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ullfp iCanraatrr Ncuijb 1 (SEMI-WEEKLY.) / The ? ?f resoum JUANITA WYLtK. . and blc W. 8. HOUGH. . .Business Mgr. are gla *- - -- ? till* s f ' I PUBLISHKKS' ANNOUNtJ^CENTT CryinK Published Tuesday/ and Fridays at Lancaster/ g. c outlet . by The Lancaster Urubllshing 1,1 I,ar r>omnRnv successor/ to The Shortlj Ledger, established/1852; The killed I Review, established! 187*; The and m< Entb.prlse, established 1891, t , and entered ay second-class matter Oct. 7,/ 1905, at the fal1? d( postotflce at Lancaster, S. C., in the under Act fit Congress of Gf the March 3. 18^9. in the SUBSCRIPTION PRICK: South (In Advance.) *n One Year . /. $1.50 of vi( Hti MontLk 75c agains ?- '/ The lei TO SUBSCRIBERS. u , Your subscription must be t h ?l paid up to and Including year " marked on your label. If paper and al is stopped look at your date and once t you will probably find you are carryii behind one year. Coluni We cannot send each subscriber a statement. Look at 1U an Your Label. lMstol, - ter. v FRIDAY, DECEMBER I'd. 1013. "Soi ? try in fnr Cnillli Oil tile *? catuci ivirvani ivi uvuvu Carolina: Fair Friday and Saturday, from t praotlc ing pL Remember the Red Cross Seals ed, tilt and buy some when you do your strunie Christmas shopping. JH it acts covath Each year thousands of dollars are in bou: paid in this county for Western corn the h and hay which could be easily raised ^arolii ., . tlon oi on the farm. the ca, say thi With eggs selling at 35 cents a that oc dozen, the farmer's wife may well * >' of exhort their hens in the language of Shakespeare. "Lay on, MacDuff." instant nine ca The Albany (Georgia) Herald "Th< makes the pertinent remark that, "it is a terrible affliction to be so pistol i near-sighted as not to be able to see cealed. any good in others." Carolir permit weapoi Few of us will ever be known as nie rai; great philanthropists, but all may and ol< Bhare in the small but beautiful disrega charity instituted by the Red Cross Society?that of using Red Cross saving. Seals. son uu; the vio "Lancaster Leads" also in attrac- P1"'"*'* ed. tive show windows. Really we have "Mei never seen more artistic displays of is seen Christmas goods than those behind as. 'on' the plate glass windows on Main V-lv"" Rtreet. danger alike. Do you realize that thousands are wa8 claimed each year as victims by the )'7, great white plague? And have you humble remembered that you can help in the life ha fight against it by buying Red Cross present Seals9 1,1 the oeais- that ai stain tl Though opposed to many of the "Is i tactics of Mrs. Pankhurst, we yet and Nvish to commend to some who might n'lM" profit thereby her recent thirst strike . Such an example was well timed .hist before the Christmas holidays. Hon. of hou Now that the consumption of the date to necessaries of life far exceeds the onp production, owing to the influx of addrcs> population from the rural districts 'n ' '' to the towns and cities, causing high earnest prices to bo paid therefor, what a U,',!S 111 line opportunity for the man on the ,,H> 1,1 farm to mnke farming pay. opinion _ preserv Something like a quarter of a mil- '>?en u lion dollars worth of mules and horses have been sold on this mar- r?'umn ter the present year. Mas it ever oc- aro *'a eurred to the farmers that these an- '"K 'l'8 imals might be raised at home for at ' ( least half the price paid for those Pr?va" shipped in? state tl ; Human That it was the dominant person- ' allty of Roosevelt rather than ad- knows, herence to principle which led to the vrimlni organization of the Progressive 1th. party, is evident from the way the -sPep(>h: Bull Moosers are returning to Ite_ "An< p thlican ranks ('.tiring the colonel's an'j T <i n < 1 SJI absence. ternalii ? fretted ,, , .. . is Horn Mont newspapers are urging their , IIO 111(I I readers to "do their Christmas shop- 0f the ping early," thereby differing from that it The Henderson Cold Leaf, which niorf' H von kc * makes this comment: "Those who t ? tj go a little slow about their Christ- reconci mas shopping may find their purses dagger In better shape when Christmas is trigger ,, the era over- great C to take The Yorkville Enquirer, after quoting our recent reference to if s Solicitor J. K. Henry, adds this in caster praise of the able prosecuting attor- comme ney of this district: "And The News be gra is exactly right. Of course, we would not say that Mr. Henry is In- \ ce j. uili ? AL. _ . . _ m iaiuoie; dui