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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-26
TAX NOTICE

The tax books will be open from
October 10, 1918. to March Is, 1914.
One per cent penalty will be added
In January, two per cent In Feb
ruary and seven per cent in March.
In school districts Nos. /, 4, 6, 6,
13, 1s, 80 and 43 a special tax of
two CD mills is levied. In districts
Nos. 2. 8. 7. 8. 19, %, Is, 81, az
and 48 special tax three (3) mills.
In districts Nos. 10. IL. II, 18, 20,
%. 81, 81. SO, ~, and ~ special
tax four az mills. In districts Nos.
"a. 33 and SO, special tax flva
90 mills. In districts No. IL
special tax six and one-half
,Sh) mills. In districts Nos. II,
80, 80 and 49 special tax eight (S)
mills. In district No. 38 special tax
ten l0) mills. In district M. 40,
special tax eleven (11) mills. In dis
trict No. 25 special tax two and one
half (2h) mills. All male citizens
between the ages OF 81 and 66 years
are subject to capitation tax OF
three ($3) dollars for road purposes,
and all male citizens between the
ages OF 81 and so years are liable for
one dollar poll tax.
r. l.. HILTON,
County Treasurer.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-26
A WONDERFUL TREE.

THERES wonderful tree. a won
derfuI tree
The happy children rejoice to see.
Il Spreading it's branches year by
year.
1t comes from the forest to flourish here
oh. this wonderful tree. with its branches
wide
Is always. is always blooming at Christ
mastide!
But not for us children did this tree grow
With its strange sweet fruit on each
laden bough
For those We love we have made with
care
Each pretty thing you see hanging there
May this wonderful tree. with its branches
wide
Bring Joy to our friends at Christmas
tide!
For voice Is telling its boughs among
Or the shepherds watch and the angels
song.
OF holy babe In the manger low
The beautifuI story OF long ago,
When a radiant star threw its beams 80
wide
TO herald the blessed first Christmastide.
Then spread thy branches. wonderful tree.
And bring the pleasant thought to me
or him who came from his home above,
The richest gift OF his Fathers love.
He came TO show us how to spread far
and wide
The Joys OF the holy. sweet Christmas
tide.
-"songs and Games For Little Ones"
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-26
Gailliard of Culebra.
Editorial in Washington Times,
October 10)

I
October 1O.)
Today the waters of Gatun Lake
are pouring into the Culebra cut and
soon the way will be clear for the
Panama canal from ocean to ocean.
1t is a tragedy that Lieut.. Col. David
Du b. Gailliard, the army engineer
who conquered the landslides and
dug the great Culebra channel, can
not be present to witness the un-
chaining of the waters and the final
proving of the integrity of his six
years labor under the heat Of the
tropics.
Lieut.. Col Gailliard saw the vir-
tual completion of his work at Guile
bra and on the hour which saw his
triumph he was stricken with illness
and today. when the ceremonies at
tending the letting in of the water
are in progress he is lying i'll In a
Northern hospital.
When this army engineer began
work at Culebra, six years ago, he
knew that his great work must be
the overcoming of the landslides.
This has been written of his labor:
"Gailliard made his way fighting
Literally he was obliged to shackle
the feet of the mountains. He did
1t, and the claiming is FOR all time
His work done, the engineer broke
under the strain of it,"
The name of Gailliard will be con-
nected with the engineering work in
Culebra cut for all time. Engineers
say that his task was one of the
hardest which the canal work pre-
sented The letting in of the wa
ter today marks the beginning of the
end of Panama canal construction.
At the time of triumph the man who
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-26
PLUTARCH ON SLIT SKIRT.
Garment in Vogue in Time of LyCur-
gus, the Lawgiver.
Cnllinr'c Wnnklv

