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w 4 I ?ljr Caiuaatrr ftruis (semi-weealy.) CHAS. T. connors Editor , R. E. WYL1E. . .Acting Editor L. C. BOYER Manager j PUULISUEKS' A N N Ol'NCE MEN T: Published Tuesdays and 1 Fridays at Lancaster, S. C., ( by The Lancaster Publishing Company, successors to The < Ledger, established 185.2; The , Review, established 1878: "he Enterprise, established 1S' 1, his fi"' .u. , vh 11 he umlt i . es . to pa> ' lis negro cha . eur| after V onvict ?n 01 ? >.> ing th" ; <1 limit in Columi .1. The gr, . i i ique ' in >1 affect? 1 a? t.h " 11 1 u1.." rr little he he taker has be- r , at' hi? ncj: autom*'' i j, i 1 body is v <i it v 1 governoi ( c. ana entered as secona-cinss matter Oct. 7, 1905, at the postofflce at Lancaster, S. C., l under Act of Congress of j Match 3, 1S79 j SLBSCKll'TIOX PKICK: (In Advimce.) One Vear ?S I .AO t SL\ Months 7.">r ^ FRIDAY, MAROll 1 i Charleston should see to it .? that Secretary of the Navy Daniels does not meet with any i bath tub accident while on his t otlicial visit to that city. 1 c By the way, isn't it aoout time for Anderson, the Rock ; Hill Buggy Company man. to , commeiko the movement again v for the reduction of the acre ye v of cotton? And "my dear Appelt*' r- :< :> v sidered the matter of running ( for Congress in the first cor.-. * gressional district. Doubtless he wished to continue in the ( senate alongside of "Curly- ? headed Johnnie.'* 1_ 1< Mr. Farmi r, don't plow your I ground too wet. You may be h inclined to do so because it is F somewhat late, but there - < plenty of 1 ime yet to begin and j f very little is to be gained by | $ plowing the ground when it is 1' too wet, l?ut on the contrary 0 much is to be lost. 1( t Two white men have recently p been convicted of murder in the g first decree, one in Chesterfield ff and one in Kershaw county. 44 and sentenced to the electric chair, which shows that an unmistakable reaction has set in against blood-letting?and it is certainly time for it ' o Charleston is not bothering P herself about the W'abb bill, or * any oilier liquor bill. It doubt- '' less makes very lift I * difference 0 to the city by the se.i what kind !1 of whiskey bills are passed. |? state or i. 1ion.il, she will eon-,f tinue to dr business .t the same I r old stand. I" Senator Tillman, s >me years t ago, when t Republican Congress was mi a ting a high tariff, t gave ntlei !) ( to ih ? sentiment ; that, while 111 ? st" ?l ug was g<>- x ing on hi believed m getting <\!I > of it he could for his state, j This may be a potent reason 1 j why t he Democratic senate' t caucus is hesit h ing about pfft-'*; ting him -tl t)i ? he . I of ore of t the most import nit of the sen- t ate committees 1 Senator Tillman is very se- ' vere in his strictures on office seekers, when he conm res: them to "Wild ^es of *;he ' desert" being 44athirst , hungry." The senator, arm a ( continuous uninterrupted in . i 1 of 22 years >n high and r; tive offices, po siblv lias ; >tten the times when h w. ferously preaching I'otat. in office arid clamoring "or a p< iical job him. ell . A fell . v-feel-| ing should , tie- hiiti wo: rons kind. The gov rnoi ol South .o-. lina is hut carrying out his , elect to: ,1 ?mise of sticking by 3.75 lor exceeding the speed j the shipn init while driving the gov-; state, rec rnor's automobile. We will' gress, in ->ok forward to the reading of the expri his elaborate defense with a the passii Teat deal of interest. We sug- to recen est one "pint" that The En- But the i uirer could make, namely that meani the King can do no wrong." 'all liquor subject t< TAKES WATER. 