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TUESDAY, APRIL H, UMd.
til
Other counties as well as ^
Spartanburg feel the need, so nf
i ptly expressed by The Spar- vc
tanburg Journal, of "more
drags and fewer brags." re
The Atlanta Journal remarks ,u'
that the Wilson administration (>
i3 unique for doing nuioh with
little noise. Of the Blease administration
the reverse is quite ?
as true, there is little doing but ?
much noise. x:
m;
The selection of Congressman ri(
A. F. Lever of the seventh dis- intrict
to be a life trustee of
Clemson College is an admirable 1 1
one. He is to become chairman
of the house committee of agriculture
in Congress and his ser- 1
vice on this committee will give t0
him a fund of information on ?
agricultural matters which will M
be of great service to the college.
tic
KEPI IT OUT. th
The Abbeville Press and Ban- L
nor, in advocating a dispensary ?n
for that county, uses the old sh
threadbare argument that po
whiskey handed over the coun- ly
4 j:. ..
tci ui <i uispeusury is no more 1
deadly than when it is handed j>j
over the counter of an express
office. Conceding this to be so
The Pee Dee Advocate pithily 1
remarks, "It is also true that a
bullet from the pistol of a home
man is no more deadly than one
from the cun of a foreigner."
(>]
But that is no argument why
we should not try to stop murders,
whether by alcohol or lead, .
fee
both from the outside and the ,
inside." j l*
We agree with The Advocate. j
If alcohol is a curse to our .. !
country, and but few in this en- .l"
lightened day will gainsay that I '
it is, it is the duty of all people j
who have the good of the state .
at heart to oppose its sale j 1 '
whether by bar-rooms, dispell-}*"
1 ' . , om
saries, drug stores, over the
counter of express offices or in . ,
r&ny Other way. So far the j
dispensary is concerned, the.
people o ^ i >111 h Carolina have!
but too recently witnessed its !
seething corruptions, its l>, neSlTect.
11>o . 0:11* ] M>j>|f The '"t
people of Lancaster county vol- . '
ed it out a lew yeai ago i>.v 7
or 8 to 1, and that. t<;<>, inune- ,,
diatel.v after its "daddy," Senator
Tillman, had boo h n- . id j
from a stand in the court h<>u (l|
yard begged the people to pare ,,
his child. No, blind tiger- are lei
bad enough, but tigers with ,n|
open eyes, backed up by the
* . * \v<
laws of the state are infinitely i(;
worse. But some may say w<- ,
need the money to pave 1 ;r i 1
-i. 1. - 1 i. ... ? . ... .1.1 I
?Ut't!lS Clliu I" euin;nu >;iii <iiudren.
Then let's be mci and
patriots and tax ourselves or
these things, rather th. get
the money bv debauch ng our u
citizenship.
A PITIFUL SPECTAF!,10.
The dispatches tell us that .n
international fleet of th?
great power, of Europe a r.ov
blockading the principal port of
the little kingdom of Monle- 1
negro, and all because th.it
kingdom, the smallest of the ;
allies, is about to complete th
lone task of gaining possession ;
of Scutari, -ml this, too. despite
the former attitude of t
?
THE
ie powers at the beginning of BLE
ie war that they would be Senat
inds off. It is but history re- wrote a
sating itself. At the conclu- Courier,
on of the war between China the ra
id Japan, Port Arthur and Blease.
re Hai We, in possession of with th<
ipan having been yielded up paper, s
/ China, were taken from the is that
ipanese, Port Arthur given days is
;er to Russia and We Hai We day. VV
? Germany, without rhyme or asylum
>ason sa\*e the reason of force, cock 01
ecause of their victory over there."
ie Turks, the Balkan allies are unkindei
ist as much entitled to Scutari governoi
: Ailri;mnnl<? mift the other Tillman
Lirkish cities that the powers vastly a
e willing for the allies to hold. Tillman
ontenegro has more claim to verse is
atari than the other allies to nient.
ie other places taken, because ? much
le has practically gotten he was j
thing out of the war so far, that are
t all the time has borne more his polil
an her share of the fight. In But ho
spouse to the demand of the the bei
avers that she cease her ef- brought
rts to take Scutari, Monte- want th
gro replies* "You may say daddy,
at despite the measures of Shame c
ercion taken by Europe treat
ainst her, Montenegro will fannhas.
