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wrr j ? . > ? Sepresentetioe newspaper. Souers Lexington and the is orders of the Surrounding Sountiea hike a Slanfcet. VOL. XXXIII. LEXINGTON. S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1902. ~ NO7T~ w. S3Svdionsrc^TOST, TIES., IMI^^^C-ieiies, IdSiO MAIN STREET, - -- -- -- - COLUMBIA, 8. C. Solicits a Share of Your Valued Patronage. Polite and Prompt Attention. October l3tf i i - $25.00 in Cash Prizes Given Away Every [ FRIDAY AT 8 P. 1. " i ; With each cash purchase of a Pair of 8boes, we give a Coupon which is j placed in a sealed box. and for four " . mitli Vnromhor i 1 weexs, conimeiiuiij^ ??ivu , ! 28th, every Friday night at 8 o'clock I the box is well shaken and seal | broken. j The first Coupon drawn from t he > j box gets the "cash"?Frst Prize; i $10.00; Second, $7.50; Third, $5.00, j i j Pounth, $2 50. Besides this, we offer the best svock of Shoes and Christmas Slip- ' , s ! pers ever shown in this State. We i want your trade. It will pay yon to ; buy your Shoes from. I , LEVER, | UvurAUAFllIU W ! I inonucmnn, i 1 1603 Main Street, COLUMBIA, - s. c. Feb. 6?ly. GET , OUT OF THE RUT. Money is too hard to get for you to pay one cent more ior nay aiuvie than you have to We are selling Paints. Cements, Sash. Doors, Blinds, Hardware, Shingles, etc.. for a little less than yon cam buy elsewhere. And then yon get quick shipment, too, SH/IND BUILDERS'SUPPLY CO ^ . 615 PLAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, - - S. C. BOTH PHONES 251. October 98?ly. C. M. EFIKD. F. E. Dreheb EFiRD & 3REHER, Attorneys at Law, LEXINGTON. C. H.. S. C. WILL PBACTICE IN ALL THE j Courts. Business solicited. One I member of the firm will always be at office, , Lexington, S. C. J one 17?6m. NOW FOR C CARPET STORE ] UNPRECEDENTED DISPLAY ' "When in the citv do-cg 3 onr Xma< shrpping where the crowd is. \\ e ar^* >L< w,; g the Colim jia Ecr BRCSSEE CARPETS !"r<> VELVET CARPETS, Iron STRAW 3IATTI.VG, Ironi SPECIAL ./>* n.;? 3 Wir.la T, HA' X"Uir."S J1UMIK J. vm^u.7, v at $1 Uj to 51.75. 75 Fine Smyrna Rugs. W>\~2. sold at S3.5fl at $2.98. Don't wait tor 'he "New Trolly" 1 ily, we can please them all. We are going t' pons and trading stamps for "Cash" purchas y on come. MUTUAL , 1517 MAIN ST., ' S. C. Tslspiiene 245. * ) ' H * Slaves of Coal Barons. Truth Concerning the Oppression of Miners by the Operators. The tales from Scranton, Pa., told by tbe miners before the strike i commission of tbe terrible suffer. | ing they bave been subjected are horrifying in their awful details and shows the urgent necessity of immediate action on tbe part of the national government to protect those poor, hard worked, and illy paid people who bave beeD, if their testimony is to be believed, subjected4o a system of abject slavery btfore which that of tbe negroes Derore me emaccipauou proclamation of President Lincoln wss issued is not to be compared. Some of the testimony sickens and the conditions alledged to have existed in the coal regions of Pennsylvania i3 a blot upon our boasted Christian civilization. We take the following account of some of the testimony before the commission from the press dispatcheF: The narration of tbe death of a wife as a result of an enforced removal from her home, and the story of a mother whose husband was killed in the Markle mines of how she aDd her two boys struggled for years to pay the Markles back rent and the coal bill were some of the principle features of the recent session of the coal strike commission. The testimony of the witnesses whose lives are given up to the coal mining industry, was at time pathetic and surprising to the commission, who listened to it with undivided attention. After closing the Markle case the representatives of the miners called witnesses who formerly have been employed in the mines of several in ahnw that a hlack list exists and that some of the companies bad broken the agreement which ended the strike and resulted in the appointment of the arbitration commission. It is the intention of the lawyers for the miners to take up tomorrow the conditions at the collieries of the Lehigh Valley company and others in the Hazleton region. Henry McColl, a Markle miner, told how bis family, including his mother-in-law, who was a hundred years old, was set out on the road with their household goods. He gave j a graphic description of how be was injured many times in the mines. The company gave bim nothing until HRISTMAS [N FULL BLAST! Of Uf NOVELTIES!! Look for the busiest place on Main street hadsomest s'o.