The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, July 13, 1907, Image 1
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VOL. 2. NO. 79. SEMI-WI
The Capital City.
An Early Morning Fire in Cc
umbia?Wrestling Matcl
es Rivaling Base Ball?Otl
er Matters of Interest
Mr. Editor : There is "notbii
doing" in the city of Columbia.
Are not Lancastrians afraid <
freezing todeathf Whycomplai
of this nice cool weather wi(
the thermometer at 101?
Say, were the citizens of tl
Red Rose city suddenly awakei
ed Monday morhing about
o'clook? No, the world was n<
coming to an end. The Colun
bia Base Ball team had n<
crawled out of the cellar thj
the whole surround ing counti
a It /\ It 1 /I Lv /v r. ? M i 1 n <1 M a ? - - ? 1- -
OIIUUIU uo oitirti^u at huuii u
early hour. Nor were they pri
claiming to the world that Roc
Hill and Chester had the onl
two hall teams in the worl<
The ''racket'* was not becaus
electric cars had begun in dei
old Rock Hill. But there wei
something like a score or moi
of whistles blowing as never ha
whistles been known to blov
Many could not sleep because <
the intense heat; others had jui
"dozed off"; some had been foi
tunate enough to become victoi
over the hot weather and wei
in dreamland. But at or aboi
8 a. m. those asleep had the
< In rc, H L.J L
dwdov iQjpu?o umvur Dea u
these whistles. And mind yo
they came from the Seaboai
6 igines. They were blowing i
lull iorce and "great was th
'fuss' thereof.*' Many jumped u
and ran to their windows an
soon discovered that there was
fire. It sounded like the whole cit
was ablaze, but it proved to b
three dwellings near tho Sei
board yards and as the fire alari
wouldn't work the whistles wei
blown to tell of the flames an
they "sho" did it. The damag
y waf not very creat. One hous
li i - - ^ j - ?- "
^ uestroyeu, anomer practiaiiy cU
stroved and a third partial!
damaged) and while the loss wa
heavy it, was not exceeding!
great. And there were people i;
Columbia and near the seen
who bad the nerve Monday t
tell that they slept through j
all.
'1 his is getting to be a gren
wrestling loving city. The lates
matches were last week. Wednee
day night at Columbia Theatr
George Sovern, the "Kansa
Wonder," and Pete 1) >uglas tin
"Scotch Hercules," met on th<
mat. After one hour and 37 mm
utes of work, hard work Soveri
could not put both shoulders t
the tloor and gave the match t<
Douglas.He was'-ali in,"as he said
Now there was another man, Ei
Adarason, a great whestler chal
lenged either one for a match a
the Ball Park. Thursday at
p. m. there was a game betweoi
Granby and the Y. M. C. A.
but after the game the matel
took place. The night before th
^ Scotchman felt fine when he ac
eeptod Ed's oh allonge but hi
Ilong fight on Wednesday nigh
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5EKLY.
told ou him and he was throw
easily. At the end of the fir
round some of Pete's frien<
said he wasn't down and it lool
1- ed like a row for a while but tl
Scotchman accepted it as a fa
and the row was stopped. The
Douglas said he was in po<
,g trim and couldn't do himse
justice, so be challenged Adas
0f son for another match. It
Q thought that he tried to ''wind
h his antagonist on Wednesds
night and if he did be certain)
10 accomplished his purpose.
n_ Col. T. Y. Williams was hei
3 last week.
3( John T. Stevens, Esq. wi
here Sunday.
{ Mr. J. Rodgere Magill,hf Ke
t haw, is taking a business couri
at^Mcfeat's.
Mr9. Belle J. Nance has a p
in 1
q sition witlrfthe E. A. Jenkii
j Motor Co. These people, Meesi
E. A. <fc T. B. Jenkins, have tli
IJ %
j agency for the IJeo at Columbh
Charleston andSum'er. It wi
J**
. 1 rt - ^
me ommer nrm thai sold 111
rr
car load recently in Lancaster.
*e
^ An employee at tlie Cohimbi
Duck ^mills evidently was u<
? satisfied with this lite and too
ST
^ three bottles of laudanum. H
^ died after several hours, thoug
physicians tried to save his lite.
The glorious Fourth was quie
-e ly spent. A few fire works wer
"shot off" and several of "Youn
America" regaled themselves i
y fancy costumes. The day seeme
like Sunday.
i(j The days of the G. M. I. wi
soon be numbered. The Commit
sion is winding up the affairs i
p a "jiffy."
And still improvements ai
a being made in Lanc?*ter. An
v Lancaster is O. K.
^ Lancastrian.
