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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-01-25
TO ADJUST PENSIONS.
Senator Strait Introduces Bill Fix
ing Amount to be Paid Ex-Con-
federates and Their Widows

Senator Strait Introduces Bill Fix
ing Amount to be Paid Ex-Con-
federates and Their Widows.
Senator Strait has introduced a
bill to fix the amount Of pension to
be paid to each person enlisted in
the war between the sections and
their widows. In introducing the
measure, he remarked: MY OBJ
ject in introducing this bill is to
take the old soldiers off the pauper
list and put them on the pension
roll"
The bill provides as follows:
Section 1. That after January,
A. d. 1914, any person who was en-
listed as a bona fde soldier or sailor
in the service of this state or the
Confederate states in the war be-
tween the states, resident In this
state two years previous, and their
widows shall be entitled to receive
pensions as follows: % Every
such person who was enlisted as
such soldier or sailor prior to the
26th day of April, A. d. 1864, shall
receive annually a pension OF 500,
and the widows of any such persons,
who shall have attained the age of
SO years, shall receive a like pen
sion annually. (2) Every such per
son who was enlisted as such soldier
or sailor subsequent to the 26th day
of April, A. d. 1864, shall receive
annually a pension of $50 until he
shall have attained the age of 20
years, and thereafter he shall re-
ceive an annual pension of 500,
and the widows of any such person
enlisted as last aforesaid who shall
have attained the age of 55 years
shall be entitled to like pension as
her husband would have been en-
titled.
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TURKEY WILL GIVE
UP ADRIANOPLE
Grand Council so Decides at Meet
ing in Ottoman Empire-Means
Conclusion of Balkan Peace

Vienna, Jan. 22.-The grand
council of the Ottoman empire today
voted in favor of accepting the pro-
posals put forward by the European
powers for the purpose of bringing
about the conclusion of peace in the
Balkans. About eighty delegates
were present in the council, includ-
ing senators, higher ecclesiastics,
state ministers and under secretaries
Of the various government depart
ments.
The note handed to the Porte on
January II by the European am
bassadors called the Ottoman gov
ernment's attention Ito the grave
responsibility 1t would assume If
by resistance to their counsels% 1t
should prevent the re-establishmest
of peace. 1t would have only itseff,
to blame If the prolongation OF the
war had, as a consequence, to put
in question the fate OF the capital,
and perhaps to extend hostilities to
the Asiatic provinces of the empire"
NEED POWERS ADD.
The powers called Turkeys Nat-
tention to the fact that after the
conclusion of peace 1t would have
need of the moral and material sup
port Of the powers to repair the
evils of the war.
The note pointed out that the
Turkish government could count on
the afflcacy of the benevolent sup
port of the powers only so long as
1T deferred to their counsel, inspir-
ed by the general interests OF Eu-
rope and Turkey.
The powers advised Turkey to
consent to the cession of Adrianople
and to leave to them the fate OF the
Aegean Islands.
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THE LEGISLATURE
Important Happenings of the Past
Few Days.

'Ns''
The legislature adjourned Thurs
day afternoon and visited Winthrop
College yesterday. The following
are some of the important happen
ings of the past few days:
Acceptance o: the invitation 10
attend theNNational Corn Show in
body MonddS afternoon at o'clock.
Representative Miller's resolu-
tion to deco fate the state house on
account of fhe corn show, defeated.
A concurrent resolution introduc-
ed at the request of the adjutant
general Rsking the governor to per-
NIT SUCH companies of the state mill
tia astmay wish to attend the inau-
gura6on in Washington in March.
Resolution adopted and sent TO the
House.
The Senate referred the whole
matter of the Tillman-BIease
fiasco TO the judiciary committee,
with instructions to report its views
as to the proper action to be taken.
The house and senate adopted a
resolution to appoint a joint com
,Qittee of their bodies to investigate
theee charges made by Governor
BleaseAR.. against President S. c.
Mitchell of the University of South
Carolina.
A concurranH rosoI,tior o.,.;,
congress to repeh, the 18th amend
ment to the constitution of the
United States passed ~ the House
by vote of 20 to 46.
In Joint assembly both hNbouses
have reelected Circuit J6Gges
Thomas S. Sease, r. Withers Mems
niger, George Il. Prince and Ernest
Gary.
BY vote of "A to 3S, the House
has adopted the following resolu-
ton offered by Mr.. Rembert:
Whereas, Senator Tillman in a
letter addressed to the general as
sembly of South Carolina, in speak
ing of b. l.. Abney, division counsel
of the Southern Railway, says: He
is the real octopus which strangles
the Legislature and persuades it to
do his bidding and further in said
letter says: But Ben Abney and
the Southern Railway attorneys in
the legislature have been too venal
and corrupt to protect the people
against the railroads., And
Whereas, it would be inconceiv-
able that our senior senator would
make such a bold and daring charge
or corruption among the representa-
tives of the people OF the state. who
have so long honored him, without
having proof of the justice Of his
charges, And,
"Wheras, if he has the proof. it
is right that the people of this state
should know how they have been
betrayed by their representatives
Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, by the House of Rep
resentatives, the Senate concurring.
That Senator b. r. Tillman, be, and
is herby called upon, to produce the
evidence in support of his charges
of corruption in this legislative
body"
This resolution brought forth an
mated discussion Mr.. Rembert.
the leader of the Blease forces, and
Mr.. Stevenson, leader of the anti
Blease forces, voted with the ma
jority for the adoption of the reso-
luton.
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TENNESSEE GIVES
DEMOCRAT TOGA
General Assembly Elects Justice
Shields Senator,

