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HARM AN, Editor and Publisher. ? ? Wednesday, July 1,1903. The UDpleasant duty of ufcryiDg? James H. Tillman for the killing of N. G. Gonzales, has been laid upon Lexington by the lawful authority of the State. Tkis dutv was neither sc?ffj^gpor!?8ir?d, but having devolved upon Lexington, by the decree of Judge Townsend, whose authority to do 8B he has is undisputed and fully recognized, the doty, unpleasant as it may be, will not be shirked. 'We might consistently and without the least sppearance of egotism, on our part, and without casting any reflection upon the people of the other / countiee composing the circuit, say, that every thing considered, the Judge acted wisely in naming Lexington as the trial county, because the conditions are such that our people can hold the Fcales of justice with an even hand and arrive at a y*, "' verdict fully warranted by the law and the evidence. The position oi toe l^ispatcn is strictly Deutral. The matter has passed beyond the sphere of legiti mate newspaper criticism and consequently any comment we might make either way would be an injustice to one side or the other and as the whole matter is in the courts the Dispatch shall maintain a strict nu*rality. We are sorry to see a disposition on the part of many newspapers of the State to mould public sentiment for or against Col Tillman by publishing biased criticiasms and comments of bis case. The State of South Carolina obligates to give every person charged with crime a fair and impartial trial by a jury of bis peers, but some of the brethren of the press are discussing the case and if they continue to do so the case will have been discussed, the arguments ail made and the verdict formed before the case reaches the people of Lexington county through Ihe channels of the court. We advise our readers to withhold their judgment until the case comes before them in a lawful manner. They should not be influenced by sny opinion that thev might see in the newspapers. "Let justice be done, though the heavens fall." ????% Neither Uncle Sam, England nor Holland are in haste to recognize the Servian dynasty wbch has been created by assassination. Mr. Jackson, besides beiDg United Minister to Greece, is also minister to Servis, will not, actii-g under instructions of the Stale D p for the present, present in* credentials to the of Kin^ Peter. England has recalled her minister to Servip, thu3 practically breaking cff diplomatic relations with that government and Holland has adopted the same course. A movement is on foot by designing politicians to unite the refotm (?) or disgrunteled elements of the two great political parti* s under populistic leadersLip. To accomplish this pur- j pose a meeting of an incipient "Pec pie's .farty has Deencanea to abbeu;ble at Dever on July 27tb, at which time and place it is hoped to complete the arrangements for the unholy alliance. It is estimated that over a million dollars will be spent for firewoiks for use on the 4th of July. We putheU eisewiiere lu mio iBaue a call for a meeting of the citizens of 1 the county to consider the proposition < to improve the public roads of the < county to be held in the court house, < on the 1st day of August. This call is signed by representative citizens < of some sections and who are public ?t)?rr*'d and progressive in their ?-, *nd are.sound in judgment rurc?N8ful in their business ff.irs and these facts are good argury that the meeting will not be void of good results and that plaDs will be considered and adopted that will eventually give this eounty as good public roads as those of any county in the State. It is hoped that the meeting will be largely attended by our best and most practical men, and that our very efficient County Supeivisor and bis able assistants will be present on that occasion and take a lively and active interest in the proceedings. | This mbject of good roads is one | that should engage the most serious and careful thought of every citizen who has the welfare of his county at | heart, and we beleive that the whole county is thoroughly aroused to the importance of improving the public roads. We hope that the results of the meeting will end in something more than useless talk. The time for much talk has passed and trie time for practical and effective action has arrived. Among the things necessary for working the roads properly is a complete outfit of first class, high grade, road working machinery and a skilled and practical expert to woik them. The county now has some very good machinery, thanks to the progressiveness of our present' board of County Commissioners, and no doubt that when public sentiment shall warrant the purchase of more it will be done. This sentiment we take it wi'l speak in no uncertain and unmistakable terms at the meeting to be held on the 1st and so strongly that it cannot be disregarded. We aho have a very practical man in * **i i- ~i. j cnarge 01 roe ccai? gang auu we uau safely