The Lancaster ledger. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, January 17, 1903, Image 2
jniv: LEDGER.
Thurlow 4. Carter,
EDITOR AND MANAGER.
SATURDAY JANUARY IT, 1003.
?The Highland Park Mill
Company will build an additional
cotton mill at Rock Hill to cost
$410,?00.
? Joe McFadden, colored, after
m it'n aL' ' m Attf n f hio i*au^
m ?ivrv r? tun uuluivuv ai uio i tataurant
ou Railroad Avenue, died
Saturday of smallpox. The body
was buried thut night.?Rock
Hill Herald.
?Governor MsSwoeney has a
report from Mr. DeLoach, of
Edisto Island, that there arc one
hundred and fifty cases of smulU
pox ou Edisto Island and medical
assistance is asked. Governor
McSweenoy has taken the matter
up with Dr. James Evans, of the
State board of health, who will
give it immediate attention.
?The present legis lnture will
have to elect a successor to Chief
Jastico Mclver. It is uderstood
that Associate Justice Pope will
be elected to the chief justiceship,
and a successor will bo chosen to
him as associate justice. A number
ef men are mentioned in connection
with the vacancy already,
among them being ex Gov. Sheppard,
C. A. Woods of Marion, J.
A. McCullough, F. J. F. Caldwell
of Newberry, Senates Gruber
and Aldrich, and .Judge J as.
Aldrich. Some of Attorney General
Bellinger's friends yesterday
urged him to become a candidate.
?The State.
First Child Labor Bill.
In the senate Wednesday morning
Senator Marshall introduced
a child labor bill, the miuin provisions
ef which are: That after
May 1, 1903, no child under 10
years eld shall bo employed in any
factory; after May 1, 1904, no
child under the ago of 11 shall bo
employed, and after May 1, 1905,
no child under 12 shall be employed.
After May 1. 1903, no child
...J.. 1 Ci _l. - I l r * - 1 4.
uuuor jl w nuaii u6 |i6xiuiiccu 11;
work between the hours of 8 p.
m. and 6 a. m.: provided, a child
may work after 8 p. in. to make
up for loss of time owing to at
cideits te machinery and other
causes. Children of widow mothore
and children of totally disabled
fathers, the children being
dependent upon their own labor
1or a bring, may be permitted to
work, an affidavit to be made by
such mother or father to the facts.
On an affidavit being made that
any child has attended school during
four months of the current
year and can read and write, it
may be employed in mills during
June, July and August. it is
said that this bill meets the approval
of a large number of mill
men. Cel. Marshall has given
the subject much thought and
careful consideration, and he believes
that the provisions of the
bill will prove advantageous to all
interests concerned.
THKi 6?K'JKKT OF LONG
bIFE,
Consists in keeping all the main
rgans of the body in healthy,
regular action, and ia nuw-Ulv
t, ? ? 1 J
destroying deadly disease germs. '
Electric Bittern regulate Stomach,
Lirer and Kidneys, purify the
blood, and give a splendid appetite.
They work wonders in curing
Kidney Troubles, Female
Cemplaints, * Nervous Di>oascs,
Constipation, Dyspepsia, and Malaria.
Vigorous health and
strength always follow their use.
Only 50c, guaranteed by Crawford
Bros., and J. F. Muckey cSc
Co , druggist.
?The Ledger (semi weekly)
and The News and Cornier (semiweekly)
one year for $1.75, payable
in adyaace.
*
Woman Shoots Man in Macon.
Killed IIitu Dining Interview In
IV vate Law Office?Causes A
Sensation.
Macon, Jan. 12.? 11. A. ltigsby,
professor in a business col
lego in tins city, was shot and instantly
killed he.'c this morning
by Mrs. Ktlie Carson, a toachor
of telegraphy, in another business
college. The tragedy oc
currcd in the law office of Col. M.
l) i -
vjr- na\ne, wnere, it u said, J\ir.
Rigshy ami Mrs. Carson had met
te adjust alleged differences. It is
reported that Uigsby had made
remarks detrimental to the character
of Mrs Carson.
After meeting Mrs. Carson
this morning ltigshj asked for a
private inter v i e w with her
in the adjoining room. The
two had been together in the
room only a few moments when
live pistol shots wore heard and
Mn. Carson walked calmly into
the room saying, tll have killed
him; take me to the sheriff.n
Two of the shots that were tired
took etTect, one entering liigsby's
head anil one going over his
heart. Both parties are prominently
knewn.
Only Sii Survivors.
Of the Momentous Secession Convention.
Who They Are.