Columbia, S. C., July 10, 1901
m
.e An Appeal to President not t
(j Send Fleet to Pacifi
;e Ocean.
ie
i Philadelphia, -July 10.?Th
y executive committee of the LTni
l8 versal Peace Union at a ineetin
y here today, placed itself on rt
n cord opposed to sending a flee
e of war ships to the Pacific Ocean
0 The committee adopted the lol
it lowing:
"In view of the fueling exist
it ing in the international relation
it between Japan and the Govern
i- ment ot the United States, w
e regard the proposition sh report
s ed, of sending a fleet of bat11
3 ships to the Pacific border a
1 unwise, inopportune and irritat
- ing, especially as the secou
n peace conference is now in ses
0 sion at The Hague, where ar
3 assembled over 250 delegate
I. representing 45 Government
1 with a large and eminently abl
- delegation from the United State
t and with representatives frnr
5 Japan.
a "Believing that such action i
, calculated to impair, if not t
3 destroy, the anticipated results o
e said conference and lead more t
> war than to peace, we appeal t
s President Roosevelt to withhol*
t any such demonstration."
IS"* A OT*l
1J
REVIEW 1878 EN"
LANCASTER, S. C? JULY 13. I
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"i A Plea for Temperance.
3 8 I
k_ The Evils of Liquor Drinking (
ie and Liquor Selling?"The
U Perils of Alcohol" Should
,n be Taught in the Sunday 1
Schools.
Written for The Lancaster News. '
is
!? It is not necessary for me to ]
characterize the drunkard, too .
^ M I
ly won juu snow ma cnaracier, and j
of the homes which have been
rained; the lives that have been
re
wrecked by him. We see thousands
of these instruments of evil
is
reaching ont all over our land to
r bring destruction upon our boys,
je the hope of the .country. How
long will you fathers tolerate
^ and encourage this evil? Oh!
what fearful wreck and ruin are
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wrought to satisfy the poor, be
sotted wretch, who forgets his
te
very soul in satislying his appetite
for strong drink.
is
The picture is one von cannot
le , . T
do.justice to, try as you may.
You find concealed in the wine
cup more woe, misery and distress
than come from all other
Jr
crimes of mankind. You see by
j it mauhood brought to a condition
below the brute. You see
{ father and brothers going down
into that place where there are
6 no respect, no honor, no mercy,
* no sympathy and no blessing;
^ where there are only confusion
and sin. Young man, shun the
wine CQD as VOll would a rinor
II - I
Yoa cannot conceive of the dan- .
) ?
gcr that is lurking there.
I) |
Bat the darkest scene is that ,
in the home of the poor wretch, ^
who feeds his soul upon the .
Q '
fiery poison and the poor babe is f
s'arved at its mother's breast. (
^ | You see the fireless hearth, the (
shivering forms, and the empty ,
cupboard. You wonder why (iod
?iin His infinite wisdom should .
iC doom the innocent victims to
gratify the thirst of the wicked one.
You cannot realize the tere
rible, the mortal agony of the
l* drunkard's wite, the tears and
? supplications on one hand , on
~ the other, the blows.
Now, I appeal to you with a
' heart of love and pity, not to
" ignore this terrible spector,
which stalks the earth like an r
evil spirit, and brings to an tin- c
SIt.imnlv pr^re ..e 1
? - r.... U ..i.nijr III your I
i- feilow-beinys. See the accumula- c
p tion of untold wealth wrung f
Irtun the tears of innocent vie c
p tims ! Soe how the moral princi- i
.8 pies of mm sink into this great r
> maelstrom, which swallows up a
d the mind, the body, and the soul ^
i- of man. 1
e A wise man said : ' If I were t
s asked, 'what is the greatest bless r
8 ing the families of America could r
e have next to religion?' I would e
8 sav : 'It is elementary instruction
n on the perils of alcohol'" The t
Sunday school is the place for t
s this instruction. This should be- t
o gin among the chMdren. Little i
f children are far wiser than most j
o people imagine and can easily i
0 be taught the inherent badness i
1 of ftleoho). To roaoh the people-? t
the masses?we must begin with 1
0
mmrn nmn
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the children. In this way the The
teachers, the parents and the
commonities are reached as -w,
could be possible in no other ^
way. "That which we plant in to ,
our schools we shall reap in our thai
nation's life." Let us work and ?CJ
pray earnestly that this deadly
poison may cease to spoil our Mr
native land. the 0*h
It is the duty of those who e(j to |
lave the church's interest in not be
their oare and direction to bring town 0
the entire membership up to the pa8g ,
position where they are free of mjiee <
u:. i u:??. * 1
itiid mirst. AppeBJB ?o reason bored
ind the power of persuasion would
should be used to save our to the
people from intemperance, and peci.dl
if these fail the discipline of the tern ps
jhurch should be rigidly,though jg now
kindly, enforced, for drunken- This
tiess cannot be tolerated among Oheste
us. Drinking spirituous liquors is compl*
>o great a peril as t<?be a sin ar.d miles t
Irunkenness is a crime. Shall aud wi
we tolerate criminals in our an(j on
sburch? Will you sit with folded ,iver> '
lands and see your brother led Hbout
into the depth of disgrace and Lancas
?in ? This
vVe do not believe that the valley
ilessing of God will rest upon extendi
my revenue that is obtained by Lynch*
he sale of intoxicating liquors. jor(j 0
\ few dollars to each child, rGad.
