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Thb LEDGER. 1 h S. Ca,rtt?r, EDITOR AND \t \NAOKU. <T WEDNESDAY, JANUARY, It), 1001. Certainty Iletter than Severity. We have believed for a loni; titne that the state of South Carolina 1 would secure a greater number ?>f : convictions for homicides, and therefore d > more to stop crime, if the death penalty were abolished or ir the law would recognize more degrees of homicide than simply murder and manslaughter. There ought to be two oa three degroo* or murder itself, with llio privilege to tho jury of finding the degree. As our law stands, the jury is often shut up to the necessity of finding either murder, the punishment of which is death, or "not guilty.*' In such instances the jury will lean too mivh to mercy and will -train the point of t4roa-on?ihle doubt" to the point of acquittal. This is one reason, and perhaps the main one, why juries often fail to punish in oases where the public is satisfied the defendant is guilty. There is a very strong and growing sentiment in this state against capital punishment. It would he ditlicult to got twelve men in a jury box without having one or more opposed to hanging. All the states in the Union except tiro adhere to capital punishment; but most of them differ fron South Carolina in allowing a jury more lati udr in finding a verdict in murder cases. It would not be advisable to abolish capital punishment in South Carolina, tint wo think it W/Mll/1 Un n/lwio? Ul? 4 h- 1 ? ? a. .r*j ?iw?ioai?iu nil UIB law l(> recognize decrees of murder. The idea that the prevention of crime is secured I>y very severe penalties is an error. Certainty of punishment is far m. re effective than severity, especially because a* the soverity is increased the certainty is diminished. ? Greenville News The Tax Extension Has Heeu ( rl'unt A/1 The State. The time for the payment of taxes has heen extended after all. As things now f-tand the taxpayers who have failed to coin* to time will have until Foh. 1 to do ao. Yesterday morning the special commission in whom is vested the right to extend the time, consisting of tlie governor, the comptroller general and the attorney c?neral mot and it was decided to ex? tend the time till the day named. This action was the result of the action of the houso in adopting the Athley resolution providing for the cxlcnlion until March 1 . The commission has he' n strongly against any extension this year, hot the legislature! seemed deter-j mined to provide for one. Wc do not believe that it is' right for the State of South Carolina to utilize her convicts for farming purposes The State j ought to get out of the farming ! industry :she ought to get out of the liquor trade. It is a mistaken idea to suppose that a State ought to engage in any business except j that of governing, remembering, j nt nil times, that that government is best which governs least. Jt is I wrong in principle and pernicious j in pructico for the State to buy and sell goods for the purpose of making money. The place for the convicts is on the public works? the roads?making the counties 1 pay their expenses, the money coming out of tho general treasury raised by direct taxation.-Spartan- I burg Herald. For The Ledger. VAN VVYCK ITEMS. Mr Editor: ? I hud intended to hare a c umuunication for yon last week, hut the Lagrippe took hold of me, ami I thought that our readers would hardly enjoy agrippy article. I nm still wroat*> ling with the monster and aai getting the upperhaud of him. The people of Van Wyck have about gotten Christmas out of their bones, and Iibt? settled down to busio?hs There are changes still taking place Mr. Geo. Griflin has moved to Mr K H Mohlev's and has taken charge of his farm. Chun ire.'* in Mr Mobley's mercantile business will follow. Tim firm ot S II McManua & Co., of Van Wyck has chang d hv Mr. S ii McManus of Charlotte, withdrawing from the firm. The business will continue under the tirin name of McManus & Co., with Mr. .1 II McManna in charge. There is some agitation uniong our citizens to Macadamize the roads leading into Van Wvck. Wo are a progressing people and want to k?