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4 Xhe Lancaster News. |1 Semi-Weekly. ( Published < Wednesdays and Saturdays < At Lancaster, s. c., By The Lancaster Publishing Company. ; Charles T. Connors, Editor. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. One Ycur II.W Six Months 7> Three Months K Payable In advance. ADVERTISING RATES. One inch, tlrst 'nserllon. Vi.uu. t-.nen sunseQueni insertion 50 rents. For three months or longer, reduced rates. Professional cards, per year, 112. Business notices, Transient Advertisements, Lio.si and Found, and other c las si tied advertisements not exceeding 25 words, 25 cents for each insertion; I cent u word for eacii additional word over 2'i words. Obituaries. Tributes of respect, cards of thanks and all matter of a personal or po'.lttoul nature to be charged for. Advertising rates by the column made known on application. Brief correspondence on subjects of general interest invit< d. Not responsible tor views of correspondents k. k. wyl1k, ptlksident. J NO. A COOK. skt:'v and Tit k as J. M. HI DOCK. Jit. Business Manager. Entered as second-class matter, Oct. 7. IPO , at the postoftlce at i at'caster S C.. under Act of Congress of March 8. i8"t? Wednesday, Sept 18, 1907. A Texas editor is said to eat seventeen pies a day. We are j willing to make a wager that t lie}' are the lemon kind.?Greenville News. Judging from his stupendous size and weight, Mr. George A. Moore, of (he Rockdale Reporter, must be the editor referred (o. A few years ai:o the city coun< iI paid a carnival company several hundred collars to come to Andersou. besides giving it the use of the public square in which to erect its tents. This year a carnival company pays $250 lor tlie privilege of en'eriog the city and will hold forth on a vacant . lot some distance from the busi- . Hess center. That sh ?ws how the . city is growing.?Anderson Mail. Rut it will show still better \ growth when it cuts out carni- t vals altogether. According to a New York 1 special in the Charleston Sun- ( clay News, the health of Grover , Cleveland is rapidly tailing < and his recovery is not cx- < peeled. He has lost forty pounds * in weight within the past three ( months. His trouble is pout. Though at one time intensely hated by a considerable portion of his party, Mr. Cleveland is now conceded to te the greatest living Democrat. We have been asked more ( than once why The News has never criticised the county au- 1 thorities for having the shade trees removed from the court house square. We, no doubt in common with many others, were shocked when we heard some weeks ago that such action was contemplated. We at once made inquiry about the matter and were told that the trees, while to outward appearances sound, were in an advanced stage ot decay and that it was only a question of time, and a short time at that, when they would, if allowed to stand, become a menace to human life. Ai cept-j ins such statement as correct, we entered no protest against the cutting down of the trees, though it was with much regret that we saw them felled, for they were among Lancaster's oldest landmarks and had afforded shade and comfort for generations. i W^aidk..?. ' air*.. THE L =INLEY ON RAILROAD PROBLE/W. i Piesident Finley, of th? Southjru, continues to m?ke address- ' 99 explanatory of the common < carriers- side of the railroad I piobletn, with the view of bring- 1 ing about a better understanding, and consequently bettor relatione, between the transportation companion and the pubi c. Nis latest effort was a speech delivered in Chicago Saturday before the annual meeting of the American association of freight trdlic officers. In his usual forceful man ner Mr. Finley made a strong presentation of the difficulties now confronting the railroads. They are b?ing besieged on every hand. f??r better service, and yol 'o improve the service large sums of money are needed, which sums it is practically im-, possible to obtain lor the reason ' that investors of capital will not rise their means in properties which are being legislated against! in various states. From the view | point ol the railroads, reductions' iii rates have been made by leg-, islation which threaten to bring, disaster to the vast interests of the transportation companies.. During the course of his rem uks M.. P:? l.... l . nil, r iiiicv afiiu . ' These carriers can no more J stand being made the foot bali of political parties or being used to advance the ambitions of as- 1 pirants for political favors or to I ' have their charges politically I j regulated than any