eld not to violence. It rc- fhit
tins for Europe to add the . ^ hen y<
licule of armed force to her j next sur
justice." Durant
What a pitiful spectacle for more,
e six great powers of Europe will be
thus tyrannize over this lit-. show yo
1 kingdom. But the spirit of what dis
people, however small their ring."
untry, that would prompt 200 time coi
their soldiers to sacrifice old chit
eir lives in successfully ' penitenti
irming the principal fortifica- J of close
>n of the beleaguered city of
utari, cannot be overcome by LET'S
rse try nno ;s methods. Like:
pan, though cheated one time Congn
t of the fruit of her victory, ( prising
? will eventually come into which hi
.-si -:on of what is rightful-: from tin
hers. for the e
i building.
uva: drawings a crime. that tho
,, ... , , , , . year tov
It will he noted elsewhere in , .,
. , ; ol the ills
issue tluit the supreme i (.jv j
irt has declared prize draw- , ,V
. , .... unit mi
rs violations ol the law. 1 lie .< .
i will be
urt says. "Our statute makes , ... ,
, ? ; council,
t only the promoter of a lot- j
"V bllt t ln> iirlvpnl ni'Are in ii ...
|complish
ble to indictment. This de- jn(cres^
ion will have a wholesome ef- .
, . , /ens. L
'i, because the practice of ? >
, , IlavC a 1
idling of an article enables j|j
2 who has something on hand j()l j-. cj
it he cannot get rid of at a ,)e ^onat
r price to sell at three or four as a ^
ies its value. Resides it en- (ax mj^|
irages the gambling spirit of r'ent ex
tting something for noth- j ,,jan we
\" which dominates too many ;m(j j
id people as well as the l)?id i 'pj10 j.u|j(
>s* ciation h
dive the
NTIM-KS TO t l'HOI.I) r
MM. gether u
fhe Yorkville Knquirer sides j JS
h 'he governor and criticises j ,ron(itov
ai.- !\ the legislature in the ;
tter of the governor's bi ck- quarterg
: on -igt'bng the note to raise j( ^ k
necessarv funds to run the
I ? i( t ? W t
blic chools. In its last issue (tc..q
c Kn<|uirer says, among maintain
ler things: have wl,
"If the general assembly had
en broad and generous in the
dter, it would have either i"'u ,l'
t the governor off the com-1 the tov
.- ion or composed the com-, work of
--ion ot a pei sonnet that nent hoi
mid have been agreeable t o: . .
in. As a matter of fact Gov- . '
nor Rlea?e has never had any ; ans<>*
i-a of allowing the schools to j can be n
Vcr lack of the money. What which p
wanted most was to show jn t|H,
io state trea uror and the .
i:. j)t roller general that they l"1('
>uld not yet the money without such an
-ignature on the note, and public 1
or himself, he had arranged
rsonallv to borrow the entire
>0,000 on his own account and
t tlie chools have the use of A ' rl
'1 here may be a good deal and won
hild's play in the whole on ulo,i(.
, but in our view it is ( .ir
ir to charge it all against , r*M0
He gov rnor."
speaker
The legislature not "broad andiphyicai
enorous," eh? We suppose, 1 t'nris.
ontemporary, you mean as : fre<J
a i> 1 with t ?\breadth and ; |
"sit v of hi \Excellency, omen,"
he governor. V ' Raltimoi
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LiANCASTKK NEWS, APRIL 8,
ASK ON TILLMAN. (
or Tillman recently
letter to The News and ^
ip which he went for
ilroads and Governor ?jk
Blease in an interview f
e correspondent of that
ays, "All I have to say
the Tillman of former <
not the Tillman of to'hen
he visited at the
the other day Dr. Babight
to have kept him
Now this is "the most
st cut of all." The ^
r evidently thinks the ig
of "other days" was a
uperior person to the
of "today." The rethe
case in our judg- ^
rhe Tillman of today is
better man than when *)
jlaying the same tactics
now being played by
.ical son, Coley Blease. W-'fw
ungrateful is Coley, ^
leuciary ui coiiuiuuns 'fa,
about by Tillman, to
e old man, his political
put in the asylum. ?^2
m you, Coley, to tlius 2c
your political pater
never do you mind, j fi'fe\Y
ou take the war path
nmcr after the scalp of
Smith, the old Saga'Den,
the Tillmanite,">
ready and waiting to j
u that though "somefigured,
he is still in the , /Pi)
Yes, Coley, when the I {?/ c^
lies you will wish the
Lvf was in the asylum, j \J i
iary or any other place I
oonfinenient.
