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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-11-03
TAX NOTICE!

County, State and School Taxes
for the year 1914 will be due and
payable at the Treasurer's Office
from October 18th to December S1st,
1914, without penalty.
For payment during January a
penalty of one per cent will be
added; for February two per cent
will be added, and for March seven
per cent will be added.
All male citizenYbetween the ages
of 21 and 55 yeYrs are liable for a
capitation tax o1$3 90 for road pur-
poses and all male citizens between
the ages of Il and 60 years are
liable for a polI\tax of $1.OO, except
those exempt by law.
The levy for roadA and bridges is
seven ca mills, for ordinary county
purposes four (4) mills, special
county &C. C. Bond9 one and one
fourth GA) mills, /past indebted
ness one Cd milH constitutional
school tax three 8) mills and six
co mills state taY
In Cane oGa Greek shkh hand dDa6ns Gs q cTseE
mills are levied for bond purposes
and in pleasant Ikll township three
fourths of one (&o>pill is levied
A special school tat of two (2)
mills is levied in distYcts Nos. /, 6,
II and 80 Three 90 mills in dis
tricts %. &c, % and As. Four 90
mills in districts 3, 4 5, z, 9, Is, II,
%, AS, II, 18. 10, I2O, 25, 81, "a,
AZ, 81, 80 and Al. Five (5) mills
in districts 2, Sc and 43. Six and
one-half (61A) mills in district IA.
Eight CD mills in districts 10. ~,
32. 33, "a, 46 and 40. Ten 1OO
mills in district 38 and eleven Ill
mills in district 40.
II. !, HILTON
Comfy TreaSurei
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Did Literary Work at NIoht.

Mrs. Catherine Gore, who wrote 20
novels between 1924 and 1861. worked
on strange plan When j. II. Planche
visited Paris In 1887 he found Mrs.
Gore living in the Place Vendome writ
ing novel plays, articles for maga-
zines-almost every description of lit
erature flowing from her indefatigable
pen. He says: How do you man
age it? / asked her. Il receive, as
you know. a few friends at dinner
every evening. They leave me at
10 or II, when retire to my room
and write till or in the morning.
Then / go to bed till noon. when
breakfast, after which | drive out and
pay visits. returning at to dress for
uinner. AS soon as my friends have
departed ! go to work all night again.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-11-03

court Of Lancaster country for let
ters dismissory.
w. s. FAULKENBER
Executor Estate of Martha A. Adams
Deceased.
Oct. IL, 1914.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-11-03
LUSCIOUS CRAB APPLE
fQuEEN OF ALL THE VARIETIES
OF PRESERVES.
Maine Editor Pays Deserved Tribute
20 Fruit, Inspired by Boyhood Nom
, ories Of Its SuperIative Tooth
some Qualities

; 1t demands a hungry boy who has
taken hearty exercise In the open air
to steal native Maine crab apples for
the sake of eating them, asserts the
Bangor News. Even the red haw-
thorne plums after the frosts fall and
lBweeten up the insides, are far more
preferable than the wild crabs. Re-
tpeated heavy frosts add sweeting to
those balls Of sour fire, which makes
them palatable to wild partridges, red
and gray squirrels, bluejays and rare
and beautiful grosbeaks. 1t is the
housewives of Maine who most ap-
preciate the wild crab apple-par-
ticularly for the making of tarts and
beautifully pink jellies, which stand
In sunny autumn windows and ripen
for days at a time. The very essence
Of the Northern hills is concealed in
those topping tumblers of glass.
No Maine housewife thinks of eat
ing a Thanksgiving turkey or a
Christmas goose without crab apple
jelly to go along. Today it is more
highly esteemed than cranberry sauce,
or summer jellies made from rhu.
barb. grapes or currants, or the col
ored parings OF drying apples. Those
small individual cups of baked dough,
when filed with jelly and rechristened
under the family name of tarts, may
serve to whet ones appetite until he
can reach more substantial foods.
What has become OF those dear old
glass or stone jars OF preserves In
brown sugar or molassee crab ap-
pie, which were slammed in deleotable
sweetening with their stems intact,
who ate them greedily, irreverently
called them preserved nicer
With unbrokep skins and plump
bodies fairly reeking tn sweets, they
Allied jar after jar along the cellar
shelves. and were taken to school and
featen with biscuit and butter for
school dinners. and even taken to the
sick or ailing as appetizers. There is
not family physician in Maine who
fs not intimately familiar with these
crab apple preserves" The old boys
when they were really boys. termed
them topping" which meant the IA
vorite foods for finishing a meal. AS
matted beers and ales have taken the
place of hard and new cider upon the
family table, possibly apples, raisins
and evaporated fruits may have In
some degree crowded out crab apple
preserves.
Though they are going from ouI
cellar shelves and dining tables, fond
memories of them linger lovingly. non
can the passing of almanacs and cal
.endars totally erase them
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PAID DEARLY FOR JOKE
PROSECUTED "RookIE" HAD
LAUGH ON roRMENToR.
Hun,itIatine Task at Which Colonel
Sot Good Soldier Gave Latter tho
Nickname of Corporal Suds,"
Which Stuck.