other buei J ness enterprise. They possess no immunity irom the operation of economic laws. If they are to be 1 mccesslul there must be for ' hem as for any other successful i tmsiuess enterprise a proper mar- ( ,;.n between receipts and expeniitures. if their expenses are to! ie increased by the demands of j abor, by the price of supplies, I >y the exactions of law and by I ( >ther causes beyond their con-: 1 :rol their revenues must be pro- k :ected irom unreasonable reduc-!f ion or the result, in obedience ! o an irre-istibie economic law, 1 i i: t? i iiuai un UCOUIICIIVD. it 1^1 imuoo" j ' uirv in fhe interest, not only of I lie carriers, but ol the national | iyel tare, that this destruction , dial I be averted. It can be done 3iily by a conservative and con-i ti uc'ive policv. The progress of | pulliutr down and of destroying I Iho old lias continued long with 1 out abatement. It may be paffdv | concluded that such abuses as were in existence have been sufficiently exposed and curbed 1 tor the process of rebuilding to 2 begin. Theie can be no pernia t nent poltcv of destruction. The j welfare ot the country, the inter- t estB of its comm rce, and the . prosperity of its citizens, now 1 demand the establishment ot a new ba-is of stability in the t place ot the old conditions which | have parsed awav. The funda-j, mental corner stone ol the new! structure must be the authorita-1 tive ^announcement of the pro 1 position that those who invest s their private means in the establishment of transportation faeili ties have not placed them beyond j the protection of the Constilu i lion. Otherwise there will noli be, hereafter, any investment of private means in tlie^e enterpris es, and ilie value of existing in- i vestments will be destroyed. There is no general desire on the part of the people to injure or destroy the railroad interests of the country, and when it is realized that any injustice has beju done them, as is apparently the case in some states, a reac , lion will set in in favor of the railroads. , Subscribe to The News. i . 1 ^^ y i< IN'JASlEd .NEWS, SEPTEMBE Marriage Tomorrow. I . Mr. T. M. Belk, th? well-known landsome aud efficient surveyor i )l this county, and Mi*s Gertrude i 3herer, the popular and accomp- < lish d voung lad/ of Blacksburg ] who has been teaching school at i Dixie, are t<> be married tomor- < row. The oeremouv will be per- < formed in Blaeksburg. Mr. Belk and bis charming ' bride will visit the Jamestown Ex posit ion. A Shooting at Colored Church. K'nrclionr V ra T r? u (1 i ftl.Ml I t V 1VCI "11(V ? JU? M AlA ? at the colored Baptist church Sunday night, which occurred just out-i ie the church belore the close of the service, Lewis Olyburn, colored, shot at Will Perry, colored, the ball striking Perry in the loreliead over the lett eye and passing around the leit eye just underneath the skin without doing auy da riago. The Library Association?Its lliyhty Entertaining and //<str active Meet inn last Friday Night. The Lancaster Public Library Association held a very interesting meeting in the spacious of- i lie. a of Jud^e lift B. .Jones, presi- i rlent of the Acso?iation, on last < Fiidav night. A largo ciowd i was present and enjoyed to the fullest the literary program,wl ich was indeed a feature of the meeting Miss Bessie Harper read in au intertainmg and attractive man 1 >er, to the delight of the audience, I he 4,Oie Billv", an ante-bel um j' icgro dialect story trom the pen i j )/ Mrs. Pyrnelle. (,Au Order tor j < i Picture" was recited by Mrs. , lohn B. Xfackorell iu the happy, ; "ile.ising style which always char- 1 icterizes hor recitations. Mrs. ?' \V. E. i a> lor added the charm i >i her voice and expression to 1 lie charm ??f the s!ory in a read- I ug enti'led: "A little Boy's Vis- ! t to a Dime Museum." The h i'erary program was concluded I' ly Mr. Ernest Moore, who kept j1 lie audience spell-bound with a ' lumorous select on from Mark ] rwain's ''Tramp Abroad " i Several new members were eceived into the Association at i this meeting, which, together ! with the recent addition of 14 members of the Franklin Circle, ] tnd the anticipation of others in ! die near future, is very encouri^rintr to those who have worked 1 aithtullv tor the Association lrom i ? ? J 's organization. < It was decided to hold semi- 1 monthly meetings during the lall and winter and the following ' ommittee was appointed to ar- 1 range a program for the next meeting, to be held on Friday night, Sept. 27th: Mrs. A. R. Batiks, Mrs. W. McD. Brown and Miss Harper. .Judge Jones, in a neat little speech, thanked the speakers for so delightfully entertaining the large and appreciative audience and thanked the commit'ee for haying arrange 1 such an attractive program for this itieeting. It is hoped that the interest io the library work will increase with each successive meeting and that the public generally will continue to use with great pr.db the good books of the Association so easily accessible. The library is open every weoK day and every one is eligible to membership. R 18. 