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JM-*-*" ?m ? *o- .r uiMn 11 . - THE LEDGER. TRERLOW S. URTER, EDITOR AND MANAGER. SSUIil) WK1?N KSI?A Y A Nl? SA'I IIK l?A Y HUU8UKII'TION $? 60 I'E" YEA K Lancaster S.C. August 1G, li?05. The War. All intercut in the difference between Russia and.Japan have hcen transferred from the plains of Man cl)nrin and the shores of Siberia to the niivy yard at Portsmouth, N . H., whoretho envoys of the two warring countries have been holding their sessions in tin etlort to reach sn agreement I hut will bring about peace. .Japan has submitted to the Russian plenipotentiaries her terms, the principal items of which included reimbursement of war expenses; and the cession of the Island of Sakhalin. In reply Russia stated that no territory would be ceded and no indemnity paid, and the situation seems gloomy so far as peace is concerned. There is a somewhat prevalent be lief, however, ti nt Russia's defiance tviiM in reality ablutl'and that she will come down, nil her "high horse'' and consider Japan's lorms. Thorn is.ou the other hand, reason to believe that the whole "peace conference'' iilea was worked out t?y Russia in order to gum tin.e and reinforce her a'ltiy in Manchuria. If this turns out to he the case, the wisdom of the Japanese in not agreeing to a protocol will he vindicated. There is nothing to show that any backward step is being taken in the prosecution of the war, and so far as the outside world is informed, both sides are keeping soldiers on the move to the front. It is said that if the peace c*>n ference is broken oil", Oyaina will immediately give buttle to Linevitch, in ?vhich event perhups, the greatest contiict of the war will result. ?Charlotte Observer. Challenges Senator Tillman. Special to The Observer. Spartanburg, S. C., Aug. 13. ?C. P. Situs, a lawyer of this city and a staunch prohibitionist, is willing to aceopt.the challenge made a few days ugo to meet Senator Till man in joint debate .... *.u~ ...i.: ..i l : i i mi uiu wmstiuy ipiesi1(J11 nun uus sent liim a letter in which lie says <lI heg to challenge you to discuss the dispensary law with mc in Columbia, at tho earliest date that will suit your convenience.' Mr. Sims is an antiwhiskey man, both^in theory and practice, and has made the dispensary law a special study, lie thinks tho great moral institution shouid go. Mr. Sims is considering the matter of making the lace for the I'nitcd States Senate next year, and says he will assuredly lie in the ticld if S.nutor Tillman iH without other opposition. A Disastrous Landslide. Winnipeg, Mm. August 13.? An Ashcroft dispatch reports a disastrous landslide on Thompson Kiver this afternoon. An Indian villago was embedded with its population, and the river lied was blocked. Ashcroft is an Indian village with a population of 60u situated in the northwestern portion of the Valo district, British Columbia. ? One second hand 60 saw Winship Gin, Feeder and Condenser, in good condition, for sale cheap. Apply to 4t W. T. Gregory. ?Two second hand sewing machines and a oncshorsc buggy for sale cheap. Come early. .), S. Wilson. Fu. 4 m Ledger. t lo the Litizensof Ltinca-^ter County. Gentlemen: It will ho your ( privilege uiul your great respunsi- . bility iu the near futme to decide upon ono of the greatest issues 1 th it can lie placed before any poo ' pie of today. An issue which j outweighs that pertaining to poll- , tics, war of linanco. An issuo of lifo or death?an issue which will decide the destiny of some of your own sons for heaven or hell. ' The question of Dispensary or \ no Dispensary is before you and i you must decido the question. <), ( that 1 were endowed with the power to say something which would arouse men ami women from lethargy into which they have fallen in regard to this withering, < blighting a n d damnable bu:,i- 1 tiess! When you vote tor the Disoen- , sary you vote to perpetuate and Diako respectable in your midst a business which will take the innocent little children, which today I play atiout your door and ox whom the Master has said ''Of such is the Kingdom of heaven," and make them lurid