mnre in ho question 01 to kno' his Integrity or ability, and with him enough as the prosecutor, the people of the Ket up ! state may depend upon It that this nias." case will be prosecuted. Whatever the outcome, we predict that there Do I will be no Just ground for blame on Chrlsti the solicitor. Also we will say that to say, Mr. Henry will prosecute the case nelgbb strictly on Its merits." The N< TH3 ME DEADLY PISTOL. I THAXK> crack of the deadly pistol is We shoi ling all over South Carolina ful slioul >od-lettlng still continues. We thanks to id to know that the press of dents wl te, with almost one chorus, is tributed out against it. The deadly new corr ended the life of a white man those of nwell just a few days since, helping u ..ft n.l.. M W ?>oa ? !?!/ ai vci ? uiun a uusuaiiu ? aa ucno u iu\ in his own home in H&tesburg, gathered. >re recently a negro, about his these friei >vork in a club in Columbia, assuring t pad in his tracks from a pistol are alway hands of the attorney general subscriber state, the highest peace officer hoods are commonwealth. The state of ularly, we Carolina is paying a fearful us regul human life from the practice want The elating the law of the state newspapet t carrying concealed pistols, every hap] gislature at its meeting in Jan. particular should pass a law prohibiting other and le of pistols in South Carolina little boos I peace officers should begin at a letter o enforce the law against neighbors lg concealed weapons. The while, niu bia lteeord in Tuesday's issue, begin to ti editorial entitled "Outlaw the We want " goes to the root of the mat- paper belt t'e nnote in nart from it: live in th jth Carolina, this entire conn- the remol fact, has supped to the full | county, blood that has flowed in rivers he one universal maniacal , ~ e among the people of carry- u itols. Concealed or unconceal- 'tshiotied > pistol is always a nimble in- a mtsdem tnt for homicidal execution, weapons," jculiarity of the pistol is that i,,..,... before it thinks. It is pro- J"uri,ai re as well as ready. It is with- stll,ute bo< nds to say that seven-tenths of of public oniicides that occur in South enforceme la are the result of the viola' the law intended to proliiliit Miss > rrying of pistols. It is safe to ' at one homicide in a hundred ... , cur through the instrumc ntali-! the pistol is unavoidable and issary. In. other words, where le r?" tol saves or protects life in one State of A :e, it sacrifices it in ninety- surprise t< ises. bride here 3 state of South Carolina has Miss IV ly placed on its statute books 'OKrarn, b< making it a crime to carry the y?stei or other deadly weapons con- *Jev* Geor, And, yet, the state of South manse la licenses, or authorises or hyterian s the barter and sale of these Rro?m hav is to every class and degree of an.(' ik and file of society, to young . , ^ w I, white and hlack, in farcical v 1 "g in >rd or contempt of the purposes ich its own statute was made otton He| ovided. For it goes without Statistic that to sell a pistol to a per. merit of cc authorized to carry it involves to be lation of the law, as it is im- year in Lj al to carry a ptstot unconceal- with the s Number 1 and brethren, no man's life December re, no woman or child is safe, lime last j t as pistols are distributed t practical restriction and carried among the people. The m strikes at high and low I In Barnwell the other day it I V e life of a prominent white I that was suddenly sacriticeil; ^ 141m bia it was the life of an S j 4 negro. In neither cast could I vr been taken but for the I e of the pistol. And so it is I great bulk ot the homicides & inually saturate our soil and I lie fair name of the state. I t not time to respect the law M nlsh the pistol in fact as in I VI.I I! OF III MAN I,IFF. WC*MM Mendel I.. Smith, speaker of so of representatives, candi- \\r< r governor of South Carolina. roa'l? of his eloquent and forceful hit VP ios, hefore the Lodge of Flks \\r( arleston Sunday, made an mark appeal that the fraternal or. facto the state lend themselves to j j ouldiug of a sounder public S yv.j especially in the matter of I ?6|i ing human life. We have I I t I i^um mi- mailt"! ii|n?ii nit- tit.of our people through those s from time to time and we . , d that Speaker Smith is lendi <)I influence to awaken our peo>the frightful^ conditions that No greater evil exists in the price tan the thirst for human blood. everj life is about the cheapest ?