gus ehC haNSiNCi.
Golfers Weekly.
We must reread Plutarch. We
must reTead some of the other So
called classics-and not for anti
quity's sake, either. Thomas Owen
of Topeka, informs us Con the station
ary of the kansas Farmers" ad-
vertising Department. that we are
centuries out in saying the slit skirt
is only 1900 years old. Speaking OF
Lycurgus the Lawgiver and his times.
Plutarch relates $50 writes Mr.
Owen):
THE skirts Of the habit which the
virgins wore were not sewcd to the
bottom, but opened at the sides as
they walked, and discovered the
thigh, as Sophocles very plainly
wrote:
Still in the light dress struts Her
mione,
Whose opening folds display the
naked thigh"
This passage of Plutarch is we'll
worth looking up for more than de-
tails of costume-8O0 or 900 years
before the Christian era You may
read there of the complaint made that
women in those times were too bold
too masculine, too prone to make
themselves mistress of the house
they inhabited; and even they wanted
share in the affairs of state and
aristophanes satirized feminism in a
comedy that is now % centuries old
and still acted! If you have time
to do only timely reading, you
would better cut out the periodicals
and read the Greeks To them we
owe (wrote Wilde) whatever is
modern in our life"-including the
slit skirt.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-26
How to bankrupt the doctors.

A prominent New York physician
says, "If II were not for the thin
stockings and thin soled shoes worn
by women the doctors would prob
ably be bankrupt" When you con-
tract a cold do not wait for It to de-
velop into pneumonia but treat it at
once. Chamberlain Cough Remedy
Ia intended especially for coughs and
colds, and has won a wide reputa-
tion by It's cures of these diseases
1t is most effectual and is pleasant
and safe to take. For sale by all
dealers.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-26
Stomach Troubles Disappear.

Stomach, liver and kidney trou-
les, weak nerves, lame back and fe-
male Ills disappear when Electric
Bitters are used. Thousands of wo-
men would not be without bottle In
their home. Eliza Pool OF Depew,
Okla, writes: Electric Bitters
raised me from bed of sickness and
suffering and has done me a world
OF good. wish every suffering wo-
man could use this excellent remedy
and find out, as did. Just how good
1t is" AS 1t has helped thousands
OF others, II surely will do the same
for you. Every bottle guaranteed,
soc and $1.00. At all druggists. H.
II. Bucklen & Co., Philadelphia or
st. Louis.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-26
UI!e Uhrer Nings

Three kings came riding from far
Mechior and Caspar and Baltasar;
Three wise out of the East they,
And they travelled by night and slept by day,
For their guide a beautiful, wonderful Star.
Three caskets they bore on their sadde-bows,
Three caskets of gold, with golden keys;
Their robes of crimson silk with
Of bells and pomegranates and furbeows
Their turbans like blossoming almond trees.
So they rode away, and the Star stood still, :;
The only in the gray of morn; =;
Yes it stopped-it stood still of its free WELL 5
Right Bethlehem on the hill, !
The City of David where Christ born 5
And the three kings rode through the gate the :;
guard, !
Through the silent street. till their horses turned
And neighed they entered the great nn-yard; :.
But the windows closed and the doors barred
And only light in a stable burned. 4;
And Graded there in the scented hay, !
In the air made sweet by the breath of kline, .!
The little Child in the manger lay, ::
The Child that would be king day :!
OF a kingdom not human, but divine. :!
~7% :
They laid their offerings at His feet; ::
The gold their tribute to a king .:
The frankncense with its odor sweet, ::
Was for the priest. the Paraclete ::
The myrrh for the bodys buryng 5:
-LONGFELLOW. ::
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-26
Advertised Letters for Week Ending
December 13, 1913.

Herman Seaven, Immersion Hagler,
Mrs. Clair McKiny, Mrs Cloran Nc
Dowell, Mrs. John d. Howard, w. NJ.
Crawford, Miss Lille Dunlap, HON
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When calling for above letters,
please say Advertised
JAS. f.. HUNTER, Postmaster.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-26
Constipation Poisons You.

If you are constipated, your entire
system is poisoned by the waste mat
ter Kept In the body-serious results
otten follow follow. Use DR.. Kings
New Life Pills and you will soon get
rld or constipation, headache and
other troubles. 25 at druggists or
6y mail. II. h. Bucklen & Co. Phila-
delphia and st. Louis.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-26
OLD CHRISTMAS

