The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, October 23, 1912, Page 2, Image 2
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MILLIE-CHRISTINE DEAD. The Defeat of M
The most importa
Famous Colored Twins, Born in the Slate ot South
Columbus County and Exhibited the last 47 years <v?
All Over the World, Pass Away bv General Wade
at Their Home. That is admitted by
WiimiuRtun star. body in South Caro
Word was received here yes- everybody outside e
terday afternoon that Millie, one General Hamptor
of the celebrated Millie-Christine Uuited States Seni
twins, had died at the home of and in 1890, more
the pair near Whiteville, Colum years before his de
bus county, and last night a mes- defeated for re elect
sage was received stating tha' To mention the t
Christine died at 1 :30 o'clock in other man in ass(
the afternoon, some hours after that of General Ha
the death of the other. The challenge criticism
twins wore about tlO vears old. years a&o the Stale
Born in Columbm county in face with another
slavery time* the women, who l'he corruption ol tl
were colored, were sold in their pensary was no ]
youth for $40,000 for exhibition power and both
purposes. While being shown enough to threaten
in Philadelphia a few years after cf honest governc
their sale, they were stolen and State. Everybody I
nothing was heard of them by institution was corr
their owner for several years, body knew how to
Finally he located them in Lou- Then the man a
don and regained possepsion of known young lawy
them. He again placed them on limited courage am
exhibition and they appeared be J. Fraser Lyon of A
fore many of the crowned heads had the assistance c
of Europe as well as being ex- men, notably Sena
hibited in the old couutry and sen of Beaufort, bu
America. They were 6een in who was the target
Wilmington the last time with a ment of the friendi
carnival a year or two ago- and sponsors of t
Millie-Christine had two heads pensary. Lyon ex
and two sets of lower extremities, ruption of the dispi
but only one body. What one was unswerviug an
disliked the other disliked, the in his attack upon
same thiugB made each sick, but he was subjec'ed
they had their diflerences and abuse and even
were kuown to have quarreled threatened,
with Ihomaftlvpo Tn the nolifciral i
They were the wonder of phy- passed frieudB of tb
sicians, anatomists and biologists ited dispensary wei
everywhere. On the stage they but they opened no
sang in chorus and danced. One about it. No mi
head carried on a conversation those who profitei
with one person while the other from it, dares to
carried on a different converse- South Carolina no\
tion with some one else. One that the abolition
could sing one thing and thy ^dispensary was a b
other something else" yet they vfrong.
were so completely one person In 1900 Mr. Lyc
that one could not perform any Attorney General
function without the other. himself to punish t
Millie Christine was a puzzle, grafters. From on
In miny respec's they were one tion forced a plea
personality, and in others they against another h
were two They really appeared verdict of guilty frc
to be one person with two heads. South Carolinians.
A pain gave the other pain. It In the six years <
was a repetition of the end of bency of the office
the Siamese twins who died in General its afftir
North Carolina, at their homo conducted with s
near Mt. Airy; one died while industry and succet
the other was asleep. When record proves. Wi
the live one was awakened and distinguished pre<
informed that the other was conduct of the lega
dead he expired in a lew rain- 'he State compa
ates Only a ligament at the Always many ho
r.A rv? ? 1% ? ? rVWAtt I i U U n TT/\f U/d
Diuo ?>uiinrttcu lU^ui, WI1U WciC ,"v,? w f u
otherwise two perfectly former] Lvon, for reasons ti
men who had violent differences pretend to explain
at tune-. Both the Siamese contest have graltt
twins were married, and lett Biin. The criminal
families in Surry county, North and skulkers, the m
Carolina. thing to hide, have
Millie.Christine was a more because, more tha
wonderful being than thelamoui "tan in the public
Siamese twins. They apparent- Carolina, they havt
lv had hut one body, but evi- Not i" South 1
dently there wire two. Mich mornii g is there a
person, i! there wore two of flly scoundrel hop;
them, hid 'wo hands anil lwo|m>ney by breaking
Ie?j Hud ' wo feel, ami yet anat- ''netting by wi'li
oirucally she or they had only net secretly gloat t
one b dv t-o far as close obser- been defeat ed
vations were concerned. ^ course, 'he ur,
, , . ? m?i >ri?y of thoa
1 he wonaen were reported to , p?
