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4 The Lancaster News Semi-Weekly. Published Wednesdays and Saturdays At Lancaster, s. C., By The Lancaster Publishing Company. Charles T. Connors, Editor ( SUBSCRIPTION RATIOS. One Year tlJ Si* Months Three Months Payable In advance. ADVERTISING KATES. One Inch. tlrst insertion. ?l.00. Each suhsi Quent Insertion M cents. For three months i longer. reduced rates. Professional cards, per year, fl2. Business notices. Transient Advcrtlsomom Dost and Found, and other classified aove tisemcnta not exceeding ti.S words, US cents f each Insertion: I cent a word lor each add tional word over > words. Obituaries, Tributes of respect, cards thanks and all matter of a personal or politic nature to bo charged for. Advertising rates by the column made Isnov on application. itrlef correspondence on subjects of cover interest Invited. Not responsible for views correspondents. 11. E. WYUIE, Prksidknt. JSO A. COOK, Skc'Y. and Tkkas. j. M. r.l D!)LE, Jit . 11us1nkss Makagrh Entered as second-class matter, Oci. 7, 1SH kI the postoRlcc at C.aiieustor S C.. uniler A of Congress of March a. ls?H Saturday, Sept. 21, 1907. The West. Indian hurricane that usually head this way lli latter part of the summer hav apparently fallen into the Soutl em's bad habit of running bt hind schedule time. Price,the noted New York eo' ton speculator, who some lim ago was "hulling" the market, i now talking about eight cents co ton It the farmers will but etan by - their organizations Price \vi do some more skilful flopping be lore the first o! next January. Washington Post: 'A Oleve land bride 21 years old is said t be able to converse in ^ix differen languages." A Charleston girl who is to be a bri ie soon cai look out of h^r eyes at her sweet heart in six different languages ?The News and Courier. A bewitching widow in Lancaster has u smile that speaks diflormit lanmi'irrue Senator Latimer is out in ai interview in which tie expresse himself as being opposed to im migration. lie says he is not oj posed to people coming lien "provided they promise to mak good citizens/' etc.?a rathe foolish proviso, for any sort c an immigrant, goo t, b id or ii different, would no doubt mak such promise. The present im migration laws, howevr obj-M* tionable they may be in s >m particulars, afford this countr r* . i i - minutely uet'er protactio against the introduction ol ui desirable eitiz -ns than the Sent tor's ''promise" i lea. Gen. M. 0. Butler evidentl doesn't like William Jemima Bryan. In an inter vie sv publisl ed in the News and Courier few days ago lie characterizes tl Nebraakan as a Populist and 1013 il the Democrats nominate hii next year for president he'll vot for "Taft, or whoever else of conservative tvpe the Repub] cans may select as their nom nee." Notwithstanding Bryan1 radical and undemocratic view as to government ownership < railroads, he is as popular w it the masses today as he evor wa and he is going to be a most fo midable candidate lor the pres dentia) nomination in 1908. THE LANt It was stated some days ago that Prof. Clink scales. of Wofford College, will be candidate I next year for the United States Senate. And now comes another dominie into the political arena, Col. J. J Dargan, ot Statesburg, according to his own statement '"teacher of a small country "I school," who will likewise couj test lor Senator Latimer's seat, vi Col Dargan is a brainy, scholic arly South Carolinian, patriotic to the core, and has one or two excellent planks in his platform j* as published in the daily papers. He is an ardent advocate of the ?. e'tlement oi international disr putes by arbitration, and if he succeeds in breaking into the of senate will prove an effective worker in the movement to abolai i-h wars. of . It will oe good news to players ol euchre and whist to know hat someone lias invented a machine for shuiliiug a deck of oi cards, and i< promises to become popular as 110 one can see the cards while they are being shnlll *d nor are the cards - in the leas' injured. It is s said that the machine changes ie the position of nine ou' ol i2 cards in the pack. It stands about 12 inches high, weighs four