Nashville, Tenn, Jan. 23.-The
Tennessee legislature today elected
Chief Justice John K. Shields of the
state supreme court United States
senator for the term beginning
March 4 next.
John knight Shields, elected
United States senator today, is a
native of Granger county, Tennes-
see, and is 55 years old. He was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1879. He serv-
ed as chancellor in 1S92-1S94, was
selected associate justice of the
state supreme court in 1902, and
reelected in 1910. Subsequently
he was elected chief justice.
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WILL HOLD REINs TILL LAST.
Wilson to be Governor Until March
3-Win Make His Inaugural
Journey TO Washington in Jefrer-
sonian Simplicity.

Trenton. n. j., Jan. 21.-Presi-
dent-elect Wilson announced this
afternoon that he would not re-
linquish his Office as governor of
New Jersey until March 3, the day
he leaves here for his inauguration
at Washington.
When Governor Wilson leaves to
become President of the United
States, he will not travel in a pri-
vate car nor will any member OF his
family. He said today that he ex-
pected to make only his ordinary
travelling arrangements.
The 1000 Princeton students who
are to march in the inaugural pa
rade, will have their special cars at
tached to the same train, so as to
escort the former president OF their
university into the national capital
and give him a Princeton cheer
when he arrives there.
Governor Wilson will spend the
night of March at a hotel as d
guest of his cousin, John w. Wilson.
of Franklin, Pa.
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PUTS SERVICE FIRST
AND POLITICS LAST
Wilson Outlines His Probable Course
in Appointing Oficials-Refuses
to Remove Labor Commissioner.

Trenton, N. j., Jan. 22.-Efici-
ency in public service and the merit
system more than partisan politics
will be the basis upon which Presi-
dent-elect Wilson will make ap-
pointments to office, he indicated
yesterday.
Governor Wilson had occasion to
declare himself in this connection
when a delegation of thirty men
representing various labor interests
made an earnest plea for the ap-
pointment of a Democrat to fill the
state commissionership OF labor now
held by a Republican.
John T. Cosgrove, Democrat
and labor leader, was urged for the
position to succeed Col. T. Lewis
Bryant, incumbent, who was ap-
pointed by a Republican governor.
The President-elect told the dele
cation he recognized the force of
their argument that labor should be
represented in the government by
one who knows it's interests, but he
saw no reason to displace Colonel
Bryant, who had performed his
duties faithfully and efficiently.
The governor declared himself in
speech. He said:
THE POINT o FVIEW.
Public office is not worth any
thing If an entirely satisfactory full
fillment OF the duties Of the office
does not entitle a man to considera-
tion for reappointment. If men are
to know Thu mere change of ad-
ministration(is is to empty an office, no
matter how they have deserved to
be reappointed. there is not any
thing of justice or public right left.
1 feel to the full extent the argu-
ment you have made in favor of
Mr.. Cosgrove,l but have not
clean slate to write on. If we were
creating this office, your arguments
would be different.
Il do not need to say to this
company that entirely sympathize
with the aspirationS of labor anS
that l entirely recogpize the rights
Of labor, but Colonel Bryant fhas
made good, and l am hound t0 con-
slider his claims. N wOGld be
ashamed of myself if l. I&fd not.
fWould it not be Jun Ntice md
mercy to appoint a labSr man?
Would it not be graceful?\ \pleaded
Samuel BotterrIll, spokesman for
the delegation.
tGracefulness is easy and jSstice
is hard" sighed the governor, \and
the discussion was ended.
The cOlloquy took place is he
pig ante-room just outside of the
governors office. Once Mr.. Bot
Fterill remarked that Mr.. Cosgrove's s
appointment might not be exactly
acceptable to the manufacturers
and employers.
"Oh, class opposition does not af-
feet me one way or another" quick
ly interrupted the governor.
Later in the day another delega-
tion of labor men appeared in Mr..
Bryants behalf. incidentally Gov
ernor Wilson set forth in the day that
he recognized the right Of labor
organizations to be represented in
the government and indicated that
in the creation of national depart
ment of labor he might follow that
course.
TENNESSEE GIVES
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SENATOR T1LLMAN's REPLY.