1,1 against Lyon. I m
lave been verv wealthy. H
not by any means
t_r Hie people Hut w
Many Driven 1* rom Home. , .
ers and plunderer
Kvor\ ,' r nituiv | irts of tho conn- ,
ui '( i n 'in th^'r i 'iiioh cunnini? an l rcsouf
i ricn is .mil power in this
- n* i t ' liii I : ii tlicr Hi runt h
ii ri .t i < 4 mr.' a comrnonwealth.
ttl ! v. tl, V I .1 111 -111 II lo
ri ; . J > i , at. I ire 1 the 1?T AI t'TS iv II1 >\
'.Mw '"'land thov know whe
your t imIs I this ,!? rueui ;no.
7 i 11 | ic . li' i gc, t ')(jp her.
aii'l h 'i i nn lis help in coughs, \t i .
hi ' 1'iii^-i nigh *iri11 As l'?r Mr Dvo
! ' ,'1' ' ' role f; >m the >11
fwi'l I < ri il ho'tle tree. (In traiil s-.i
v I I .i i.e.v*"r i or s oey (ieii'.rii sh >nld
vantage. I he pitil
I^ancaster Leads. tached to it can n
THE LANCASTER NEWS, OC
lr. Lyon. *ny lawyer of attainments and darl
. integrity. Mr. Lvon has earned no'l
nt service to J
Carolina in a rPPulHtlOQ *Q l^e that Dotl
is periormed 3hoold in?ure to h?m a law prac- ble
n , tice many times what it has been her
) Hampton.
nearly every- wor,h ,0 hlm ln money- ?' hi' 1
lina and by ?PPonent we kn?w little or noth- Hei
>f the State ^ut a88ert'on *8 8a*e tbat O'B
1 was elected if he is a lawyer of the wide and and
ator in 1878 ya"ed equipment essential to in 1
than twelve Protecfc *ke d ate's interests in infe
ath, he was the large legal P 1*!? 8 of lhe He
present dav. when an Attorney he
ion. - - * jervice
of any General mu,,t o,t0n meet and her
rciation with graPPle wi,h th? brilliant law. hin
impton is to yera representing great corpora- iaty
but a few lion8 ot the who,e country, he for
was face to ^aa be0n movec* by considers- An<
emergency '*0D8 of l?fty and self-sacrificing paii
le State die- Pa,rioli8m and not by the salary girl
less than its inducement or the honors at the
were great tach0d to the office. We wish wei
the existence him wel1- led
nent in the Lyon has done for South Caro Uei
knew that the lina wha' F"'d did for Mi?s?uri hue
upt but no- and wbat Hughes did for New pov
prove it York. In Missouri or New flirl
rose, a little Yorlt Folk and UuKhes were sup- ly <
er with un. Por,ed by tlle people.?The An
d fine ability, S a(e' ,e"
rbbeville. Lie * "on
)f other able The Men Who Succeed i08'
tor Christen- aB heads of large enterprises are men of
great energy. Suoceas, today, demands (
t it was Lyon health. To ail is to fail. It's utter tolly
i .1 . for a man to endure a weak, run-dowu, Ko
6 r se it- aiive condition when Electric Hitters .
3 Conductors wl" I>nt him right on his feet in short or- ei'?
' der. "Four bottles did me more real good *ue
KA Sf.fttf* fl1fi? than utiv nthnr tiindimnn I Avar fnnlt *
nnaprl lha fnr writeH ?haB. B. Allen, fl> I vania, Ga. "After' COt
" ycarH of sufiering with rheumatism, liver
BQBary Lvon trouble, stomach disorders and deranged BO'
'. Kidneys, I am again, thanks to Electrio ?,|
u unshrinking Hitters, sound and well." Try them. Only
;? .i|L???L .'0 cents at Lancaster Pharmacy or Cra'f- hie
it, annough lord Uroa
to floods of ?
his life was Woman Whose Beanty Dazzled ,ht
C^l
Europe Near Death in a Russian
campaign just Dungeon
e late discred 80
re candidates Kief, Russia.?Once the toast bei
t their mouths ?' al^ Europe, ouee its most beau sai
tn not even l^u'? m?8t courted, most viva- die
1 in money C,0U8 woman, Countess Tarua- wo
ask office in W9ka i9 near <ieath' a,ter
v on the plea 9even year9 of ao1,tary c<>?- edof
the State bnement iQ a miserable dungeou lot
ilunder and a ced>
The beauty that once dazzled, ?