l" pounds and can be attached to - any card table in a moment.? Abbeville Medium. X, . .... <>ow it someooay wiii invent a machine to eliminate the gambling feature out of cards tlio laIS b^rs ol the preacher:; and the police, to 8ay nothing of the l| pio-s, wtll be greatly lessened. In describing a charming entertainment ot the (t. G. Club by two young ladies, the Wallialla correspondent of the Anderson Daily Mail reports a portion of ? t unique test of a woman's breath, as follows: "In the center of the table in 1 this darkened room, quite a num ber of candles were lighted, and j ' each girl was asked to stand bv | the. table, and with one breath, - blow out as many candies as sina could. The number of candles die lett lighted were to indicate the number of years there would he belore she married." 1 A game of this kind is new to s us, but we would like to see one . piayed in these parts. We cm imagine ourselves seeing some of tlie women blowing out can' dies with a breath equal lo a (1 Western cvclo'ie. ? Lexington 'i' Dispatch >! There is a girl over in Chesi tetliehl with a hreatli that could e eaci'y blow the table itself out - of the window. e Comptroller General Jones j y makes a lengthy reply to the n criticisms of the News and Coui rier and other papers ot the aci tion of the State hoard of railroad assessors in raising the as. sessment of railroad properties y 38.5 per cent, the increase over :e ' last year's figures amounting to rj_ j about $ 1 1,500.000. It was charged a j that the board had been goyernlejed by the 100 per cent basis, ,th | but the comptroller undertakes m to show lhat the rai-e more j e j nearly approximate* the 60 per a cent limit, producing plausible i- | figures to sustain his contention, i One thing is certain however. If the present assessment is just and rS equitable, as compared with the dI assessm' nts of otlier properties, ,h the assessment, of last year was entirely too low. Or it r- the assessment of 1906 was i- fair and reasonable, that of 1907 j is altogether too high, for there t JASTER NEWS, SEPTEMBER hus been no enhancement in the, vulue of rmlroad properties dur inK the paat twelve months. On the contrary, *uch nropertits have depreciated,probably on ac count of adverse legislation, and other causes. Pleasant Hill Items. Mr. Melvin Oauthon, who has been in Lancaster a week or two, has returned home. Mrs. S. Beckham, Sr., who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. W. O. linlledge, near Kershaw, returned home Wednesday. Mrs I B. Clontz spent Tuesday in Kershaw. Mister Berry ^Beckham, son of Mr. M. L. Beckham, left lor Bran?1iviUe Wednesday. lie will spend several months there with the Rev. and Mrs E. 11. Beckham. He is expecting to go to school while there. Mr. L. F. Robertson will be ready lor ginning as s on as lie gets his machinery placed. Mr. M. L. Beckham spen! Tuesday in Kershaw. Mr E B. Johnson, the hustling pumper at this place, went to Kershaw on business Wednesday last. Born to Mr. an 1 Mrs. L. V. Cauthen, a eon. the 17th inst. Guess who lias been picking cotton under a parasol? Mr. J. .\1. Oaskey spent Thursday iu Lancaster. News Reader. Feasant Hill, Sept. 10. "Work Day For The Orphan ages. Saturday, September the 28ih has been appointed Work Day for tlio Thornwell, Co uiie Maxwell and Epwortb Ophanages. These institutions have fix hundredorphaii childrenin them, and they are provided tor by voluntary contributions. They have just passed through the summer months, with their(inancial stringency, and should now have an increase in the amount of contri butions for treir support. The Work Day plan furnishes a special opportunity, lor grown people and children, to give the income of one day or the proceeds of one day's labor to the orphans The crop prospects are promising, the prices are good, and the outlook in the business world is ene.ouracriniT Th? F.nr?l buu ?O?? w ?w ? opened his liaud, and poured out his blessings upon on. As an expression of our gratitude for his goodness, wo should make some return to him. "inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least ot these iny brethern, ye have done it unto me." Cash, groceries