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The Lancaster News. Semi-Weekly. ' Published "Former ^nes<^ays andjSaturdays \t Lancaster, S. C., dorses t By The The Nev*er Publishing Company. Fair?Tes T. Connors, Editor. LeagU' ~ _ . SUBSCRIPTION RATES. OtL >i*X Months 7ft Throe Months 40 Payable In advance. ADVERTISING HATES. One Inch, tlrst -nsertion. ft.00. Each subsequent Insertion 50 cents. For three months or longer, reduced rates Professional cards, per year, ?12. Business notices, Transient Advertisements, Lost and Found, and other classilled ttivertlsenients not exceeding 25 words, 25 cents for eacti insertion: I cent a word for each additional word over 2"> words. Obituaries. Tributes of respect, cards of thanks and till matter of a personal or political ^ nature to be chanted for. 1KB o r'Sc-iSc . Advertising rates by the column made known F on application. t)f t Brief correspondence on subjects of cereral Interest Invited. Not responsible for views of a ? correspondents. ,rA It. E. WYL1E, PllKSIPENT. blj? tP A. COOK, Skc'y. and Titkas, , M. KIDDLE, Jtt , BtTslNKSS MaNAGEII. ihousatu , the moiiered at the postoftlcc ?t TiBncastop, S C.. . conJ-ciasa mail matter, Oct. 4, lPori. u ueer )iie ^ Saturday, November 11, 1905. th The most significant feature about Tuesday's elections is the 4v unmistakable warning given l>( grafters and rascally bosses gen t0 erally, whether Republican, Democratic or what not, to take their hands out of the people's pockets. It Is evident that the masses have stood just as long \ as they are going to stand im J position and systematic robbery /' under the guise of law and the party l.ash. Criminals in higli \ places have got to step clown , 5i ( and out, say the people. ^ ===== WHISKEY SEIZURES. Mayor Wylie has a timely notice in The News in relation to the shipment of liquor here for personal use. Since the ?lis pensary was voted out there has been more or less confusion in the matter of whiskey shipments, due, no doubt, to a lack of inlormation as to the law upon the subject. M ,tyor NVylio states, upon the authority of the governor, that "whiskey shipped into the state ill fli? imino nf o C! ? ?? > ... ? ... ...V ' 1.IUVJ VI to 111 111 1M III tilt! nrfune of a person other than the person claiming it is liable to seizure." A person may, he says, order liquor shipped in his own name, provided it is marked "for personal use." So much for the letter of the law, assuming that the governor has correctlv interpreted the dispensary law. Now it occurs to us that the public officials especially charged with the enforcement of the new conditions in Lancaster should endeavor to do exact justice in each and every case that may arise, and we have no reason to believe that they will knowingly do otherwise. The prime object is to prevent the sale of liquor in the town and COiinf.v anft rri i?..;?.. I J VV IM IIIK IU speedy justice any persons who should be found guilty of mak ing sales. The law, as construed, says that no liquor shall bo sold, and that law should be ligidly enforced?enforced to the limit of every human agency. Such is not onlv the interpreted law, but it is the publicly expressed sentiment of the people that there shall be no sales of liquor i 1 ancaster county, rublic officials, theiefoie, and others interested in seeing the law and the wishes of t'*e people cariied out, cannot be too zealous in their efforts to prevent liquor being shipped here for unlawful purposes?in other words, for sale. Every package known or suspected to be for a blind ti\:er should be promptly 8ei zed, and incase the seizure is made on suspicion only, a thorough investigation should be made. Hut where it is known beyond question that a shipment of liquor is for personal use, even though there be an irregularity in the matter of name or other shipping directions, we do not believe that the stutr should be confiscated. Mere technicalities should not be taken advantage of to the injury or loss of inno cent persons, whether those per sons be rich or poor, white or black. It should be remembered that present conditions are new to the people. Until the provisions ol the law become more generally known honest errors are lia ble to be made even by the most law-abiding citizens. As May or Wylie says, a package im properly addressed is "liable to seizure," but that does not mean, according to our view, that it shall be seized in any event?that it shall be confis cated even though the fac's be clearly established that the error was unintentional and that the whiskey is not intended for an unlawful purpose. THE /MEDICINE MUDDLE. The patent medicine that con tains more liquor than any tiling e'se is certainly catching it in the neck?of the bottle. With the United States government 011 the one side saying it ran not be sold unless the seller pays a liquor license and the state government on the other saying it [cannot be sold except upon the prescription of a physician, the aforesaid medicine surcharged with whiskey is most assuredly suspended between "the devil and the deep sea." Then, too, \t io n v f iv ao tu a must U linger