Iof adjustment when the English
parliament passed law in 1852 say
ing that September 3rd should be
| September 14th.
This made December 25 jump to
January 5, and the day which the
people had been celebrating as
| Christmas came thereafter on jan
uary 5, according to the new calen-
dar.
Most of the people continued for
many years to celebrate "Old Christ
mas" and it was natural that our
forefathers who came to America
about that time, brought the "Old
Christmas" traditions and customs
into their pioneer American homes.
Tradition still tells of how the
COWS we're found kneeling AT mid
night on "Old Christmas" eve, how
water turned to wine, and other pc
culiar phenomena.
The New American Cyclopedia,"
edited by George Ripley and Charles
A Dana, published in 1859, says:
There was a famous hawthorne
in the churchyard of Glastonbury
abbey, which always budded on the
cath and blossomed on the 25th of
December After the change of style
it was observed that it blossomed on
January 5, which would have been
Christmas day, old style. 1t is said
that slips from this thorn are pre-
served with blossoms on January 3
to the present time"
There is another old saying that
the new and old Christmas, and the
days between them, stand for the
months of the coming year, and that
the weather each day is a prophecy
of the weather during the month for
which the day stands.
The days and the months which
they are supposed to represent are
as follows:
December 25-January.
December 26-February.
December 27-March.
December 2S-April.
December 29-May.
December 3O-June.
December 31-July.
January August.
January 2-September.
January 3-October.
January 4-November.
January 5-DeCember.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-02-06
THE ENEMIES OF GOOD ROADS

The Lincoln Times is strongly
urging the people to vote to estab-
lish a road commission, to DE COM
posed of expert road-builders instead
of politicians. The Times points out
the fact that the Democratic party
has made a political football of the
public roads as we'll as the public
ing about how to build good roads,
are appointed to jobs at good sala-
ries, for which they are not compe-
tent, and the result is, that the
roads, so far built in that county,
have cost from two to three times
what they should have cost.
The Times also points out that bet
ter roads, and from two to three
times as many roads, can be built
with the present amount Of money
expended, without an increase in tax
alton, simply by taking the manage
ment of the roads out of the hands
of politicians and putting them in
the hands of fit and competent men.
In short, the Times Is making an ap-
peal to take the public roads out of
the hands of partisan politics and put
them in business hands.
AS the Times has so forcibly point
ed out, the trouble with the public
roads is exactly the same as with the
public schools: that we pay taxes
enough for both, but they are in the
hands of politicians and, therefore
incompetently and extravagantly han
died.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-02-06

Dover. Della. FEB. 7.-BclicFins
fhat Delaware anuid make the thtTty'
sixth State 70 ratify the Federal 10
come tai amendment and thus MAKE
il effective. the Legislature rushed
through = joint resolution TAsifytus
the amendment
According 20 the Speaker OF The
House OF Representatives Of the Della
ware Legislature. anal legislative Ak
ton on the Joint resolution Tatify'
Ing the proposed amendment wA'
taken at 1885 o'clock this morning
The Senate met At 10. 80 a m. and
soon afterward passed the resolution
Within FIVE minutes after It's receipt
from the Senate the House acted IA
yorably upon the measure.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-02-06

The Legislature seems determined
to increase the number of judges and
solicitors to at least twenty anyhow,
a larger number appearing to be nee
essary to take care of the increased
business under Democratic good gov
eminent and incidentally to provide
good places for Democratic lawyers.
Another sentiment that seems to pre-
vail in the Legislature of Democratic
lawyers is for loose divorce laws. One
such bill has already passed the
House. There seems to be sort of
companionship in these measures, for
what's the use of having market
unless business is created for that
market?
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-02-06

Prof. w n. Webb, who has Just
been elected to the United States Sen
ate from Tennessee. vas born In Per
son County, this State. and is a grad
uate OF the State University. Sen
ator webb vas elected as an indie
pendent Democrat over the Machine
Democrat. being supported by all the
independent and progressive elements
OF the Legislature
II is encouraging TO see this heal
thy spirit of independence growing
so strong In our sister. not TO say
daughter, State
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-02-06

President Taft has appointed 10 the
Elizabeth City post-office a Democrat.
and leading Democrats OF the togn
are bombarding the North Carolina
Senators TO have the appointment
confirmed This would be rather I'M
fair to the 1928 other Democrats
who are not included in the list OF
1900 Taft appointments which are
now awaiting confirmation by the
same Senate.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-02-06
Not a Dissenting Vote.

Cheyenne, Wyoming, Feb. 3.-Net
dissenting vote was registered in
lature to-day on the joint resolution
ratifying the income tax amendment
to the Federal Constitution. When
the Senate met this morning, Senator
Kendrick moved the resolution be
taken up under a suspension of the
rules. 1t was passed and at once for
warded to the House where it was
expedited, the vote being completed
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-02-06
WHY THE AGITATION FOR A NEW
CONSTITUTION?

