I ? Hawastrr 5?puis < <>n (SEM.I-WEKKLY.) j Th< Published Wednesdays and 1 %N ltl1 Saturdays at Lancaster, S. C., concli by The Lancaster Publishing | owes Company, successors to The Qf Ledger, established 1852; The I . , Review, established 1878; The ; Enterprise, established 1891, . their and entered as second-class ; then matter Oct. 7, 1905, at the nor t postofllce at Lancaster, S. C., I . ' under Act of ^'Congress of , jviaicn a, us n ouum ~ ^ ' such CHAS. T. CONNOKS. . . .Editor never R. E. W'YLjIE . .Acting Editor . L. C. BOYER Manager B am us y SATURDAY, FEBRUARY !. 1913. j ferenl f ????? | Senat . , ? . scares T\e see where an opossum has 1 witjls been sent by parcel post. We wonder If Sheriff Hunter got it? l,?ne the e The Corn Show in Columbia will continue all through next week. So *or ' make up your mind to go down and ^nQu see it. the sen at The dispensaries, voted In at a "Oi recent election, have just been Tillm remei opened in Union and are said to be a t doing a rushing business. testin any "Winnsboro needs a town ceme- case.' tery," says The News and Herald. Am Wouldn't an old-fashioned, country same grave yard serve Winnsboro's pur- of "a pose better? is sti tical Monday is Winthrop College Day the s and the 800 girls will all go to the have corn exposition. Don't you know %Ve hi | the 800 corn club boys Kill be glad whom i to see mem: uy railro ^ What has become of the old- lia8 _ fashioned boy that only asked his \youl daddy for one cent at a time?? specif Greeuville Piedmont. He is now a of tju New York millionaire. Tlu "We The Carolina Spartan aptly says, sfM t( "The most valuable investment a thrifty, industrious farmer can . . <* ? <11 aroun make is to secure a wife who will ... . mere be a comfort and help as long as i.? i * .. to set life lasts. up or We agree with The Anderson ta'n Mail that the widow of General ' James Longstreet has no right to speak Tor the "ragged rebels" in behalf of the one who helped establish negro rule in South Carolina. ing ot Just think of what you will see in hy th Columbia at the Corn Show. Ex- "prod liibits from 27 state colleges and ex- his el periment stations, the federal gov- bgish eminent display and 800 farm boys view, from all over the country, includ- these ing South Carolina's Jerry Moore, becai; expre We are glad that Senator Wil- plicab liams's bill to abolish capital pun- dog t ishment was killed. It is no time in tin now to be toning down punishment ii for crime, especially in view of tin- any <1 fact that we now have a governor ; ator who, not only reprieves and par- befor< dons for capital offenses, but turns he is loose, even short-term prisoners. ing t when Sergeant-at-Arms J. S. Wilson of (jrowi the House of Representatives asks us to say to the people of Lancaster ()|(j R county, that they should let nothing defini prevent their seeing the Corn Show SU8^aj in Columbia. Jim's headquarters i are in the state house and he can tell jea(je, you what to see and the quickest temer way to see it. Tillm The re-election of Capt. D. J. Griffith, by an overwhelming vote, as superiatendent of the state penitentiary, is a deserved compliment to ne8S a capable and efficient officer who 1 * has discharged his duties fearlessly and with an eye single to the welfare of the state. South Carolina occaa . , , whom v has no more true or loyal son anyw ri k where within her borders than Cap- ? tain Griffith. yan out Rechad Pasha, head of the Turk- boys, Ish peace delegation, says that the s< failure of Turkey to negotiate sopeace with the Balkan allies lies not trunsl alone with them, but with the great a ^en powers of Europe, "who encouraged ^'eaSl the Balkan states and have shown ''U( no fairness toward Turkey, although man before tlie war they had solemnly proclaimed the principle of the un- ' changeability of the status quo " Senat This is quite true. The powers Kroun have, in fact, completely changed ,r'"nc their attitude since the beginning 'n ^ of the war. They are always with 8^ip i the "big dog" in any fight. again the h Rev. Howard Lee Jones, D. D., tail" pastor of the Citadel Square Baptist only church