1 mined ml South Ca The Charlotte Observer, while j in ten ubilating over the report sent j jjM ut by its Washington corres- jjondent that Simmons and tjiere is t )verman, the two North Caro- uji ina senators, were on the look ...... i iut for the Sooth's shore of ariff favors, had to take water sej/A,tj un n account of these two sen a- 0(j jn^() tj ors sending out a denial of the si^nee eport. Nevertheless the Char- _ itte paper says it does not THF C weaken in its insistence that Judge he North Carolina senators t, ind representatives get all the w. ariff favors . . . that can e state >e secured for the state." And p()(ont ( et The Observer is wont to ,)liml tijf( >ose as a Democratic newspa- jn^. 0j- ^ ier. The Democratic party Is Thi<; put dodged to a revision of f^e j ariff downward, and, notwith- j*r()Wns (j standing the persistent opposi- (jrj|1j<er ion of certain newspapers wm ceaS( lassed as Democratic, has t..in.v pjv icen struggling for the accom- e|ernent dishment of this very thing. w|1jje ,n, And now that an extra session to shape >f Congress is to be called by Hir newly elected Demociatu overy mi President for the purpose main- emrjovec v of reducing the tariiV, the j^n, ,r: m.( Charlotte paper is clamoring for I Carolin;. the onions, garlic and flesh pots \, of Egypt. Now the Democratic . ,,vido on party, which lost out sixteen! years ago because oi it.^ lailure \\ 1) < to give relief to the people from! It i< ' high protective 1.tr:M upon <(>i. ;!! which the trust- and s]iecial in- /;de-. ? 1 tcrests fattened, has been in- ?.<, . trusted with the reins o! gov- js oi c o crnmeut eg dn on it - promise to from i revi e the tarifF downward, j the lore So it i no v time for all good , Potter s< men, and newspaper- a. well. to Put Soul come 1 o mo am 01 me party. for(l to 1 this tiirii In Richmond it was "to holl j work, th with the constitution." Now it times di is a threat to p"t the city of occupied >ia undor martial law, of hi- r : cause T i M .j ty'fl negro '-at on r urn of ".7-" bv the authorities j1 for i: 'ii!.'* 1 ?yr.' >1 the sp'< ! ( limit. We wonder where and q h< u he will 1 mak loose next. < 1 / > _ X' -f!' THK ALWAYS TO THE RESCUE-, j PRES There are two individuals in the state, one its governor and Presid? Lite other the senator from u formal Marlboro, in whose behalf The says: Vorkville Enquirer is ever ready "One c to do battle. In the last issue . ac*n af that paper it takes the side serve the 3l* Senator McLaurin in his on- ter repl daught on the legislature in his South Ai Elarvie Jordan letter, saying i.n every unong other things, "We are wa-v ^le , , common lot prepared, nowever, 10 say ^%vo cont hat the senator is not more sire the han half right in his character- standing zation" and that it believes hat what the senator said "is (U*t rue, since he was on hand to statemen 'ace the music, it must be taken There or granted that he was pretty it lincere." amity an The sensitive Enquirer takes should e: imbrage, too, at Reprssenta- tries of ive Lilcs' statement that "thej gouth Ai darlboro senator s record as trast was ixposed by the Hearst Maga-! Mollis W ine. should keep him from cast-, Mexico, i ng stones at others," and re-! pected of orts by saying, "All our lives | comfort so have observed that people when th< s ho are resting uniUr the com- threw th nission of notorious offenses of qq10 cori s'hich the public is more or less \yjiS(m s] ognizant, are very charitable j ;mfi if he o those offenses, as well as anj T)iaz ery careful about making i no^ <;top barges that invite the bringing1 tion Gf t 1' the subject into the light." j president We look for at least a double- \)e recant ?aded column editorial from man appC 'he Enquirer in its next issue _ acking up its friend, Governor Til 'lease, in his threat to put the There ! 