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^P^V(pj(Lt Successor to the Cheraw Reporter - which was established July 9, 1885, and entered as Second Class matter In accordance with Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Published Weekly by Strlcklln Printing Company. Subscription Price $1.00 per year. Advertising rates made on request New Mexico already charges four pf Its legislators with soliciting bribes, She is making a noble effort to keep up with her big sisters. Dean Hodges of Harvard says base .pall is on trial for its life. That's pretty rough, after all base &al1 doeB to keep the colleges going. ~ -T--?; i?;?-?- --/* Mr. Carnegie has picked out the prittiest girl, but what we want to know is whether her ability to make , mumns equaiu uci guuu iwm. ^ A ?ah S'ranfeiBdd Wdhiiil edmnlittfid < suicide because she had been cduftht i smuggling. Too bad', Just as she had ] qualified to enter Si&afrt Society. i =*?? j When we observe the bath robos that the girls have been bearing about the streets this winter, it is with relie i that we welcome 'the coming of sum- < mer. ] I The Nicaragua "Liberals" have 1 been placing bombs along Mr. Knox's t route. That is probably their payful 1 way of remarking that he is a very j smart man. 2 We are glad to see the textile work- ? #rs get more pay, hut are aot quite ? sure what out1 wives will shy when 1 they learn the result at the dry goods c store next season, t . ? a The New York Women's that each Spring fly breeds 5,9,<*8,256,- 2 00^ descendant^. We havr often .' seen a JBMBWIWfll^ber in some restaitraatg 0 ever in Coltyp'ola. " )t looks as if the bituminous miners ^ were going to strike, and as soft coal Is used so freely to decorate house 0 paint and window curtains with, many ^ householders will 'suffer. * t From the personal .? . * , , tWp ift whicU ' Theodore re' ^ vt * York. ** & Will at NeW < ?. likely either that f to play in Will's yard, or to tilde &tfvn his cellar door. Now that Dr. Wiley has retired, it would seem the psychological moment for the manufacturers to carry out' the plan of grinding up corn cobs to' make a new breakfast food. Good time of the year comingcampaign time when everybody feels' better. It is the season when candi-: dates aro in such friendly humor that' the spirit extends to other people. | The women get the suffrage in China from the speed with which changes are being made, we imagine the children could get the right to vote if they speak up real quick. Government scientists have found potash enough in O&lifornia to last 30 years, and the question now is how thc trusts can protect their rights against the common people octopus. Mr. Taft has laid the corner stone of a Y. M. C. A. building at Nashua, N. II., but probably the building would have lasted just as long if the job had been done by Pietro Macaroni of thc mason's gang. You just can't keep a good thing down. This does't of course refer to oyThis doesn't, of course refer to oysters and ice cream?Just to business, that's all. Some people thought that the moment the courts ordered a dissolution of the Standard Oil trust the otno 1.- ourl tho onct nf its products would decrease?but the very day the dissolution was announced the stock went up as did also the price of its products. Recently the stock of the company reached a value. of $S90.ftrt a share?a phenomena! fig|?. ure. Another "dissolution" would Probst ably send the stock soaring, r THE PASSI>'G OF THE CARPE' TACK. A gifted poet once wrote some lm mortal verses on "The song of tb shirt." At this time of the year w< long wished that some versifle would tune his lyre and sing the son) of the carpet ack. It would truly be a lugubrious ditty telling of aching backs, dusty .air, am the elusive and sardonic joy of tb< tack when be yields up his head to order to keep his feet in the floor.. Having felt through persona) e* perlence very keenly the sorrows ol the taking up and putting down carpel season, it Is with heart felt emotion tnal we welcome tne gradual disappearance of the carpet tack, due to the growing custom of using loose rugs and carpet squares. It seems quite Possible that the carpet tack will pass into such oblivion, that any lines the ,^fit might offer would scarcely be und rstood by ajl0t!l?r generation. Certainly cleanliness and Convenience are both promoted by the