Gen. E. V. Sumner, who was long
colonel in command OF the Fighting
Seventh" cavalry, was known to the
rank and file of his regiment as old
Bull" His gruff manners may have
had something to do with the nick
name, but il came to him fairly by in
heritance. His father the General
Sumner of Civil war renown. bore it
before him.
While the Seventh was stationed at
Fort Grant, Ariz.. a very raw recruit
was sent on from Kansas City. AS
usual. the men prosecuted him from
the start He returned meekly from
the ordnance stores with the informa-
tion that 'left-handed ramrods" we're
all gone; without batting an eyelash,
he reported that the sergeant in
charge OF the post swore at him when
he applied for his butter checks"
They took his last two bits away from
him in the canteen In some hocus-
pocus game. After supper he was
"blankettossed" until the arms OF the
tossers grew weary; and three times
that night his bunk collapsed. amidst
roars Of merriment. The recruit then
gave up the struggle and lay shivering
upon the floor until morning
He neither murmured nor com.
planned. In fact, he seemed to be so
unsophisticated that when he asked
his room corporal where he could have
some washing done, the corporal, with
jerk Of his thumb, indicated the com
manding officers house on the corner
OF the parade. Go over to that big
house, the corporal directed. Take
your bundle with you and ask for
Old Bull. He takes in all the washin'
at this post
Grasping his little bundle. the green
lad from Kansas City shambled across
the parade, mounted the colonel 8
front stoop, and innocently pulled the
doorbell. The joke was an old one, as
old Bull had never been known to an
swer the bell in person. and more than
one recruit had learned the way to
"Soapsuds Row" after a tongue-lash-
ing from the commandant's dusky,
maid OF ali work And as she had
threatened TO scald the next man who
bothered her about his washing. the
troop. and the men swarmed out on
the verandas to sec the fun.
But just az the recruit pulled the
bell, who should step out but Old Bull
himself, booted and spurred for his
morning ride.
''Wha; do you want here?" he thun-
dered. surprised to see an enlisted
man at his front door.
Il wanted to see about gettin'
these sh-shirts and socks done up
minister" stammered the frightened
recruit. They told me to come over
here and ask for Old Bull" he added
We'll. I'm Old BULL" roared the
colonel you come aIeng with me
and point out the man that sent you
! over here" he went on. as he grasped
the astonished youth and hurried him
/ toward the troop quarters.
The crowds upon the verandas melt
ed away as Colonel Sumner ap
preached, but the guilty corporal was
found lurking in the troop barber
shop. Some heated language ensued
and then. at the end of the painful
interview. Old Bull delivered himself
thus:
Corporal, ought to have you court
martialed! could have your stripes
i&.--:: sY2y. and see that you go,
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Sacrifice for Liberty.