1907. > # " Pastor Installed. The First A. R. P. Presbytery net at Shiloh yesterday and formally installed the Rev. O. W. Jarmichael as pastor of the Shir loh and Lancaster churches. The ministers present were the liov. Oliver Johnson, of Neely's Creek; Rev. 0. E McDouald, of Chester, and Rev. Mr. Lummtis, of Rich burg. Another freak. ! This has ceriainly been a year of nature freaks?freaks in Irmi, fowls, vegetables, cereals, cot- ' ton ])lauts and so on, many of which have at various times been brought to this office. The latest arrival here is in the corn line, being some thirty odd ears in ore shuck, which was sent us by our friend Mr. Q. L. Cauthen. of Dry Creek, and was found bv him in the field of his son, Mr. G. W. Can then. Uous-keepers and gardeners would do well to obt .in trotn Mr. (Jauthen some planting seed of this peculiar variety of corn, as it ; growth would make ran the tusk of gathering roastim sirs for dinner. Just think ol it, with one jerk you could yank j Dff enough corn tor Severn' 111 s - ( se. < The Picnic at ti'/iite lttn/f--t)ue of the Heat of the Man 1/ En- j joy able One* this Season. ( vVhat was probably the la t \ nig picnic of the season was held \ t?-* 1 un.!.. r?i. ir ins' rnaay ai ?v niie niuu, one ^ jf the most hospitable and pros- ( peroua communities in the jnunty. It was given by the White Bluff Masonic "Lodg , Junior Order Council, and th<> _ public school, and all the Masons md Juniors of the county, as is well as the public generally, were invited to attend. It is o-dm a ted that between 1,500 and md 2.000 persons were present, < md so abundant was the supply >1 good eatables, notwithstanding the immense crowd, enough tvas left over alter the enjoyable picnic dinner to have fed as many more. Interesting exercises were held in the morning by the Juniors snd in the atternoon by the Masons. The Juniors formally presented a flag and Bible to the school, Mr. James S. Wilson, ot Lancaster, secretary of the State Council, a. c tin fir as master of rem. monies. The Rev W C Winn, t)i Elgin, Slate Vice Councillor, delivered an address on the principles of t he Order. The lion. Geo. W. .Jones, member of Lancaster's Legislative delegation, presented the tlag, and the Rev. C. P. Carter, pastor of Grace (Methodist) Church, Lancaster, the Rible, both making appro priate remarks. The speech of acceptance w?s made on behalf of the school trustees by County n a i i . ? i . i . 111 oupenmenueni 01 iviucauon \v. M. M oore. Worshipful Master F. M. Low- ( rv, of the White Bluff Lodge,! presided ovor the Masonic exer.J oisf-s in the afternoon. Addresses] were made hv Stale Deputy! Grand Master K. O. Secreet, of Lancaster; Congressman I) K Finle.v. of Yorkville, and the! Rev Mr Hudson, of Heath Springs. The weather was ideal and, the day most pleasantly and. profitably spent by all. Hamilton, Elgin, Waltham, Hampden, Seth Thomas, Columbus, Howard snd all the leading makes in stock, but the one I did not mention is better than any of the others, come in and ask to see it. If you contemplate buying a wdtch you will stand in your own^ght if you do not see my stock before you purchase. Over 150 watches and movements in stock constantly. ***** 1 Now is the time to have your eyes tested and properly fitted with glasses ^ You are doing your eyes a jreat injustice to read by bad amp light with bad glasses. I :an 'it the most complicated :ase properly, satisfaction guaranteed or money back. Have you seen our new bargains in CHINA and TERRAJOTTA Goods? Every Ixxiy ;ays we have the best display n the country. It costs nothng to see. We are glad to have fou come in whether you trade >r not. B. C. HOUGH Jeweler and Optdcian Have \ i '-NPnt I Ttli innT . , v.., ? / . Dear Friend: I am getting big enough to drink tea and coffee. Papa and Mama used to drink coffee just for breakfast, but they get such good coffee now that they drink it three times a day. They say the best coffee in town is Luzianne coffee. Your friend, Jacob. P. S. Its funny that I always forget that you can get Luzianne coffee for 25 cts. a pound at Ferguson's