and opaque and lit only to ho hurled into the realms of Plutonian night and eternal sorrow! A business which will take that noble son of yours which is now the pride of your lift! and the light of your home, and whom you hope to he the solace of your , old age, Might all his prospects in life and change him into a Moated, loathsome creature accursed of (iod and man, send him down to a drunkard's grave and a drunkard's hell. You vote for a business which will take the husband of of your fair young daughter and convert him into a demon whoso cruel utilise will wreck her life and bring her down to ft premature grave. Can you, will you i vote to keep this stream of limning lava overflowing and devasta- , ting all that is fairest and best in your homes? When you meet at tho judgment bar of God the poor souls who havo gone to their eternal destruction through this avenue to perdition what then will ho your excuse for voting to keep them open? Every man who votes for tho Dispensary shares in ' all the crime, sliauie, death and destruction which is caused by tho same, and as sure as God's laws aro inevitable ho must answer at the last Great Day for the way he casts liis vote on this question. And let no man think he shirks this terrible responsibility by staying away from the polls and not voting by so doing you cast half a vote for whiskoy and take upon your own soul half of the guilt for the evils thut follow in its train. J Jet not sumo covetous and miserly soul alarm you with the false cry that you will not have money to run the graded schools, etc., without the revenue derived from the liquor trathc. O, when will civilized and christianized men realize that this is simply selling , one p art of thoir children, soul and body,to tho devil in order to educate the remainder of them! When Judas Jscariot sold Christ and in a tit of remorse pitched tho ratling silver on tho ground and went and hanged himself, tho question arose what to do with the money. They said, "It is not lawful to put it into the treasury because it is the price of blood." Not more truly was this tho "price of blood" than that for which you sell your son* when you barter them away for llie rovenuo derived from the damnable liquor traffic. And God will withhold Hie blessings from any government, town or institution which is run with this bluod money. May God enable each citizen ?to so cast his vote that ere long the white banner of Prohibition may wave over this fair land and peace and plenty reign in every home! Mrs. .1. E M. Davenport, Now Cut, S C., Aug. 14, 1905. SPOILED HER BEAIMYI larriet I toward, of 209 VV. 34th St.. New York. one limn Imd her I )fu illy spoiled with skin trouble. She writes: <4I had Salt Khcmu or Kczema for years, but nothing would cure it, until I used Bucklon's ArnicuSulve." A quick and sure healer for cuts, burns and sores 25c at Crawford Bros , .1. K. Mackey ite Co's, and 1 Kunderhurk Pharmacy, drug store. I: ^)api White's Expcnahoe ( With Yellow Eever. ; I j Lancaster cor. The News abd Jourier : The theory that yel- * ow fever is communicated by mosquitoes that have bitten yel- 1 !ow fever patients seems to be accepted by scientists generally as the real cause of the trans- 1 mission of the disease. I Capt. Samuel E. White, how- , ^ nvor, formerly of Fort Mill, but 1 now residing in Lancaster, is of ,( tho opinion, based on his own axperience, that yellow fover(f may bo caused by agonciee other ( than tho mosquito. x In 1S59 Capt. White and five nthor gentlemen made a tour of ' Texas and Moxico. After spend- , ' itig teu days on the plains of | * Texas they crossed over into!1 Mexico, whore live of tho party I wero stricken dowr. with yellow fever, Capt. White beiug the t first to take to disease. Two ( out of the five victims died, ' Capt. White says that at that ' time there was no yellow fever f in either Texas or Mexico, and i he attributes the conduction of I I the disease by himself and | friends to their drinking foul ' water out of basins, where cat- ' tie also drank, on the plains of Texas. A Former Lancastrian to Move from Camden to , Greenville- I It is with much regret