Crabs OF various kinds have the
habit. when caught by the leg. OF
breaking 1t of, and they may often be
found with a completely formed little
leg which has been "regenerated" or
grown afresh. and will in due time
attain full size. The beautiful hairy
skin of the tail of the little dormouse
also will come off when the animal is
caught by it, leaving the bony, blood
stained skeleton OF the tail exposed to
dry and wither up. There is no re-
growth in this case. was Mortified
when | was a boy to see six dormice
reduced to this condition In the bird
and-beast shop on the staircase OF the
old Pantheon bazaar. They had es-
capped from their cages while was
looking on and The ahopman endeav-
Ored TO catch them. with this distress,
icS resuit.-Sir Ray Lancaster in Lon.
don Telegraph.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-11-03
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Bids will be received by the Town
OF Lancaster, S. &C.. until 3 p. m.
December 1st, 1914, for two sewer
age disposal plahts according to
plans and specifications as adopted
by said town.
All bids must be\accompenied by
a certified check foA$200.00 made
payable to the ChSxSman of the
Board
Plans and specifications can be
seen at the once OF the Gty Clerk
or the Engineers, or can bel obtained
by writing the Engineers and max
ing payment OF Three Dollars to
cover the cost. The rigM Is re-
served to reject any or all \bids.
LEROY SPRINGS,
Chairman.
JOHN CRAWFORD,
Clerk.
II. s. Jaudon Engineering Co.
Engineers.
Box 582, Savannah. Ga.
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about 80 days into the bargain. Or I
could have you fined. But you've been
one of my best noncoms. You're al
ways sober, and a good shot, and so
I'm not going to take your chevrons.
your liberty, or your money away
| from you. But since you're such an
expert on laundry matters, l order
you to do this mans washing on the
front porch OF these quarters every
Monday morning at guard mount.
And YOU" he beloved, turning to
the recruit and shaking his gauntlets
at him, you see that you have at
least two suits of underclothes and
seven pairs of socks for him every
week. And If he doesn't wash 'em
clean-you report to Old Bull, that 8
ME-"
And thereafter for several months,
until a band Of Tonto Basin Apaches
went on a rampage and gave them
, more serious things to think about,
the men OF the Seventh looked for
ward happily to Monday morning
guard mount. The noncommissioned
laundyman became known as Cor
poral Suds." and was teased about
the affair until the day piece of
Spanish shrapnel cut short his exis-
tence.-Youth's Companion.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-11-03
Spirits.

First. the spirit of the eighteenth
century Is not found in it's letters.
Not modern ef the moderns, not a
progressive Of the progressives. would
wish anything more appropriate to
the twentieth century than the spirit
OF 1776. But he could not work out
his twentieth century problems by a
list OF grievances against King George
III nor by the literal limitations of
what the eighteenth century revolu-
tionists had to deal with
Second. the spirit OF the eighteenth
century was several spirits 1t was
the spirit of Jefferson and franklin,
and IL was the spirit of Hamilton. 1t
was the spirit of the radical Declare.
tion of independence, and it was the
spirit OF the reactionary constitution
In its spicy variety, in fact, it was re-
markably like II not identical with
the spirit of every other century,
Kansas City Star.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-11-03
Irish Superstition.

The mystery surrounding the md
ing OF human skull In the garden
OF Donegal merchants residence
has been unraveled by Sergeant Mul-
herin OF the local constabulary.
few years ago, the sergeant
states, man was gathering bramble-
berries near Magherabeg, where still
remain the ancient and crumbling
walls of religious monastery, when
he came upon the skull. to which were
attached a few teeth.
believing in the superstition that
there was cure for toothache in a
tooth extracted from the skull OF q
dead person. he carried IL home. where
II remained until his son. through fear
or from some other cause. buried it
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SOUTHERN RAILWAY.

premier Carrier OF the South"
PASSENGER TRAIN SCHEDULES.
Trains arrive Lancaster from:
No. 118-Yorkville, Rock Hill and
intermediate stations s:31 a. m.
No. 113-Charl9bton, Columbia and
intermediary stations 1v:os
q. m.
No. 114-Mari3n. Blacksburg, Chr
lotte and intermediate stations,
1885 p. nal
No. 117-Co. hbia, Kingsville I'D
intermeCia& stations. 7:4s D. IN.
Trains leave lancaster for:
No. 11s-Kings1lle. Columbia and
intermediate stations, 8:31 a. m.
No. 113--Rock Hill, Blacksburg.
Marion, Charlotte and inter.
mediate stations, 1905 a. m.
No. 114-Kingsfille, Columbia.
Charleston apd intermediate
stations 1885 p. IN.
No. 117-Rock Hill, Yorky.lle and
intermediatb STATIC. 7;48
p. m.
N. B.-Scheduie figures are pub
hshed as ipforma, N only and are
not guaranteed. For Information as
to passenger fares, etc, call on
w. b. CAUTHEN, Agent.
w. II. MCGEE, A. @. p. A.,
Columbia, 8. G.
w. II. CAFFEY. ID. p. A.,
Charleston. 8. e.
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Won't Cost You One Red Penny

You read paper regularly. Read ours and
get all the soul-stirring heart-gripping in
stallments of THE Trey O. Hea,f5-it sets a
mile mark in literature and it won't cost
you penny more to read it.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-11-03
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.