and dry goods will be acceptable. W. B. Wharton Supt. Kpworth Orphanage Forty Japs Killed. Tokio, September It). ? Forty of the crew, including nine officers, wero killed and injured on i i a.. u.... l ..?u. ? _ uun. u i nt) l t n u i j/ iv ami i III <1 >y tlie explosion of n twelve inch shell within the shield, after target practice noir Kure. Do you take The News? ? * 21, P>07. Burned by Gas Stove. Columbia Record: Mrs. C. P. Davis, wife of a collector for the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph company, was f-eriouly horned about th> face and hands at her home Saturday afternoon by an explosion in tin* oven o her kitchen gas stove. Mrs. Davis turned on the gas in the oven and ignited it at all i the burners. When she closed the , .?~ ~?i.~ : ._ ..... IUa ? ! 'J I1CJ J II |?M?? UlH ' IIv 11 >IUU on ouo ot t':e burner-, the gas continuing to fl >w. Whin she opened the oven shortly aft,ir ward tp examine the ll.imus, the free gas which had escaped into the confined space exploded with considerable lorce,envolping Mrs Davis in a sheet ot fire and inflicting serious burns. Ir is ?aid that probably fatal injuries would have resulted had Mrs Diyis waited five or ten minutes long er to open the oven, as the gas therein contained would by that I time have been much more in quantity, besides being under grea'er pressure. " I While Walking in Her Sleep, Young Lady Ifalls from Window and Breaks Her Arms. Concord special in Charlotte Obsetver: News reached the city this morning to ihe effect that a very painful experience fell to the lot of a young daughter ot Mr. and Mrs John Brown Wal'ace, ot No. 3 township, Monday night. All dav Monday Miss Carrie Wallace wa- engaged 'ill packing her trunk and gathering her many little things together prep *r story to leaving yesterday morning for school at Due West Ft male College, and retired late that night. About 12 o'clock, however, the family was awakened by her screams, and when they fonn I her she was lying in the yard, where she had fallen from the second story window. Both arms were broken just above the wrists. The girl is 18 years of age, and is said to he a pretty young woman. The theory of the parents is that the girl was wandering about her room in a somnambulistic stupor an I, when she got to the room window, walked out. After regaining her normal condition shortly after the excitement was over, the girl swooned and iitti 4 in n rtiriif ^oaiAiia aa i?/li#i/\n ? i? w* ?? p-t v "v?? vy iiuiuuii irom the terrible pun caused by the breaking of her arms. Farmer Assassinated. jr*va Culpeper, Va., Sept. 18.? William Smith, superintendent ot a plantation owned by Cup tain Miller, in this county, about fourteen miles Irani Culpeper, whs shot and billed] Sunday ni^ht. There is no clue to his slayei's identity, although the police say they believe it was the result of an old quarrel and j concerned a woman. Smith was called Irom his home after darit bv some one, who claimed to be in need of assista; ce in mending a broken wagon. lie went out into tlie road and when he was a few feet from the house, the concealed assassin fired point, blank at him, emptying two loads of buckshot into his body. y k Hamilton, Elgin, Waltham, Hampden, Seth Thomas, Columbu?, Howard and all the leading makes in c*f Knf tVio nno T flirl nr?t O VWiV^ MUl/ VliV vuv M. V*?V* 1?VV mention is better than any of the others, come in and ask to see it. I f you contemplate buying a watch you will stand in your own light if you do not see my stock before you purchase. Over 150 watches and movements in stock constantly. Now is the time to have * your eyes tested and properly fitted with glasses You are doing your eyes a great injustice to read by bad lam lighl with bad glasses. I car. ;it the most complicated case properly, satisfaction guaranteed or money back. Have vou seen our new bargains in CHINA and TERRACOTTA Goods? Everybody says we have the best display I .... Ti in nit; Luunuy. it cunts* nutuing to see. We are glad to have you come in whether you trade or not. B. C. HOUGH Jeweler and Optician Howe &onr)e 7v? coffee Sept. 17th, 1907. j 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