that | we learn that Mr. I). R. Hinson has decided to make his home in ( Greenville. For a number of , years Mr. Hinson has done a , successful mercantile business , in Camden, and he and his in- ( terestitig family will be very | much missed hero and it is with , reluctauco that wo seo them go. , ?Camden Chrouicle. - ! Dead Man Identified. ( Spocial to Mows and Courier. , ltock llill, August 12.?The ; body of the man found dead yes- , torday morning on the Southern track, two miles north of ltock j Hill, and which has been I ying in , the undertaker's room, was today identified as that of George ltaley, j of Chester. The identification j was made by a son in-law of the j deceased, who lives here. The j body was taken to Chester this j aftornoon for lntermont. The ( old mam, who was a Confedei ate j veteran, wandored in his mind | somewhat and he seomed weak in , recognizing locations. He had on . more than one occasion left the homo of some one of his children saying ho was going to a certain , point, and would wander off in an opposite direcMon. It is supposed < that ho was endeavoring to find ] the home of his daughter., who j lives in an ontiroly different direc- , tion from that which he took. Ho j was well cared for, having sevoral j children to look after him. I A Convict Whipped to Death. ] f Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 12.?The death of a convict named Liddell, who was being worked at Sugar Hill camp, in Bartow county, which is operated by .Joel Hurt of Atlantu, has caused tho suspension of ,J. \V. Tioice, the deputy warden at that place, and a hurried , trip to the camp by Stato Warden I .Jako Moore. ' Information was received at the . prison commission's oflico today j that at tho terpiest of the county < commissioners of Bartow county the coroner investigated the death of Liddell and rendored a vterdict that he had been whipped todoath. I'pon tho receipt of this informal < lion lion. Goodloc Yancey, secre- ' tary of tho prison commission, ^ issued an order suspending Tierce j und ordering u full investigation. ( If the facts warrant it, there will i no doubt he a prosecution. .Iierav, ijxjMisures Pro>dis= ed. editor Meehan, of the Carolina Citizen,Says he will show them Up this Week. special to News and Cornier. Cheraw, August 12.?Apropos of the diupcusaay, Editor Meehan, of the Caroliha Citi:en, publishes the following tolay: Next week we will publish iome facts about the management >1 the Cheraw dispensary, which von't appear very brilliant in print md our comment is not likely to jc very elegant. We refrain from going into the matter this veek in detail, for the reason hat we still have the lid off. Wo uoposc to show that Mr. W. }II. Manning, the dispenser, violates :hc State law every day; that he ;loes not observe a single prohijitory clause of the dispensary aw: that he has received "cvtms "rom the manufacturers of certain prauds of whiskey; that until re-* :cntly it has been practically impossible to obtain any but stale Atlanta or Macon beer?and a few other idcidental irregularities We will show, too, that Mr. S. S. Ingram, chairman of the ;ounty boaru of the control, has pot complied with the law, and an ther, that he was himself a vioator of the law. As to the motives of those genlemcn, we will not say. It is lot for us to judge of the inner workings of their hearts. They nay have had what appears to them legitimate excuse or reason for their acts. We will givcracts that will be proved. The people r>f the county arc entitled to them. The dispensary is theirs and they ought to know how it is conducted. Mismanagement and gr^ft will mean the doom of the eiitire system, if it is not cleansed. J It will be wiped from the State, county by county. i If it is wrong in Chesterfield, let us get it right. We have always considered the dispensary law the best solution of the liquor problem, if it is honestly administered. We believe it can be properly enforced and made free from the taint of graft Our first suggestion would be for every person connected with it, from Hub Evans down, (or up,) be asked to resign. Put new men in, and give us