1'he death of Chief Justice McIvcr
leaves living today only sin
of tlio 1 C'J members of the mo
mentous secession convention,
which was followed bv the wai
between the north and the South.
In May 1901, at the time of the
Confederate reunion there were
ton surriyoioof this famous body,
Since that time the Itev. W. 11.
Campbell, Capt. John 11. Kinslor,
and Chancellor VV D.Johnson have
passed away. Now comes the
death of .Judge Mclver, leaving
only six survivors. They are J.
W. Spratt of .Jacksonville, Hon.
l'eter Stokes, Cel. .Joseph Danie
Pope, Dr. James 11. Carlisle, Coi,
R. A. Thompson and K. C. Logan.?The
State.
To Jail Debtors.
Representative Mahalfey of
Spartanburg it is said is preparing
a bill fnr thn lb* nnvt lomaln.
? O
ture to juil debtors. While he is
working to bind the shackles
closer on those who ovvo und will
not or cuunot pay. Somo man in
West is talking about repealing
all laws intended to socuro the
creditor and to make credit stand
upon a man's personal honor,
lie thinks that this would be the
beet protection that h creditor
could have. It would lead more
to the cash system. Persons who
were disposed to shirk their obligation
would have to pay as
thoy went, and those who secured
credit would valuo their reputations
too highly to hnvo tbem
damaged oy failure to pay what
they owed. ?Greenwood Journal.
Jumped From Train.
Prosperity Jan. 1.- Our officers
of the law had some unusal
experience with a negro last Sunday
morning. The offender had
been wanted for some time and
nrna fmin/l o .at swl Unn/1/?.*fr/?.l
? wo luuiivi) ui i VOU.U, uaiMiLU nru
and put aboard the car to bo curried
to the c >unty juil. The
culprit hud evidently planned hid
campaign and when Conductor
H < i<i 1 icfe of the Southern was on-*
<?Aj:ing the deputy's attention for
tickets the prisoner leaped from the
running truin, and though the
train wu? stopped and thu deputy
went in hot pursuit that no^ro has
not heen seen since.
? Sut>s?'*?*i he to Tim Lancastkii
Lkdoeb. $1.50 per annum.
Why Do So Many Cotton Mill
Operatives Havo Sallow
Complexions i
August 11. lvohn in News and
Courier.
There are a groat ninny people
persons who think that the tallow
and pale complexion, which so
many mill operatives have, is the
result of thoir work. Just bofore
1 started on my trip of investigation
1 read an article written
t?l' a vnmim i.rv.o.n ?
iwu uj n iiuiiiuu ?y ill) TlSlled
the Columbia, cotton mills and
who made much ado about the
sallow complexion of tho mill
1 help, in my visit* to the various
otton mills 1 found a number of
men and women, boys and girls,
> who did have a pale, sallow look,
aad 1 tried to find out why. It
is not confined to tho children.
There are men and women .vho
1 have tho same look, and while the
coufiniug work of tho cotton mills
may, to some extent, account for
it, there is other cause for it.
1 Working side by side with the
pale, sallow-looking operatives in
many of tho mills are operatives
who are just as bright and tosy*
j cheeked and full blooded as any
i that can bo found in this State,
it is not an uncommon thing to
g? into a spinning room, or any
other departmont of the mills anil
fiud ut one end of tho frame a
bright, rosy choeksd child. The
. complexion is not altogether tho
result mill life. A census
would show that thero are moro
pink*cheeked childrea than pale
: in tho mills. Thero are many
. opinions on mo subject. Some
charge the comploxion to malaria;
. others insist that it is prenatal.
Others think that it is climatic,
) and others that it is entirely due
, to the cotton mill hands' mode of
Itving and poorly prepared food.
Ono man, who had been looking
into the question very carefully,
told mo that it was tho 4'hook
5 worm." I do not pretend to say
r what it is or why it is, but it is
certain that there are to be found
in the sand hills of Kichland,
1 Lancaster, and Chesterfield and in
the mountainous section of this
. State and North Carolina, men,
women anu cuikiieu with jwsi. the
same complexion as is found
among tho operatives of any mill
in South Carolina.
If some one can find out why
' so many people who have never
been inside of a cotton mill have
* the "cotton mill color." it will
1 he practicable to uccount for thb
color of the cotton mill people.
Over in Lancaster I talked with
Mr. Springs on the subject, and
he told me that the pale, , ?nffroncolared
operative of hie mill cumc
1 there that way, and ho would
make me a wager that he couid
tell exactly where every one in
the mill came from. We want
lo mo mill at the noon hour, and
every child thut want in wo stopped.
