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l? i.KII'.o.K. rlov^ 3. , ! I'OK ? MaNAOKR Tl HDAV, M t.: >T 31, 1301. I )<? tiewsp tpt-r^ are m\king rein x- nhout tin* sickni"?H in Senat - ^leLiuirin'- famiIv. Well. it i- -i sickly season and Mr. Mcli i t m announced before he made nnv speeches that he would not he ah' t ? talk in public during the s i H nor. ' 1-- A Mieville Medium and the L-i-' -aster Enterprise both allude t<? Mr. McLaurin's afflictions in a ? and unsympathetic manner.! 1* ' as been customary to express I mi. ' ?w and extend sympathy, es? i |v?o iilv when distinguished men | and their families suffer from any j nps .1 tune, but nothing of the kin ' has been done in this case, j i lie bleak and bate intelligence tli i Mr. McL uirin or some mem bor it' bis fmii'lv i>i >.w>k ?nd flmM i*. i'1 () cnitfl politics !?(ireenw "I Journal All these people [Filipinos] I 11 v from all the people on God's ci"1) i? $10,000,000 h year " -m:-| \4r. .1. .1. Hemphill in his i vf* nt speech at Filbert. We bad no figures nt hand ui hand nt the time and had no reason to dmi it those given by Mr. Hempbill; but we are satisfied now that Mi. Hemphill was mistaken. According to a report issued by the war department last week, the total vulue of merchandise import -jd bv the Filipinos for the n?\eci months ending January 31, 1001} was the same period of lOoO, an increase of just 42 per cent in a single year. The exports for the seren months of l'.UH, amounte I to $12,637,359, ac'ii ist $1,305,530 for the seven in'wo.hs of the previous year, an tt: . ?(>? ?i oz per cent. mese lii."' es do not include quarter^ nit? er suplies. The vulue of the i :11 rts from the United States v. >1,41)3,4$S, an increase of (58 p i ent. compared witb the s?\?m months ending .January 31. 1ui The value of cotton goods i>?M,,,rted by the Filipinos during t ?c seven months ending July 31, I .i 'I. was$8,SSI,838, an increase ff * >,073,.8(51. It is quito possiat. the figures for all of the pn -eot year will aggregate coaside ibly more than double those qiitii' d bv Mr. Hemphill. At any rate it is quite clear thai our now poss ssions are not nearly se worthless as they have been repre? sauted ta be, and it is also clear that they ate improving rapidly ?Yorkville Enquirer. Governor Commutes a Negro's Sontence to Lite Imprisonment I Tne governor today commuted | to life imprisonment the death | sentence imposed l>y the court on Pleasant Gillia 11 of Newberry county, who was convicted of killing white man ami sentenced to be hanged next Friday. .In lee Townsend, who heard iho c so, lecotumended t ho com - i mutation, as it seems to have been >h ?vvn that the negro was defending himself against an attack made upon iiim by the deceased and that the >risoner used bricks and a !?i-.l-?l in his defense ?Columbia Kecor I 27th. K?lurate Your IlowftM With Caararet*. Candy Cathartic, euro constipation forever. 10c, 26c. If C. C C. f~U, druggists refund money. The News and Herald company of U'innshoro, has applied for a chnrb r. The capital stoca is to l>? *'! 00<h The corporators are! ,1. Ftank Fooshee, W. I>. Donglas and .lames Q. Davis. The first hate of North Carolina cotton was moI(1 at Alorven,N. . i August 27th at 9$ cent*. i [fror I'he Ledger. Ludicrous Mistakes of Some Colored Applicants for Teachers' Certificates. A Monrocw paper of recent Hate sa\8 it found the following posted on the court house there: NOTIS. Wee the coinittev of District No. 3, cullud, in Monroe town nip win meet ai .1. v*. neima resadence on August the 2 day at 12 o'clock for the purport* of imploying a teacher to teach said school this July 27 1901. Com it toy. Whether we have any school committees that could get up a 4 notis" quite as Imd as that 1 do not know, hilt we have some would-he teachers who could do a good deal worse?as witness the following from the examination papers of some of the colored ap plicanta for teachers' certiHentes. Asked to illustrate the difference in meaning between nh:*lI and will ? something comparatively few people could do, by the way ? one of them laid down this rule (J follow "copy" in grammar, spelling, p met nation, etc): "^hall is a duty we owe Will is a promise both are future tents." Another said, "shall is in the pressent tense as I shall be the hero of my country Will is in the pin perfect as 1 shall be through after awhile." The Wiffe ranee between "sit" and "set": "Sit is the resting place of something with life set is the resting place of something without life" I pass over the paper of the one who said: "sit, that means as some one sitting in a chare, set that means Riunething to set, like a