-ep pare with our neighbors and the world generally There is some talk of building a Methodist parsonage here and if this is accomplished we will liae!v have a permenent preacher. We already have a permruent teacher, Mr .1 K Connors of Lancaster, who opened his spring term of school with about an nri rage attendance on last Mono'nv, and this session bids to he as sueces-fiil as his other terms, and Van Wyck high school remain second to none. When others are disturbed hv revolutions Van Wvck is quietly renting in her tranquility Miss' Maggie Kagsdalo spenl several days lant week with liei friend Mrs Sue Hates at Var Wyck. She lias taken up hoi school at Morrow, near Osceola and has a largo school She ii much pleised with the school an< her patrons are highly pleasei with her as a teacher. Mr. William MeCain and wif< of Georgia visited liis sistar Mr# .1 It Wil'iamson of Van Wycl last Sunday. lie* is ? railroa< employee and had aecessarilv t< make a short visit. Mr. and Mrs ,1 W Hates havi gone to Spartan Inn o to spem gome time, and perhaps will ente the business world there soon. Mr. Geo \Y Crenshaw of Char lotto, spoilt last week with hii parents, Mr. and Mrs. ,1 C Cr#n shaw. Mr. .1 I' Gordon of Charlottt and his wife who was Miss Nannit Crenshaw of West Lancaster, visit od the families of Mrs M T Cren. shaw and ?J C (Irfinsliaw of V?? Wyck tho past w*?k. If Mr Gordon's neighbors in Charlotte should hoar unusual noises o: gobbling, or Mr. Gordon lose hu toe nails it all ran ho charged t( the lino fat Turkey* of the Wax haws, which Mr. Gordon assistcc in demolishing. Cedar Camp \V. (). W. of Vac Wyck had Sovereign Deputy A Madolc of Spartanburg with them last week. lie was installing officer and very impressively installed the ramp's new o dicers with exception of Escort and Sentry who were not present, last Thursday night. The installation was public, but owing to the in/.I* f A l ' rmiiiwiu-y or mo l? lifli I, very TO it visitors attended, but quite a numbor of the camp's choppers were out and enjoyed Sovereign Mad(?le's lecture very much. Next regular mooting of the camp will be on Thursday night, flan 124th, when the Kscort and Sentry will be installed. A full attendance nt this meeting is requested as much information is to bo imparted to the choppers. Ol'TIMUS. SOME MATTERS FOR THE LEGISLATURE. j The Labor of Children in Cot! ton Factories. THE REDISTRIC.T1N G M ATTER. The Lato Mr. I'attoe's Bill Will lx? Used mm the Ba*?i? Upon Which to Wo'k. - The State, 14Ih in>t. i Tliw work of organization has been per feet oil in the house of representatives. Fnlike the member* of the Ias1 general assembly, tho legislators do not give evidence of many new hills It is true that tjO hills and joint resolutions have been presented, l>ut this d>>?s uot approximate the record of the last house. Very little real legislation \vi I he Hf com pi i shed this week. Tho session t< day will not tie prolitic of enaction, and the inauguration, tho election of certain oflicers and other diversion* will occupy the time of the joint assembly two or three days thi* week. Tuesday night the members will attend the reception at the club. Nothing has yet been heard from Scatterwood Alliance No. 5. A great tight is expected over the hill to prohibit child labor in cotton mills Thi# bill was introduced by the Aiken delegation and was referred to the cominittoe on commerce and manufactures. It i? expected that the committee will report favorably on th? bill. Another important measure which lias been brought to the at tentiou of the.house is Mr. .John P Thomas' bill to provide for a county solicitor. There i- some objection to this bill on tho part 1 of the judicial circuits being increased from eight to ten. ' The sale of the State farms is 1 another question which will give ' the legislators no little opportunity ' for airing views. Sonic rode tint hobby through the campaign. It 5 is one tiling to say that tho farms should bo sold, and another thin" ; to get an individual to buy the ' land at its proper valuatior For } it is reclaimed from the Water?? hv dikes, and convict labor is 5 valuable in keeping up these oni' hank nents. On tho oilier hand the people of the Sta*e are de mantling better highways. Just within tii? oast few tear* ha- thi bean an industry of the Statu, and the experiments liavo I>o*mi so encouraging that >nme people would 5 employ all eonvi.ts, except tiioso 5 sentenced for life terms, in build* ing permanent country roads. The * convicts who are sentenced for 1 life coul I be used on nearby farm-,, under close surveillance, to make just enough to provision tho penitentiary. The leasing of convicts 1 to individuals is becoming very 1 objectionable. rhe rearrangement of congressional districts may occasion a big light at this session. When the lute Mr. II C Patton pushed his bill, urging that tho present "shoestring" districts worn unnecessary and inconvenient, it was urged by the opposition that it were hast to wait until after the census had hern taken. Not only has the census heen takon, hut the lower house of the j national congress has passed the Burleigh hill which, although in will not interfere with South , Carolina's representation, prescrihes that all congressional dis1 tricts must he compact and con, tiguous territory. The fight will not he on the rpiestion of redixtricting, hut on the shaping of those districts. rpi.. .1: 1_!