ous flank lire. Physicians gen erady are most chary about pre scribing patent medicines for their patients; and very properly so, for they do not know what sucli nostrums contain. The future, therefore, of the alcoholic medicine is anything hut bright. The chances are that with so many gauntlets to run it will need all of its own reservo force to enable it to make a decent race to the mouth of the man with a thirst. More than one question natu rally arises out of the present situation of the class of patent medicines referred to. If a decoction composed principally of alcohol or whiskey can be sold on a physician's prescription, why can't liquor itself be so sold ? What's tho difference ? As a matter of fact, or of law, is either allowable under the dispensary law, and if one is, why not tho other also ? And these questions lead to another still more serious: Is that provision of the dispensary law unconstitutional which prohibb ) * its the sale of liquor by a drug " gist on a physician's prescrip- ' tion ? So far as we know this point has not b^en passed upon < by the courts. Of cou se the counties that 1 have decla'ed for prohibition should have what they voted for, . ? I out in striving to attain tnat ; end it would not be the part of wisdom to ignore the possibili- ( ties of danger along the roadside. THE "DODGER" AS AN ADVERTISER. The Sumier Item evidently has a poor opinion of the value ' ol the hand-bill as compared wi'h ; the newspaper, lor advertising t purposes. 1 l?e Item says: I "The business man who de pends upon dodders thrown >\ about the streets is a century be- ind the times The pooresl newspaper, il it has any circula j tiou at all, is better than the best t dodgers, while a first-class news paper that goes into the homes ol the people gives five dollars l, worth ol results to the penny's c worth of the (lodgers." Ot course the Item is right, t but it is probably not a bad plan Jj to combine the two advertising mediums?use newspaper space Ireely and then scatter hand-bills v lor what they are worth, as is oc { casionally done by merchants 'j hereabouts. Cotton Ginned to Novem= I i ber 1st. c i Census Bureau Reports Near * Six and a Half Million . Bales. ' Washington, 1) C., November 8.?Tim c Mihus bureau issued a bulletin today showing that up to November 1, (>.483.646 bales ^ of cotton had been ginned in this country. II und bale-i are count ed as hal1 b ties. The lust previous report lor i he present year, showing results ] to October 18, last gave 4,940, 728 bales. The figures, aecoid- ^ ing to today's bulletins, lor the various states are as follows: Alabama 815,457; Arkansas 211,113; Florida 48.218; Georgia 1,302,390; Indian Territory 135,* 782; Kentucky 305; Louisiana 231,249; Mississippi 510,077; r Missouri 14,181; North Carolina t 438,021; Oklahoma 144,839; c South Carolina 822,140; Tennessee 109,247; Texas 1,002,248, and Virginia 7,479. o Don't fail to read our column n of business locals. R p Notice to Taxpayers. Taxes will be due and payable without penalty from October IB to December 31, 1905. The fax levy for State purposes is 5}^ mills, for ordinary county purposes 4% mills, special county purposes (L. A C. K, K. bonds) 2 mills, constit ii t ion a 1 tax for school purposes 3 * tlkillu rr? O Lr t r* or u t/d o I latr m a# IK ? : I ? - ' ir T J \/l Ml III I I | H on all taxable proper!y of the county. Iii .School Ds?tricts Noa. .">,30, 32 and 40. there ia a special levy of 2 mills / additional for school purposes; in District No. 24,8 mills; Districts Nos. e 12, 17 and 39, 4 mills; District No. 38, n 5 mills; No. 14, 0 mills, and No. 40, 7 mills. In Cane Creek Township Si there is a special local levy of 4% mills w for railroad purposes; Oill? Creek, li i. mills, and Pleasant II ill, 3 mi lis. There is also a tax of one dollar on VN each male citizen between the ajfes of $ twenty-one and sixty years, except ex-Confederate soldiers and sailors, or those who are so disabled that they H cannot earn a support by manual a bor. J. P.. BLACKMON, Treasurer Lancaster County. Business Notices. All Notijea inserted under this head at the rate of ONE CENT A WORD for each insertion. No notioe to be counted less than 2B words WANTED.?200 head of geese and turkeys. Highest cash price paid. J. 3. Wilson. At Southern Depot. PLANT onion sets now. I have them. J B. Mackorell. FOR SALE?Second-hand Carriage. Apply to S. E. WHITE, Lancaster, 5. C. PLAOE your order for celery for riianksgiving. J. H.Mackorell. TO B A COO, .1 list received one hunJred 10 lh. caddies good plug tobacco. Will sell ror two dollars per caddie. ~2ome quick. Also five car loads good Virginia high grade Hour to sell at ;he old price. You know (lour has ecently advanced 30c per barrel. Dennett Groo. Co. A BOX of Hnyler's candy for you Thanksgiving. .1. U. Mackorell. WANTED?0000 lbs of Green and try Cow Hides b tween now and Ian. 1st, Highest market price paid. 1. T. Blackmon. I HAVE Fresh Fish on hand all he time. Also Fresh Oysters on Vidays and rSaturdays. I'hone or inme to 8. T. Blackmon. E. C. LANIER, at L. & C. depot ias another tine car Dannish Cabbage