The Lancaster ledger. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, February 08, 1905, Image 2
T?F LEDGES.
TIMLOW S. CARTER,
EDITOR AND MANAGER.
i^IJ> WKDSKSDAY AND SATITKDAY
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1005.
(tyBtJGRlPTIOX $t 60 PER YEAR
"The constitution ot tbo
Stuto" and the "principles of
Democracy" do not dobur tho
commonwealth from entering the
house and saying to the parents,
"You shall not permit your children
to work in a factory before
they are 12 years old." The
commonwealth is certainly justi
fied in protecting the physical
health of its future citizens. It is
only when the commonwealth
would protect the mental and
moral qualities of its future citizens,
and says, "Until you arc 12
years of ago you must go to
school," that the "constitution"
and "Democracy" are invoked.
And how unreasonable is the invocation;
how senseless the claim!
The hope of the endurance of the
constitution of a free people rests
upon the eulightmcnt of cur citizens;
and what tnav we expect of
Democracy without such a citizenship.?The
State.
A dozen years ago we heard that
Clcmson college was for the sons
of "oao-gallus" farmers. Now,
when the "oiio-gallus" farmer
won't let his son learn to read, we
are told that to force that boy to
learn to rea i would be a violation
of the Declaration of Independence.
Poor littio fellow, doomed
to perpetual, mortifying ignorance.
Many of them arc bright
boys and would make their marks
in the world iustcud of on paper
if they were just given half a
chance.?The State.
J. \V. Collins Surrenders.
Chsrlotte, N. C., Feb 5.?A
telephone from Funston, Brunswick
County, today says that J
W Collins, of Armour, Balden
Couuty, charged with tho murdor
of a boy there last week, has surrendered
himself for trial.
Two weeks ago the body of Jeff
Davis, a sixteen-year-old white
boy who was bound to Collins,
was found in Collins's mill pond,
by Collins himself, who gave it
out that the boy had evidently
comunted suicide, and the body
was buried. Subsequently the
neighbors became suspicious and
tho body was exhumed. The
boy's nock was broken and there
were bruises indicating that he had
been killed and thrown into the
pond. A warrant was sworn out,
and Collins, who is an influential
man in tho community, disappear,
cd from home.
Jumped Into Burning Oil
Sistersvill, VV. Va., Feb. 4.?
Lansey Owens, a prosperous farm
or living about 1-A miles south'
east of this city, committed suicido
in a horrible manner, aftel
an unsuccessful attempt to murder
his wife. Maddened thiough
jealousy, so it is alleged, Owens
shot at his wife with a calibre
revolver while both were in the
house and then walked to the
farm of a neighbor, F T McCullough,
whero an oil tank was located,
and after setting fire to the
oil, deliberately plunged into the
burning fluid. When the fire was
extinguished and the body recovered
it had been burned beyond recognition.
The bullet tired at Mrs
Owens struck hor just above the
right temple and gluuced olf, inflicting
a dangerous but not necessarily
fatal wound.
Programme Announced
for Live Stock Meeting
(experienced Men Will Discus
Pertinent Topics Relating to
the Stock and Dairy Industrios.
t
Secretary 11 (1 Kawls of th
South Carolina Li\c Stock asso
ciation has announced the pro
gramme for the annual mcetio
that is to be held in Columbia 01
February 15th and lGlh in the "!
M C A hall.
Railroad rales for this occaiio
will l>e reduced to one ami one
third fare plus 25c for round trip
provided that a straight first-clat
ticket is purchased to Coluurbi
and that the agent selling th
ticket, bo required to fill out an
oign a certificate showing the fort
and number of ticket purchaser
which certificate sh??nl,l l>o hrnmrf
to tho mooting, and when signe
by tho secretary of the associatio
will entitle tho purchaser to a r<
turn trip for ono third faro pie
25c. It' the agent selling th
ticket has no standard cortificatei
ho should bo required to give
receipt on railroad paper for 111
ticket; which, when properly ou
dorsed, will entitle tho owner t
the sumo ieduction for tho retui
trip. Theso tickets cau ho pu
chased three days before the moo
ing and are go)d for three daj
after.