All persons having claims against
the estate of Almetta ]. Blackmcn,
deceased, ace hereby notified to Ole
the same, dufs>yerined, with the un-
dersigned, and those indebted TO
said estate will 9lease make payment
likewise.
G.. ROSS BLACKMON.
mon. Deceased.
oct. is, 1914.
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Notice of Discharge.

Notice is hereby given that that
the undersigned, as executor OF the
estate OF Martha A. Adams. deceas-
ed, on the 18th day OF November,
1914, make his final return as such
executor and apply to the probate
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-11-03
Plies Cured In 6 to n Days

Your druggist will refund money 10 PAZo
OINTMENT falls to cure any case Of Itching,
Blind, bleeding PTotrudin2 Piles in 6to IL days.
The first application gives Ease and Rest. SOC.
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Notice to Debtors and Creditors,

All peIsons having claims against
the estate--ef-~-VXilliam 8. Marshal
deceased. are hereby notified to- file
the same. duly verified, With bfBeeun
ders,gneG, and those 4ndebted to
said 8" lid, eiIats yiE@ @S,ss wil1 u Dr make pay
JOHHA. MARSHALL,
Admr. Estate Of William 8. mar-
shall. deceased.
Oct. 16, 1914.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-12
HE IS A CAPTIVE
Topeka German Visitor Taken
as English Prisoner.
Amos Actell, q Reserve, Left
Kansas for the Front.

Word was received in Topeka today
that Lieutenant Amos Actell, German
reserve officer, who left Topeka Sep
oner of the English at the Isle of Man,
an island OF the British possessions.
Lieutenant Actell, for a number of
weeks after the declaration of war in
Europe, stayed at the Carver home,
1923 Taylor street.
The young German sailed from Amer
lea during the latter part of September
on the liner, Noordam. The boat was
captured near Queenstown, England by
British warship. Actell was taken to
Queenstown and later transferred to
the Isle of Man.
In the card received today by Miss
Ruth Carver, Lieutnant Actell stated
that the German prisoners at the place
where he is confined are well treated.
At the prison he is known as prisoner
No. 301
During his stay in Topeka at the
Carver home Lieutenant Actell made a
large number of acquaintance in the
city. At the outbreak of the way he
packed his trunk and stayed in commu-
nication with the German consul at
Kansas City, who arranged for his
transportation to the Fatherland. All
through the first few weeks of the con-
fiict when it was thought Germany was
rapidly being overwhelmed by the OPP
posing nations Actell refused to believe
reports of German reverses and the re-
ports OF German crueltieS to prisoners
and citizens of other countries
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-12
WOLVES IN RANKS.
Deadly German Fire Drives Wild Ami
mails Into Russian Lines,

Petrograd, Oct. 12.-All the fight
ing that hitherto has fallen to the lot
of the Russian army may be consid-
cred as merely preliminary to the
struggle now impending. Russia has
resolutely crossed the threshold of
great events and if any doubts or
hopes were entertained in Berlin that
Russia might hesitate to fight to the
bitter end they must by now have been
forever dispelled.
During a VISIT to the front the czar
whereat a plan of new campaign was
settled.
A Russian lieutenant, wounded in
the AugustOwo woods has furnished
a vivid narrative of his experience. He
was ordered to occupy the northern
approach of the forest and he declares
it is simply impossible to describe the
horrors of the ensuing conflict.
Through the incessant roar of guns
every branch of every tree quivered
in the hail of shrapnel that crashed
ems and slew denizens of the forest
At every step Russians encountered
the dead bodies of deer and terrified
wolves often broke into the ranks,
evoking merry jests from the soldiers.
who throughout exhibited feverishly
high spirit. The Germans only dis
covered the Russian movement when
they had irretrievably lost the game
and after several despairing efforts to
at first in an orderly manner but sew
eral hours later in panic. They began
to rush hfther and thither and without
any settled plan. Many abandoned
their arms hid in bushes or scrambled
IN trees as the Russians approached.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-12
DEATHS and FUNERALS.