-k of goods ever brought to the koudaxs. jii 7?m4. to SI Per Yard, ti SI to $1.25 per Yard, t ISe. to 40c. per Yard. OFFERING. ^ L ~ ^ 1 01 tj, ? T>^;^ i I i . ? oiig, <11 i-jc tu ji.it rir i air, soia ioriner.y I and S3.7o, for the holidays we oiler tlum ine, hut come over i"?w and bring the it-m> give a*'ay a, rug on Xmas so get your cones. We will give yon full information when &.RPET CO., COLUMBIA, S. C. Sept. 17?tf. after the employee took up a collection for him, then he was given $50 after being on tl e injured list for two years. The company took out of the collection the rent he owed. In answer to other questions he said that he was one of the 13 evicted 1 by the Markle company. Then followed the most pathetic story yet told the commission. The old miner, decrepit from many injuries, told under the examination of how the eviction was carried on. The wife was sick ftro Kmi/lro^ roof mnf tv r i tauxj uci vuo * was blind and uDable to walk. The day on which they were "thrown out" was rainy. He took them the best he could to Hazleton, seven miles away, and placed them in a cold, damp, empty house. "We were greatly worried because of our having been turned out of our bouse, and one night," the witness said, between sobs, "she died.'' "She died?" exclaimed Judge Gray, who was pacing to and fro across the room a9 he auicklv turned when he -? w heard the man's last wards. "Yep, sir, she died, and I buried her yesterday." No one cared to cross-examine him, and Judge Gray said: "That is all, Mr. McColl, and that enough." Mrs. Kate Burns, of Jeddo, told a story of how she and her two boys worked years to pay cff an accumulated house rent and coal bill, due to the Markle company, the narration of which deeply interested the commissioners. She was examined by Lawyer Darrow, and in answer to his nnAoHnnft fihA said har husband was a "1"?? ~ engineer inside the Markle mines. The husband was killed under ground, leaving her with four children, the eldest of which was a boy of eight years. The company never offered her a penny, but the employes gave her about $180 to defray the funeral expenses. After her husband had been killed, she moved from her four-room bouse into oDe containing only two, one room sbove the other, and for the next six years she struggled as best Bhe could to get along. She took in washing, scrubbed for the neighbors, and once in a while she was given work cleaning the omce of the Markle company. \V ben the eldest child was 14 years old she sent bim to the mines. At the end of the first month the lad brought j home his wage statement, showing that the mother owed $396 for back rent. The hovs wages for the | . ! rrrh AH'* TTA tl n A ^ j W .Lit?JLl y U LL OUiUO I how cheap th< | Slides! NEW*GOOD? EVERY j Ostobir 1j.?:'iu. month had been taken off the bill and he came home empty handed. In the course of time |her next boy waB old enough to earn a living and, he, too, was sent to the colliery. Like the older brother, the second boy received no pay, his earnings being deducted for rent. The mother on the witness stand, was by this time welling up, and when she added that the money she had earned for cleaning the Markle office was never prid her but kept by the company for rent, the commissioners looked at one another in surprise. She said it took the three of them 13 years to make out the debt. Cures Cancer and Blood Poison. If you have blood poison producing eruptions, pimples, ulcers, swollen glands, bumps and risings, burning, itching skin, copper-colored spots or rash on the Bkin, mucous patches in mouth or throat, falling hair, bone pains, old rheumatism or foul catarrh, take Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B). It kills the poison in the blood; soon all sores, eruptions heal, hard swellings subside, aches and pains stop and a perfect cure is made of the worst cases of Blood Poison. For cancers, tumors, swellings, eating sores, ugly ulcers, persistent rtimnlaa nf ?!! bin/ta fa Ira R R Pi plUi^ftVO Vi UiA A4UVIC f iUOV JUT* Jk^> It destroys the cancer poison in the blood, heals cancer of all kinds, cures the worst humors or suppurating swellings. Thousands cured by B. B. B. after all else fails. B. B. B. composed of pure botanic ingredients. Improves the digestion, makes the blood pure and rich, stops the awful ixhing and all sharp, shooting pains. Thoroughly tested for thirty years. Druggists, $1 per bottle, with complete directions for home cure. Sample free and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble and free medical advice also sent- in pealed letter. ?. The Delineator For January. Am^ncr the noticeable features cf The Delineator for January is its fine cover?the first of a series that will continue throughout the year. The scope of the magazine has been generally widened, and new and valuable materia! has been introduced iuto all the departments. ? r?vM 4* rira TI?tt *W WMii V* VV<iM *rw?jr Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All. druggists refuDd the money if it fade to cure. E W. Grove's signature is on each box 25c. i. C:LT ;q Town and see T O VQ C.nlniTOC ?