CONSTITUTION?
Every voter In the State should put
on his thinking cap and look for the
real reason and explanation behind
this sudden cry raised by the Demo
cratic machine for a new State Con-
sutution. Some Of them are clamor-
ing for new State constitutional
convention 20 revise the whole Con-
stitution, while others are contend
ing that the amendments, which they
desire TO the Constitution. should be
submitted TO the people by the Leg
islature
The discussion that's going on be-
tween the advocates OF these two diff
ferent propositions has the appear
ance of being manufactured for the
purpose OF distracting the attention
OF the people from the real reason as
10 why they want to amend the Con-
stitution at all. OF course, the rea-
son which every one of these ma
chine politicians is daily giving as to
why the Constitution should be
amended is that they want TO provide
for better public school system
If they are moved by such a desire
as this, they could give us a much
better school system than we now
| have, with the same amount of taxes
that We are now paying.
1t is well-known to every father
and mother in the State that the
Democratic party has greatly in
| creased taxes for public schools, but
the money has gone in expense to
Democratic officials, while the chill
dren have actually received less ben
eft than when about half of the
amount of money was being expend-
ed for public schools that is now be-
ing expended
The explanation for this is, that
the Democratic party has made a
political machine out of the public
school system, and, therefore, the DO
litical workers in the counties and
townships who are put in charge of
the public schools have had to have
| their pay increased two or three
| times above the former amounts,
and this has largely eaten up the
! school fund. So we see that the
| great sOlicitude with which the Dem
ocratic machine bosses are declaring
for the public schools is insincere and
is indeed simply a blind to fool the
people.
The real purpose behind all this
hue and cry for a new Constitution
is to give to these machine bosses the
power to greatly raise the taxes of
the people. If they succeed in doing
this when they have squeezed more
taxes from the people, they will, if
we can judge the future by the past
use most of this money for new of
fees and increased salaries to reward
Democratic workers, and that but lit
tie of it will get to the public school
increase the pay of the politicians
who are acting as school officials, for
they are valuable party workers fol
the State machine bosses.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-02-06

Thus far thirty-four States have
ratified the income tax amendment
to the Federal Constitution. Only two
more States must ratify the amend
three-fourths, and there are several
yet TO vote on the question.
p. S.-Since the above was writ
ten, Delaware. Wyoming, and New
Mexico have ratified the proposed
amendment, and the question is now
up to Congress.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-02-06
Necessary Thres-Fourths.

Washington. d. c. Feb. 3-Direct
taxes upon the incomes of citizens OF
the United States. whether derived
from idle capital or from the conduct
OF business, were made possible to-
day by the ratification OF the Six
teenth Amendment 10 the Federal
Constitution. Delaware. Wyoming.
and New Mexico. endorsing the in
come tax amendment through their
respective Legislatures. completed a
list of thirty-eight States that have
approved il, two more than the three
fourths necessary for its final adop-
ton.
Leaders in Congress predicted that
through this authorization the law
which will be passed to levy the tax
upon American incomes will be intro
duced as soon as the extra session
opens. Its exact terms have not been
decided upon, but 1t is believed that
it will exempt all incomes below $4,-
coo or $1,000, and will provide a tax
of l per cent upon the majority of
personal incomes that do not run TO
an excessive figure.
| Informal notice OF the final adop-
/ ton of the new amendment was CIV
Ell TO the Senate, by Senator Brown,
| of Nebraska, who introduced the
| resolution in 1909 upon which the
proposal for an income tax was sub
/ mitted to the States. Drafting OF
a n in f@ g..
expected will fall to the lot of Repre-
/ sentative Hull, of Tennessee, a mem
/ Der of the House of Ways and Means
/ Committee, who drew the excise tax
/ bill proposed last year by the Demo
cratic House of Representative but
which did not become law
The income tax will be designed TO
/ supplant the present corporation tax
and will apply to the incomes of in
/ diyiduals, firms, and corporations.
+ Following is the list of States
which have ratified the income tax
| amendment:
Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Cali
/ fOrnia, Colorado, Georgia. Idaho, Hi
nois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Ken
lucky, Louisiana. Maine, Maryland,
Michigan, Minnesota. Mississippi,
/ Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Neva-
da, New Mexico, New York, North
Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Okla
homa, South Carolina, South Dakota,
| Tennessee, Texas, Washington, Wis
consin, West Virginia, and Wyom-
ing
The following rejected:
Connecticut, n CIV Hampshire
Rhode Island, and Utah.
No action, or any partial action
was taken in the other States
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-02-06