a governor who will stand for a rigid enenforcement of the law. Cut every whiskey house that has tendered bribes to dispensers and others. Require the local and State dispensers to publish monthly reports. Pay the members of the State board of control a living salary, abolish the "social club" privileges, sell nothing but good grades of liquors, enforce every prohibitionary feature of the law and the dispensary will bo worth holding to for a long time to come. For Fever Refugees. Arranging (Damp Sites in Western North Carolina. Knoxville, Tonnq Aug. 12 ? A special from Ashovillo, N. C. jays ten official representatives <?f the municipality Now Orleans ire in western North Carolina for the purpose of locating campsites for yellow fevcrr refugees. Tents for these camps are to be furnish 3(1 hy the federal government. Time I ndet <i! (From the Slimier Herald) Now that llioinMi aan< ecompani3s have paid the policies which | hey earlier! ??n the life of Robert Keith Da!*i*Mi?, it won] ' seem to ho line f<>r alI t lie foolish stories tli it ihvo boon circulated about his loath to cease. 1'ay your subscription. v.- ... . 12 Killed On fast Train. , I ( Cleveland, O., Aug. 13. ? A fust caslboulul passenger train on the Xickle Plate road collided with a westbound freight early to*day at Kishmun, O , near Virmillion, resulting in the dea'h ot 12 per- j sous, while al least 25 others were injured, eight of whom will , ptobub'y die. The wreck, uc- 1 cording to the officials of the com- I pany, was caused by a misunderstanding of orders or neglect to obey them on the part of the crew of the freight train. I The Fquitable Pays R. K. Dar- I gan's Policy. i Darlington, Aug. 12.?It is J now authentically stated that . Robt. Keith Dargan, deceased, , carried only $40,000 insurance at tlio time of his death. The entire amount was held in two companies, $15,000 and $25,000, in the liquitable of New York and the Fidelity Mutual cf Philadeldhia, respectively. Messrs. A. R. Bruce & Dunn, representing the Kquitable, have been here this week looking into the matter and have paid the policy held against their company. The local agent, Mr. Byrd, aided these gentlemen in their investigations and he stated that the policy of $15,000 was promptly paid. CLERK'S SALE State of South Carolina, COUNTY OK LANCASTER. In Hit* ( ouvt of Common Plea*, Ida S. Heath PUuntiff, again at James M Heath. \V f-hannon Heath. A Hurnet lledh, John P I-foj?i11 ami Henrietta S Heath. Jicfcnriruiis. PIT ItHrJ A NT to a decree in the above stated cause made by Judge Hen W Huge, dated August 11. 19Uo, 1 will sell at public auction at Lucasler court house on he PXItST MONDAY IN SEPTUM11 Kit. NI5XT, within tiie legal hours of a ile, die following described iots of land, to wit.* All I hit |d. ee, parcel or lot < f land fronting seve nty-nine (7!)) I'eet on Gay Street and s'xt?-Lwo and one half (02 J) feet on Arch street. I^ing in the town of B: ucaster, in the county of I4aneust.tr and State of South ' 'aroliiia, mill noumteil us lol ows: on tliu North wesi l>y i?av Sire ;t, oil Hie liusl lor the entire lei g'h of tlie lot by No 1 ? f the Chafee Block, now or foro erly pioperty of Leroy Springs, on the South* east bj' Arch Street, on the West ami South west by lot No. 5 of sumo bloek, known as the E K. Cloud lot, for 280 feet 10 inches of the depth of suid lot No. 12, and Lot No 8 of name block, now or f -rmorly property of I.er-y Spiings, 216 feet 2 inches, inakiog thy width of UP No. 2, herein described, 79 feet in width from Oay street for 215 fe t 2 inches and the remainder of lbo lot for ISO feet 10 inches, tenniuutlot* at Ar?h Mreet; t?. ing 02 .J fottiu width, ami contaii.it!); 05 100 acres according tow plat of -urvey made by T. M. Bflk, Surveyor, on Heptembe.r 11th, 1002, A's ? o. e-half (A) interest in a 9 loot alley-way between lot No. I now or formeiy of Leroy Spri gs, and lot No- 2. herein described, running through from (hi to Arch St net, same to be maiotailltd and (o be kept open as an alley-way for the joint use of both properth s. Also, all 'hut piece, parcel or lot of land in the .orporate limits of (he i ww ii