predict that he will perform his whole duty in a workmanlike manner when given the authority to act. ^?? Dr. R. A. Law has been fcjrp anted assistant principal of the bummer I School for teachers, which will com| meLcein the Institute building at I this place, on July 21st. Mr. John S. Derrick, the County Superintendent of Education will shortly publish a letter giving full information to all who desire to attend the Summer School. Every teacher in the county should attend this school even though they have to do so at a great inconvenience to themselves. There is a great deal of useful information winch will he valuable in the pursuit of their proI feesion, to be learned by a course cf study at this school. They fib and prepare the teachers to more intelligently impart knowledge to those who are placed under thier instruction and thus give more satisfaction to the patrons and trustees. We anticipate a Urge attendance of the teachers here when the school opens Prof. Major, the Principal, is the accomplished head of the Batesburg Graded School and is a ripe scholar of wide experience. Dr. Law, is well and favorably known to many of our teachers, he i hntfincr fanoht, the Snmmer School here on a previous occasion and his w jrk has borne good fruit in the i elevation of the standards of the ' common schools. He is a gentleman of refinement and culture and with , this faculty there is no reason why our teachers should not be greatly benefited, assisted and aided in their profession. The Edgtfield cottun mul has been compelled to temporary suspend operations, on account of the high price of cotton and the low price of manufactured goods. It is thought \ the other mills in the state will do ! likewise for the same reason. The Saluda Standard advocates | the abolishment of the Grand Jury, the dispensary and the State Senate as an economic measure. During a bar room row in Savannah Monday, four men were fatally shot and many were wounded, i i We have just been shown a letter from Prof. J. S. Newman, Director Df the Farmers' Institute, Clemson College, in which he states that the date for the Farmers' Institute to be held at Lexington, has been fixed for July 23rd. The lecturers who will t e here on that ocuasion will be Dr. C A Nelson, Manager, who will speak on live stock and animal diseaset; Prof. C. Carter Newman, who wiil lecture on horticulture and fruit growing, and Prof. D. Wisiar Daniel, the representative of industrial education. Special subjects for lectures can be arranged when there is a de mand for a certain line of information These institutes, which are held under the auspices of the Ciemson College authorities, are very interesting and instructive, being conducted by distinguished lecturers who ate specialists in their line of work. Farmers who desire to be instructed in the science of agriculture and its kindred branches, should afoend this institute. Remember the date, July 23rd, and arrange your work so that you can come to town on that day and be instructed in the modes of advanced agriculture. It is with much regret that we are forced to admit that we see no signs of preparations being made to build a cotton sted oil mill at this place. What is the matter with our people any how? Within the week the last link of the Commercial-Pacific cable will be laid between San Fr&ncieco and Manilla and then Uncle Sam will have direct communication with his Philippine possession. The doctrine of "social equality' as preached by Teddy, the Rough Rider, is beginning to bear fruit. He has sown to the wind, and God alone can tell what the harvest will be. ?? U S Grant is hankering to play second fiddle to Teddy, the Rough Rider. Shades of the Great War j General, what is our posterity coming to? The grand jury of Charleston is at j * ' ? : ! tneir oia iticks again?reiusmg 10 return true bills against persons charged with violating the dispensary law. In North Carolina it is unlawful to run a whiskey distillery cutside of an incorporated town. The law went into effect today. SUMMER COLDS Produce Chronic Catarrh. Madame Isabella Ellen Bareas. i Madame Isabella Ellen Bareas, Life Governor Grand Lodge of Pree Masons of England, in a letter from. Hotel Saratoga, Chicago, HI., says: " This summer wbiTe traveling 1 contracted a most persistent and andoying cold. My bead ached, my eyes and nose seemed constantly running, my lungs were sore and I lost my appetite, health and good spirits. Doc? tors prescribed for me all manner oi piils and powders, but all to no purpose. " I advised with a druggist and he spoke so highly of a medicine called Peruna, that he Induced me to try my first bottle of patent medicine. Howevert It proved such a help to me thai / soon purchased another bottle and kept on until I was entirely well. Madame Isabella Ellen Baveas. Summer colds require prompt treatment. They are always grave, and sometimes dangerous. The promptness and surety with which Perur.a acts In these cases has saved many livesi A large dose of