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IThe Lancaster News. Semi-Weekly. Published "Wednesdays and^Saturdays At Lancaster, S. c., By The tL-ancaster Publishing Company. 1 <Charles T. Connors, Editor. SUBBCRIPTION RATES. -Ihre Year ?1.50 SI* Month* 75 51%reo Month* 40 Payablo in advance. ADVERTISING RATES. 3ne Inch, first insertion. ft.00. Each subse aHiuent insertion 50 cents. For three months or " /urjsger, reduced rates. Professional cards, per year, tl2. Bcslnoss notices, Transient Advertisements. Wst and Found, and other classified aover"itscments not esceeding 25 words, 25 cents for 4?ch Insertion: 1 cent a word for each additional word over 25 words. Obituaries, Tributes of respect, cards of ' teanks and all matter of a personal or political tature to be charged for. CHiaJPSMBt Advertising rates by the column made known - ?n application. Brief correspondence on subjects of general sterost invited. Not responsible for views of | K. K. WYLIE, president, vNO. a. COOK, Skc't. anil Tubas. 4. m. RIDDLE, Ja , Business Manager. ISntcrod at the postofllce at Lancaster, S. C.. ' ?s second-class mall matter, Oct. 4. lPOr-i. 4?M I Saturday, November 18, 1905. ANOTHER OF LANCASTER'S NEEDS. A pood way to reform an er ring individual is to have "heart 'io heart" talks with him; to reason t^vith him, and candidly tell him f nf bin f > ? -? 1 - ?? mo om;i iLuanuj;n, i (Mill OUl !"? him wherein another and bettjer line of conduct, if pursued, would redound to his advantage. " 2The same plan ought to work -well in the case of a community. 'We shall try it at all events. Now, Lancaster is in many re spects a good town?one of the best in the state. It is steadily growing from a material stand ^oint. Its mercantile, banking, industrial and professional in terests are prospering. Its standard of citizenship is higher than it was ten or nrteen years ago. But there is one serious drawback to the town's advancement *Jong ali proper lines, and that is, a lack ot unanimity?a failure *-pull all together," in matters pertaining to the public welfare. In other words, ttie element ot .-nelfishuess is too dominant in the average Lancastrian It is to be -teen in church matters, in public ?+>nlerprises, in school afl'airs. Ii ?-9 to be seen in the present effort Hi enforce prohibition. This thing of selfishness crops ?out in various ways. "Will this M>r that movement put a dollar in r'o my pocket, or will it take a do!;ar out of my pocket ?" is a ques 'ion many a man asks himself when confronted with a propo dition to lend a helping hand to some undertaking intended to promote the common good of the community. A halts, pulls back And refuses to help because B, a business or professional rivr', is a leader in the movement and I will likelv have -onie prabe or credit coming his way. C will 'et the public go to lite?"clemni tion bow-wows" before he will '.inito in anything tltat does not promise 'o put money into his own purse. Yes, our people are rnroly unit -* 1 1 ocause there is too much iniividual selfishness m our midst, j What's the reinedj? Why, to !>? >?k plainly, if is to elevate the moral and re! g ous standard >1 ?<ur citizenship. A lii^li de ! <*ree of moral culture broadens < man's mind; if makes liiin more . hi.rilable in his views; if makes V him to some extent forget self and think mote ot the welfare of others; it strengthens his love for his fellow man. The man of mo ralily wiii ever be found on the right 9?de. He will cheerfully make sacrifices if necessary for the public weal. If, therefore, Lancaster would have ite people united and work ing together as one man in everything that makes for a commun. ity's happiness and prosperity, it should strive to got rid of so much selfishness by the cultiva tion of higher ideals of morality. COUNTY FAIRS. Other counties are now tak ing steps to have county fairs, but no move has thus far been made in F..aneaMter Tiexincrtnn. Saluda, and Aiken organized a few days ago a tri-county fair association and arrangements are being made for having a fair next month. The county fair idea has also taken root, so to speak, in Greenwood. Among the premiums to be awarded is a ton of fertilizer offered by a merchant to the farmer who has the most representative exhibit of farm products. Probably it is now too late for Lancaster to undertake to have a county fair this season, but an organiza tion should be effected at an early date with the view of hav _ i r 11 i . * ing one next ian. in tne mean time we purpose to keep this important subject before the people. In a recent editorial on "Fairs as Educators" the Atlanta Con stitution said : President McKinley tersely characterized expositions as milestones in the path of pro gress. They mark the advance made in different lines and they perform the vastly more important office of stimulating prog ress itself in special lines. All this aside from the entertainment they offer the holidayaeeker. What expositions