To the General Assembly of South
Carolina-Gentlemen: / have just
read Governor Blease's message sent
to your honorable body yesterday,
and have been informed that both
houses did me the justice to order
publication in its Journal to be sus-
pended until my reply could go
along with 1t. For this considera-
ton please accept my thanks.
What Governor Blease's motives
were are very evident in the mes
sage. He desires to continue the
bitterness engendered last summer,
and wishes to be revenged on me,
but the primary object he has in
view is to keep the minds of the
people stirred up and not allow the
waters to clear sufficiently to let
them see what sort of man he really
is. Catiline among the Romans,
and Aaron Burr among the Ameri-
cans, are the only other men / have
ever read of who were equal to
Blease in bamboozing the people.
1Ie has persuaded thousands of
good South Carolinians, honorable,
clean, patriotic citizens, into believ~
Ing that he is their best friend and
that Tillman's mantle has fallen on
bis shoulders. He is a past master
Ia the arts OF a demagogue. He
Anows full we'll that when the angry
passions of the masses are aroused
fhey lose their reason. He desires
20 come to the senate, as he boasted
he would do at Richmond in Decem-
Eer last, and feels it obligatory on
Him to aggravate conditions in
touth Carolina as much as possible.
whether this Is the right way to
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Helen Gould WEEDS FINLEY Shepard

Tarrytown, n. Y, Jan 23.-Niss
Helen Miller Gould was married at
1880 o'clock yesterday afternoon
at Lyndhurst, her country estate, to
Finley Johnson Shepard, an Ameri-
can railroad man who has risen
from the ranks.
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Lancaster News Roomine,.

Our always charming contempo-
rary, The Lancaster News, came TO
us Saturday in a new dress, con
structed on the Linotype machine.
1t looks handsome.-Roek Hill
Record, Jan. 20.
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WAR CHIEF SHOT;
CABINET RESIGNS
Nazim Pasha Killed in Constants
nople Disturbance-People De-
clare for Fight.