The first session of tho convei
lion will be held at 8 o'clock We
ncsday evening, tho lGth. Th
programme for that evening is i
follows:
'Report of the President'
Mr John G Mobley, Winns bore
The Stock Proposition of th
South"?Mr C I Wade, Coroolit
Ga
"Point8 of tho Dairy Co*"Mr
13 Harris, Pendleton.
"Hog liaising in South Care
lion"?Dr Heiso, Colombia.
At tho second session at 10.3
o'clock Thursday morning dair
topics will bo discussed as follows
"Dairy Topics"?Hon Ed 1
Webster, chief dairy division
Enited States bureau animal in
dustry.
"Cheese Making in South Cur<
lina"?Mr C G Voight, Easloy.
"Farm Milk Records" (a den
onstration)?Mr 13 11 Rawl, Clen
son College.
At the final session on Thursda
evening both dairy and live stoc
topics will be discussed, the pr
gramme being:
"Forage Crops for the South
? Hon J YV Spillman, agroslo
ogist, United States depaitmei
of agi iculture.
' Southern Markets'for Daii
i Products"?Mr W L YVilliarasoi
president Georgia Dairy associ;
I tion.
'Sheep Raising in the South
?Mr T L Billow, Ridgeway.
"Abortion" ? Dr Louis
Klein, Ulemson College.
Cold in Manchuria Intense.
St. Petersburg, Fob. 5, 2:25
m?According to General Kuri
patkin's latest reports, which ir
dicate tho wounding of a thii
Russian general, the operations!
Sundiapu and the lighting i
Shakho have beon momentaril
suspended. The Russians succes
fully repulsed the latter attack c
the Japanese eastward with heav
losses. The cold is intense, ther
being 21 degrees of frost. Ther
aro indications that the Jnpaues
are preparing to break the mact
l vitV On their nwn * -
^ ?/ iv u c*<UVjI/II li t It
soon us the weather moderates.
The War Oflico is closed, an
no farther facts regarding the rt
port that General Kuropatkin i
about to give up his comman
[ cun bo obtained.
Cotton Has Advanced
C. H. Jenkins Shows What Can
g bo Accomplished by Organization
Brown wood, Texas, Fob. 3'l'he
following signed statmnoi
has beon issued by C. H. donkin
o of tho executive committee of th
- Southern Cotton Growers1 a?soci
- ution:
K 'Since tho first call was issue
[1 for tho farmers to organize for th
^ purpose of securing a 25 per cor
reduction of acreage and fertili
n zers, cotton has advanced ?2.5
i- per bale.
), (' Upon tho basis of 4,000,00
8 bales being still in tho hands c
u the producers, this moans a gai
q of $10,000,000 to tho cotto
j growers of tho south. If th
n farmers and business men of th
|? south will stund by tho pre
it gramme agreed upon at Now Oi
,1 leans convention, this erain wi
n amount to $10,000,000 on tb
e. crop in land by .Juno 1, and tb
18 gain on the next crop wi'l be t
ie least $125,000,000. Oan wo nc
afford to pay something both i
u labor and money for such a cor
ie summation as this?
_ "The essentials are rcductio
o in the next crop and holding tb
n present crop. The present ere
r_ cannot ho held economically witl
t- out warehouses; therefore, ni
8 advico is to build warehouses ar
do it now. l^et the farmers ar
tiusiness men of every county g
(j together at once and raise tl
necessary funds to build ware
houses.
- The New Judgeship F?
South Carolina
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i,
Representatives Finley and Aikc
Called at the White llojse tc
Discuss the Mutter.
'* Special to The State.