Peruna should be taken at the first .appearance of a cold In summer, followed by small and oftrepeated doses. There is no other remedy that medical science can furnish, so reliable and qaick in its action as Peruna. Address The Peruna Medicine Company, Columbus, Ohio, for a free book entitled "Summer Catarrh," which treats of the catarrhal diseases peculia* to summer. THE AMERICAN LAUGH. It Is a Valuable Aid In Bulldinc 1*9 Our National Greatne??. God's greatest gift to man was the laugh. Without it the human race would have wept itself to death or exterminated itself long ago. Pathos is beautiful; tragedy is absorbing. But both pathos and tragedy are instantly routed by the laugh. Laughter has sunshine in ft. It is warm. Learned men have searched for the secret of life. What Is it but good humor? That's the secret of life being worth living. What sunshine is to earth good humor is to man. Take the smile and the laugh away, and it would be the end of man. Men can't fight while they enjoy a joke. Death himself recoils from the laugh. The man in a good humor has an enormous advantage over the man who is angry. Anger is dark. Bitterness is filled with shadow. Intolerance is grim and black. Prejudice is blind. Good humor, with the smile and the laugh, is sunshine in which objects are plain and distortion disappears aDd wherein phantoms become nothing. One reason for America's greatness is that, above all, it is a nation that laughs. There have been gay peoples and frivolous nations, but gayety and frivolity are strangely akin to melancholy. That gay Germany whose national happiness is expressed in song is douded by melancholy. Sadness pervades the temperament of Germania. And frtvotoue France?bow tragic she becomes?how desperately tragic! The great American laugh is another thing. Investigate the American national laugh, and there's a sound, practical something behind it. It is never a forced laugh. K is healthy, vigorous, spontaneous. Empires and powers btvve crumbled and gone to pieces in solemn seriousness and .gloomy grandeur, while Uncle Sam. with a joke on his lips, forges ahead.?Denver Poet. A COMMON CUSTOM. Man's Habit of Ron nine: His Flngpws Through His Hair. "Wliy does a man always run his hand through his hair when he takes his hat off?" asked an observant man. "Did you ever notice that man will invaiiably do this very thing? Is it just a nervous habit? Is it vanity? It is an old habit. I have never known a man who did not indulge this habit. Even men who have no hair to run their lingers through, men whose heads are as bald as billiard balls, will brush their hands over their heads when they lift their hats. If the men simply wanted to smooth their tousled hair, of course this would afford ample explanation of the habit. But why should a man who has no hair on his head do the same thing? It is not a sufficient answer to say that such a man may have had a full suit of hair at one time and that it is simply a matter of habit contracted under different conditions. As a rule, men are unconscious of the fact. They do not know why, how or when they fun their hands over their heads. But tbey all do it just the same. Go into a court room or at any place where men congregate and whore it is necessary for them to remove their hats ami watch them. You will observe that every . man will go through the same performance. It seems to be a perfectly natural thing for them to do. My own conelusion is that it is an evidence of vanity. A man wants his hair to be just so Originally nrobablv it was simply a matter of tidiness. But it has grown into an act of vanity. The lawyer, for instance, if he has enough hair for the purpose, will want his head to have a tousled appearance. It gives him a studious appearance and leaves the impression that he has been struggling with the books. Whatever the reason, the habit is a curious o-ae and one which seems to be deep rooted in tl*e masculine nature." ? New Orleans i Times-Democrat. Handel as a Child. George Frederick Handel, the son of a Saxon barber and vgj't. was only five years old when his "fingers wooed divine melodies" from the spinet, which a good matured aunt had smuggled for him into an attic, so that do sound of it might reach the ears of his father. At eight his playing so astonj ished the elector of Saxony that his t father was compelled to withdraw his i opposition and allow the genius of the boy to have fair play. And before be bad reached his twelfth birthday young Handel was known throughout Germany as a brilliant composer and I virtuoso at the court of the emperor. When Boys Wore Wiflrs. A century and a half ago wig wearing was at its height, and little boys four or five years of age submitted to having their heads shaved preparatory i to donning their false headdresses. A Leyden professor?Rivers by name? ! shocked all churches by declaring that a Christian must necessarily wear a wig or be eternally lost. On the other hand. Dr. Thiers, a celebrated Catholic. assailed the wig wearing priests in a good sized volume. Crank* ? Judge?Let us get this tiling right ! You say this man whom we are exam- ! ining is not insane and yet he is not in ; his right mind. How is that? Witness?Lots of people, your hon- j or. who are not insane are wrong inind- | ed about everything.