chicken hen" ? Being told to write a short well written paragraph telling the story or the merits of any good piece of literature with which they might be familiar, one of them wrote: "Shakesnear wna ? poor hoy, hilt h? earnest affords he won his way to the front though he he dead vet he lives in the annels of history." Another ?u poetical soul?wrote: "I love the with the love that shall not die till the sun grows coal and the stars are old and the Leaves of the .Judgment hook unfold." Another: 44L)anty little dandvlion smiling on the lawn sleeping through duying night waking with the dawn." Another declared that Steel was her favorite An thor because he tells of the heven . ly bodies, while still another, familiar with the older classics, said, 44Hamilicar was the great lawgiver and statesman of earthage. He made his son Hanihal swear at the altar of Baal that he would ever he the inemy of 1 nine." Passing to history, one of them said that the Hudson River 44was deSeovered by henry hudson" and that New York got its name "from the Duke of Wilmington" ?the tirst part of which would lie correct if Henry had capital "h's" und discovered were not spelled such a new fancied way. ' 1 t>8D is an im port ant dait hecanse of Washington's Inaug elation," also "because of King VViii's war;" also "because of the Karthtpiake in Charleston" "florida came in persesion of england after Kng. cotikered spain, and lie Cause of her navagahul Commerce." All of which it news to most people. There was a difference of opinion as to where the first settlers of South Carolina came from. One of them thought they were "Scotch-Irish from Iceland" while another asserted . \ - 'i - - - uiai tnev were irishmen from Inland and Greenville. The proficiency of these would* he teachers in grammar and history is exceeded oftlv by their knowledge of geegraphv. One of them, evidently a Commercial Democrat and believer in McKinley and ex pension and therefore the very darkey to teach the little btaek idea how to shoot, said: "S. C. is hounded on the north by n. e | on the a. by toxin on the E by | the atlantic and on the w by the j p. ocean '' Another ? aire an ex-: pension ist?suid: "Soijth Carolina is Bound on the N. and East l?v | hv tne atlantic south by the cnlf; of mex. & .vest bv the pacific."] I'he Miine progressive citizen an-j swered thut 44the way to Drove the , Earth to be round is By the rise ; & going down of the sun. If it whs not round its rotation would he something similar to what It is| now." A majority of them would j prove the enrth to he round by: "If we start out on h Ship we would sail wright b?ck from which , we started " Difference between the polar and equatorial circum ference: "The polar extends from pole to pole, the equator from j equator to equator. There are four seasons: "A wet season a dry season a Winter season and u summer season." The earth is divided into five zones, "the north | temppid, the South temppid, i north and south frbrcrnd nnil thAl ? tarred Zone.'' "An ocean is a large body of water made up of river*." Told to write a note in proper form, giving place and date for a certain anount at a given inter es1;, one of them handed in: J "(Capt. John Smith; dear sir at present this I write you In regards to the money You loaned me $750 at 7 per cent kit. Place Taxa Haw s. c. Ever yours, truly , Pedagogy they had probably never heard of but waded into with shoes off. Asked why reading was the most important subject taught at school one of them answered: "Reeding is i?portant because if scollars cant read they can't resite their lessons." Ailother: "Because if person* cannot -ead they are not Know good to themself and know one else." "Pupills should not use text books when they begain in arithmetic because they are not to use them"?a very clear and explicit reason; almost as good as: "Children should uot be allowed to see misspelled words so as to initiw inuiu active in spoiling. And that's good enough to quit on. Active in spelling ! Junius. Lancaster, S. C. ! . i A Reward of $400 Offered. I Tom Watson, the main witness in the express rol?i?ery case, which occurred on the South Carolina & Georgia railroad in December, 1899, was shot Monday night at Branchville by the man accused of the robbery, Bartow Warren.? Warren escaped and the governor has offered a reward of $400 for his capture. It may ne that the express company will over an additional reward. Watson was taken to Columbia Tuesday and is at the Columbia hospital. Four balls took effect any one of three of them would with an ordinary man htfve proved fatal in 24 hours. One ball penetrated the intestinds making six apertures in Ahem which had to be sewed up. Another none trated Uie brain but has been removed br the surgeon*. A third wounded the spinal cord, paralizing the lewer limbs, and a fourth passing through the hand. Kx governor Stone has announced his purpose to oppose Senator , Vest for United States Senator from Missouri. 