mi was elected al1 KuroPe '? gone?forever ; the
and pledged wonder'ul ''gore thai brought j( ju
he dispensary ber fame e n beyond the conti-!^
e his prosecu- nent lH twis1 ed with rneuinatism.
of guilty and woman who in the days of
e obtained a her tflor-v ha<1 a new (,r088 for era
im a inrv nt eVery day aud w,'0 bathed ill
milk and wine can change her
3|0
>f his iucum- lin<m bu' once " month ca" wa
of Attorney b.lhe but four time* a ye.r. Uy
a have been Aud "eVBr ?"ue' "ince ,hp ^ co.
igoal ability, of her h?? Bh? ma
a. That the "ee" the ''ght of day. On rare An
ith any of hie ?ee"??i?na she la permitted a a|
, .. walk in the courtyard, but aliecessors
his J ' ; [{A
, . , , ways it is with a heavy mask
1 department ^ J |
res favorably. ?ver her eyea an(1 a Suard Ht her
? i side to forestall the possibility P'i
nest and good r
.. ot her lilting it for oue glimpse m
against Mi.
, , of the silvery snnlight.
iat we do not J H WA
. . She is not allowed to read or .
, but in no tw<
. . write. Iler lot, tor seven ears
irs voted for fol
, . and lor the remaining years of
Is, the ciooks tn
.. her lile is to eit all dav in the u
en with somehfe
ol South ^ I>lV DOCt<
> teareu him. H|
Carolina tins Jtfl "Try Cnrdui," writes .Mrs. Z.
shrewd,smug, C'] " ' was in a very low state of h
ing to make 11 be UP aMt* t'-nd to my duties. I
ihe laws and Si l,c^an to feel better. I got able
it, who .loes Id housework. 1 continued to takf
. ." , . El am able to do my hou ework ai
hat Lyon has HH . , . , .. , i u
E] and I feci as though 1 could n
HH for the benefits 1 have received,
afters are not H
,e 7'ho voted PI <c*b T A K E
hon tho grafij
>m thoir H Cardui is successful, becau?
ces they are i'j vvomcn, and acts specifically or
nr any other C ir^iii does one thin , and do
I d the great success whit i ii has h
if ' in helping thousands >f weak
v their, nemy, fyj hea|lh anj happiness.
n and how to If you are a woman, feel ti
(>| cross and irritable, it because]
jj try Curdui V Cardu 1 iids, sin
n personally, J jn every w.iv as a 1 p ial, toni(
i. <?* ol At'or- ^ it for yourself. Your d uggist s
1 b- 10 il 1 -? ?(1- a W'rftt to t ail'f*' A.lv ? t? I rr' . CtlV1?r
1 and ia-,.44 b?'Oh, " ilor
c>t hold long Hfcliiirli i i-tft Mfli Mmmka irhftflrK.aiE
t
TOBKR 23, 1912
k, narrow dungeon with Death
hiug to occupy her mind? Havi
hing to think of but the terri- d
thought of the contrast with (uary
present and her past. followii
he countess is an Irish girl. ^ j
p father is one of the wealthy
Lonrkes. But all his thoos- pagtor
s cannot help his daughter church
ler plight. Early in lite she morniD
itua'ed Count Tarnawska. _
in SUSc
was her slave. Everything heart
had in the world he laid at eref} ^
feet. Finally she married (rom tl
i. But his love did not sat- etmaU? ,
' her. Her nature yearned I "le abo
the attention of other men. fi
d legions there were wli0 aeatli
d court to the brilliant lriab pains
. One of their number wa8 pbysici
Count Komorowski. Qe e(j^ but
it wild oyer her. And she an(j ^
him on. had 1
r extravagance changed *ier had tit
ibaud from a wealthy to a Thoi
erty-atricken noble. Her L
tations with other men near-1 et nQj
irove him mad. So he fled. I
d then the girl gave her at- nejghb
tious to Komorowaki. 1? (rieQdle
way she persuaded him to |ovedt
Lire hia life, in her benefit for
>,000. iug of
)nly a short time afterwards I nolhe
morowaki waa found murderA
boy admirer committed I t ^ Q>(
i deed at the behest of the ld ad
inteaa. But suspicion did appeal
t direct itself toward her un- Eve]
the boy's own nerves failed I d m
n and he confeased. an ch<
The trial that followed was tragt
i sensation of Europe. part of
intesa tried every ruse, every ?ervic<
iterfuge, to 6ave herself. She pre
fascinated the jury by herLuppii
auty, her vivacy, that it was 8trume
d had it not been for the in (
putable facts against her she m0re t
old have been freed. ed on i
Hut for once her charms fail-1 w
?and life in a dungeon ia her by pf(
V. Spell, of Hayne, N. C jL iecl) a
icalth, and was not able to
1 did try Cardui, and soon Rf 0
! to be up and help do my
: the medicine, and now I Hp guage
id to care for my children, R *lrte cc
ever praise Cardui enough fej wan o
R vines
Thq | r";1'1.