* n the state as Mr. Smith well being one of the foremost JH * il lawyers in the commonWe quote In part from the >tlier condition is the wanton ckless disregard for the value ???? ru-ity of human life. Let frasm be a force to quiet men's nerves, to teach men that it W"1! ething to take a human life, [ a tter how justiilable the stress moment may make it seem; is just as honorable?nay, ^ o, to forgive as to take rethat it is just as brave to ex- " ie open hand of peace and liation as it is to thrust the T7011 , launch the blow, or pull the Jf w Human life Is sacred from | idle to the grave and only the SliOl !/trl u-hn tynvn It huu tlio rltrltt ! 11 away" sati anta Claus would bring I,ana real, sure nuff chamber of rce our Christmas wish would 81V0 tlfled. OUR F rtaln Georgia paper Is puzzled strate 1 w "where Cole Hlease will find POPP i convicts In South Carolina to a pardon bunch for Christ- 1 It now?we don't mean your WF\m ? nas shopping, but had started you should stop reading your or's paper and subscribe to ?ws on your own account. j S LANCASTER NEWS, DECEMBER 1 TO <*OKRGPONDKNTS. CAN YOU DOT ilil indeed appear ungrate d we fail to express our when the Proof Can be the several correspon- . vest! gated. 10 have recently conto The News. The When so many grate espondents, as well as this locality testify to b longer experience, are from Doan's Kidney I s give our readers much doubt the evidence? h would otherwise not bo n<>t far away?It is al We appreciate the service door. Read what a res ads of ours are doing us, falls says about Doan's hem that their news letters Can you demand mo s welcome. If any of our testimony? s see that their neighbor-I Mrs. Ida Barton, 11 not being heard from reg- Great Falls, S. C., says hope they will secure for t',at Doana Kidney Pi ... fective kidney medicine ar correspondents. We me a world of ROod News to be a representative that they will be just \ in which is chronicled to other people who tal pcning in the county. Your nuite awhile, I was botl and nervous spells, section is as good as any jmd pajns my sides a can be made better by a jnK Doan's Kidney Pil ting 011 your part. Send in I got a supply. I hi soon, telling what your them long before I was are doing that is worth For sale by all deal* 1 others will Immediately cents. Foster-Mllburn ike notice of your progress. Now York, sole age the people to feel that this United States. nigs tothem, whether they ^ . Remember the nai e town of Lancaster or in . . . , . . and take no other. est section of Lancaster ______________ AN ORDINAL hat has become of the old law that made it at least At a meeting of the eanor to carry concealed of the Town of Lance: asks The Greenwood 29th day of November, The law is still 011 the lowing ordinance was pi eks, but there is a sad lack Be it ordained by tl sentiment necessary to its Aldermen of the Town nt. S. C., and by the aut same: >IIN JONES MARRIED. Section 1. That nn Mayor and six Aldermei J. W. Ingram of Kershaw - . a rLast Tuesdav of Lancaster, S. C., to i^ast l,,rs<la>- period of two years coi lowing from The Columbia flrBt day Qf January. 1 Wednesday last came as a heid at the Council Cha a the many friends of the Town on Tuesday, the in Lancaster: December, 1913. Th I. L. Jones and Mr. J. W. opened at 8 o'clock a. ath of Kershaw, were mar- cioaed at 4 o'clock p. n rday in Columbia by the oPr 9 That at said ge A. Blackburn, D. I)., at 1 ahall alao be chosen of the Arsenal Hill Pres- 1 Commissioner of Publl church. The bride and the Raid Town of LanCi e a host of friends in Ke | for ^j,e term of six year all over South Carolina. , 0f p Jones, whose I spend their honeymoon j pires. Tennessee." i Sec 3. that e. c. I Hunter and T. B. Craij |M>rt ! or Lancaster County. are hereby appointed s furnished by the depart- 'said Election and dire nnmerce, show the follow- I quired to conduct the sa the crop report for this ance with the requirer incaster county, compared Done and ratified the ame time last year: ' above written, of bales ginned prior to ERNEST MOO! 1. 