in Charleston, is preaching a coat-t series of sermons on lawlessness in they general and in Charleston in partic- as th< ular. Last Sunday evening the days proposition was, "Wherever you find they < law-breaking to be the most sue- Ben, ^aofn 1 htiuinoaa r\r ovon a flmiriah. iftiuriw lng and profitable business, you have them diseased social conditions which prevent the best development of all Wc legitimate business." Dr. Jones is town giving the people of Charleston the N some good food for thought. If the this 1 newspapers of Charleston would week come out boldly In his support the Thos< law-breakers of that city would all one the sooner go Into their holes. sight '' ? THE LANCA8 8I8TENCY, THOU ART A TABLET I JEWEL!" * There was unvi } Yorkville Enquirer agrees Monday a nietnor The Charlotte Observer in the late Governor Hi) Lision that Governor Blease by his former puj his career to the newspapers bia Male Academy e state, which have been "in- principal from 18 ious, bigoted and unfair in of these alumni ( treatment of him." We feel states to do hone that this being so, the gover- of their beloved is well as The Enquirer, should The tablet is in off his hat to the press of building, which s i Carolina, for the making of of the building ii an illustrious career. We have Thompson taught, known The Enquirer to say Governor Thorn against the governor, but it is South Carolina's ii ing to note the entirely dif- both in the state t attitude it assumes toward though he was ue\ or Tillman, for whom it any office whatso sly ever has a good word, not- distinguished gi tanding all the senator has Citadel, in the cla for York county, especially in afternwards profe stablisliment of Winthrop Col- Arsenal and Ci that county's greatest asset. He was superintei instance, in its last issue The on the Hampton ti irer has the following to say of serving two term venerable and distinguished the state, he wai or: tant secretary of f all the charges that Seuator President Clevelan an has ever made, we do not his death he was 11 Tiber that he has furnished wh , w stronger proof than his own tony, and we do not look for ?* tae financial c stronger proof in the present New York Life In d in another editorial in the THF PHI1 issue the editor, in speaking , , There will in a certain railroad lawyer who ,, . ., ,, , , division in the ] 11 in the House and has prac, ? i i ... . . over the matter control of that body, jabs at , , ..... Islands in the ne\ enator again and says: We . , : reselltative Jones, no more confidence m him than ' , , . ! House committee ave in the ra .:oad lawyer to > . l we have referred." ls the author of a the way, who is that "certain ! their i?^ependenc ai lawyer in the House who NV hetheP U was t] ractical control of that body?" !lot' ,or tbo I nit : The Yorkville Enquirer "%.er the islands? 1 y for the good of the people Th,s ualr>' Pal< ? state, them and has spei ! same editorial further says, 000 on them sinc' do not think United States lliar>- standpoini >rs (referring to Senator Till- be turned over to should be allowed to run 1,1 ,We hav? been d making such charges for Pa' Besides, th buncombe and we would like I r' adj for s< 11 Rm } the Senator be made to put not b<> a balt shut up." How about the cer- ! ,ieve the brainy n railroad lawyer? He might ' ed th? pe"Ce CO :all upon the editor of The \ Ynited States kne ille Enquirer to do likewise. 1 dolllR when they 1 I the islands be am "HIT l>< Hi HOWLS." d Stales and we ator II. R. Tillman, after hear- ^"tlmenta! reason the Itembert resolution passed at b ,lst Ior soni? 1 e house, calling upon him to lire the evidence in support ot It.Xt lv It) I larges of corruption" in the '*or common iture. came out in an inter- ...'"Vn r> ' ' , . , Livingston Blase, < m which he says: "All of i,.ads the world, thing- amu.-e me very much, the oath of otllce -e i remember having used an him at his inaugui Bslon ?v.4 ago, which is ap- Ja*?ce .,b' s,:i , . , , as is the ininieiuc de to this case. *u is the hit peoples governo hat howls. 