If . T* *v7 t() leal
YomansTonic u a 1
graph
*e it Is made especially for who
i the womanly constitution. R
es it well. That explains HR pi ope
ad, during the past 50 years, Bh is sun
Mtui nilinir U'nmcri Iiiu-L- fc? H i i. .
B " V...V.. VUVI> ,J 1)1111
ired, dull, and are nervous, 19 1 """
/on need a tonic. W'hy not IW tt?e wt
en^tliens, restores, and arts H to do.
: remedy for women. 'lest H
ells Cardui. Ask him. ip 10
looea Medicine C? . OutHnrio"*, 7>nn., t j) ^ I IT''1
ne Treatment lor Womcu,' tent tree 115 Hj pom m
ZRVsng mx?. :?1!?. ?. ,iL235HI -y m pi
of Rev. Chalmers Fraser.
ng neara no particular
leath at the time bis obi
was written we clip th
n a Irnm t.Vm f4ainanvill
Herald:
Chalmers Fraser, D. D
of the Presbyteria
, died suddenly Tuesda
ig at 4 o'clock, at th
on Brenau avenue, o
trouble. He had suf
>r a number of yeai
lie though it was not gee
known as he said but li
nt it.
iwoke awhile before h:
suffering from sevei
around the heart and
an was quickly summoi
l the end came quickly
e second physician wh
>een summoned lati
no to arrive.
iffh hiu rloat.li niioiiFaH aa
3e morning, while it wi
i day, the news spree
\ Neighbor telephone
or and friend telephone
?a great man, whom the
had passed from the
to enter, on the mori
a new day, the glories i
r and better world,
ministers of the city m
jlock Tuesday aftemoo
.opted resolutions, whic
elsewhere.
rybody was deeply affecte
embers of the Presbyter
oir felt that they could n
themselves to supply at
the music for the funer
>. Mrs. T. J. Simmon
nau College, learned tbi
ed both the vocal and i
ntal music for the occa
ind softer, sweeter ai
jubdued tones never flo?
sacred air than that wbi<
atted lrom the choir lc
)f. Zoller, organist, and l
)d choir at the servic
ver the body at the chur
esday morning at 8 ;i
r. These services we
cted by Rev. S. J. Cai
if A t hnriH. hv Re
eelectt
* * held o
onvicts Escape To Start Battle. Wedn
Kawlins, Wvo., Oct. 20 ? o'clocl
lards and prisoners tought a condu
sperate battle earlytonight in- ledge <
e the State penitentiary. J. E. .
Hundreds ot mutinous prison- Luke
attempted to escape and the Wood,
*rds tought desperately to re- local n
re order. Camped outside the nation
lis was a force of citizens heav- Foil
armed ready to dr b i ck the mains,
iviets it ihey murdered the re- memb<
.ining guards, ??nd made a rush friendi
other battle was in progress ried to
the same at the hills south of tor int
wlins between a posse of citiz mains
i and from 20 to 40 escaped ^ raser
rn i n . Donah
souers. 1 wo men weae killed
a mon
the streets of Kawlins, one
Mr.
s desperately wounded and wjJ() ^
a convicts were recaptured, betwe<
lowing the escape ol from 10 lion w
30 prisoners tins afternoon. lI1g?1
tion, *
sweet
P ! flom
~>r Said E? pe-.pi.