Those who wore rosy colored
and bright-looking generally
came from J.,une*ster Count)' and
from prosperous farms, and without
even asking the children
where they crmo'from ho recognized
those with the p ile, yellow
skin that they came from eastern
Lancaster and Chesterfield County,
and tha complexion seemed to
] be quite common with that section
of the country. Some of
I them were free to admit lhat they
| had been clay eaters before tboy
wore employed in the cotton
mills.
This mill, situated as it is, furnishes
a good field for the study
of this question. Hero will lie
found the Beckham g'.r's, bright,
vivacious young women, making
u good living, an ' all of them
with tho brightest complexion,
and 111 the Mime room other young
women not near so rosy cheeked
or healthy-looking. Yet the Beck
ham girls Iiiyo bean in tho mill
longer than those who uie pule.
In this mill there is Misses Mary '
Snipes formerly of Chester County.
She has as much color as
woulJ he found in a painted pic
lure; and l?y her side, in striking
contrast, is Mi*s Nettie Nyme;
and from the same countv as Miss
_ _ ^
Nettie Nymo is Will Kennington
who has plenty of color. Miss
Ada Nye, at work in this mill, al
so has color and brightness of
complexion, and if there were to
be a beauty show, it would be
hard to find a better entry thun
Miss Carrie Gale, who went into
the cotton mill at Lancaster from
her home, about eight miles be .
low Lancaster, and who has ideal
rosy cheeks, although she has
been working in the cotton mill
for a nil nber of years. Theodore
Stai nes, who has been in tlio mill
for two years, has a blight color,
and right by him is a young fellow,
named Robinson, who is pale
and sallow and uses tobacco. And
so, in this way, 1 could have gone
al! through the mill and
found 0110 person who had
worked in the mill for u number
of years, who had bright,
rosy complexion, and by his or
her side another, who had been in
the mill perhaps just as long, with
a most pronounced sallow complexion.
And then, aguin I could
find null help that had just lately
, come there from the farms, with
skins as pallid, or more so, than
those who had been there for
years.
What 1 found at Lancaster was
the ease at a number of other
i places. Wliilo going over to
j Granitoville I passed a little place
called Summit, and there, on a 1
I lumber pile, standing out in the 1
open air, was a little boy, proba- i
blj 15 years old, miles away from
a coltou mill, who looked pale 1
and sallow and saffron, more so
than any boy 1 had aeon in any
cotton mill in South Carolina: i.nd
vet, in nil likelihood this boy had
never seen the doors of a cotton
1 mill.
It is a mistake directly to charge
the cotton mills with being the
cause of the complexion of their
: operatives. They have no more
to do with the complexion of
their operatives than the farms
have to do with the comploxion J
of the people who work on them.
It would be an excellent thing
i to havo Homebody go to tho var- 1
ious cotton mill communities and '
teach tho people how to cook pro- j
1 perly. 'l'hey get the very besl
| food, but do not know how to
prepare it. in some of tho homes
I saw food horribly sacrificed. 1
Merchants all say that tho operalives
buy the best flour and pro
. visions of ull kinds; but they do
not know how to prepare it. If
somebody, who wanted to do a truo
J charity, would instruct these peo- |
pie how to cook, they would be
doing them a kindness that would
havo good results.
One of the cotton mill officers
told me that ho attached >o much ;
I j
! importance to the question of
! properly prepared food that he
| was almost tempted to buil ? a '
jbrge dining hid I, where the op- j
! eratives could get their dinner, at j
! least during working hours, and
then ho would know that they 1
would havo nourishing soups anil !
propony prepared moats once a i
day.
?January li> being Lee's birthday
ami a legal holiday the legislature
will net bo in session. An
effort will be made to bare the
members visit Winthrop college
on that day, and it is likely that
the arrangements will be made.?
Columbia Record.
<D
'bis signature is on every box of tlio gotiuiiu
Laxative Bronio=Qniiiine Tablet*
bm mar'y that cures n col?i in one day
Stop* the Cvnuh amf Tforks off
titLaxative
Hruiuo Quinine Tub
lets cure a cold in one day. No
Cure, No Pay. Price, k2oe.
K ZKXI , I IVHINU lil' 'OK S
PIMPLES. TKEATilL: 4 1 ItUK
Dcmm your Skin Iicli n *1 Burl?