do for the nation state fairs do for the state and county fairs for the counties. By putting a premium on thrift. brains and general excellence they foster the spread of these qualities throughout the counties in which they are held. The farmer who is slow to take hold of innovations or who farms with a smaller percentage of brains than his neighbors, sees in these county fairs ocular demonstra tiou of the practical profit in pursuing modern methods, lie | learns, trom failures and success I es of men in his own business, points he could not glean in a hundred years without such aid. Where he learns to look for ward each year to attending fairs that comprise the best, efforts in agriculture and stock raising in his own county, he receives benefits more direct and tangible in an entire year's reading. His own ambitions and energies are also given an incentive which can hardly be correctly estimated. The amusement feature is likewise one of the primarily important factors. The man who has given tiie best that is in him lor nine months to bring support to his family and sustenance to the state, is certainly entitled to a holiday. ?The mother of Mr. J. M ('arson, of Kershaw, died Monday nt her home in York. Mr. Car son's father is now very sick. A Laplander will sometimes travel on skates one hundred and filty miles in a day. The Kershaw School Presented With Bible and | Flag by the J. O. U. A. M. --Account of the Interesting Exercises. The handsome new school at Kershaw was formally presented Thursday with a bible and the national flsg by the Junior ' Order of United American Me chanics, a large number of Juniors of Lancaster and from other points in the county par ticipating in the interesting ex erc:ses. State Secre'ary J. S. Wilson, of Lancaster, was master of cere monies. The exercises were opened with pra\er by the Rev. J. T. Dendy, pastor of the Presbyterian church of Kershaw. The bible presentation was made, on behalf of the order by the Rev. T- A. Dabney, pastor of the Second Baptist church of Lancaster. The IIag was presented br Mr. G? orge W. Jones, of the county. The bible and llag were formally received by Superintendent Bremlit, of the school. Magistrate W. P. Caskev, of Lancaster, made an address on the principles of the Junior Order. A goodly number of persons witnessed the solemn and im pressive exercises. "Experience Party.*' An "Experience Party" will be held, under the auspices of the Woman's Aid Society of the First !}.? ntial ..I 1. - X ?!.- t 11? pi in i i>iiuidii? a t ino injnie ui Mr. L. C. Payseur on Thanksgiving Day. The object, is to raise money for improving the > church grounds. Each person is expected to contribute not less than 25 cents, which he or she has earned tor the occasion, and to relate the manner in which the money was made. The Mutual Renevolent Asttociation ? A Division Urbanized in Lancaster. A division ot the Mutual Benevolent Association was organized in Lancaster Thursday by the state organizer, the Rev.T.W. Scruggs. Sheriff J. P. Hunter was made president, County Treasurer John E. Blackmon treasurer, and Mayor K L. Wylie i director. State Organizer Scruggs will spend some time in Lancaster and in the county, working up the Lancaster division. President Whiteford S. Blakeney, of the Chesterfield National Bank, is f president of the State Division,*, and Cashier C P. Mangum, of < the Chesterfield bank, is secre- " laryand treasurer. The association comes to this section most highly recommended and endors ( ed. It already has about 25.0C0 members in South Carolina. """' t ltecently a turkey and goose i were matched to walk a race ol j 100 yards in London. There ^ was great excitement, hundreds j I of people witnessing the affair.! , After one lalse start, the gooseh trot well away, leaving the tu>lf key at the post, and, following ' his master in good styI , won f ( easily amid great applause. Be- e fore ai <1 after the race the goose, <] c with a box on his back, collected i money for a local hospital. Ltat of Unclaimed Loiter a. List of UBolaimed letters remaining in the post office for the week ending Nov. 18th : Saessrs. Clark Porter, Dawel Hnivnunir Pnn Psnn?r D/\?* T I? ^ UUI1 lii OV/J | JL VC V O 1%. Beckham. Mrs. Bettie Honeycutt. Misses Rosie Brown (2) Alice Belt. J. F. HUNTER, P. M. Business Notices. ^F'AII Notices inserted under this head at the rate of ONE CENT A WORD for each insertion. No notice to be counted less than 25 words. JUST RECEIVED?A car of fresh lime. T. II. Davis. A HIG lot of 120 coil wire bed springs, your choice for $1.45 each, less than actual cost, sold by others fn. ?0 OK 1'ho II.,? V. ui x uc iicatu i;vuro vu. INVESTIGATE THIS.?The Lancaster division of the Mutual Benevolent Association was organized on Thursday. 