-seyen.
The small sr danger Of collision on
.ae part vi steamships IL indicated
by the loss OF but three from that
cause while eighteen were stranded
and four burned Last year Ii II To
be remembered was an exceptional
year mcteoroioglcally. fact no doubt
having something to do with this
record
The independent., 1907-03-21

One Preusser was recently arrested
in Jersey City for keeping bucket
Albany man who committed a murder,
but having good lawyers and influential
friends he had been sent to an insane
asylum as the victim of brain
storm instead Of Sing Sing and the
electric chair. It had required but six
weeks to effect complete recovery of
his reason. Possibly Harry ThaW would
be capable of as prompt a recovery if
given the opportunity.
The independent., 1907-03-21

Despite the apparent opposition Of
the railroads a New York Legislature
submitted and the New York people
ratified motion to raise $100, ,000, 900
to enlarge the Erie canal and make 1t
a factor In lake traffic. That was more
than two years ago. The state is now
trying to proceed under the act TO
raise the money They find that the
act provides that the bonds issued
must pay not more than three per cent
interest. and must sell at par. 1t nap
pens that three per cent bonds cannot
sell at par. Find the joker
The independent., 1907-03-21

Mr. Hill has permitted the discharge
Dakota, and will not replace the ves-
sci. Would he have decided differently
had ship subsidy been provided for
him? A Portland paper said the other
day. There are loading or loaded in
port at this time three Japanese steam
Washington wheat and flour to the
orient at from So to $3.50 per ton, a
rate fully one-third less than 1t would
be possible for even subsidized Amer
lean vessel to carry it"
The independent., 1907-03-21

Not a stock exchange or bank failure
followed the squeezing out of nearly a
billion dollars Of water and steam
from speculative stocks in the late Wall
street panic. Such solidity seems to in
dicate that present financial structures
are still healthy at the base. Another
indication Of unshaken business is an
unprecedented volume Of passenger
traffic on outgoing steamers bound for
Europe.
The independent., 1907-03-21

"Ruef was forced through in foot
ball fashion by Elisor Biggy, in whose
custody he still remains" says the re-
port telling how Boss RueG of San
Francisco was conducted through the
crowd into the court room where he
was to be tried for grating. "Elisor'
is not Mr.. Bigger's first name, but his
present title. An elisor is person
chosen by the court to perform certain
duties Of the sheriff when that official
is disqualified by self interest. When
it came time to try Ruef the sheriff
was strangely unable to find the in
dicted man. 1t dawned upon the judge
that this might arise from the fact
that the sheriff held his office at
Ruefs hands, and he appointed an
elisor. Mr. Bigger found his man in
short order. Had the people of San
Francisco the selecting of their pub
lie officials an elisor would not have
been necessary, but they long ago abb
dicated that function in favor Of Ruef.
The independent., 1907-03-21

Senator Colby of New Jersey writes
concerning the experience Of the eight
men who stood out to the end against
Senator Dryden's reelection 'sThe
pressure that was brought to bear was
such as to make the stoutest heart
quake, and they all stood up like men.
OF course in this category l do not
include myself, as I happen to be for
tunate enough to be in position in
which they could not injure me in any
way, and SO | cannot take any credit
for my position. This would apply
also to Senator Ackerman as WELL as
he is well off and in a position to be
Independent without sacrifice With
the other men, however, it was differ
ent. They are beginning life, and they
realize the enormous power the special
interests had to injure them in every
possible way, but in spite of that they
stood for what their constituents de-
manded." 1t is we'll for the public to
understand appreciate and remember
at future times what it sometimes
means for their representative to re-
main true TO their constituents when
powerful influences are asking for
special favors for themselves.
The independent., 1907-03-21

A poll Of the Iowa legislature to dis
cover the preferences of the members
in the way Of presidential candidates
showed rs republicans for Roosevelt, 7
for Cummins, 5 for Shaw, 4 for Taft
and / for Root. Some commentators
take this as evidence Of a determine
ton to draft the president willy nilly
for another campaign. More likely it
means desire to be sure of sue
cessor who can be depended upon to
enforce Roosevelt policies.
The independent., 1907-03-21

James B. Connolly, the writer of sea
stories, had it announced with a flour
ish of trumpets a short time since that
he intended to enlist in the navy
with a view to embalming in fiction
the jack tar Of fact. He did enlist,
and now he has resigned. The result
of his experiment was what we might
expect Mr.. Connolly went to sea as
many estimable people visit the poor.
with view to putting class of peo-
pie under the microscope as strange
animals to be studied and reported
upon. The strange animal is opposed
to being the subject Of a laboratory
experiment, for he knows himself TO
be exactly such an animal as the
Would-be experimenter and resents the
latter's assumption of difference. which
of course is consciously or unconscious
ly an assumption Of superiority. The
jolly jack tars made it altogether un-
comfortable for Mr.. Connolly and abb
soutely refused to open their par
ticular make of soul to his inspection
and analysis.
The independent., 1907-03-21
England may be surprised but will