1 threw the rock contempt for the t ? discharge o: my duty, "tc. st'lt sworn in by a appears t?? us that If there is ,b'i P?ace- I ,i . . , Dispatch, og that ha> b< -ui hit. the sen... . , ... Governor B least is that anine, and we believe . ... ..... Big the <\aill|?!e a the investigation is finished. , ,, . . , , . , . . , I lllman, w ho did going to do the kind ot howlhe dog usually indulges in ?. ~ " .... , There will be baying the moon or trying to . . in these columns t i the sound ot a taetorv .. . , , i v- rr- M , M. D. Lee of the le. No, Tillman is up to his , , . . , _ . , and Industrial Sc anie ot making vague and in- .. . . , . ptipils, tor a conv te charges without proot to . .. ... . . ored farmers ot tli 111 lutMii. ?e are gian mat .., . ^ , on 21st Februar Rembert, Governor Blease's . . .. object ot the inee r in the house. has had the negroe8 to take mc ity to call the once mighty 8tay upon the fa an's bluff. In the "long ago." emphaaize one stt i Tillman speaks of. when he ,pp make8 ,n M enced his revolution to get large pepcent Qf y he charged "incipient rotten- geU,ng tQO much in the state government and an(] nQt enouRh >d at corruption in certain de- traJn|ng Most Q ient3 of the government, but grops ,oafinK abQ confronted, on more than one wrlte .. If ,,rofesi ion. by individual men upon 1 h|g race ,n th,8 cou i he had reflected, he always t,on of thp faot tb gled" out of it. But Benjamin Uon abovp a? p Tillman has at last been found n(>gro needH he w by the "wool hat. one-gallus most important w whom he succeeded in fool- For when thp npR] > long and we are glad that it he w|u flnd somp( even if they should have hpad and hands 'erred their trust to so great upon thp npgro f. lagogue as Coleman Livingston tbjs meeting e, because Blease will likewise, e time, fall to his level, as Till- Yesterday at t has done. I Discussions of \ social problems o Fort Mill Times says that features of the Fl or Tillman has been losing i Exposition yeste; d politically for years. "Old National Educatio i rs who supporimi una loyany prog rum. arrang > campaigns tor the governor- Mitchell, president and in his race for the senate of South Carolina st General Butler have let go dresses by men am old they then had or. his coat- made a long and Very true, contemporary, but rural conditions, to transfer that hold to the ers were Walter ail of Cole Blease, to which York, Miss Mabel are holding on as tenaciously W. C. Crosby of > ay did to Ben's in the good old J. 1). Kggleston c of reform. Rut in due time ers, trustees aud will forsake Coley, as they have county in the stat< and 11 other pestiferous dema- many remained in s who succeeded in fooling Day which is for a time. marks the close school for boys. s hope that those citizens of the and county who did not go to Congrat rational Corn Show in Columbia Our quarrel wit week will by all means go next Hill, Shelby, N. ( Don't miss the opportunity, small towns is n< a who have gone say that no have been notlflet should fail to see the great also have free d GafTney Ledger. i + J y V TER NEW S, FEBRUARY 1, 1! fN VEILED. 'j elled In Columbia ; FROM OTHER Pi ial tablet to the ________________ igh S. Thompson, w ,IU of the Colura- ,,7* ^'V""Bayi . of which he ... bll"d- but.tl,at no?exc 65 to 1888. Many be hard ?' hear""! ame from distant Tillman is missing a i >r to the memory c0iuinfoja week by preceptor. Washington.?Columbia the Taylor school tniuls on the site The man who is ah n which Governor for slights and insults of the fact that he desei ipson was one of Carolina Spartan. nost honored sons, and in the nation, Let's see: Is it Tilln rer a candidate for i reply to Blease or Blea ever. He was a reply to Tillman? We raduate of the lost track of this busin .ss of '56 and was ville Piedmont. ssor in both the Itadel .acadcmnies Rock Hill and Sumte: ident of. education taking the biggest slices cket in '76. After ?er at the Corn Show.s as governor of Journal. 3 appoirted assis- ? the treasury by Who is the guy who p d. At the time of In messenger? Don't i Iving in New York, once-?Spartanburg He mptroller, or head ~ , lepartment o( the Buraace Company. V"" ?