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Tillman as a Lecturer. Said to have Made Twenty five Thousand Dollars thi Season. Columbia Record : Tl?e New York Sun in its Sunday issu has an interesting article o "New Use lor Our Statesmen in which the great demand fo them as lecturers in Chautauqu field is pointed out. There i "great money" in it if a states man happens to be in demand judging from the estimate tha Senator Tillman has taken ii $25,000 this season. As to him the writer says : Some men have made snuj fortunes from their work in th< Chautauqua field. More publi men are going into the worl ^ every year. Most of them admi they like it. The Chautauqua is rapidl, drawing to a close, and it ha been the most prosperous of an yet held. Senator Tillman ha been the great drawing card. He has made more money on of it than any other Chautauqu attraction. He had a fai/ly goo reputation before the season he gan, but the railroad rate bil in congress last winter brougli him into such notoriety tha every farmer in the land wante to get a look at him. Many c them wanted to hear him and al of them were willing to pay th admission fee. Tillman saw the humor in th whole thing, but at the sam time he did not overlook th money. lie told a South Care lina political audience that li made the Yankees pay him fo the privilege of hearing him cal them a lot of hypocrites on th negro question. Mr. Tillman could not begi 10 nil me engagements oll'ered t liim this season. Three lector bureau? competed for his time and his price was $250 a lec ture. For a lew special engagement he received a higher price. A one place in Iowa he receive* $500. At another in Illinois In received $.'100. His season was probably worth $25,000 t( him. Negro Charged with Wreck ing Train to Kill Rival. High 1 'oint special in yester day's Charlotte Observer: deal ousy, occasioned by the at ten liens of the negro fireman of tin wrecked train to his wife, i given as the motive for placing an iron on tne irack winch wreck ed tlie Asheboro train here Sat urday night. William Mclver, colored, hat been wanted for several day for trying to kill his wife with i deadly weapon. Karly Sunday morning, after the wreck. In was arrested and at the trial thii morning was chaiged also witl wrecking the train. In the as sault case he was bound over ii the sum of $300 and in the cas< against him tor wrecking tin train committed to jail withou bond. In the hearing today Mc Iyer became sullen and the irat< brute shown in his lace and even tone of his voice, as he askec and answered queries viciously and threateningly. Winthrop College?President Johnson Wants More Room. I Columbia special in News and s Courier: President Johnson, ot Winthrop College, who is here today on College business. is agitating the addition of another e big wing for Winthrop, s?> as to ( accommodate about 300 more ? girls than the institution is now accommodating. He says he wants to push out in tront of the present main buidiiig with this new dormitory, that there is plenty of room at this point, and ' that the addition can be accom modated there architecturally, a 1 . 1 "We have just had the fullest opening in our history," said Mr. Johnson in State Superintendent of Education Martin's 0 ofliee todav, "but though we took in 432 girls, there were over 900 applications, and the remainder had to he turned away for lack of dormitory room. Ot >1 .. iwurae mere are some among those turned away who are not ^ desirable because thev are not 8 well enough prepared, but there ^ are from 250 to 300 girls who rejected who ought to be taken a iu. d Mr. Ralph Foster to Coach ( Citadel Team--Will Study ' Medicine while in Charlesa ton. d Columbia Record : Mr. Ralph 11 K. Foster, of Lancaster, who e has been spending the last two dav8 with his friends here, leaves e today for Charleston, where he e has accepted tiie position of e coach tor the Citadel football ? team. e Mr. Foster was graduated r from the University of South 1 Carolina in 1905 and since that e time has been in railroad business at his home in Lancaster. 'i He was one of Carolina's best o lootball men and gained a repu e tation in many Southern colleges i, for his splendid work. He took - a course in chemistry under l)r. Burney while in college, with a 9 view of studying medicine, and t expects to take a course in medi il cal work while in Charleston. 0 His father, Dr. Foster, was one s of the leading physicians of the state and Dr. Carl Foster and Dr. Canson Foster, who were both graduated from the Uni versitv of South Carolina, are now practicing physicians of good standing. Mr. Foster has a number of friends in Columbia, all of whom wish him every e success. ' To Use Towers Instead of * Rock Hill Herald: The South1 ern I'ower Company has a force a of hands busily engaged erecting i transmission towers from the / Catawba Kails plant to their other 3 plant 8 miles north of this city, a These towers are built entirely , of steel and one tower takes the place of four poles. The towers , are only two heights, one 35 feet 3 and the other 50 feet. This is an 3 improvement on the pole lines I and will no doubt prove very . satisfactory to the company. Mr. 3 II. A. Tibbs is in charge of this r work. In talking to a dam man 1 Monday he informed us that these f steel towers are the first of their kind ever erected in the world. I r ? -n' FALL I WtTTTMTOV nommTfi I Iiiuuwnuiu uiwim I For the Season of 5 1906 | | On Next Wednesday and Thursday I October 3rd and 4th 6 we will have open and ready for your inspection our I line of Ladies' Bonnets and Hats, selected and made i I by our Miss Brownlee, who has been on the New I York, Philadelphia and Baltimore markets for the I past month buying the prettiest and most stylish [ I Hats shown on these markets, and now we have m I them for you to look at, to try on, and to buy, if we I can fit your particular style of beauty, which we think I we can do, for our hats will have the STYLE and will be as cheap as you can buv from anvhnHv V J ~ *j. ^ j want to sell you your fall Hat or Bonnet, it don't make any big difference to us whether it cost $1.00 or $20.00, we want to have the satisfaction of selling you?we want your trade. Miss Brownlee is assisted again this fall by Miss Leslie Johnson, who will be glad to see her friends and show them the prettiest, most stylish and latest things in millinery in the city. Millinery department in balcony in back of our large store on corner of Springs block. Perfect privacy and plenty room. Come to see us?if we don't sell you it won't be our fault. We will also be glad to show you on these days as ; well as on any others, our fall line of Dress Goods, j I which have been very carefully selected and bought | as cheap as money can buy, and we are going to sell I you, if good goods, stylish goods and right prices I will do the work. The dress goods this season are I vr\r nrpfftr ?"? ? ? ' ?y |^iv?tkj wnavt uui r*>piiLc 10 incnnon tne 111 | different shades, kinds and patterns, but will say for your information and guidance that any thing you # buy from us you can be sure that you will have the proper thing, for all of our dress goods are new and the very latest creations out. Come to see us for .. anything you want?we have it and will be glad to see you and show you anything in our store. Yours truly, j 1 hi master Mm-aiililc to. I*. "Mr. Kicker." iLANCASTER & CHESTER I < ?? ' I I l,? wniumiiK nie I lie RAILWAY COMPANY fl O W18 ...... ' SCHKDULK IN ErFKCT MAY 8, IWC He grumbles if Ins coffee a hot |d da.ly kxcf.pt sundav And waile if it is cold; , he sighs- 8 He whines in case the maid is "1 wish that I wore dead'" f*vLancaster aiham 3ispnt ... , , . . i.v r ort l.iwti it 34 a m 3 45 p DC young And that s the only hopeful thing '-v jjancomviiio am am toopm J b 11 ?J Lv Mchliurg 6 50 a in i 15 p m And roars if she is old. "e ?v?r said. Aruhomer 7i5am 545 pm ? 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