'apital City under martial law of com us or fining his negro chaufteur j the Webl LANCASTER NEW S, MARCH IDBNT WILSON'S I STATEMENT. FROM 0 3lit Wilson has issued : statement in which he aV' Marse W oe little pone.? if the chief objects of linistration will be to What a the friendship anil de- Bryan's. The i confidence of our sis- the Demoer iblics of Central and years and ye merica and to promote ?Anderson ] proper and honorable interests which are , . . Londc to the peoples of the af'vising Wil inents. 1 earnestly de- e United S ; most cordial under- a crjtic is i and co-operation be- -save ia bis ? peoples and leaders of lanta Journai and therefore deem it ? _ y to make this brief . Smith Can f? to the ' "e ... , , Chief if is no jingoism about qlljrin<r breathes the spirit of Gf liquo. sni d pood fellowship that companies to s:ist between the coun- dig determi North, Central and ':lv- s constit T postpones th nerica. In striking con- charlotte Ob > the attitude of Henry ilson, ambassador to Every stab who is strongly sus- Augusta CI having given aid and represented to Huerta and Diaz |jon except ^ ? .. Chronicle lor cy successfully over- ..emulation e Madcro government, conference w iduct oi Ambassador ' several year hould be inquired into Journal. winked at the Huerta! , ... ... \\ e learn conspiracy which did , Transcript th even at the assassina- | be in the acc lie President and Vice guration a di of Mexico, he should j5US wbich s *> ? "lort; worthy p^enV'X.'t nnted in Ins place. agreed as t< was most cc E WEEK HILL. absence of it ;eems to be a good deal celebration i ion about the effect of 1 Nomocracy i.ii . ,, , and Courier. ) bill, especially as to lent of liquor into the entlv enacted bv Con- i"~ view of the fact that \ss company has since ige of the law refused ;e or deliver liquors. mm ict is perfectly clear in i 4 & ing. 11 merely makes m* shipped into the state t j 3 the laws of the state el.v on its arrival in hhi rolina. If it is ordered ded for personal use it hie to seizure, otheris. This is about all til tit 0 the law. Before the . , 1 became law contra- SI OCT! or under the interstate lnnk i law could not be til it had been deliver- the 1 ie hands of the con We are USES OF CRIME. Voile f in bio ob I /a v.<wt> ... ...^ ui pricei nd jury, mention of is made in our last is- Good as *d that the three most nicei specis ?;mses oi crime were i*r whiskey, the carry- Big line pistols and ignorance. anteei s the matter in a nut|)L hen public sentiment x- f a ever c own upon the whiskey hvtio and pistol toter, they ter, s to drink whiskey and \\ dols and the ignorant aSi?( will follow suit. Hut speck adding this sentiment the conduct of the so- This is respectable element. Come *ans possible should be cia' f i In nnllnrtitnn !-??> .i .. . ~ Y We are e that prevails in South sprin and the best way to for s by passing a state-' from lpulsory education law. ^ Never I A N'T. SPARE HIM. P?dema aid that President Wilolfer ('apt. W. K. (Monitor of The State, the Ask to ninistor to Cuba, which the best, considered White ' it),,' ' ary standpoiut, of ign appointments. No CHILD lectio?, could be made, ihg 1 in h Carolina cannot af- aru' ' ose C atain Gonzales at, e. it is doing a great " e sai: e tedious and oftseoi , iging \vo;f<, which the mind and heart I . nartyred brother. The I I say in, ] C pt dn Gon- P t i ed. him ' KlF touch o' prohibition 8 II South Carolina k<n.- - I Observer. I - i* > ? mmmm JL 14, 1913. ' : fAViMVa'/ ' ' " ' IHER PAPERS :Y'tLL1 m press is already son on how to run tates, showing that * v lot without credit V own country.?Atilina w',!1 i .d 1 . la! me U'st, alter an. y . , ~ { > 1 Gary's order re- ? continued delivery >; ." ?{ \pments by express y ''1 individuals pend- y -.yy" \tfi nation ot' the new V v utionality at least I ' e critical time.? * !*< ^ ~~~~ I*. e in the Union, The j y ironicle says, was * Areyov at the inuugurn- >! i ti{? failure 011th Carolina. The I; .t//:s'r />e?j gets that our rep- * A/().