Constantinople, Jan. 23.-Nazim
Pasha, the former war minister aud
commander of the Turkish army,
was shot dead during demonstra-
tions here tonight
Enver Bey and Talaat Bey had
given explicit orders that no blood
should be shed. But Nazim Pasha's
aide de camp fired from a window
of the porte at Enver Bey and his
companion and they returned the
fire.
Their bullets killed Nazim Pasha.
In spite of this tragedy, there was
no disturbance elsewhere.
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fire.
Their bullets killed Nazim Pasha.
In spite of this tragedy, there was
no disturbance elsewhere.
Constantinople, Jan. ga crisis
in Turkeys affairs came today with
dramatic suddenness. The grand
visier, Kiaiml Pasha, and the Otto
man cabinet resigned and NAH
mound Shefket Pasha, formerly min
lister of war and commander of the
constitutional army, which enthrou-
ed Mehmed V, as sultan, was ap-
pointed grand vizer.
Yesterday the grand council, rep
resenting the intellect and wealth
of the nation, pronounced in favor
of peace. Today vast crowd drawn
from all classes declared for war
rather than peace without Adria-
nople.
And because the crowd was back
ed by public opinion, the govern
ment surrendered and relinquished
office, making way for the same men
whom the popular government
brought to the top after the revolu-
tions of 1908 and 1909.
The resignation of the Turkish
cabinet in which Kiamil Pasha was
grand vizer was announced in the
following official statement:
PROVED TOO MUCH.
The decision of Kiamil Pasha's
cabinet, taken in response TO the
note handed to the Turkish govern
ment by the European powers to
abandon the fortress of Adrianople
and part OF the islands in the
Aegean sea, for the convention OF
an extraordinary assembly of the
grand council of the Ottoman en-
pire to which the cabinets decision
was submitted-a course contrary
to the prescriptions of the constitu-
tional charter and violating the sa-
cred rights of the people-aroused
the indignation of the Turkish pa-
ton, with the result that the peo-
pie made a demonstration before
the sublime porte and brought about
the resignation of the govern
ment."
>GREAT CROWD GATHERS.
TRe~NSGQuncil of ministers met
shortly before-~noon to give final
shape to the note accepting propos-
ais of the powers. About 3 o'clock
people from all quarters began to
gather in front of the gate TO the
grand vizerate. Enver Bey, a lead
orof the Young Turks, who was iden-.
tilted with the campaign in Tripohs
and Nadje Bey, prominent unionist,
arrived about this time and were
deputed to inform them that they
must retire.
Enver Bey soon issued from the
vizerate and announced that he held
the resignation of Kiamil Pasha.
This was greeted with tremendous
cheers, which were frantically re-
newed an hour and half later when
he returned with an trade appointing
Mahmoud Shefket Pasha grand
vizier
After a flying visit to the porte,
on his return from the palace, the
Young Turk leader proceeded to the
residence of Mahmoud Shefket to
communicate the imperial message.
A SPONTANEOUS OUTBREAK.
In the meantime Talaat Bey as
sumed Professionally the portfolio of
the ministry of the interior and
lzzel Pasha that of war. In an in
terview Talaat Bey said the move
ment had not been planned, but was
the outcome of popular feeling. If
Adrianople were abandoned, he said,
disturbances would break out all
over the empire. With regard to
money, the whole nation would
make a sacrifice.
we do not want a continuation
of the war, but we are determined
to keep the fortress Of Adrianople
at all costs. This is an indispens-
able condition to peace" he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-13

The opposition of her relatives only
added to the determination of the low
er. Mary Todd had many suitors, in
Guiding Stephen A. Douglas, who was
later to become Lincoln's rival in poll
tics, but Abe was the accepted one.
Even in this case the course of true
love did not run entirely smoothly.
Some accused her affianced of being
cold and Indifferent, and in the quar-
rel that followed the engagement was
broken. That night Lincoln wrote to
a friend: 81 am now the most miser-
able man living, and if what I feel
were equally distributed to the whole
human family there would not be a
cheerful face on earth. Whether |
shall ever get better | cannot tell
awfully forbode that l shall not. To
remain as 1 am is impossible / must
get better or die" The quarrel was
soon patched up, and, on the fourth of
November, 1912, Mary Todd became
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, and COM
menced that $4 a week honeymoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-13
As We See Ourselves

"The Point of View" in Scribner's:
Deeply, perhaps, too deeply, interested
as we have always been in the first
impression of our distinguished visi-
tors, we seldom trouble to ask the eff
feet that his native land makes on the
returning American. Yet an eye, at
once fresh and intimate, ought to see
further than a foreigners. For my
own part, l never come home without
receiving the same vivid effect-one
which l have never heard commented
on-the effect of the acute awareness
of American faces. By this sign more
than by any other you recognize your
countrymen abroad; and when on your
return you see them once more in the
nations you have just left.
Ours is not the hard, childlike, al
most hostile stare Of the Latin nor the
complete Indifference OF the English.
The veil is never over our eyes; our
ears are never deaf, however meaning
less the sounds that beat upon them;
nothing is excluded from our atten-
tion, which ripples like pool to every
breeze. There is a peace-like soil
tude in entering an English restaur
ant, for not single pair of eyes will
be turned on you; and as for an Eng
llsh railway carriage, one almost
feels one has lost all cornoreal nroc-
ence as one enters it. But in America
we seem to react automatically t.
each other. Notice, for instance, the
expression of pointless amiabilitv
with which the average American en-
ters a public conveyance, and if YOU
doubt it is occasioned by his conscious
ness OF his fellow travellers, compare
it with the same face in solitude. No,
does the audience awaiting his fail
to respond. They are aware of his
every gesture; all eyes are directed tc
the vacant seat which he has not vel
perceived; every one follows his de-
bate between giving his last Scent
piece or having a 81 bill changed: ne
one really relaXes until he has paid
hic fare and settled back in his place
In any crowd you may see five or six
watching faces Illuminated by reflex
smiles because somewhere in sight
two utter strangers are hailing eacl
other.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-13
BARLEY MARKET