11A f D A LlitllAID .
TOO. (iOVKItNOIC 1(1.10
atulatigm to the enter-. sicp
little city of G&ffney, f
is succeeded in securjntr!Columbla DS?P?ul
^ Carnegie fund $7,500 "('ol,y lu ,lu'1
_ . ... squirm. We |>u
reetion ol a free library noso nII r,Rllt al
1 he conditions are ring. I mu not ;
city must give $750 a liis signing tin- no
vards the maintenance!10 mm anu
istitution. This li-is al
. i otnment <?i <,otni
ten provided for by a I w> Jones> thi8
il tax levy and a site shown the in
donated by the city uieaso gave out
What Gafl'ney has - nti-mont '?>"? >?
, signature t<? 11??
ancaster may also ac- , ,,
J the comptroller
with proper zeal andlgtate treasurer
on the part ol her cit/i- signed their name
et's get to work and The Palmetto II
ibrary building which I rt the governor
credit to the town. A n0? nego"a^'? ""
*, , . . , . along with the c
uf on .Main street might ... . , , ?
" ^ t and the state I res
ed by the town council j|ie note and the
for the building and a the note signed i
it be levied for the cur- ,< rs loaned the st
lenses. Whatever the sary for tho
... . , finish out their te
pursue, let s (ret busy an lntorvl
\Ir. Carrtegte to help ns. | (.,,argGd that the
?s of the Library As*o- erai. the state tr?
ave struggled and kept perintondont Ol e
nucleus of a library 10 """
i? r by hoping the
years and the dues to- )h(. uot(> ;nul ,hus
'till proceeds lroin \*ar- i^,. < losed the si-h<
11 entertainments have ' ply to this ?riti<-i
tards the purchase of j,roll<r ?eDora^ r
j a 1 . e 111 u noted w hen m k
md the rent ol srru !l
. st. toment to mas
1 hey have not cert
Mate Supermte
lay up anything. riwearingen was
t (link the? desert e til .T.ara teri/:Ui
credit for having nor. Said he;
ied the library as they j I'oiith have
h no outside assistance in ,hi- "> '
... ... , | he hail to -ign t!i
ve their eflorts shoind
or to bear the i
supplemental and that tlu. S(.hno)s> thr.
n should take up "he jcrazy foolishness
providing ior a perrna- aum . i am ? <
ae for the library. No lhat ,H' ',i<l so w
need could p'ussiblv ,
x, . " money could ha
No better investment withollt the go
lade by a town than one n<- waited a mfi
romptly pays for itself though i have a
enlightenment and cul- i,,,rso" fwin?
' its people. And lust
. ' the note wot Id
investment is a tree jto him ll(> lri
ibrary. :i\uu! ti'iig it.
5nt't ?. ii not t
. . .1 , ? v 101 ,ou' ? ?ler.
Ii.it t!ie (.ill- N I.
or ti e \ a<iuuisl
ain morbidness among girls from lj|(. rinK j
en. hich rests so heavily ; there by hi.- own
ru life, due to lack of ''The spleen a
and sunshine, according to the governor d
r Man ion of Nice, the chief I tried to defeat
at today's .<< sion of tin 1 x l>y vetoing tl
education congress in ( ly tlio leKisl.it r<
"Sun bathing, air bathing I 1 to. H<* t;. <1 t
;ent phy icnl exorcise in i ion of the l.i v
irmenta are indcspenflable row ti < n. >n<> 1
health and good temper in | li' has faih 1 a
' declared tlie lecourer^?' ,-?y of polite i
e American. 'cause the govoi
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1913.
" REPORT OF THE7'
If THE FIRST NA'
- Lancaster in the State of S
business, April 4th, 191.!.
Loans and Discounts
Overdrafts, secured anduneen
U. S. Bonds to secure circulat
Premiums on U. S. Bonds . .
Bonds, Securities, etc
Banking, House, Furniture ar
Due from National Banks (
O&A serve agents)
jS/I Due from approved Reserve
Checks and other Cash Items
?Jlam Notes of other National Bank
iHJ* Fractional Paper Currency,
rBk and Cents ;
T Lawful Money in Bank, viz:
Specie
Legal-tender notes
Redemption fund with U. S.