-1 * .1 M. j no sovou (inuriciB or IIIIH mat? arc each formed of contiguous territory, hut are not compact, and tho people embraced ar? not CLYBUR1 HEADQUARTERS FOR I I CLYBUR homogeneous. The people ? Chestorlicld, for instance, liav uot inucli hi rdiiHiKU) with th people (if Cherokee. The peopI of the sandhills of Richland kno< little (if the people of (ilsss VI 4..:.- /? ? minimum m \ i reen vi I ie. I !)?> long ''shoe->ti ing" districts wor fornuxl iilitior tin* HYMtein of g?t r> menderintr made necessary i order tn oTtM'ctiiiin black majoritM in tho low?*r tier of counties, In the necessity ha* passed awn under the existing suffrage lar and tlx* Burleigh hill says tl districts must I>u compact. It i- highly prohahle that tl matter vrill he disposed ?>f at th pension, for it ,vill then lie toi ! little over a year until the ne: primary campaign and aspirsn ' for c ngressional honors will wsi - time in which to set their sails. ' The 1'atton hill, it is said, wi lie llic hasia upon which the r 1 districting will he made. Ho* ever, although this measure mee ' requirements so tar as the grou ' ing of territory and people* concerned, it can lie liuprovi ' upon in galling districts mo nearly lialanced in population. Under tho Burleigh hill ti 1 unit of representation in tho lowi 1 house of congress will lie 01 member for approximately cm 108,500 in population. The tv tiro population of South Curolii is 1,340,31 ti, and this Stain wi retain her seven i presentation The following shows the ph proposed hv the lute Mr. l'attoi ' and tho total of population f( I each district Jiows that some i tho groupings suggested hy hi ; fall short of the required 10>,5()i while others are considerably ' excess. Fee I )co district: The coiinti* of Marlboro, Chesterfield, Dar ington. Marion. Florence. Morn I ' Total populuton 1<?7,447. Santee: (Jeorjretown, Williumi hurg, Charleston and Berkley Total 172,091. Edisto: Ornn^eliur:r, Barnwcl Bamberg, Hampton, Bcnufor Colleton and I)orehester. Tot: 221,442. Waterco: Fairfield, Korshnv Richland, Sumter, Clnrendoi Total 179,131. Saluda: Edgelield, Aiken, Si Itida, Newberry, Greenwood, Liu rens, Lexington. Total 206,44( Keowoe: Abbeville, Andersoi Oconee, Pickens and Grecavilh Total 185,027. Catawba: Spartanburg, Tnior York, Chaster, Cherokee and Lai caster. Total 217,081. Tho general plan of the abov districts is acceptable, for th I SHEATH Ml IIULES, HORS-S BDC.IES, W 1VT T T F1 n TTT 1\lf HTlLHin 1VI ,t, bill passed the lower hotue of tho 0 j legislature two your* sgo and it 0 few slight changes will rectify the ^ y discrepancies ux to population. ?r ? ' > Is it an Epidemic ? ' c Yiltll Show an AtHrniin" 1 . I . . J Increase in an Already Prevail- j n i n g Disease? Are Any v r> J tj Exempt i t it ti I v I At no time in the history of 1 1 I" f8j diseases has there hoen such an t 10 alarming ;norc*>e in the number 8 ' of cases of any particular malady e 10 ' as in that of kidney and bladder lj 118 troubles now preying upon the * ll* people of thin country. 1 To-day we see a relative, a :l friend or an aequaintanceapparent- t ly well, and in a few days we may ? he grieved to learn of their serious 1 ill <ii C 1,1 illness or sudden death, caused by I ?" tlmt fatal type of kidney trouble ? T" Hright's disease. , Kidney trouble often, becomes I*" advanced into acute stages before ,s> the atlb'ted is aware of ite presence; that is why wo read of so many 18 sudden deaths of prominent busino** and professional men, physi 18 cinns and othets. They have ns r glected to stop the leak in time. ? ie While scientists aro puzzling ;*1 their brains to tind out the cause, M each individual can, by a little JR precaution, avoid the chances of contracting dreaded and danger s* our kidney trouble, or eradicate 'I h m ;it completely from their system if i "i already alllicte I Many precious ^ ,r : lives might have been, and many 1 l" more cue yet be saved, by paying j 111 attention to the kidneys. - . | M L> | It is the mission of The Lk?