San Francisco, Nov. 13-In the local
grain pit today barley options were
weaker on the rain. December sold
down to $1.30h, closing at same. May
sold at $1.3Sk. Cash barley here was
weaker and quoted lower. Receipts
of barley today were 1886 centals,
including 10000 centals from Oregon,
the latter, it was reported, being
largely for call board uses. Wheat
was firmly held at unchanged prices.
White oats were lower and black had
narrower range. Bran and shorts
were weaker and middlings were firm.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-13
MARKET REPORTS
Los ANGELES PRODIICE

Los Angeles, Nov. 13-By taking 8,
boost of &c dozen yesterday on tn,
Los Angeles produce exchange, egg,
reached the highest figure they have
brought in four years in this citv
There was only one sale yesterday
and this was of five cases at sac 8
dozen on the case count. This will
make the candled about SIC to 5Sc a
dozen and will cause the wholesaler to
sell to the retail trade at around 6Oc
The price which the consumer will
have to pay lies with the retailer.
but fresh eggs will sell for at least
65c with good chance of being ever
higher. The scarcity that has pre.
vailed IN eggs for several months is
given by the produce men as the
reason for yesterdays advance anc
these dealers say that there are moi
even enough local eggs in storage to
meet the demand. The supply of good
eggs has been short for so long that
the dealers say the high quotation
established yesterday is justified. But
ter and cheese were unchanged yes
terday.
White onions of all sorts are stiff
at present on the market and the white
globes now bring Sd a hundred pounds.
Silver wax are even higher, the price
ranging from $4 to $5 for the same
weight. All other onions are firm,
as are potatoes, although the supply
OF the latter is being increased by
shipments from other states. Fruit
is unchanged.
The following egg and butter quo
,tations are taken from actual sales on
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-13
King Cole Might
Be "Cone Back
BY Hal Sheridan
Written for the United Press

written for the United Press)
New York, Nov. 13-Among many
other things likely to be worth watch
ing in the American league next sea-
son, we might drag one to the fore,
tag it Exhibit A, and call upon the
rabble to look upon a Come back" !"
Frank Chance is going to test the
truth of that we'll known assertion,
"they never come back" using as his
experimental piece of machinery King
Cole, one time Cub pitcher, and erst-
while eminent barber in Chicago.
1t may be remembered that Cy Fal-
kenberg, the Nap pitcher, did a come
back during the season which died
during the rainy days of October One
of the first things Cy did on his re-
turn from the minors was to peel off
ten straight victories, which is a fair
job for man who has once been
stamped as through, finished, done and
ready for the discard.
Falkenberg was there with his hair
in braid, and American Association
tipsters today are predicting as much
for Cole. Having introduced Cole t,
high society Chance knows just abouc
what he can do. The trouble with
Cole has appeared to have been that
he found paths that led to other places
than fame, and strayed from the
straight and narrow. He did not
keep in condition-and then came the
skids. In the association Cole sort of
grew up and got down to business, ac-
cording to the reports handed to
Chance, which led him to put in draft
for the former star. He pitched gilt
edged ball for the Columbus team and
kept himself in shape.
Cole will be one of couple of dozen
new men picked up by Chance during
the past season. Of the twenty-six
players Chance took to Bermuda last
spring, but ten are now on the payroll.
Of those sent to the discard Chase and
Lelivelt are the only ones to remain
in fast company. In getting lined up
for next year the Yanks spent consid-
cradle money in filling out their hands.
The top price was put up for Maisel,
the young third sacker, for whom the
Baltimore club was handed $4,000
Outfelder Gilhooley cost $500; Jer-
sey City received $4,000 for Pitcher
McRae. Outfielder Holden cost $3000
and $4,000 was dumped into the Tex
as league for Williams, Reynolds
Whiteman and Rose. Cook.cost S2500
and with other expenditures Chances