ui l^ancasu r, roiuainiug mree pi) acres more or less, and bound* da* follows, viz: On the North by lots of liicla H ,/oues (being the same whi. h she deriv: d under the will If her mother Mis. Amanda Brown, deceased) and Eliza J. Wylie and R. E* Wylie; on the East bv I'ntuwht Street; ou (lie South by what is commonly cat ed Kim Stieet; and on the We9l by Krench Street Terms o? sale cash. Purchaser to pay f. r p-?pt rs. ,J. F. GREGORY. <J. C. C. P. L. C. General Repair Shop. I have opened opposite the Poag & Harper ginnery, a blacksmith and general repair shop with Bossy Mc? Pherson to do the blaoksmitliing and iron w rk. Ail work done at loasonublepiices. A share of your patronage Is earnestly solicited Give me a (rial. J. Q. A l>AM8 July ill, l!?05 ? lui. Jb L*hh Ul0^Tm Cute all Known Female Complaints It searches the human lxxly and finds the diseased 8]>ot. Price $1.00 at yenr druggists, or write for sample bottle. Checkers Medicine Co. Wlnston-Halom. N. C. Fo! Sale' i u o L'ir.v seCouM toed Fins, Feeder1.' and Con Itii .crs, in ftood condition. Also i lio-s press. Apply to J. A . 1 lyutt, [ to . Van Wyck, S. C. V - l?'or rent or exchange! 1 will ii'l) on easy terms ot exchange for good farm m ar town of Fan >st?-r iinii two-story six-room Swelling, situated in good cominonity on Mufn street, two Mocks front centre of town. Apply to ?l ) Blacknion. lm Notice to Itoiul Ovoisoers. I'o all tho Ovorsoora of tho Public Highways in LaioftHtci county: Please warn out your lmnds ami put oach section of road in good condition during tho month of August u? it is an idle Litno with tho most of tho fnrmors I'aUo duo notice thoroof and govern youraelvoa accordingly, yours Respectfully, M 0 Gardner, Co Supor. Boarf tho _/) Kind Vou Have Always RoupH T* G&ASffl&sZ Notice of Discharge. Notice is hereby given that on the 2(>th day of August, 1905, tho undersigned as Administratrix of tho estate of Jerro M. Knight deceased, will make hor final retttIn <uul settlement, and make application to the Probate Court of Lancaster county, S. for a final discharge as such Administ tutrix. Laura J Knight, Administratrix. Dated duly '2bl\ 1905. State of South Carolina. COUNTY OF LANCASTKtt, V.V J K St? wniau. IC-?| Probate j ii?I * VVHKRHAS, B. Ctuti.ioghum ami .1 M. Yoder luivo made suit to me, to urant them letters of administration of tlie estate of and effects of J. Wren Ti huan. with die will annexed THEiSE ABE THEHEsOrtn. to e.iifc and uunionish ail and singular tho kindred and creditors of the said J. Wren Tillman, dee'd, that they be and appea~ before me, in thel'ourt of Pro bale, to be hold at Lnticasu r. rt O on Friday, August lKtli. uext after pub lication titer of, at 11 o'o'ock in the forenoon, t?? atiow euust, it any they have, why said administration should not bo granted. Given umler my Hand this 5th day of August Anno Domini, 1W0> J K rttewiua i. Probate Judge H ?? I?WW, I??W ?I PROFESSION AL CARD. Dk M P Ukawkokd I)r R C Rkown CRAWFORD A BROWN, Physicians and Surgeons. I ancaster, S. C, Treatmei t ??f the eye, nose and tin oa a specialty. Calls promptly answered day or night. Oflice over Crawford Bros Drug Store, Phones: OIHoe, N> 17<?; R idences Nos. 11 and 8H. SOUTH C.Ml'B.LVA MIT.TTARY At AD KM Y. UHKICK OK THK ('HAIUMaN 1 OA ItlJ OK VISITORS. CHARLESTON. 8 C, JULY (>, 1005. One vacancy in h .S'tato Bent-lieiary scholarship to he tilled hy competitive examinatKMi exists in Lancaster County. Application* Blanks may he < Mains ed at the office of C\>1 C 8 OA DSDKN Chairman. Char.cston, S C, or from Hie County Superintendent of Education. These applications, fully 11.led must be in (lie hands of the Chairman on July 81, in o'der to reco'vo consideration. (Signed) C 8 : ? 0 N, Chatrman Board of VisitorH. July 10?3w - SHOES We are expecting u call from you. Wo now have a complete line of Tan and White Canvis Ktb bon Ties, just the thing for summer any price from $1.00 up Wo cal Mimciul ii toilt iiiri l.i l'~ "hi Hi_'li Grade line of DliKSSY low colh ICdwin Clap;; for men LaKitinci' for women. l *< .m mrm hnunhm CHERRY & CO. Foley s Money and Tar 'or children,saft .sure. No opiate%, I