1 Chronic Constipation Cured. The most important discovery of ( recent years is the positive remedy for constipation. Cascarets Candy ' Cathartic. Cure guaranteed. Genu [ ine tablets stamped C. C. C. Nev?r 1 sold in bulk. Druggists, ioc. > I The Valhalla Meeting ] Tbe Summer School Faculty Visit Dutch HtHTen but Find that They Are Nut of the Elect. Special to Greenville News. Wullmlla, Au?? 29. The summer school cam** ami went without fur?#r or enthusiasm A^out 25t> , or 300 of the 2,700 voters were1. i present. Col. .IdhnRlimn m?l M f Hemphill inude their usual speech, es in h straightforward way. Mr Lutimer belittled Senator McLaurin *ud his work and he n ude a personal attack on an Oconee gentl< man, charging that, he was hold ing up the rural aiatl system. He paid his respects to McLaurin's friends, clashing them into three divisions, "Papsuckers, Mill Presidents and Soreheads." Upon lo cal affair-* referring to Federal patronage, heelers, pap-uckers, circular letters, etc , it wh? thought that he would r. pudiate certain letters sent out here lust Summer in which Latimer's Federal pnironuge whs promised to those who would support certain men for certain county offices,but he did not do so. He charged shadows hut let realities severely alone. Mr Latimer talked of the terrible expense of the Spanish American war and the worthlessness of the Philippine trade. He gave his views on the ship subsidy, expansion and imperialism.? He was for peace and not for war. He said the United States showed the bully in making war upon the Philippine Islands. Why not jump on China ?" Many expressed themselves as very well pleased with the smarU ness and ease with which Messrs. Johnstone and nemphill spoke.? While the people were pleased with their speeches there wus not much enthusiasm for them. Many section* of the county were not represented at all and many did not go in to hear them; otherswent home early in the day.? Things remain in statu quo. Sam Jones' View. Tillman has been up in Wisconsin with his pitchfork, but it seems he has broken the nrnnors i?ft' hi* fork trying to pitch McLaurin out of the democratic party it) Sooth Carolina. If Sooth Carolina democrucv endorses Tillman and decapitates McLaurin, McLaorin's memory will be honored and respected, while the living eonstitoency of Tillman will have the contempt they have earned in the servile bondage of Tillman. As long as the democratic party has leaders like Tillman, Altgeld& Co, they will have to take deck passage on the ship of state. There isn't a stateroom on any decent ship that would give them quarters. 1 am not only anxious to know who the democrats are going to run for president the next time; hot 1 am more anxious to know what they are going to run on. They have got to put brains in front and couple the brains on to the mouth of the party, or the republicans have got a cinch on this government for a hundred I years to come. 1 feel sorry for the democrats. The republicans seem to have let them down in- a well and pulled up the ladder. And 1 say it again that if the democracy of the United States will come back to democratic principles and reform its platform and quit talking about fusion with populists, there is a chance to win. The republican party has committurl Kl 11 n/lnfu /?n/v?w?k U.-a * I bvil oiuumoio uium/,11, (mil 11)6 blunders of the republican party do not avail the democrats, for Bvery time the republicans act the rascal the democrats act the fool, and the fools get left every time. ?Sam Jones in Atlanta Journal. , i I TON.4VK II KK ('HI LD from Frightful disfigurement M rs. Nannie (radeger, of La I Grange, Ira., applied Bueklen'e Arnica Salve t?? great sores on her head and face, and write* ite quick euro exceeded all her bbpos. It works woie'ers ill fcorfts, Bruises, Skin Ft options, Cuts, Burns, Scalds and Piles 26e Cure guaranteed hy Crawford Bros., and .1 F. Mackey & Co Top l.a, 11 castor The Lancaster Graded School (Town and Faetorx) will o|>en on Monda\, S? pteinher 16th, 1901, at 9 o'clock a m. Pupils must not buy text books until furnished with lists by their teachers. For pupils not belonging to this special school district, the following tuition fees will be charged per month, pav.nble in advance: Primarv tirade-, 1.00; Intei iue-1 ^ 1 50; High School, *2.00. ' nates of this school are, admitted t?? tin* Freshman class of j all colleger in the Stat*, without examination. The teachers will meet at the school house Sept 13th, at 10 o'clock a. til B F Miller, Ch-drmun B'd Trustees, ('has. T Connors, Sec and Tres. Aug 12, 1901 lmo. UNIVERSITY CF N i?iH ('AkOLIKA. this hi:ai> Of the Mute's ^durational System Academic Department, Law, Medicine, Pharmacy Right - fl vh s ho arship*. Free luii| mi in te-iehi ra mid ministers' sons. I, i-iii* for the needy 2o7 Students 4-tt Instructors Nhiv I) '."iiiitalics, WHi. r Works, uen t rat Hestilg Sy-t.