) & A urer (5 per cent of clreulatit
HU
:^ Total
*-r"L LIABI
Capital stock paid in
Surplus fund
Undivided Profits, less lSxpcni
National Bank Notes ou taudin
*7-7 -) Duo to State and Private Banl
'jsiis Bankers
Dividends unpaid
^ Individual deposits subject to
\ J Time certificates of deposit ..
Cashier's checks outstanding .
Bills payable, including certifi
for money borrowed
? Total
) STATU OF SOUTH CAltOLIh
County of Lancaster, ss:
I, 10. M. Croxtou, Cas liier o
solemnly swear that the abovi
of my knowledge and belief.
Subscribed and sworn to bef
f litis.
^ JOHN
/J Correc -Attest: Chas. D. Jo
(y Laney, Dictors.
? 'W- >?
ASK bition will probabl>
sS SCHOOL Noll-; oi his del!-centerei
"The scliool trusi
i 3rd. meet May ,r? to disci
try to twist and :l,,d Hehool tr
i the ring in ills ville irn ? t .May 7 t
nd a rope in the di-ce ion. I lie
a all surprised at . whoso schools may
t< . as we put it up , v- "ks longer :
id to come across. ,l|l *-'IC chief o>
lite gaff," was tlio benevolent interes
it roller C? neral A. forced to manifest
afternoon, when ! ?1 well are of their
torview Coventor j In similar vein S
accompanying his T. Carter flays th
had atllxed liis says:
note for $30,000, "The governor, i
general and the distorted the facts
Having previously j view is Hardly woi
s* i is a question as to
tank today inform- ; >'t his nose, but it
that the note was pose. The goveri
less signed by him eliaflng from liis fa
oinptroller general eomptroller gene
isurer. He signed treasurer in the ba<
Palmetto Bank on <Ioors, when he sent
?y these three olli- senate finance co
ate $30,000 neces- i that others be put <
mimon schools to committee in the!
rm this year. cause he went op
lew the governor senate and asked
comptroller gen- complied with,
usurer and the su- "If this last cii
duration had tried b- a sample of the I
tically in this mat- ' I"1 governor, he v
i lie wouldn't sign tinue bis school."
be able to say that After quoting a <
ols. It. was in re-' of Cashier Matthew
ni ttint the comp- to Bank, to him, ai
undo the comment to the attorneys c
i it he had any their reply, whirl
: stated that the not
intent of I'ltlucatioii binding on the stat
more emphatic in ^,e stdtc treas
on of the gover- general and the go
| lilease, in his Intel
not influenced my i , '' * 81I8tai"* a
tier. Finding that j n which 1 hnv<
e note for $30,000 . vvit- ",at ,!l? rr>l
reproach of closing :""1 slato Measurer
governor quit hi- whatever to borroi
and affixed his sig money for tho 8ta?
impelled to believe ,,na wIth<>ut the
ith reluctance. No I ^"^enco of tl
a ill claim that the : do,!S,l't ?"a??' a"y
ve been borrov/e I j comPtroller genera
vernor's signature. 1 lir< r' or *'? '8 K<)
>ntli to give it al- says tho three 8hal
-ked him oim e in ? ?
in writing ! 'end
Ho imagined that
never be pr" . .id'
led ever.- means to
Ills b-,ii fighting
lie slioct of t' o !e- J** ^
but the d?ii.y snort
led bull i.i:*er.|, Hon- F
* srr.1.'
",!l-v Firo, VVli
ii 'T bllliiiRsgnt. ,>i Counties.
(? not \ix mo. !i (
ror 21 yc
1 ol in force.
I <?i |-Hie inHurnnce
pa-- < <1 it over his request.
ii..- TT
'I 11.11111/ UIO v/|.' 1 .1l?y*
refusing to boro
inak?! It effective.
ond time. The
niftile simply bo nor
s political am- _
CONDITION OF
riONAL BANK M
iouth Carolina, at the close of
URCE9. VKS
$216,917.88 YB
J red 4.473.51 . (?' W
ion 25,000.00 1 '
id Fixtures'. !!!! ^OOO.'OO B jj
$9,486.74 ^ ' ,
Vgents . 20,118.33 '(jyu ? r*
3,029.21 j i ' * Y
k . . . . 2,330.00 I i p '
Nickels, j ' r
77.45 I
12.5S5.55 "? ^
500.00 jl " "' * ' " '4
Treas- ! 7- '? * ?
m . . . 1,250.00 49.327.28 V ' .:? 'J
$312,243.67 ? V '
LITIES.
