Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, January 20, 1904, Image 4
A Good Time
to buy a
Good Timepiece
1 have Just received t
a lot ol new Watches
which ?ro worth your
seeing?probably the
most interest ng assortment
that e er
came to 1 ancaster. 1
never saw handsomer
styles and as I bought
. them at a discount, tor
" cash. I mean to sell
' theiu at pleasing
prices If you need a
Watch I can tit your
taste and y ur purse,
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anil talk it oter.
B. C. HOUGH,
Jeweler and Stationer.
LANCASTER * ENTERPRISE.
Published Wednesdays by
Enthkprisk Publishing Co.
A. J. CLAHK. Editor.
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IN ADVANCE.
Wednesday, January 20, 1904
The National Democratic con
vontion will be held in the city
of St. Louis, Mo , July 0, 1904c
The saddest day in the history
ol Chicago, a eiiv that has had
more than her share ol calamitous
days, was Wednesday, l)e
comber 30, 1903 A matinee,
largely attended, was on at the
new lr< quois theatre. Nearly
1,800 people were in the audience,
uine-tenths of them women
and children Fire broke out on
the stage. The asbestos curtain
that should have shut oil' the
flames irom the audience, hung
suspended and refused to come
down. The ooenimrs at the trout
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and back oi the house created the
draft of a roaring furnace, ami
swept the flames out underneath
the hall-drawn curtain, over the
helpless audience, and, in shorter
time than it takes to tell, the
house of pleasure became a house
of death. By gas and flame, the
death list has reached, at last
reports, the awful total of 59f>
Think of it, barely two out of
every three people who went into
that building came out alive !
Five members of one family per
ished. Twenty-four school teachers
were burned to death. Again
and again it happened that two
I 1 1 1
ninicin, a UUBIJtlUU UIIU W1IO, H
brother and sister, two or three,
or even lour, young children of
the same family perished. Such
a list of desolated, grief-stricken
homes from one catastrophe is
scarcely known in history, and
Chicago can never recover from
the gloom and horror of this dis
aster. Nineteen of the dead were
policy-holders with the New York
Life for $30,736.15, an unusually
small amount, because the disas
ter occurred at a matinee at which
there were very few men. Nine
of those insured were lady school
teachers who each had $1,000 in
f nrunno rv, o/l a ?xrt?..?Ll? 4 - 4 1?* ?
.' I.KIIW) maun uajrauio II) I Ilt*ir
mothers or sisters. After their
arduous duties during the school
session they had pone to this attractive
place of amusement for
an hour's pleasure, when, with
scarcely a moment's warning,
they are in the throes ot the
dying!
A fellow tfho is aiways switching
his occupation never gets well
started on the main line to success.
Opposed to Both
Mr. Editor?There are two
gieat evils in our midst that I
feel that the good people of our
country should try to put down.
In writing this 1 hope 1 may encourage
someone who will take a
leading hand in putting these
evils down.
These evils of which I speak
are 4k Dealing in Whisky," and
' Gambling in Cotton Futures/'
neither of which, to our shame,
is against the laws ol our state,
or against the laws of our town
It is lawtul to sell whisky and
it is lawful to buy whiskey, and
it is lawful to get drunk it you
will just get out of town ; but it
being lawful does not make it
right. I am sorry tor any one
who is willing to sell whisky for
the money that is in it ; 1 am
sorry for the man who drinks it
and can't keep fiom getting
drunk ; I am sorry lor the drunkard's
son who is just beginning
to follow his father; I am sorry
for the drunkard's daughter who
buries her face in her hatidker
chief; I am sorry for the drunkard's
wife who can't keep back
her tears; I am sorry for the
drunkard's children as they shiver
l. .....i i :
V> | I 11 i will (lliu m# it 1/1114 ' I't'^^lll^l
biead?1 am ho sorry ; I want to
help them all. I feel like it we
could put down the di-p<?usary
we would be doing the drinking
men and their families a ureal
favor. I am not mad with the
drunkard because he drinks, but
I am sorry lor him and want f<
help him out ot trouble. I want
to help make this a tree count n
?tree Irom whisky. The drink
tng man is bound.
It is lawtul to write out or sell
cotton contracts, and it is lawtul
to buy contracts, but that does
not make it right to deal in them I
It is not right lor our government
to allow this gambling to oe con
tinned. A strong force in Great
Britain lias coudemned"Gnmhliiit
in C0H011 Futures,*' ami we hope
the day will soon come when the
widespread evil will he put down
and branded as illegal like tin
lottery. T. M. Belk.
Itusket Supper Thuradag Night.
There will be a basket sup
per at Fork Hill school house 011
the night of the 21st inst.,
which the public is cordially
invited to attend and bring
baskets. The following constitute
the committee of arrange
ments for the occasion : Mesdames
II. J. Blackmon, M. E.
II inson, J. S. Marshall, It. L.
Baskins, B. F. Baker, L. W
Hinson, I). J. Hinson, H. G.j
Connell, J. K. Bowers, G. W.
Ellis.
Trespass Notice
All persons are hereby warned
and notified not to ride, hunt, fish,
cut timber, allow their stock to
run on, or otherwise trespass upon
the McManus-Gardner lands sit
uate about 4 miles east of Lancaster
court house, north ot the
Redfield road and sooth of the
Chesterfield road.
A. J. CLARK,
Dec. 2,1903. Manager.
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