10th inst. President, J. P. Hunter; Sec. and Tres., John E Blackmon; city director, R. Wylie. This is a simpie, cheap and sate insurance brotherhood. Each count} has a separate membership and its business is managed entirely by its county officers. Every dollar your insurance costs you goes directly to your own felh w citizen's family. No salaries, rents, licenses or taxes. Every possible cost is eliminated Every good citizen?ladies and gentlemen?are cordially invited to join us at once. See T. W. SCRUGGS, Court House, Lancaster, S. C. THIRD Arrival of 80 inch changeable Taffetas in all the new shades; $1.00 quality 80 cents. Lancaster Mercantile Co. WANTED.?'200 head of geese and turkeys. IIighest cash price paid. J. S. Wilson. At Southern Depot. PLANT onion sets now. I have them. J. B. Mackorell. PLACE your order for celery for Thanksgtving. J. B. Mackorell. A BOX of Huyler's candy for you Thanksgiving. J. B. Mackorell. TWO STORES, one dwelling and two rooms, in Lancaster, for rent. Appiy to >v. i. Cunningham. Professional Cards JOHN E. WELSH, dentist, Lancaster, S. C. Office Up stairs in Mason ic Building. DENTISTRY. DR. R. M. GALLOWAY, Surgeon Dentist. Office Up-stairs in Ganson Building. o Dr. R. G. ELLIOTT, Lancaster, S. C. Residence 'phone. No. '187. Office, Davis Building,cor. Main and Dunlap itreets; 'phone No. 72. Will practice in both town and noun,y. All calls, day or night, will receive prompt attention. Notice to Taxpayers. Taxes will be due and payable withjut penalty from October 15 to l)e:ember HI, 11)05. The tax levy for State purposes is mills, for ordinary county purposes mills, special county purposes I., A (J. K, K. bonds) 2 mills, constii.tional tax for school purposes 3 nills, making a total levy of 15 mills >n all taxatile property of the county [ii School I list riots Vna MO o...? 10. there is a sp-cial levy of 2 mills til?1 itional for school purposes; in District No. 24. 8 mills; Districts Nos. 2, 17 ami HI), 4 mill*; District No. .'IS, i mills; No. 14, 0 mills, ar.'l No. 10, ' mills. In Dane Creek Township here is a special local levy of 4'$ mills or railroad purposes; Gills Creek, 5 ii i I Is, and Pleasant Hill, a mills. There is also a tax of one dollar on ; >ach male cit i/en hel ween t he a^es of | wenty-one and sixty years, except j x-<'onfederate soldiers and sa lors, ir those who are go disabled that they annot earn a support by manual nbor. J. R. BLACKMON, Treasurer Lancaster County. 11 * 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 per cent, bonds in our vaults. There will be other economies, and I can only repeat that retrenchment Q n |] nAnoonrofivQ monoirflmonf uim w11uv/1 t Ctvi v v lliaiia^^lli^HO 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. I 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 tneir friends to insure in and that everybody can point to with pride. 1 want it to be known, not only as the strongest financially, but the strongest morally." Moral: Insure in the Equitable Life, "Strongest in the World." W. B. Knight, a ? uj;ctiai .rvgdii/, ? ^ LANCASTER, S. C. SHEklFFS SALE. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Lancaster. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Annie E. Wilson, in her own right and as Executrix of the will of William Knight, deceased. Plaintiff, vs Sarah Si tare, W. .Tack Knight and utners, ueiennants. BY VIRTUE of a decretal order made by his IJonor O. W. Buchanan, judge presiding, 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, on MONDAY, DECEMBER 4th, / next, within the legal hourst of sale, the following described lands, inCedar Creek township, county of Lancaster, in said State, formerly belonging to William Knight, deceased, nnd described as follows, viz: First. Ninety-seven [!>7] acres, more or less, on the waters of Dry creek, hounded north by lands of Anderson Caskey, ea^t and south by Dry creek, and west by lands of Miss Mcllwain. Second. Fifty [50] acres, more or liiflg l/nnwn fl?" ?' " .......... .... v..o uuiiic j?iat;e, bounded north by Dry creek, east by lands of Anderson Caskey, south by the .Johnson lands, and west by lands of Miss MoNwain. Third. Fifty [50] acres more or less, known as the ".Jack Knitrnt tract," bounded north by Dry creek, east by lands of Martha .J. Eatridge, south by the Johnson lands, and west by lands of Anderson Caskey. Fourth. Fifty-seven [57] acres, more or less, bounded north by Dry creek and estate lands of J. S. MoCardell. deceased, east and south by lands of Mrs. A. E. Wilson and Mrs. Alice Thompson, and west by lands of Mrs. A lice Thompson. UtT" Terms of sale ("ASM I'nr eliaser to pay for papers. JOHN l\ HUNTER, Sheriir, J,. C. It K. Wymk. Plaintiff's Attorney. Notice. v Notice is hereby given tlint I he tax books of the town of Lancaster, .S. will be open for the collection of taxes on the 1st day of November, 1005, at the ollice of the town Treasurer, and all taxes remaining unpaid on the 1st clay of December, 1005, pursuant to .Section 1 of the Supply Hill of 1005, will be subject to a penalty of IB per cent for the non-payment of (he same, together with cost, K. E, VVyi.ik, Oct. 10, 1005. Mayor.