\/ir i it the governors' amhlo yot as enough to last ; will >>1v'c. v >. G 1 eenw o o d y //j von<*c*o, >: i / / from The Boston I ? , . "< ?\ e />.'! v ? lat there seems to 1 ounts of the inau- v flfercnce of opinion I' T state had the larg- ' A Alt; X at ion of the militia ] all accounts are j v 3 the state which j >1 C///15 o jones MISpiCllOUS by the Presia s soldiery in the j y r f wylie, of the return of \ ' vice-Presi to power.?News Big Va 'RING MEI now have on display a we invite your inspec able time and thought will convince each a UGHT GOODS AT FANCY VOILES showing1 a beautiful line of fancy for early spring wear, special 1 at 12',21*. 25c and 39c WASH SILKS nsortment of Wash Silks, nothing for spring waists or dresses, il priced at only 25c BATISTE ol white and mack Hatiste, guar(1 to wash, special priced at 1 Oc, 1 -1 >, 15c and 20c :iU ALES ANI> LIN LI I A.MS lefore has there been a better colli of these poods shown in Lancasipecial priced at 8Vic, 10c, Li'/jc HUE AM) COLORED P. K. ntment of white and colored P. K. il priced at 12' i c, 15c, 10c and up to 10c REPPLETTE a new material out this season, s in stripe and solid colors, spericed at only 15c LINENS showing a big line of Linens for p. These goods are very strong pring wear and are special priced 10c to 50c the yard H E AND COLORED POPLIN lave we shown so strong a line of These trends are verv much in nd and we have them from 10c to 39c vard SKIRTS see the new styles in spring Skirts, we call your special attention to ne we are showing at $5.00 Wash Skirts, special priced at $1.00, $1.39, $ 1.50 and $2.00 KEN'S AND MISSES' DRESSES e of Children's and Misses white fancy wash Dresses, special priced ly 50c. $1.00 and $1.39 _____ 0 _________ T. wi spur (P ( J rr~~?- lil J * ' ?) | | :-xkSuccess M I mamk. - v* *riJ *o * HP / . : 'timer T A2.iv V '"V w. *S. tVf t !,.? rt isvjrico niiu iiivii>c jruui mspcciiuili opts* cial priced at ...S3.50, $4.00 and $5.00 CHILDREN'S FANCY AND WHITE SOX See the line of Children's fancy and white Sox. Prices 10c, 15c and 25c MEN'S DRESS SHIRTS Just received our line of Men's Dress Shirts, made by Geo. P. Ide Co. We call your special attention to this line. Prices $1.00 and $1.50 TAILOR MADE CLOTHING Have you ever used a tailor made Suit? If not come and let us make you a suit. Workmanship and fit guaranteed. Prices from $12.50 to $40.00 ROYS' SPRING SL ITS Our line of Roys spring Suits are here and ready for your inspection. Prices * $5.00, $6.00, $7.00 and $8.50 MEN'S HALF HOSE 50 Dozen Men's Silk J lose just received. Comes in black, navy blue and tan. This is a 50 value, but as long as the line last we will sell them at 25c Come early. f&L LADIES' LISLE HOSE ' 25 Dozen Ladies' 25c Lisle Hose, comes in black and white, special priced at only 25c __ T" ~VT ' 4'TT""\ v r- 11H 1 J > BLOCK ' *mm * n *?? . r i r thinking SJiccc.ss ur zire you think *V /1' you arc thinking m/ocoss, von rf/# />y honking *01110 money, heeo ii.se* * rs '/ ///; /i7:V 7'(> S/.'Cl/iSS. /f w*/// > 1 (o i?rus/) zi gooil /uis/nes.s e/iuuoe; if 011 hotter stood inu ami hcttcr credit V titm unity. V >0 1'f)lllt htmking with US. [tec cent interest on sovings de/iosits V V ?irst National Bank j OF LANCASTER. \ f ?. CHOXTON. Cashier. [ E CURTIS MAC KEY, 1*1 dent Ass't Cashier I*1 j ?Bjfuiwjj mm Lfrtr?v^iaMUWiu ufe* .. win ftmiiirt >1 lues In RCHANPISE line of Spring Merchandise ^ tion. We have spent conin selecting this line and a nd every one that we have THE RIGHT PRICES 1, DUTTENHOFER OXFORDS We now have the exclusive sale of the noted Duttenhofer Oxfords, Pumps and Strap Sandals. This line is regarded as one of the strongest lines and are known for their style, comfort and wear. Prices $2.00, $2.00, $2.7$.5.00 and $3.50 I. E. FRENCH & KNOX OXFORDS FOR MEN We are now showing all the new spring