* 50,000.00 , ,j | '
25.000.00 v '
*es and Taxes paid 2,300.30 ''
B 24.650.00 fej
Its and ^
$ 5.76 ,; * S*
.. .. 16.00 ; ; '
check 148,719.65 , ' . ? " " .
.... 50,544.30 i . v . J
. ... 1,007.66 200,293.37 . |
icates of deposit C/J'' t
>HAr- or
$312,243.67 i C/\b"tr
iA, .
f the above-named bank, do PAY
e statement is true to the best ,, ^
E. M. CHOXTON, Cashier. A
'ore me this 8th day of April, j ,^L
CRAWFORD, Notary Public. /
ties, J no. D. Wylie, W. F.
suffer because n majority thereof, and money that
1 statesmanship, ha been heretofore loaned the
tees of Audi rson state has In n an illegal transaction,
its this situation, ml the notes were not binding. I
ustees of Green- 1 < lieved tliis to bo the law, and I
o have the same notified the legislature in as plain
country people language as 1 could to this effect,
now run six or "Now some newspapers and some
should feel grate- people have been making a great to
" ' "U'l >?" III"- I IF .IIFVFUI n ll.ll till- |;uvi'lliui WOU1U
t he has boon tlo ami what, tho governor would not
in the education- do. Now, it is clearly in the hands
children." of the governor as to whether certato
Treasurer S. din schools of the state shall be
e governor, lie closed or whether they shall be run,
and tho comptroller general and
as usual, has so state superintendent of education
i that his inter- al,d "in state treasurer have abso*thy
of note. It . Intely failed in their purpose to
who put the ring close the schools and say the gov- t
served the pur- ?'r?*>r did it, in order to try to in- ^
nor is probably Ju'e governor politically. Now
ilure to stab the the Kovernor says to that: 'I have
ral and state taught you a lesson; I will sign
rk, behind closed vour notes. I will let the schools
. a request to the continue to run and show tho peommittee
asking P'e ol South Carolina that you did
rm tlio borrowing not lM|t ni,y rinK in my nose and
r place and be- that yon did not land me with a
only before tho r?PC.'
that his request | '\YS WOULD HAVE RAISED
MONEY.
reus performance 1 "If the money could have been
lessons taught by loaned without me 1 am satisfied it
.ill have to con- would have been done, and these
distinguished gentlemen would have
opy of the letter said: 'We got the money, the govs,
or the Palmet- ornor to the contrary notwithstandud
of the cashier ing. and we deserve great credit for
tf the bank and saving the little children,' but as
h, in substance they have failed I suppose they will
e to be legal and come out now and ay, 'We did it.'
e must be signed as 'Me and I let y killed the bear.'
urer, comptroller 1' Jones and Carter had r.m signed
ivernor. Governor it at all I was go!n<; ic? get the $30,9
view, says: "" 1 had a friend .vlio was gobsolutely
the po i.?g to let me have it I v. as going
> been taking; to to : apply this detici- ?: > to run these
inptroller general schools. Thirty thousand is much
had no authority to a poor m in like I am, but I have
,v any amount of <onie friends to whom it is a mere
e of South Caro- bagatelle. Now, since I have
co-operation and taught these gentlemen a lesson the "*
10 governor; it little children will not suffer, and \
difference who is when these gentlemen get on the
I or state treas- stump next summer, instead of holvernor.
The law lering ,'I,' they will have tlio privi11
borrow and not lege of saying 'me, too.'"
KMKltS' INSl'KAN'CK
II. McMaster, Insurance Commissioner, has
the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company
farm and isolated town property against
ad and Lightning, in LANCASTER and YORK
ompany has been in business in York County
jars and has nearly $ 1,000,000.00 insurance
The average eost lias been 30c on the $100.00
iter year. References will h< fnmtitiaii
-- uilJliUU VII
For tho present, address
D. E. HONEY, Manager, I
Yorkvllle, S. C. w
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