England may be surprised but will
be little taken aback when Pennsyl-
vania's latest contribution to the num-
ber Of Rhodes scholars makes his ap-
pearance at Oxford The successful
candidate is negro, the son and
grandson of negroes of more than or
dinary ability and character. There
are not enough negroes in England to
make showing at competition with
the whites in any industrial or politi
cal way, and little prejudice If any will
be shown at oxford against the black
scholar.
The independent., 1907-03-21

Discussing the proposed advances In
freight rates New York dispatch
says. Just what effect the action of
the legislatures OF Nebraska. Iowa and
Missouri In reducing passenger rates
has had upon the minds of the men In
charge OF the freight tariff revision In
the information being sought nj this
time by some OF the shippers associa-
tions The shippers Idea In that In any
event the increase will be sufficient to
cover the passenger rate losses To
regulate passenger rates alone. as this
The independent., 1907-03-21

'"The Funny Side OF M. o. is the
title Of short article from the anti
municipal ownership press bureau
which furnishes such matter In type
free for such newspapers as will use
1t. AT least one Nebraska weekly al
lowed 1t to slip into recent issue as
reading matter. If the editor failed to
collect pay for 1t at advertising rates
he was imposed upon.
The independent., 1907-03-21

Allegheny City people have a right
to consider the Pittsburg flood a natur-
al and just retribution for the wicked
way that city has treated it's smaller
neighbor. The supreme court of the
state has but recently upheld the legis-
lative act for the union of the two
towns, notwithstanding Allegheny pro-
tests that it was a forced and unwill-
ing municipal marriage so far as she
is concerned Pittsburg wanted to be
the sixth city in the United States in
stead of the eleventh, and to do that it
was necessary to annex Allegheny. The
greater city had the greater pull with
the legislature, and an act to that eff
feet was passed last year. The court
upholds the theory that cities are crea-
lures Of the state to be done with as
it wills. South Omaha will agree with
Allegheny that though this may be
good law such an invasion Of the right
of local self-government is unspeak-
ably bad morals.
The independent., 1907-03-21

California is at present playing the
part of infant terrible of the family of
states. Secretary Roots task of keep
ing on good terms with Japan pending
an adjustment of the complications
over the California school administra-
ton has been complicated BY the dis
position of the California legislature to
shy an occasional brick at the Japan
csc side of the council table. OF such
nature was the bin passed unanimous
ly by the California senate last week
barring children over ten years of ago
from the primary schools. The Japan
ese haG already acquiesced In keeping
grown Japanese cut OF primary sch Nois,
but for California To put the matter
In the form of state law nj this time
was untaetful and unnecessary, A.
bin expressly authorizing the estab-
lishmcat 90 special schools for JaraN-
cse has been still more disturbing.
likewieo tho proposal tn nass rasolu-
tions hestllo "a Japanese naturalization
and a faver of Japan ~ exclusion.
Every step ~ this Lind IN california
makes II the less possible for the
Japanese authorities o. ulNte eonfes.
sions without arousing resentment Al
The independent., 1907-03-21

Cockroach soup is pronounced de-
hcious by Dagin, the French entonolo-
gist. This will be joyful news to
housewives who understand that the
simplest way to exterminate pest is
to discovet that 1t is good to eat. Ne
braska farmers would be thankful to
hear of the gastronomic advantages of
gopher stew. coyote steak and cookie
burr salad
The independent., 1907-03-21
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The independent., 1907-03-21

Reports from Idaho hint that the
worst OF the land fraud disclosures
are yet to come and that their focus
will be there. The government is
thought to be ready for campaign
OF prosecution and restitution. When
the stolen lands are taken back. II liz
said many private individuals and
banking Institutions viii be ruined.
for their fortunes are founded in land
graft. should matters actually turn
The independent., 1907-03-21

Great Britain reports great rush of
emigration to Canada this season A
group OF north Minnesota men went
through Lincoln the other day on their
way to look for Texas land The re-
cent winter in Canada was such as to
make them entirely willing that the
Britons should fill the remaining va
cant spaces to their north.
The independent., 1907-03-21

out In this way ex-Ee1e&2ry Hitch
csck win have the finest imaginable
justification for the attacks upon him
IN the senate shortly before his re-
tfrement from the cabinet. An Idaho
senator was among those who most
severely condemned Mr.. Hitchcock $
meddlesomeness in western land op-
erations-
The independent., 1907-03-21