new styles of floor coverings. And don't get too fussy about the portions of the floor that are left Uncovered by your [oo?e rugs and carpeting. Even if they lo bftCO&e heel-marked and worn reDhember that no material is fit for the home that can't be used, and that the marks are made by the hurrying, toiling feet of those we love! "Two dirty, greasy looking foreign tramps, wearing cheap clerical garb, 3truck this town last Tuesday and proceeded to do the begging act?not begging for themselves, ^nark you, tor if they had done that, able-bodied ;rainpg that they are they would have )een sent to the chain gang for vagrancy. But these strong bodied, strong fcm^ljlng, unwashed hoboes jame in the name of religion and up>n their lazy lips took with unneceslary frequency the name of God, IcaVed &lid ftll' things holy. They ilaimed to be begging for an orphan iome somewhere away over in Asia, ind they goi. more here than many an lonest iaborer gets for a day's toil, ,uu pgoseu on to other fields equally s rich (Or them. A^^^veryth^rty r six'.V cays two^M W^'pr clerical" tramps hft~ this town, and t is the same old gag?money for the oor orphans The rascals know that be plea for money for orphans reach ur people as no other plea will and boy reap a rich harvest, these worthess tramps do by their cunnin0' he credulity 0f the pe;^, These ramps have recom^endRttaftS long is a fence r?^{ bigh&fw ind high :ockalo;jnim8 AftiWr, Asia, Spasia '^id as the tjitJ^darkey said in his prayer, ''from ifff them unknown lands where the foot of man has never trod and God himself knows not of." These papers with the un known and unpronouncable names and with seals likely from sorafe Turkish cigarette factory on t.h^. $re presented as "credentials" by the beggars. And then a tfhole bunch ol preachers over in this country wil give the tramps papers bearing theii endorsement of the high-handed fakt and let hem go out and gull the peoIple all the more. We are tired ol these clerical tramps, these hoboes coming In the name of religion. Thej need instead of your money and youi food three Bwift kicks properly ap> plied." The above editorial clipped from ht Monroe, N. C., has the unqualified endorsement of The Chronicle. Thest people have been shown up so ofter I , _ as frauds that it is beyond comprehension how they continue to fleect the people so easily. But we believe ii was Barnum, the great showman, whc said that "the American people lovec to be fooled" and it seems that the more they are fooled the better thej like it. We havo had a bunch of these foreign tramps in our city plying tlieii trade and from all accounts they mef with considerable success. I It Is claimed that tagging cold stor age products would create a prejudic( against them in the public mind. II oflens happens now that a prejudice is already found in the public nose. The only persons who have not struck for higher wages are teachers and clergymen, but as they can earn nearly half as much as a carpenter 01 a plumber, they are perfectly satis j tied. r LIBERAL PEOPLE. Did you ever do business with one - of those real liberal merchants, who e is willing to knock off a little from a e miscellaneous bill just to make it r even money? One of the kind that will 5 reduce a bill from $2.26 to an even $2.25 for easy change? Guess you have. , We have, and that sort of person al1 ways reminds us of the stingy Yankee ; our friend I. S. Huntley used to tell of. It happened, he said, in a town not a thousand miles from Cheraw, in the days when they sould liquor over the f counter by the drink?days that we 1 hope will never return, i One morning a regular customer (we will call him Jim Jones, for 1 short) entered the store. "Good morning", Jim, said the proprietor. "Morning," tersely answered Jim. "Something you want?" "Yes; I want ter dicker." "All right," replied the merchant. |"wnat j'Cl1 t0 dioW "Wanter dicker -a eKK fer a darn I in' needle" The "dicker" was made. Soon after this Jim, desirous of getting something more, 'said: ' Don't ye treat when a feller dickers!" To humor him the Btorekeeper filled a gourd from the cask beneath his counter and set it before the "dick-i erer," who exclaimed "Gosh' That looks good--but I 'low I'll take a egg in it!" Taking the same egg the man "had brought in he handed it to Jim Very deliberately Jim broke It and dropped it in the