neaning a few days more at Fron
ichoo), is a poor return for de- the sch
casing the public sentiment of reci pE
in entire commonwealth. There wjp le
s no moral difference between little n
,he sale of liquor by the State an(j |U]
ind the sale by one citizen to Mr. Wi
mother ; hut the official sanction i
DUO ivvr
pven to liquor drinking by the jpllie ]
State is a more potent for evil in 0f
perverting the moral sense of gelk's,
,he people and in lowering the tj,e fori
itandard. This liquor traffic is an(j
lot a question of coutrol hut of Un (0w
jomplete prohibition. Let us good r
itrive to rid our country of this me(1ts
lurse. May this be our motto : Antioc
'Against this Power of Evil now of Traf
We ardently contend ;
. . still Cj
\s soldiers of the right we vow,
To combat to the end." Gills C
Temperance. route a
, ? men of
The Sending of Battle Ships to begi
to Pacific not Intended to ra^roa<
Overawe Japs. les,
_____ fifty ti
Oakland, Oal., July 11?Secetary
of the Navy Metcalf deprelates
the war-like aspect that has 111 . 0
.i i e .i hne 'S1
>een given the order of the cruise
>f the great battleship squadron l)< N
rom 5lie Atlantic to the Pacific ,U(,S w
oa^t The Secretary said last wo ^10
light that tho proposed move- kvnche
nont was that oi a practice cruise lon ,l
ind that the fleet would not be *e
:ept in the Pacific permanently. urs ' ?
Ie declared that the length of c',lj"'-v
^ rather
ime that the fleet would remain t() jjftn(
>u the western side of the conti- Mr.
lent had not yet been decid- a little
id. Pr.e88 e
With considerable emphasis ^
he Secretary voiced his opinion j^e
hat the war-like interpretation we Wftl
hat had been made iu connection to hel
rith the fleet's movement was not road to
ustified by the facts. In fact the We I
Mr Ps
widely published reports suggest- ^ ro
ng hostile preparations, seem to ^ j^or
>e a source of irritation for the get it <
lead of the navy.
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E CENTS PEtt COPY.'
Chesterfield Railroad.
it Should be Extended
Lancaster?The Points
t Would be Especially
lefited.
Editor: We want to see
esterfield Railroad extend^ancaster.
While it may
> of much benefit to the
1 Lancaster, still it would
through about eighteen
d good farming and timlandfl
of our countv and
y ?
be of very great benefit
parties along its line, esy
in the central and eaetrt
of the county, where it
so hard to get to market,
railroad leading out from
rfield is now said to be
i
)te to a point o..e or two
his side o! the ??>x place,
thin about three or three
e-lu>lf miles of Lynches
This leaves a distance of
21 miles to bring it to
ter.
road is being built in the
ol Hills Creek and if ever
ed to Lancaster will cross
38 river at or near the
n the Chesterfield dirt
i a map I have made of
ool districts, 1 find a dite
from here to Lancaster
ad up Wild Cat creek a
orth of Mr. Sam Laueys',
rther on a little south of
m. Estridges's, and cross ,
cky River road near Mr.
VlcManus'; then by way
Allen Walter's, and Amos
%
Gills Creek school house,
dge on Hannah's Creek,
rough the Jones farm on
u. Now, while it might for
easons and special induce
go round south by
h, or round north by way
lesville and Camp Creek,
irnes, Dwiglit, Dixie, and
reek are on a more direct
nd we think the leading
these places will do well
n to talk and work for this
1.
iter field is helping with
lousaml dollars to build
id across her county,
relieve this road will he
i Lancaster, but if a branch
irst built to Monroe it may
eral years before it conith
Lancaster ; however,
pe it will soon come to
is river and give that secstation
and depot, which
worth thousands of dolthe
eastern part of our
. Hut of course we would
see it brought on straight
caster at once.
Editor, can't you furnish
> natural gas from your
ngine to help us with the
work of this road? You
>een blowing your town of
rail it is worth and now
at you to suck in and try
p draw the Chesterfield
i your town.
hope Lancaster will offer
kge some inducements for
ad and not let it go first
troe without an effort to
ourselves.
T. M. Belk.