Portland, Me-. offers to contribute a
site and $4,000 for new capitol If
the legislature will vote to remove the
capital from Augusta to the state
metropolis. The state might make a
handsome revenue by relocating the
capital periodically, say every five
years, letting it go to the highest bid
der.
The independent., 1907-03-21

Dick Cameron, New York stable
man bearing a close resemblance to
Hicks, the lately entombed California
miner, has been making fifty dollars a
week In a Philadelphia dime museum
for exhibiting himself as Hicks. 1t took
twenty-five years to get a law against
adulterated food. The demand for un-
adulterated shows is Just beginning.
The independent., 1907-03-21

The destruction of the French battle
ship the lena by an internal explosion
is matter of interest to Spain espe-
cially Every time an accident of this
kind Is reported, and they are not so
uncommon as the naval people of the
world would wish, the Spaniards shrug
their shoulders and remember the
Maine.
The independent., 1907-03-21

On Thursday John Temple Graves
had to fight fer his life life In A Atlanta TIL The
next day Tom Watson's house was
bombarded with revolver shots. Politi-
cal prominence seems to be a danger
GUS asset In Georgia.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-01
World WIDE REVIEW OF ACHIEVEMENTS OF MEN AND WOMEN
Compares Los Angeles
With Cities Of the East
ny ROBERT J. BURDErTB

account of the Indians and buffaloes.
When she learns that there is a rail-
road all the way to Denver we may not
be SO SAFE
Religiously~ we owe a great deal of our
world-known purity and sinlessness to
the fact that we are so far from Pitts
burg. Let us not vaunt ourselves over
much on our superabundant holiness. 1t
is very easy to feel fit for heaven when
you let your mind stray from your
prayers to mediate upon the Thaw-Gii-
man-Corey output of the Sodom and Co.
morrah furnaces. 1t is pretty rotten Stag
all that; it's crevices are red as blood
and shot with pale blue flames, and the
gases exuding therefrom are birthstone
of the most sulphurous. 1t shall go hard
with a man who sits with his back tgainst
the Sierra and his feet in the ripples of
the Pacific ocean, but shall feel clean and
wholesome as he turns to feel the trade
winds blowing into his lungs from
thousand miles over clean, sweet seas
We are happy and rich and aristocrati-
cally exclusive, and very, oh, very, very
good in our distance. But we must re-
member that we are ree-ther close to
the heathen and be on our guard against
other evil influences. We can't keep ten
thousand miles away from everybody all
the time, you know. Let US rise and ad-
minister to ourselves our we'll known
benediction:
Lord, we thank thee that we we are
as other cities are. say New York and
Pittsburg and Chicago and such places,
or even as this trouble-pot San Francis
co. Keep us always as much better than
our neighbors as we think we are. and
help us to keep our mouths shut while
our saloons are open Sundays and to
open our mouths only when the saloons
are shut. And please, Lord, don't let
anybody outside of our own set find out
how far Arcadia is from the Los Angeles
court house, and don't ever let anybody
anywhere ever find out how it came to
be that near" lTS
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-01
The Religious World

Another sort of hymnology is now
called for, q hymnology which is indeed
sacred but still is independent of liturgy.
The people need the power of saying to
God the things which spring from their
own hearts but which they lack the power
to formulat, and express. 1t is indeed
deplorable to think that Italy is utterly
destitute of popular hymns. popular, that
is. in a true and magnificent sense. Such
should be distinguished both by the dig
nifty of thei. language and the beauty of
music which the people might employ.
They should form a sort of poetry In
which the noblest ideals of religion would
be expressed and be songs in which every
italian from the king to the peasant,
from the pope to the laboring man. could
give utterance to his emotions.
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'The devil was the prettiest man in
the world before his downfall" asserted
Rev. Walter L. Adkins of Philadelphia to
the eventh Day Adventists congregation
in the old Baptist church at Tenth and
King streets recently. He did not say
what the devil looks like now, but i'm
piled the evil one still was beautiful, and
was far from being the creature of scar
let hue, pointed ears, forked tail and
cloven hoofs that has frightened good
people for centuries. The preacher said
there was no such hell as most persons
have in their minds eye, that there is no
fire and no place where thirsts are
quenched with molten lead
q
Rev DIR. Gunkel of Germany, speaking
of the Old Testament. says "All the
poetical parts of the Old Testament In
cluding the books of Psalms and Job, are
in large measure folk songs and popular
lyrics. They are for the greater part orr
ginally the work of one man, and have
gradually got spread out in the course of
time as they were employed for this or
that occasion. 1t is surprising what these
songs contain, as illustrations of the ma
tional life of the people. Om knowledge
of Jewish lyrics has three sources: the
Psalms. the tales of the narrative books
of the Old Testament and the prophetical
books.
''The Psalms were the songboolx of the
people. Numerous poems which we are
apt to think are connected in some way
with the books in which they appear have
been arbitrarily dragged in for effect,
just as a literary man of the present day
breaks up his pages with poetical quota
tions.
Scattered up and down the pages of
the Bible are also a number of funeral
songs which were used on mournful oc-
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-01