< ? " A person without visib 7 ~ support, almost wlthoi HI 1 INKS. j8 a soc|ai menace; a, II probability be a which says to this cla Democratic party , get out" will be the b of the Philippine i doing so.?Kershaw Er v Congress. Itep- I - chairman of the | 'he Sumter county b on insular affairs, j cation, in co-operatioi bill providing for hirm demonstration wot after eight years, pwtment of agrlcultur lie right thing, or ,I,roP College, has arra ed States to take ,)loy a county agent to hey are ours now. 1 ,,lilto clubs, teach dotn< 1 $20,000,000 for and supervise extension lit over $500,000,- rural schools. This gei e, and from a pe- un,'er the direction o: I they should not a8e,1t of the farm d< the Filipinos un- ! bureau a"d Miss Edith in a measure re- College, the e natives are not K'r'H r'ubs in South Ca eminent and will ! W0I"h wiR begin Februar ... . ..... ......... i OM'iih lll.l linll Irtl illlU eC arious school and for the good of our per f rural life were selected one of the best iftli National Corn state, well trained 1 rday which was farming and is now i n Day. A special the government to est ed by Dr. S C. onstration farming stati I of the University state. I.et negro far ,, consisted of ad- from every section ol I women who iiave county February 21st, < careful study of Come one; come all. Among the speak- M. II. Page of New Principal Lancaster Noi Carney of Il'mols, dustrial School. Jorth Carolina and . ... . -r . I'orto Hire's New it Virginia, leach- From far away Port pupils from every reports of a wonderful n f? were present and that Is believe^ will v the city for Boys' the people. llamon T. ... . . j of Barceloneta, writes: held today and N i)tscovJPy Is do!. of the exposition work here, nt cured n tlnio* of tefflble cough also any brother of a s< uintinn*' his dhent id more tha h I ancaster Rock who T*d Fon my adV'' n Lancaster, hock thJg Aea^haediclne wil 2., and the other jn evcWjprug store in jw over, since we For thrwtt and lung tt I that Gaffney will ,B nothing better, a/! i ii t _ ii vlnce you of Us t wer lellvery of mall.? , ^ 00 Ouar?nt?/d b; ? Pharmacy and' Stfcndarc /, / ' century. We be- Ue prosecuted through? ten who coustitut- *'ie a^ent having been e tntuission of the 'ler ,u" t?rni Wth a hoi tv what they were 1 oue month out of the recommended that i ho,i(lay to be taken " he ne'xed to the Unl- terfere ,east with the x should not from jtpr Watchman, is part with them, I Lime to come. A I'AItMKItS' COWKNTIO III. \\ ??t?l?-?. The colored farmers or ,i \ariety POU?ty are culled to me? n\ e.'i el' ( olem.iu ' , ^ , of South Carolina. IUon at ' the chiet object is to discuss t! to supreme eou.t, , rial cm-torn, 'the ,nethorts of farming, t r." to show his 00rn clubs among the < tribunal, had him- and men, to test the ti hu young negro in fa y proximo. The home life, and to stop tink is to Ret the stnte to state huntinR Jo ire interest in, and ^'ocks. from which th< rm. We wish to K?lnK to the chaingatiRs itement Professor hy exposure are dying s s call, viz: "A brought home by thos< oung negroes are remained at home on th head education WOI"lt foe an honest ivin hand and heart desire to have thii f the young ne- school building wh? ut, can read and "*20 students now undei itor Lee can bring that these young nty to the realiza- hear successful negroe at "heart" educa- they have bought hom< Ise, is what the Kood bank accounts bj ill have done the out ?f the earth. A la ork for his race. ?' young negroes are ro s heart is right, much head education hing good for his enough hand and liea to do. We urge Most all these young nei irmers to attend about can read and wr convention as I am now organize the progress! m. ^,lii iiiS V ay 8 look in g ' ! 1 ^ J B If^l ian'8 time to W f Q J^C/jf T" llf! ise's time to l?| .1 I | | rLr?": tgarty r seem to be I*! SS?