1913, 19,571. Same John CRAWFORD, ( ear, 22,461. i Clerk and Treasur 1st Call for Coal Si Jlouit r&mmwmmmmmmmmmmmmmasmMmmBBmmmmmmmm t nnt oiMtii iDi/1 no ^ 11 . IKi VV \4V VV& I I 1 1 I IV. VI W V( U I %Y V/V^l IIW sing to clean up all Suits we must take a big lo decided to take this loss before Xmas and no 1 have divided our Suits into three lots an ed them in most cases at considerably less ry cost. <o. 1 consists of 24 Suits, blue and black Serj ncy Mixtures, former prices $12.50, $13.7 5.00, to close <o. 2, Fine French Serges, blue and black anc xtures, former prices $18.50 to $22. se STo. 3, Fine blue and black and Fancy M merly sold up to $27.50, to close ?ne charged, sent out on approval or altered * s. VVe positively save you from $3.50 to $ r Suit. E. CLOU K. B. ROBINSON, Manager. r Christmas Cool want only Flour of qu 1 as will be found in the on,""Vesta,"and"None B< nds, which are handled < dy by us If you have 'LOUR you are convinced ; if not, a trial w :hat our brands have no equal. Our prices ar C BOTTOM." Two cars just received. Give B. Roddey & (On the Corner). 12, 1913. rBT IT? v*>>> ?>>>>>?>? so Easily In- J VC eneflt derived / Mils, can you * V The proof Is * \ Ident of Great y wfrj vV^vi i Kidney Pills. J Imlk^ ^faJsLmK. re convincing ! ! Hampton St., ! ! wmuNlfeMfai^'-ill "l ean say *1 lis are an ef-i , 'W'iJrejjWf *; |j| >. for they did fSIW/lTOlrJ;t j! I am certain 1 . m Jf f?BJjJfjp as beneficial ,e them For ; AOUC Xfr^*Mki irred by dizzy # p . ^ JT\ U., ; <:!:n/ ja jsrs&i i fAa&mt Is advertised,! ' j? # ? ;"U0' l"kon trip when yoi ?rs. Price 50 A _ _ .. Co., Buffalo, * flCt]/C I7iO/I@y 3 ,or ho| j //?//<> Bozwt me?Doan's? , , , , "All work and no play make; > body likes to take a trip. It hi , _ I something to think about, a J money tucked away in the b? ..1 >! find time to take the trip, it <nvn .. . some nice clothes and make t 1913 the foi-1 without that money, your vaca ' i >: at home. issed: le Mayor and M I)o YOUR banki of Lancaster, , _ . _ _ . , , horitv Of the v We Pay 4 Per Cent Interest, election for ????^_ a or the Town V rTM * 1^. T "?etor. > The First Na mmencing the 914, shall be J .rabers In said * /"\i? i a Mf 16th day of Uh L.AINL.e polls to be m. and to be '? C. D. JONES, R. E. WYLI President. Vice Preside election there by ballot one y __________________________ le Works for V* aster to serve a I n (ho atofl H term then ex- MONEY TO LOAN. Secrest, I- T. j prepared, as heretofore, I be and they 4 .... . .. th Managers of to negotiate loans of $3 00 and upicted and re- wards on first mortgage on improved w mi in accord- cotton farms in Lancaster county, on w aents of law. iOI1g time, repayable in annual inay an \e.ir gtanment8 at 7 per cent interest. RM Mnvnr No commission charged Onlv n small fee for furnishing abstract of i er. title. ' R. E. WYLIE, Attorney-at-Law. j h. lits Great Closin: < AT S Allison ^ For the next 30 days tafter. entire line of up-to-d * than I area ly reduced price* ?es and be sold regard less of < 5 complete and we are ^o?7o ii i Fancy ceptional bargains lr .$'13.75 tions, Shoes, Hats, C! ixtures, I Below are a few of ou .$18.75 9.oo'on Special Closin r Men's $3.50 Shoes B Men's $3.00 Shoes Ladies' $3.50 Stroutman Sho Men's $5.00 Bion Shoes.. .. ihhm Men's $4.50 Bion Shoes .... Men's $4.00 Bion Shoes .. .. I Ladies' $3.00 Stroutman Sho< Ladies' $2.50 Stroutman Shot / nil Ladies' $2.00 Stroutman Slio Ladies' $1.50 Stroutman Sho Misses' and Children's She Men's $18.00 and $20.00 Sui' laiity, Men,g ^15 00 and ^1G 50 guit! "Sen- Men's $10.00 and $12.50 Suit affpr'' Men's $0.00 Pants Men's $5.00 Pants 5XClll- Men's $4.00 Pants tried Men's $3.50 Pants ... , I Men's good Pants ill demon 1 rnL a /\L1 TT?4- 41*^ V e as usual, xu? vucoiciuciu xiai, tuts l ! us a call. cost. Space will not permit us t( line, but join the procession ? Allis i * I s Jack a dull boy." Every "ightens us up and gives us ! nd if you have got some >; ink. so that when you DO y will buy some tickets and hat trip possible, whereas, tion would have to be spent y ^ ing with US. J , Compounded Quarterly * V HIB ______ V V tional Bank \STER. t K, E. M. CROXTON, * nt. Cashier. J L U # Tax Notice. The books for collection of Town axes are now open at the office of le Clerk and Treasurer In rear of 10 First National Bank, said taxes ill be collected until December 31st, ithout penalty. JOHN CRAWFORD, Clerk and Treasurer. lo ?~ure a Cold In One Day ike LAX ATI Vlt 11ROMO Quinine. It stop* the iugh and Headache and works off the Cold, ruggists refund money if it fails to cure. W. CROVr. S signature on each liox. 25c. g Out Sale 5 Bros. we are offering our ate merchandise at >. Everything must cost. Our lines are offering some exi Dry Goods, Nolothing and Pants, ir g Out Prices $2.75 $1.98 y es $2.50 $4.15 $3.98 $3.10 js $2.25 !S $1.90 es $1.49 es $1.16 >es cheap. ts $13.00 3 $11.00 a $7.50 $4.40 $3.98 > ?J>?3.ZO. $2.00 98c to $1.76 >cst Hat on earth, at actual ) quote prices on our entire tnd meet at oil's j