TT is always flattering to a man TO
have citizen suddenly make sight
a draft upon his 'omniscience. There
fore when a Herald reporter asks me-
in confidence-compellin tone, to set
forth "in brief interview the condition
of Los Angeles as compared with the
eastern cities in her religious, social ana
business aspects" he has no need to man
the reportorial pump. He does not even
have to turn the faucet. He has but TO
stoop at the crystal fountain Of the ever
ready and never failing supply of orig
inal information and dip his pail. Dip
deep; you can't empty the sea.
Socially Los Angeles is clean. and sane,
and fair in name and life, because she is
so far away from Newport, for one thing.
The contaminatione and the banalities OF
the Arrylehrs and the Van Won Vans
reach her only through the screaming
columns of the Daily Blush. She might
like to be just as foolish in the scare
heads-7I hear that she has been holding
receptions to "hoss"; but thus far she
doesn't know how. She's all right so long
as she keeps Newport ct distance.
Financially she is far better off than
the cities of the unhappy. effete east.
because she is SO far from New York.
''the land of the thief and the home of
the knave." II she were near enough for
Wall street to reach she would have her
pocket picked and her watch lifted just
as often as the ''neighbors'." Many a
man has been saved from buying a gold
brick because he didn't have enough
money to get to town. Going to bed at
half-past 8 may not be an exciting life.
but 1t saves the early sleeper from the
holdup man, whose office hours are from
II midnight. Let us, as we wind the
nightly clock and take an extra lap of
the leather thong around the neck Of the
old wallet before sliding 1t between
the mattresses, let us be thankful
that "Stringtown-betw Greeks Is
afraid to travel west of the Harlem on
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-01
Science and Invention

The giant steamer that English ship
builders are to construct for the Ham
burg-American line will be named the
Europa. She will be or $4,000 tons, as
against the 1880 of the Lusitania
Incidentally, it is stated that the Eu-
ropa probably will be the last German
line steamer to be built il Great Britain
as the new Vulkan yards, which are to
take this work, will be completed be-
fore the construction of the proposed
sister ship of the Europa is authorized
s.
Bishop Lacroix of Paris says: For
many long years indeed for the past
century and half-doubtless In expiatior
of past errors and faults committed in
the old times-the French clergy have
been considered in their own country as
race of pariahs, as a separate caste
livirg apart and inimical to all ideas OF
progress and to ali light coming from
without. The Catholic clergy of France
are accused of hostility toward all as
piratiol OF their contemporaries.
I'm word the French clergy are un-
popular. and this unpopularity is care
fully used and exaggerated by the en-
emies of Christianity as the sole cause
Of our many defeats
s.
Press dispatches from Toxic state that
the biggest and fastest torpedo boat de-
stroyer is being built for the Japanese
navy 1t will have tonnage of HOO and
speed of thirty-five knots. Its arma-
ment will be one fve-inch and eight four
inch guns, and it will have four torpedo
tubes. 1t is intended that it shall be able
to accompany battieships in any weather
Up to date. the fastest torpedo craft are
the German G 1877, which is said to have
made in its trials last month thirty-three
knots, and the British Cossack. which
the same month in a trial run on the Mer
sey, made thirty-three and one-half knots.
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The new steel railway coach is an od-
dity. In practically every particular there
is wide departure from CONVEX tionality.
AS the roof contains no upper deck. the
channel posts rising from the side sills
are continuous across the inverted u
roof. This enables most substantial yet
light system of bracing In this con-
nectior it will be noted that the abandon
ment Of the end entrances in favor of a
center entrance enables a very deep form
of side truss. while the spaces usually
taken up by the vestibule platforms are
used to much better advantage. This is
brought out by the fact that the coach
weighs no more tnan the ordinary wood
on coach of the same total length but Of
eight persons lesa'capacity. The resulting