hat he is selling for $2 25 per hunIred pounds. They are Hue for makng kraut. FIFTY DOLLARS' REWARD?I vill pay a reward of for the apirehension and conviction of the larty who burned my gin house and .ontents last Saturday night. M. A. rilackmon. Primus, S. C. Nov. 7, 1905 K. C. LANIER, at L. A O. depot ias another tine car Danish Cabbage hat he is selling for $2 25 per huuIred pounds. They are line for makng kraut. FOR SALE ?Singer Sewing Maihine in good condition?t?as be>*n ecently overhauled and is as good as lew Apply to S. T. Blackmon. i a vii^aoiUlllU VyCtl'Ub JOHN K. WELSH, DENTIST, Lancaster, S. C. Dffice Up-stairs in Mason ic Building. DENTISTRY. DR. R. M. GALLOWAY, Surgeon Dentist. Dffice Up-stairs in Ganson Building. DR. R. G. ELLIOTT, Lancaster, S. C. nrBiurui)' pn'inr, i>o. I.S7. Office I >aviH Iloilding, cor. Main anil Dnnlap | treels; 'phone No. 72. Will practice in both town and couny. All calls, day or night, will reeive prompt attention. Notice to Debtors and Creditors. All persons indebted to the estate f the late W. C. Cauthen are hereby iotitled to make paymet to the under- 1 igned, and all persona ha<> inp claims gainst said estate are requested to < iresent same, duly attested. A'.rs. Julia Cauthen, i Admrv. Stylish Dress Shoes Vc have just gotten in our new anH attractive lino of EDWIN CLAP? SHOES or men, made of the finest patnts, calves, tans and kids, and \ oted for their graceful and < tylish appearance. They are t rorn by thousands who have ft iarned to love high art foot- , 'ear. We also have the nicest < 3.00, $3.50 and $4.00 Shoes on arth, the J. E. French, Tap. lound and King Bee. ( For Shoes, go to Cherrv's i PRESIDENT PAUL MORTON Outlining the policy of the new management of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States in an address delivered before a Convention of Equitable Agents, among other things says : "Already there has been a saving in the administration of your Society amounting to approximately $600,000 perannum. This equals 4 per cent, on an investment of $15,000,000. This is the equivalent to having $15,000,000 more 4 percent, bonds in our vaults.' There will be other economies, and I can only repeat that retrenchment and conservative management is going to be our policy. I have great ambitions for the Equitable. I want it to be not only the greatest and the best but the safest and most conservative life insurance institution in the land. I want it to be the one that the agents will like the very best to work for. 1 want it to be the one that bankers and people who have securities for sale can feel that they will always get a square deal from. I want it to be the one that policyholders will recommend their friends to insure in and that everybody can point to with pride. I want it to be known, not only as the strongest financially, but the strongest morally." Moral: Insure in the Equitable Life, "Strongest \n the World." W. B. Knight, ? Special Agent, ? LANCASTER, S. C. SHERIFF'S SALE. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Lancaster. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Annie K. Wilson, in her own right ami as Executrix of the will of William Knight, deceased. Plaintiff, vs Sarah Si tare, W. .lack Knight and others, Defendants. BY VIRTUE of a decretal order made his Honor O. W. Buchanan, judge piesiding, dated Oct. 20th, 1905, 1 will sell at public auction, in front of the court house, in the town of Lancaster, in said county and State, to the highest bidder, the following described amis, in Cedar Creek township. county of Lancaster, in said State, formerly belonging to William 1/ ? rvuiKiii, ueceaseii, ami described an f 111ows, viz : First. Ninety-seven [117] acres, more or less, on the waters of Dry creek, bounded north by lands of Anderson Uaskey. east and south by Dry creek, and west by lands of Miss Mcllwain. Second. Fifty [50] acres, more or less, known as the "Home place," bounded north by Dry creek, east by lands of Anderson Caskey, south by ttie Johnson lands, and west by lands., of Miss Mcllwain. Third. Fifty [50] acres more or less, known as the ".Jack Knitfht tract," bounded north by Dry creek, east by lands of Vlartha .1. Kstridge, south by ttie Johnson lands, and west by lands of Anderson (,'askey. W Fourth. Fifty-seven [57] acres, mo* or less, bounded north by Dry creek and estate lands of .J. S. McOardell, deceased, east and south by lands of Mrs. A. E. Wilson and Mrs. Alice Thompson, and west by lands of Mrs. Alice Thompson. ?JW Terms of sale ('ASH. Purchaser to pay for papers. ~ JOHN l\ HUNTER, Sheriff, L. C. R K. Wyi.IK. Plaintiff's Attorney. Notice Notice is hereby given that the tax looks of the town of Lancaster, S. O., will be open for the collection of tax's on the 1st day of November, 1905, { it the ofllce of the town Treasurer, ind all taxes remaining unpaid on he 1st day of December, 1905, purmailt to .Section 1 of the Supply Hill >f 1905, will be subject to a penalty of 5 per cent for the non-payment of he same, together with cost. H. E. Wylib, )ct. 10, 1905. Mayor. The Lancaster News eight >age8, twice a-weeic, $1.50 -ct