/ w Shoes!! 3 ARRIVING WEEK. All the Venezuelan Ports Are Closely Guarded?Text of the Proclamation. London, Dec 20 ?The official proclamation of the blockade of Venezuela ports was gazetted this morning and becomes effective today. The text of the proclamation is as j I follows: : ^'Foreign Office, Dec. 20,1902 "It is hereby notified that as the United States of Venezuela have failed to comply with the demands of his majesty's government a blockade by his majesty's naval forces of La j Guayra Carenero, Guanta, Cumana and Cirupano, aDd the mouths of Orinoco is declared and such blockade will be effectively maintained from and after the 20 December, subject to the allowance of the following days of grace: For sailing vessels sailing before the date of this notification from West Indian ports and ports on 1 the east coast of the continent of ( America-ten days for steamers and twenty days for sailing vessels. "From all other ports-twenty days j for steamers and forty days for sailt*!/. VTAQOAID J AU^ TOOOUIC. "For vessels lying in the ports now declared to be blockaded?fifteen days. \ "Vessels which attempt to violate i the blockade will render themselves liable to all measures authorized by < the law of nations and by the respec- i tive treaties between his majesty and ' the d-fferent neutral powers. ] The foreign office says the blockade < of the Venezuelan coast will not be relaxed until the powers enforcing their claims agree on a method for the arbitration of their respective cases and Venezuela shows a disposition to act sincerely. Stress is laid on the difficulty, in view of the diver- ' sity of the claims in deciding on a method of presentation and on the proximity prolixity of the negotiations which will be involved a settlement is in sight. It is not definitely decided whether separate case9 can be embodied in one document, ehould the projected arbitration take definite shape. A glass or two of water taken half an hour before breakfast will usually | keep the bowels regular. Harsh j cathartics should be avoided. When I a -normative is needed, take Cbamber- I ' - r ? o ? ' Iain's Stomach and Liver Tablet1. They are mild end gentle in their action. For sale by J. E Kaufmann. | : WHEN IN \ REMEMBER THAT COHE SHOES AT THE L< | STSTv7 SE01S "aH] ! OI EVERY SHOE i GUARAN 1636 MAIN ST., C SEE IS 1011 SII0ES n fcesTBuy your Shoes from Cohen and ge Dec mber 19. THE OLD RELIABLE I? nfiumrn PUWVKH Absolutely Pure THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE Christmas Holiday Bates. The Seaboard Air Line offers cheap rates on account of Christmas holiiays and will sell tickets from all points in South Carolina to east of the Mississippi and south of the 3hio and Potomac rivers, including Washington, D. C, and St. Loais, Mo., at the rate cf one and one-third irst class fare for the round fcrin. ~ ? I rickets will be sold December 23, 24, 25, 30, 31,1902, and January1,1903, frith fiDal limit January 3, 1903. IdF5 For rate9 and information call m any agent of tbe Sesbiard, or to CJ W Small, General Passenger and ricket Agent. J J Puller, Trafehng Passenger Agent, 1500 Main sheet, Columbia, S. C. Tie Sick Ciief Justice. / The Columbia State says that it was reported in the city last week that Chief Justice Henry Mclver was desperately ill at hie home in Cheraw. U!., (my ?V,of thd /liofinnriiieh. il iCUU^ icai tunij ?.uw vuovtu^ wiwu ed South Carolinian may not live until the beginning of another year. Ifc will also be sorrowful information for the people of the State to know that Judge Melver is a great suffer and that the gloom of death overshadows his home. The meat trust having "busted,'' the price of meats of ail class has come down cff its stilts, acd this necessary article of food will soon be within the reach of the poor man again. Mrs. U. S. Grant, the wife rf expresident, U S Grant, died in Washington on Saturday, the 13th inst. NANT OF EN SELLS THE BEST DWEST PRICES. B^Tim DAILY! 3GLB WITH A TEE AT oe Store, OLU1V1B1A, S. C. jifi.v ff.v or it caTV. t a school bag fjr your chi' "r.:afree.