^ J in favor of |?1 , . A7o oneeverre agrancy law. , le means of V out tolling out oi it exception, > it round by roum id any town ! top who did not I ss "work or by round. The F etter off for } your FIRST dep iterprise. , conies easier. I* ! ! nnee nntl ecoiio/i oard of cdu- .. , , . ... tort able fortune i with the k of the de- : TU* n " e and Win- , Do 1 ()l,h nged to em- V ^[11^ organize to- v 1 li 1J 1 I l\ V estic science , * t t r work in the V Y\ A \ l\ it will work I 11. f the state CHAS 0 JONES. Hiionstration President. l'arrott, of y R. E WYUE. director of ' < Vice-President rolina. The *' y 1 and will ut the year, . ? r-'r ALLIES PLANNW twelve, this TO RESUME ItciiHiinrc .Armistice ami n Friday. I shrines and the sections I ing them. I). LKK. 1 ? _ ' i ne l'racean frontier Hi mal and In- forP.( with the exception of of Adrlanople practically Wonder. agreed to, as Turkey is 0 Ktco come leavo to the powers the d iew discovery Qf land on the right ha "^MarcTihan. Murltza r,ver' whIch cond "Dr. King's '8 known, the allies are si ng splendid accept. The question of ti le about five i8|ands also practically 1 s and colds, Rolved a8 the Porte Js rtl svere cold in .n 20 others, 'cave their settlement to th le. We hope 1 yet be sold W. N. Wilson has acc Porto Rico.'' position as master mechar oubles there . Atlas Mills, Bessemer Ci Wal will con-1 having resigned a posltlo It. 50c and I chinist with the Lancas V Lancaster ' Lancaster, S. C.?Textile I Drug Co. turer. /' " .. ? v.t wn DEp^l! j 1 jSlTlYmrv. . S|T I 1 LiiilfSli llANOTHER^f^,? \ * j&RD! FQRTUNrf i jSUCCESSM i V ^Sto money Ifov ea/*n : . > ' , % >ached the top of a ladder, with r a window, unless he climbed cf. No man deserves to he at the ! irttVO Lut? a ??* vut tins ana mail / irkey and to us for a frde list showing of extra the bargains w/offer. m some- I i 3 Vatican / JL ences be- XT / amount Name / tiling the 1 surround- Address i.... I tie, there- #... ... flj the town has been V "4 9 ready to 'a Usposltion # - **! monl. as me y?ur free list ?t re- || itisfled to built typewriters. ?e Aegean tas been S sposed to H le powers. |5|J.LCRAYT0N&C0. | teraHMUiH, 217 South Tryon Street, Manufao CHARLOTTE, - N.C. 'si % > aim lonestly climb the ladder round rIMST S Til I' town rtl fortune Is * osit. ISach round after that he- J I in ally, by patienee, perse ver- J riy you hare acquired a eont- ' [ ?. iJhis is how /5\'/iKV FOK- txd ed. / / I * hanking witty us. ? 5T NATIONAL ! 1 OF LANCASTER I 1 / EM. CROXTON. Cashier. V fij E CURTIS MAC KEY. J Ass't Cashier. J FIRE AT ST. GEORGE H| CAUSES LOSS OF LIFE J IV AD ' ,'1' Nl Woman is Burned to ? Death When Resilience of S. I>. Connor is Destroyed. St. George Special to The State, ve Turks Jan. 30: The residence of S. L. lomharil- Connor was destroyed by tire early yesterday morning, when an old vi l> ' 1,11 negro woman, Allie Dunnings by name, lost her life in tin- flames. Just how the fire originated is not known, i urt.i n 'pjlp only occupants of the house, bet ot tin sj(j,,s ??Mum Allie," was Mrs. Con** ^ 'nor and her daughter, Miss Lillie 1 '' lt,.' Connor. When they awoke the n 8 ta j w|joie house was on voioped^ " )0111 it was impossible for them to escapeV^ w ill In i ^||roUgj, one 0f t|ie floors, so it was ? (,H'1 I necessary to leap through a window vl 111 011 f II21 K I in order to reach a place of safety. o k Mon-! at Mrs. Connor made an effort to - 9 ! save the life Of "Mum \llln " I old woman evidently lost her head, clore the . , . , , , ^ K Which with her advanced age and B omentous 1 B . I consequently descrepit condition, \ veminent ,. , , .it impossible for her to escape. The \ oint note r . . , .. B ^ old woman, who was employed in the home, was spending the night there I , . because of the absence of Mr. Conurprlsing . , _ , ., . B . nor, who was in Columbia on busi Ions for . . ness at the time, who seiz- B ihouts of Tlie residence, which was a two- ? i marvel- 8tory structure, was situated on the lead of outskirts'of St. George, and the fact the ques- that the conflagration occurred at v Irianople, 8Uch an early hour, was the cause of >, which the lack of assistance in time to save >' Bulgar- any of the contents. The buildings ettlement and furnishings were partially cov- ^ and they erad by insurance. 1 > the dis- v Lancaster Leads. 3LE. ,-hat Con- ~ TaccC Typewriter Bargains! mall prompromue All Makes Rebuilt Constan- 1 1 he reten- and uuaranteed . . drianople | situated. | , . | Pill out tbm