Lint rising Eruption* on t!>c ii bo
you fevl t<> l*e s*"'i? tn .
lAIIV? 1).. C.?l? .....1 ti... ... ..
i j ?-?v n%ni * * i? 'i '? ' i i
the Skin, IJair or S^'i? Hi c *? u
Eczema? Hkin Sore :t? d ranked?
Rash f->riu on the Skii ? Prickly
P.tin in the Skit ? Swollen Join't-?
Falling Hair? Ali Run Dowi ? Sl-in
Pa t? Oltl Sop a? Eating So???
Ulcers? To cure to stay (U: ? >ak
B, B. B (Botanic Blood Balm) which
make* the I load pule ami rich, then
the sores will he 11 a'd t ie Polling of
ecrema stop forever the si In heroine
clear and the hlootl - or it. it. B.
sold at drug stores $1. i . i<l tn itmcnt
vent free and piepaid l y wiittig' to
If LOOD BABM tO., Atlanta^ (i>
Describe your trouble ? id fres medical
advice given. Ov-. r JO* 0 tesuinoiilala
of cuim< by b.B B.
HW'WIii"
On a recent visit to New Y<? k "H.v,
I made arrungemeii'K by which I can *
negotiate loans of $ lht) CO and upwards
on first mortgages on improved citlon :
farms at 7 percent i ier?ai on sums of'
$1,000 00 and over. and 8 per cent interest
on sums m i< ss than $1.WKI.
No commission charged, only & tevson
able fee for abstract of title.
It Ju. WYLIR,
Sept. 1, 1902?6ni. Atly at Bsw.
H* SIMPSON,
? Builder and Contractor ?
- Lancaster, 8. C. Solicits
a bid on Carpenter Mork of
any kind you may vrlsli dono.
Dec 1, 1002.?3m.
Go to the
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GRANITE WORKS, j
For Good Work and Low l'riaea. '
A. J. isicNinch,
LANCASTER, S. ?.
coffins, rnrr
(III!
Wo now ha
and will contn
complete lino of
hurinl CASKETS,
all sizes and qualities,
COFFIN up to Handsoi
CALL and see us or send u
fortunato us to have a death
Within the RI
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LANCASTER, S. C.,
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| Tho Tirpiia-Carolina Qi
| SELL5 THE VERY BEST OR
} FERTILIZERS
I AT THE VERY LOWEST (
V It pays to fertMIze your lands
I THE VIRGINIA-CAROLIN
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Tbe Virc'n a-Carolin# Cbomioal Co.
CHARLESTON, & C.
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Notice of Discharge.
Notice in iu'rebj given ihftt on
tlio 7th cIhv of Foil-11 *rv a n
1U03. thi* uiniei>iyncd as administrator
i f the estate of H. A. M.
Steele, deceased, will lilo his final
rt turn and seillcment and make
?l p iention to dio Probate Court
for the Coin As of Lancaster, S.
C., for a linsl discharge as suck
administrator.
John H. Steele,
Administrator.
Lancaster, S C., Jan. 6, 1903.
11 AN ORDINANCE
PROVIDING FOR AN ANNUAL
TAX ON ALL DOGS FOUND
WITHIN THE LIMITS OF
JI1E TOWN OF LANCASTER.
Re it ordained by the Mayor
and Aldermen of the Town of
Lancaster.in council assembled and
by the authority of same.
Skc. 1 That an annual tax of
One Dollar is hereby assessed and
levied ugainst the owner of each
dog or bitch kept within the corporuto
limits ot said town to be
paid on or before Jany. 1st 1903,
and on or before Janoniy 1st of
each and every year thereafter.
That upon payment of said tax,
the owner of any dog or bitch
bhall lie furnished by the Chief of
Police with a tag which shall be
immediately placed upon said dog
or bitch by being attached to a
collar.
Sec. 2. That any dog or bilch
found running at large without
the tug proscribed in Section 1 of
this ordinance, shall be seized and
iniimiimlpfl K\r )lw> !?.?
U.|#VUM%?V\4 KSJ iUV VL11 vOIO Ul IIIO
town and unloss 'he said tax of
One Dollar, together with au additional
amouut of twenty Hve
cents for the taking up of said dag
or bitch, is paid within thirty-six
hours from time of seizure, then
said dog or hitch shall forthwith
bo killed.
Ratified by the Mayor and Al
dermen in council assembled this
26th day of July, 1902.
R. E. Wylie,
Attest: Mayor.
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COFFINS and
Our stock embraces
from the plain, cheap
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? "The Largest
Manufacturer of I
Fertilizers on Earth" I
Forty odd
\ Manufacturing plants
Wholesale purchasers i
Largest importers
\ Concentration of
Management
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