<;kr \ In i t 1,1 to bonctit lis readers at every op- ^ p irtunity and therefore wo advise c all who have any symptoms of [ I* kidney or bladder trouble to write ; >'? today to r>r. Kilmer & Co., IJing- '1 | hatnton, N. Y., for a free sample ! i' bottle of Swamp-Hoot,the celehrat . <' ,ed specific which is having such a o great demand and remarkable sue- . V '? cess in the cure of the most Mia-** trussing kidney and bladder trou sl ides. With the sample bottle of i iSw a nil)* I toot will also be Kent free | . U n pamphlet and treatise of vnloa!* ble information. ? i- The dispensary, in its annual '' i- report, shows total net profits as v follows* To the state, on account r j of the school fund, $170,012 IS; total not puofita to counties and towna, $208,10f>.28?making a total not profit to towns counties j b and school fund of $484,178.45. I i* The total net earnings aro for the _ twelve months$506,868.70; which clis an irn-rease ovc Inst year's ' e j profits of $152,?86.05- i" LJLE CO.," VGO'S, HARNESS ETC. 159"WE HAVE the finest lot of nuiles ever offeree on this market, and we will sell them at reasonable prices, for cusli or good paper. i li K VlDK 11 CICh "y 1 he Anchor Bui:#r.\ , A Wren arni iIn renowned Tyson & Jones Humpies always in stock Yes. and at prices ^ that will please you < ? I he celebrated Onesboro, Kentucky. SVayon, is the beat and cheapest on the* market. I . . " ? >/ t nine one, come oil. We will make you tin best satisfied and the best pleased \ on ever were. rt ? ? ? > 2 'P uj ihits if?w i onus renson I?U*. ULE CO BHBBSmMMMi CLfRK'S .SALE. TA1EOF Sol] l H CAROLINA COUNTY OF LANl AHTEH, Court ot Common Pleas. Harriot Kinihrell. et al. Plaintiff*, aoainst (argent Jasp?r Kunhrell, Defendant. PUKsUaNT to u decretal order made in tne above staled case t>y initio Geo, W. Gage. January 8, 1901, w ill sell in front ol the Court House, rilliin the legal hours ol sale, on Mousy the fourtli day of February, 1901, oilie highest bidder, ttie following leacribed property: all that tract of and lying and situated in Indian .and township, Lancaster county, bale of nouiIi i aroiina, bounded hy lie lands of John unit James Harris, hi the north; hy the lands of O. W. ottson the ea?l; l)> the lands of the slate of Daniel Wolfe and others on lie aoutti; and hy the lands of AV. P. Sornian and Jas. P. italics on the rest, containing one buinired and iity acres mote or less, and heing the amis upon which Mary Gibbon lived it the time of her death. Terms of sale: Uu? half cash, anil he remainder on a credit of twelve nonths with inte rest from date of sale, ecured by purchasers bond suit a norigage on tbe premises sold Purbaser io have the privilege of paying lis entire hid ill cash. W. S. L. Porter, C. <J. C. L. (J. Green & Hbies, Plaincitls Attys. SUMMONS FOR 'RELIEF (? oiiiplalol not rterved.) IT AT 10 OK iSuUTH CaKOLINA, i. a nca8tkk county. Court of Common Pleas. Oil/.a J Wy.ie, Plaintiff AOAINST Dannie L. Williams, H. Simeon < roekett, Rufus ( . < roekett, Hattte Crockett, W. rt L. Porter, as ads mluistritlor ?>f the estate, of David M < rockeit and Louisa K. Crockett, deceased and John C Fosier, J)e~ fondant*. I'o (lie Defendants above named: Yen are hereby Kummoned and rev |inred to answer the complaint in this iction, which is bled in the ortice ?>r lie Clers of Common lMeus for the aid ?'ounty, and toser?e ? copy of rour answer to tno said complaint on li?? subscriber at his t>fll? *? at Luncaser Couri House r?uuth Carolina, with* ti twenty days after the service here if, ixuumive ofthoday of such service; nd it you tail toniiawer the eomplaiut viihin he time aforesaid, ttie Plain* ifl'ln this action will apply to llie jourt for the relief demanded in the ompluint. Dated December 1 Uth, A. I),, 1900. I,. r<.] W. H. L. Porter, O. C. C. L.C. it. K. W ^ l.tK? Plaintiff's Attorney. I'o Nannie f,. Williams, It. Min?oi Crockett and Hat lie crocket*., lions resident Defendant#: TAKK NO TICK that tl:e complaint n above stated ? use whh filed in the irtlce of tlie i lerk of the i ircuit Court or said County and mate at I,auras, er t . H , H. C., on the 19th day of )ecember 1900. It. K. NVyite, Hiniol.fl'a n.ioruey. Agent Wanted. Wo want a reliable hustling gent in the city of Lancaster, S. J., to represent us in tlio Latin* Iry business. The work wo do nil com pure with any in the South nd furthermore wo eivo e liploy* oent exclusively to white people, nd we do not take negro laundry. Write for terms, Leon Steam Laundry Co. Charlotte, N. C. Dec 17, 1900?tf. tan tho sy 0* Ym Aiwan BeogR I