Henry c. Campbell died this morn
ing at his residence 321 Fillmore
street. The funeral will be held Tues
day afternoon at o'clock from the
home. The body will be taken to Mer-
iden Wednesday for interment.
Mrs. Susan Stone, 90 years old. died
Sunday at her home, 11S East Eighth
street. She is survived by three
daughters and one son. Mrs. George
A. Heron of Topeka; Mrs. r. L. Ad
ans of Pueblo, Colo; Miss Susie Stone
and Mr.. Archie Stone of Topeka. A
brother. A. J. Cope, lives in st. Louis.
and a sister, Mrs. A. McGill in Enon,
Mo. The funeral will be held at $3.50
o'clock Tuesday afternoon from the
residence, 11S East Eighth street.
The funeral of Melvin S. McL.augh-
lin. who died in one of the Rocky
Mountain states last week, will be held
at 1890 o'clock Tuesday morning
from the home, 500 West Tenth street
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-12
"SIT AND Think
Philadelphia Athletics Spent a
Gloomy Day Sunday.
But the Boston Boys Paraded in
Their Great Joy.

The Philadelphia Athletics spent a
dull Sabbath in the camp of the
enemy They remained sequestered in
their hotel most of the day and sat
and thought and sometimes they just
sat. The Athletics are not very de-
monstrative bysinature. They would
have created no wild disturbance even
had they comeIahere today as con-
querors. for they are a domesticated
body of young men and their repressed
demeanor and restraint is always
beautiful to behold.
Today they seemed more repressed
and restrained than ever and the gen
eral agitation which seems prevalent
through the city of Boston passed over
and around them and left the Mack
men quite unmoved.
Boston Braves.
On the other hand. the Boston
Braves are by no means depressed or
restrained. Neither are they seques-
tered.
They are as public as the postofiice.
AS soon as they arrived home each
man remained in his rented room only
Long enough to snatch few winks of
sleep and then he moved out where
all men might see and marvel They
took prominent part in the public. dis
cussions and agreed with public opip-
ion that it looks like four straight.
opinion only. Boston is in such a
state of mind over what happened in
Philadelphia Friday and Saturday
that she is Keeling off haphazard
statements without weighing a sylla-
BILE. The cradle of the National
League" is rocking wildly in a gale
of enthusiasm and strange sights are
promised when the Mackmen and the
Braves take the field for their third
game this afternoon
The boss of the Braves is a great
fellow to follow rule and rote, if rule
and rote proves successful. 1t is a
form Of superstition, like that super
stitiOn which causes him to keep his
; legs crossed during a game or causes
his flesh to creep if stray bits of paper
fall in front of his bench. He has won
his victories by sticking to his big
| three and it is unlikely that he will
change his tactics during this serie.
any more than he would shift hi:
policy of working two sets of out.
| fielders.
Assuming then that the cratic Tyler
Is ready, he will pitch against the Mach
men today at FenWay field, the link
yard of the fading worlds champion.
ships. 1t is the home of the Boston
Red Sox OF the American League anl
was loaned to the Braves when the,
J commenced to get so wildly prosper
Gus that their own home could mo-
contain them. 1t is on Fenway field
that the Athletics have taken many {
trimming from the Red Sox durins
the past season. A hoodoo hangs ovel
the portals of that yard for them and
for the New York Giants, for it wa.
1 there that the Giants lost the world.
series in 1912 through Snodgrass' mis-
toric muff and there that the Giants
dropped the crucial series of the pas
season to the Braves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-12
LOCAL MENTION.

The annual campfire of the Gamma
Sigma and Alethean Literary societies
of Washburn college was held Saturday
night at vinewood park The crowd
was chaperoned by the usual Gamma
Alethean chaperons, Prof. and Mrs
Harshbarger A special car and
trailer were chartered to take the MEM
bers on the first part Of the hike. AT
supper cooked in primitive fashion.
Those who went on the hike were
Misses Mabel Kingsley. Isabel Marsh.
Lola Curry, Ada Walker. Genevieve
wise, Adaline Romine, Florence War
ner. Margaret Webb, Erna Zutavern,
Vera Campbell, Katherine Sentx. Ida
Buckholder. Elizabeth Gaume. Erma
Erickson, Ruby Scott, Doris Stark.
Ruth Smith, Francis Cornick. Myrtle
Kcsler. Josephine Emerson. Mary Hoo
yer, Lucille Chandler. Flora Harrington.
Helen Dick. Bessie Felix. Gertrude
Woodward. Hazel Jones, Helen Watts,
Marion Lindsay, Inex Cornell. Maurine
Long, Marie Thompson and Gwen
!Shake1haft and Messr1. Arthur Beattie,
Daniel Hopson. - Fisher. Ctoaby