|ll $120 000 siient. in improvements in 19(H) ami l!hil FmII I>' m liHirin- Sen' 9. i901 A ddress. F P VKNABLK, Pres ? tiupui Hill, N. C. .J?^.n. WW?^ . Trespass Notice. All persons are hereby warned not to trespass on the estnte lands of A. J. Kihler, deceased, in Lancaster County, known ns tho 'vVlcIlwain place," near Dry Creek, or the "Kibler place" two mile* south of town adjoining the Welsh Mill tract, by cutting either fire wood or timber on said places or by hauling, removing or disposing of any wood or timber cut on said places or either of them. 'I he law will be enforced against any and all persons disregarding this notice. Nothing herein is intended to prevent tenants on the place cutting and hauling the necessary firewood for home use J. II. Kitzpatrick, Agent. t .Inly 29, 1901. BARGAINS IN j BUGGIES! AND WAGONS We are now selling for $55. BUCK HES 'hat we have been selling at $t>0; and Buggies hereto- j faro sold at $55. we are now sell* ing at $50. So come and get you a nice, new BUGGY while they are CHEAP. We are selling the Nissen round and square hound wagons, also the Owensboro wagon at surprisingly low prices. Wo keep on hand some good HORSES?some as tine animals as you will find anywhere. If you want a horse that will suit you in every particular, don't buv until vno son onr STtV'ir - J ? ?*vv*v We also run a first-class livery, and can give you as good teams as can he had in town. Yours to serve, CLYBURN HEATH MULE GO. Subseribe to The Ledge Lopal Matters. Brine in your country produce, Butter, Eggs and Chickens, especially. .J B Mackoreli. . Mr. P. Ij. McPberson ef Abbe rille, La., who bus been snendinsr * - u Hernial weeks at this plt*ce, re turned to his borne TGursday. ?#? Mr. L. J. Robertson has accepted a positien in the car shops in Columbia and will move his family to Columbia next week. Mrs. A. P. Brown of Heath Springs, is visiting Miss Isabel Davis, at this place. t/K> Mrs. W. B. Cauthen and children have returned from a visit tuber parents at Magill, 8. 0. -nNatban Cunningham, colored' - 1WI iOiiiug in iy?iil?iilj{ lO WOI'K the roads after being warned by tbe overseer was sentenced by Magistrate Caskey Wednesday to pay a fine of $5 or to work on the gang 20 days. -mOn Wednesday last, Mr. S. T. Blackmon had the bodies of his two little children buried at Un \ ion church disinterred and moved to his plat in the new cemetery at this place. Mr. Walter Q. Cureton, and his sister, Miss Maggie, left yesterday for Atlanta. . The Lancaster C. H. Alliance will uieet in the court house Thursday Sept. 5th, at 3 o'clock p. m. E. Evefall, Sec. Mrs. J. P. Hackney of Chailotte, and little Mildred returned heme yesterday. i County Treasurer Cauthen has returned to Lancaster after two weeks spent very pleasantly at his old home. ter. We learn that Mr. EccThreatt, who lives at the cotton mill, lost his two year old child that has been sick for several weeks, on Thnxu.!..! I*- : Auumxaj. no ionjuiHf were lUKen over to Chester field county yesterday for interment. f+ Mr. It. H. McMurray, who has been spending a week with his brother at Fort Mill, returned home yesterday r/K A protracted meeting is being held at Camp Creek Baptist church this week. The pastor is being assisted bv Rev. Mr. Brock. Rev. J. M. Steadman and family leturned home Thursday. Mr. Stead man's mother returned with them and will be heie for several weeks. ' Mr. W. H. Sims narrowly escaped being drowned in Cane Creek last Monday night while on his way home from Lancaster. He drove into the stream not knowing that it was swollen and came near losing his horse and .1 - ? niho nis own life. He managed to get the horse loose and it swam out and then he had a time get* ting out himself. The buggy washed en down the stream and was not reeotered until Thursday. f+ Letters adveitised for the week ending August 31, 1901: Mrs. Minnie Cauthen, Mrs. Jaoie Crawfford Mrs. J. L. Wilson, Miss Dolsey KoWson, Miss Ida Blacknilan, Miss Philes Clarke, Miss Annie Steaurd, Mr. W. J. McWhrter., Mr. A. W. Morgan, Benjamin Crawford, John S,a ? Ketts. Belle Nance, P. M. Lancaster, 'i. C., 0