1t must be that Senator Overman
is being overcrowded with Democrat
ic applicants for jobs. A few days
ago a young boy in West Durham
wrote Mr.. Overman for some free
seeds. Mr. Overman thinking the
wanting a job, replied that his appli-
cation for the post-office had been
filed and would be given careful con-
sideration, and suggested that the boy
also make application to his Con-
gresham for the post-office.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-02-06
New Mexico Out-DistanCed.

Sante Fe. y NJ. Feb. 3.-Oui-dts-
tanced BY Wyoming and Delaware. in
an effort 10 cast the vote making the
Federal income tax constitutional
amendment effective. the New Mexico
House did not reach q vote on the
measure until late this afternoon.
Then the rules were suspended and a
favorable vote recorded.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-02-06

At iA.4s o'clock The F~~olstkoa
thea w~rt 20 tie Governor for bis
signature
After passing the income sa1
amendment he nossa thea passed
unanimously ID. resolution aassoEaz-
lag the direct election ot Unisssa
States Senator's The Senate has
similar resolution before 1t
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-02-06

At a mass meeting of some citf-
zens in Forsyth County a petition was
drawn up to present to the Legisla-
ture requesting that a law be passed
forbidding the killing of heifer calves
Next!
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-02-06

AS the Legislature does not seem
disposed to economic, it means that
we will have to raise more money
Durham Herald.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-02-06
WITH THE EDITORS.

In the equal suffrage States the
women will get to be tWenty-one
sooner than they used to.-Hickory
Mercury.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-02-06

Those Senators who are tired of
hearing of the deficit might devise
some methods for wiping it out
Durham Herald.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-02-06


lean history will begin March 4, 1913.
1t will end, and that suddenly, No
vember, 1916.-Lincoln Times.
Taxes going higher and farm pro-
duce going lower. Say, Mr.. Farmer,
how long do you think that you can
stand it?-Clinton News-Dispatch.
About the only reform recon-
mended in our judicial system by the
committee is for more judges, which
will not be a reform at all.-Durham
Herald.
If Governor Wilson wants entire
simplicity he might arrange to walk
from Trenton to Washington. That
would put both Jefferson and Sulzer
in the shade.-Union Republican.
They were elected on a low tariff
platform, but most of the Congress
men have figured out that the tariff,
as it effects their individual districts,
is largely low enough. Strange, isn't
it?-Lincoln Times.
The people of this country will
spend three years regretting that
they did not elect Theodore Roose-
Welt President of the United States,
and they will hand the Presidency to
our Teddy on a platter in 1915
| Lincoln Times.
It's strange that the Democrats are
opposed to taxing foreigners for ship
ping their goods into this country,
and at the same time they are con-
tinually raising the taxes here al
home. It seems that they have it in
for our home people.-Clinton News
Dispatch.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-02-06

Having to eat rat soup is almost as
bad as the soup diet under Cleveland.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-02-06
INCOME TAX POSSIBLE
Ratification Of the Sixteenth Amend
ment Opens Way for
income Tax

Delaware. Wyoming. and New Mexico
Vie With One Another for the
Honor Of Being First tn Comra~x.
the Necessary Number Of State
The List Of state~ That Have Rafi-
fed the Amendment Nos Number
Thirty eight. Two More Than the
Necessary Three-FourThs~
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-02-06
Mondays Proceedings.

A bill was introduced in the House
to place solicitors on salary.
Mr.. Sykes introduced a bill rela-
tive TO granting widows of Confeder-
ate soldiers pensions enjoyed by their
husbands.
Mr.. holland. joint resolution to in
vestigate the incorporation of the
South Atlantic and Western Railway
Company. The State is furnishing
convicts to build this road. The
Speaker of the House is TO appoint
three members and the President of
the Senate Is to appoint two members
of committee TO sit as a court OF
inquiry, the report of this court of
inquiry to be made to the General
Assembly by February %. Passed
third reading and sent to the Senate.
A bill was introduced in the Senate
by Mr.. Watkins to amend Section
2083, Revisal, so as to prohibit in
ter-marriage of first cousins.