Mr-*. Eraser, lii? twe
hd wito Mud hel|er, t
unify extends the t< uder
atliy, and offers to ho (i
Hampton, Presiding Eld
G. Johnson, Ilev. 11.
and Rev. A. F Nunn, a
linisters of other denorr
8.
owing the services, the r
accompanied by sever
era of hia church, al
i and relatives, were cs
Decatur, his old lion;
erment. There lies the r
of his father, Rev. Dona
and there stands t
1 Frnser Military Inetitui
ument to hia memory.
Fraaer was beloved by j
new him, but the relatii
ju iiiiu mm mn cuii^jreji
as deeper and more endi
t was that of tender a IT*
velded and blended witl:
sympathy such as is s
felt between pastor a
i.
was a man oi great int
v deep student, a gradu>
umbia, Princeton and 1
i colleges, and in the 1e
of the daily press, tl
immented upon his life,
ne oi the most noted <
ot the state. Yet it vt
urpose in lite that dr
9 to him, and caused tin
n upon him.
riend from a distance te
ing hi'- griot-strirken wi
alone survives h m, vt
rly says: "His w iole 1
lined up in the lan uage
17:4; 'I hive rloriii
on earth ; 1 have finish
?rk which Thoo g vest
n )
/ I
of love a cborm ot prayers that
H<u ?i strong arm may ever
suB'aiu her.
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e ^ ^ ^ [ a ,
ie
f Hsa^UmS
r. KiHHywM
it
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5 Clerk's Sale
a
nave sieauuy increased
from organization.
0 J
We solicit your business
?te J
) assuring you we have the
in- facilities to handle'it and
ult 1 pledge that our best serhe|
vice shall be given you at
all times whether your ac!
count is large or small.
ew j
in We pay four per cent
interest on time deposits,
le. compounded quarterly. '
5 E. B. Lingle,
''? President.
W. II. Millen
w Cashier. I
Lancaster, S. C.
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1THE
STATE OP SOUTH CAROLINA
r?
lQ County of Lancaster,
sr Court of Common Pleas.
r Emily Catoc, J. S. Sims, Jeff Sims, Cora
18 Simpson, Tillman Sims, Wm. Siins,
id Marlon Sims, Nellie Sims, Hunter
Sims, Stewart Sims, Julia Sims, Nettle
Sims, by J. C. Massey, their guar'd
dlan ad litem?Plaintiffs,
iy against
ir Abbie Sims and John M. Hinson?Dell.
fondants.
Of Ity virtue of a decretal ordor made by
his Honor Thomas S. Sense, circuit
judge, on the 15th day of October, 1912,
in above stated case, I will expose to
n public auction to the highest bidder, at
;h I>ancaster court house, in said county
and State, in front of the court house
door, within the legal hours of sale, on
id
,j. The First Monday in November,
1912, the same being the 4th day of the
month:
All of that pleoe, paroel or tract of
aI land in the County of Lancaster and
g State of South Carolina, containing
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-TWO
8
* (14'-) acres, more or less, and bounded
Q* North by the portion of land now ownit
od by the estate of Mollie Sims, deoeased;
South by lands of Mary Blackmou;
East by lands of Rurwell Bl&ekmon
and J. H. Ilegler, and West by lands of
3ll John M. llinson and Dave Roberts.
Also all of that tract o! land in said
county and State, containing SIXTY
(60) ACRES, more or loss, bounded
OB North hydatids of M. L. Love; Kast and
ch South by lands of L. C. Faulkeubery,
,jq and West by lands of J. S. Vincent.
Terms of Sale, Cash. Purchaser to
re pay for papers.
rt- PAUL MOOHE,
C.C.C.L.C.
K. I). HLA KKNKY,
Plaintllls' Attorney.
F Oct. lt>, 1012. 4-fi-w
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An article that has rout merit should in
11* time become popular. That such is tho
case with Chamberlain's c m^h lteniedy
has been attested by many dealers. Here
g. is one of them 11. W. Hend'ickson, Ohio
Falls, Ind , writes, "Chamberlain's Cough
'til Remedy is th? hi st for coughs, colds and
croup, aud is my best seller." For sale
80 by all dealers,
trte,
<
It The Farmers'
I Bank &
Trust Comp'y j'
t h is now more than four 1
el" years old and '.its assets j
nd i i