glass. Then he suddenly started, peered once more at the open hen fruit and ejaculated: "Gosh' Mister! That's a doubleyelker! Don't you guess yer owe nie 'nother r.eedle?" Editorial in Jefferson Gazette. The course pursued by Sjiicl- j k?r Spears, at the last session of the \ gourt Qf General Sessions most cm- t phatically does not meet with our ap- 1 A Tim .Viinb- .hat rua vntop the 1 piuvai auu nc uiiun ??w ?w.??, sentiment of the majority of the tax 1 jtyizrers of Chester^eld county. S<^ V6f y * anxlotf? to return to J?J&' practice. m the court of Cor^mon Pie*, jn Darling^ 6&tlhty he ov^rioo^ tfce fact ihat as solicit^. jje jjae takeh bath to uphold th',, majesty of the law. To cite a fe-V apedflc Instances?the pbdple of Chefaw In their desire to enforce the law against the sale of liqudr had warrants sworn out fbr most notorious of the tiger* The morning train from Che raw w&B perhaps thirty minutes late which caused the witnesses % hfc d tew minutes late ln get. ting tb the court room. T^e solicitor no! prossed all of the^e cases The ,i limit has been reached when a jury lis not allowed to pass on the guilt or 'innocence of a man charged with taking the life of another. We have nothing to do with as to whether the slayf ers of Maree are guilty or not but ..should have been left to twelve good .'and true men of Chesterfield county. >.ln the name of justice, what right has the State's Solicitor to accept a plea - of assnult and hafterv nf a hleh and jaggravated nature from a man who! \ has been charged with murder. A hu. man life had been taken, no matter | whether the deceased's station in life j was of a high and exhalted position or | of the lowliest and most humble or-; 'iigin. The slayers are either guilty or "jnot guilty; if guilty they should have J been severely punished; and if innoi cent should have gone free, their guilt .or innocence should hae been deterx mined by a jury of their peers. WHAT THIS COUNTY NEEDS L, IS ANOTHER J. MONROE > i JOHNSON. I !j Gov. Blease demands bank examin' or Rhamc's resignation or a satisfac . tory reason for his failure fo report * the condition of the Roof private bank^ ing institution at Lexington. The govjernor is perfectly right in this instance. It is past understanding how jsiieli a condition of uffairs could have - existed in any banking institution t without the examiner knowing it if he t but half way attended to his duties. ; On the face of the returns it looks las if the examiner had adopted Col. (?>: [Green's method of inspecting the fac-j h tories?that is, staying at home and j accepting the statements as published ( by the banks in the papers. .j Pont forget "Cleaning-Up Week.", commencing April 8th. WOMEN CAPITAL PEST BOTHER THE LIFE OUT OF OUR NATION'S REPRESENTATIVES. Feminine TIme-Wattere of All Classes and Sorts Capa^ Persistently on the Trails of Lawmakers In Washington. There are a great many people who think that Bombers of Congress have nation's laws. They imagine that, unless for a stray lobbyist now and then, they are never disturbed from their arduous duties pf lawmaking, guch is far from the Case and fh? nrlnHnal 1 rrc w' out national representative grpat per cent - _r are' J? a UUuu ,,omen- These fem..^ue wasters are women of all classes and sorts and represent every variety of life from the poor woman who wants a government position for her sickly husband to the home stater ^'ho merely wishes to call on the member from her part of the country. In the capitol there are two rooms for these women callers, one for those wishing to see the congressmen and another for those who aro looking for the senators. In each of these rooms there Is a young woman who takes charge of the callers. The young woman in charge of the Congress waiting room has the most trouble, for the callers are more numerous and more bothersome. As they come in they go to her desk and tell her whom they wish to see and she takes their card and, writing instructions on it, sends It into the representative desired. The pages who carry these carde I back and forth are generally kept ] very busy and often come in for ugly ] call downs from disappointed callers. When the legislature at WashingIon is In full session the membeire generally very busy and abs' in the nation's business. If *' Ichtlnir fnr o monoitra Tirh' ;lonal Import they h- ^ ?' na* :lme to