Washington, Feb. 4 ?Presi
0 dent Roosevelt had a long tal
y with Representatives Finley ar
Aiken of South Carolina todn
'I about the new judgeship ft
i. South Caroliua. The House j
i- diciary couimittoo has favorabl
reported a bill establishing a m
3- judicial district for tho State, ar
in case it became a law the roj
j. resentatives told tho president tl
i- people of the ne.v district desirt
that a judge should ho select!
y from within the district. 'J
:k their suggestion the president
o tnswer was a prompt and enitihii
ic assurance that he would I
" glad to give careful considerate
I- to the recommendation of the d
t legation, the members of tho b
and judges of the proposed new <1
y trict regarding the newjudgeshi
n, If the proper man can be foui
a- within tho district, a man in evei
sense qualified for the place, the
" is good grounds for tho stateme
that tho prosident ^ will appoi
A him. In tho event that the di
trict does not possess tho prop
man the name of ox-Iiepresci
tative Elliott has heen prominen
ly mentioned.
n. The reporter has talked to qui
3* a number of farmers from diHe
i- ent paits of the count} with
d view to ascertaining their tempi
at on tho subject of reducing tho <c
at ton acreage this year. The ri
y suit bus beon uniform. Ever
8* farmer talked to, says that h
)f nftichhnrn kav thnv nr? nr/-vin.?
R ?j j " fS""'n 1
y reduce the acreage and fu; thei
o more that they are going to cui
'? tail the use of commercial fertil
e zers. It is to be gathered froi
> these inquiries also that the fanr
'S ere mean exaotly what they saj
?Yorkville Enquirer.
?Ground has been broken i
Yorkvilla for a $60,000 apinnin
18 mill for the Nooly Munufactunn
^ Company. J. J. Kellar & C(
have the contract.
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Successors to I
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"! settle with the
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'f our share of tl
? ings will indu
1 ing reuoyated
n & Mercantile i
* our place more
i- have devided c
If, ies first, on tin
ment second; <3
If the fourth root
>- We would ei
we have many
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For i
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as we want to
chasing' our S]
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'd In moving onr Sin
If decided to place them on
? these shoes are not old j
f as DREW-SELBY, GODMAI
id
CLOTHlf
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And if prices
< you to take ad"!
/A /lik Dt & A ar IV
>n JL uu uuse mitf c
? luont for ac'Ui
" delay but eom<
p, We would II
.v have i? the wj
prevents our <
?l tion and you m
= IN SHA
te
and can make
31 feet satisfaction
I otis New Year
I ronage, we arc
o
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T H-J O N E S C
.IEATII BANKIN(
icli lias been liquids
: estate of J AS. M
m m ? m
^ a* *<' * & ?/ *y N A'" ^ ^ ^
re for business and
ic trade if low price:
ce the puhlie to siie
the stores of the 1
3o., gives us more inconvenient
for I
>ur stock into depar
i corner; gent's tun
Iry goods third, an
ill.
ill your attention tc
great induceineiits
he Next Thirty
make a clean swc
[iring Goods.
)es, a great many of the boxes w
a bargain counter, and M them
goods but right new and some of
1 and other makes.
<fi WE HAVE IN AB
4 will move tho goo<l
rantage of this great
any suit of clothes y
(1 cost for the, sjiot
e and let us dreiw
ike to tell you more
i) of bargains but la
loing so. .ill we ?i
dll readily see we as
PE FOR BU
you priets that will
IK Wishing even*
and Itopbig for 11109
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0 M P A N Y.
ited iii order to
. HEATH, de
intend, getting
3 and fair deal3-i
to us. iSavleath
Bankingoom
and makes
>us,iness. We
tment, groccrlishidg
departul
millinery in
t the faet that
to offer
Days
>ep before purere
broken, an<i we Iiave
go at first cost. flow
the best we have, such
UNDANCE.
Is, it is up to
; reduction sale
ii our establish*
cash, so do -'t
?
!|i II??.
about what we
ssu&* so F ished
sk is ass iitspee[ e
SINESS,
$ive you pes'ime
a pronpor o
oi youv pat
ri<fc.
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