be explai*-' little irranglng lltt1" uifflCttUles and easonab' mlhbf 8?itlir? for un-, jj wohlfeh who imagine tb^t +f Vttl?, tUdublb la the o*>tr o^q in the world^and Should therefore be adJusted at btice. Just at pre-^nt both hbUieS are busily engaged ^ith measures which are vastly important to the whole country; '^ey have little time to spare and jf one -v^ere to Stroll through t^,a capltol today he would find 'jm little waiting room crowded Vith women who are filled wlth t^t unconscious presumption t^at. encourages them to protrude +xeir little affairs to the front at the expense of the nation's most important business. When the cause of "Women's Rights" come to its own it will be a toss-up between the nation's business and the tangled affairs of a pink tea ^>r bridge party. One of the old gags that the members work on callers whom they desire to dodge is, when the page comes to them with a call, they move to a racant seat and send out word that they are not in their seat. The page who has to deliver this message, which is not a lie, generally comes in for trouble, as oftentimes the caller goes to the gallery and, seeing that the member is on the floor, goes back to the unlucky page and vents her Ire on him. The congressmen, who are not without human instinct, generally , reward the page for his trouble. This "Female-caller" nuisance Is not a new one and while women continue to be unreasonable the waiting rooms of the capitol will always be filled. ! Wireless Operators In Demapd. , "Wireless operators?steady demand," is the market quotation hung up In the navigation bureau of the department of commerce and labor. The federal officials believe that eventually all ocean craft will be equipped with wireless telegraph apparatus and that the posts aboard ships should be tempting to operators. About (100 vessels on the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and tho Gulf of Mexico are already so equipped, an increase from about 350 a year ago. All have to get a certificate from the com- I missioner of navigation. Heretofore all have been examined at the various navy yards, but for the convenience of telegraph operators living in interior towns arrangements have been made i thav nmv ho nvflmlnPtl hv I the military authorities at Fort Omaha. Neb., the examinations there tc be conducted from time to time. A Convenient Myth. "Why do you still keep up that absurd Santa Claus myth?" asked tho tynic. "I should have thought you would have laughed at It." "Hecau.se," answered the man with i large family, "it is convenient to lave some one to blaiuo for presents fail to please." K ' I. I \ WAIIAMAE'ER, imi DEALEBS nr |Pure Drugs \ and Medicines FRESH GARDEN SEED?The old reliable kind and just such varitiea as suit Cheraw and surrounding country. Every variety we carry , has been successfully, raised here. Union Sets, Cabbage fonts, Sorghum ' * Cane Seed, Irish Potatoes. <L We have just receive; BEAUTIFUL p|eSeNt8> Stirling Silver ^ _ Cut QlMg Fine ^Ch ^ __ gaIad Setg _ ch0C0_ late _ Cake Plates ? Nut Sets " - Br^hd and Butter Plates ? Lamps had lots of other things selected fremr the largest New York houses. 9* ;4 4T WJtfUAKAIEffS"Riant Books. Ledgers, Journajiu " m Cash i Books, Tims Boots, T*** Balances, Bills Fkyable, Memora~ dum and Order Books always sm> hand. Inks, Inkstands. Tyysewriter Papers, Lead Paneils, Wrtt*lug Tablets. IIT WANNAMAKEB'S- , Box Papers, 10c to 60o aaolu Pound Paper, 15c, 25c, SSa. Envelopes to matoh, Wanamaker's Ferer Mixture ? The most reliable remedy for Chills and Fever?stops the chills and stops them at once?only twentyfive cents per bottle. Large betties for family use for fifty cents and one dollar. WAXXAMAKER'S LIVER TOXIC Have you forgotten how much good it did you? Only 25 cents. WANXAMAKER'S COLD TABLETS The best thing we know of for a fresh cold. 10 cents a box. WAXXAMAKER'S TOMC MIXTURE tor weakness and poor appetite. It will do you good ? A FINE TONIC 35 cents a bottle. AT WAXXAMAKER'S? Window Glass, for Windows or PV*>tres. AT WAXNA3IAKE R'S? Paints in large or small quan titles AT 1VAXXA3T A KE B'S? We are exclusive agents for Eastman Kodaks and and Films. AT TV A X N A MAKE R'S? Agents for Huyler's Candles. AT WAJWAMAKEK'S? Agenst for L. E. Waterman's Idea) Tfnuntnin Pon? nolri nn nnai'Mtrev * * VMMf VA* ^ guarantee to give satisfaction, or . .m