- Chicago Tribune. ! _?: : j An Aid to Memorv. Slopay?And. doctor, if you will, I ! wish you would give me something to j help my memory. I forget so easily. Doctor?Very well. I'll send you a bill every month.?Baltimore American. Tiie Langley cotton mill has reduced their work hcurs. The Mountaineer wants the Episcopalians to build a college in the city of Greenville. Cures Blood Poison, Cancer. Ulcers. Eczema. Carbuncles. Etc. Medicine Free. T t VtoTrn riimnloo nr JL1 YUU uatc i.uuuoi iv v> eruptions, ulcers on any part of the body, achiDg bones or joints, falling hair, mucous patches, swollen glands, skin itches and burns, sore lips or gums, ating, festering sores, sharp, gnawiDg pains, then you suffer from serious blood poison or the beginnings of deadly cancer. You may be permanently cured by taking Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B) made especially to cure the worst blood and skin diseases. It kills the poison in the blc" d thereby giving a healthy blood supply to the effected parts, heals every sore or ulcer, even deadly cancer, stops all aches and pains and reduces all swellings. Botanic Blood Balm cures all malignant blood troubles, such as eczema, scabs and annlco nimnloo mnnincr BflPPfl. car OVUiOIT) ?/ & kJ-l A - , buDclep, scrofula, etc. Especially advised for all ob3tiDate cases that have reached the second or third stage. Druggists, 8l. To prove it cures, sample of Blood Balm sent free and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co , Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble and free medical advice sent in sealed letter. DeWitt's Salve For Piles, Burns, Sores. ,< 1 fc I HliMP????11 '111 ??Ml Executor's Sale. I WILL SELL AT PUBLIC OUTCRY, to 'he highest bidder, at the late re.sid-nce of Andrew J. Lorick. deceased, a)) the personal property of which he died, seized and possessed, consisting of Eight Males, Three Horses, Thirty Head of Cuttle, Thirteen Hogs, Household and Kitchen Furniture. Wagons. Carts, Baggies, Gears, Farming nprv. nn thr? !nfh dav of Jnlv next, at 1U o'clock a. m. TEEMS* OF SALE?Cash. J. K. SWYGERT. Executor. July 1st, 1903. 2wi5. Barbecue. WE WILL FURNISH A FIRST class barbecue with refreshments, | near Midway School House, tnree miles I north of Lexington court house, on the ! Dreher Ferry road, on August 15 Prices: j Ladies, 25 cents; men, 3> cents. Everybody invited and a pleasant day is promised to all. JUSTUS WIN GAR P. BaCHMaN meetze. July 1, 1003, 7w<10. i Barbecue. ON SATURDAY. JULY EIGHTEENTH, four miles south of Lewiedale. at my residence, I will lnrnish a first class barbecue and refreshments. There will be speak- j iug by prominent men and music by a j String Band. The public is cordially in- | vited to come outandspend a pleasantday. : Charges lor dinner reasonable. Come one, j frtina oil ,t frytc. i June 22, 1903, 4w30. Foley's Kidniycurb Makes Kidneys and Bladder Right j fwAN i jj| The Trade of 1 y L exino eSpjft # DRY GOODS ?1 | GENT'S FURNi A complete stock of goods : opened up and ready tor y goods of stylish fabrics p ^ and patter I DRY GOO: AnUp-to-Date ] ^\ consisting of all the LATE this S< ^ OUR GENT'S FURNISHINI ?ji is receiving new ; <> When yon visit Columbia, don trade is respeetmlly solicits <$> GOODS ALWAYS GF THE HI $> REASOf 1<103 Main Street, I $ COLUMBIA, WHY ? ? ? will you buy worthless Spectacles and Eyeglasses trom irresponsible peddlers and pay tbem exhorbitant prices, when tor a moderate cost you can get from us a FINE ARTICLE, PROPERLY FITTED, and tbe fit of a pair of glasses is just as important as tbe quality. If you Need Glasses come o\er and let ns fit you properly. The Editor ot this paper can testily to our skill as Opticians, JEWELERS AND OPTICIANS, 1424 MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, S. C. IF YOU WANT JEWELRY AND SILVERWARE, or something for a Birthday or Wedding Present., send for our catalogue. June 3.?ly. na n i nnvranc Will VI # UhllkllWV] SPECIALIST ON ear, xose Throat and Lungs, GUARANTEE Office and Residence, FIT OF GLASSES 1424 and 142G Marion. St, March 15-ly COLUMBIA, S. C. Barbecue, Messrs. c. o. corley and s. a. Carter will give a first class barbecue on July 4th. at the "Nellie Spring?." Relreshrnents will be served and a smooth floor will be erected for those who enjoy the fastidious step. Prices: children, loe; ladies. 25c; gentlemen, 40c. The public is invited. .June 3, 1O03. 5w34 pd. Barbecue. I will serve a ilrst class family Barbecue, to which the public generally is invited, at inv still on July 4th. The meats will be cooked to a turn, and well seasoned. There will be f peaking f.nd music as well as other amusements provided for the guests. Charges moderate. H. STEELE. June3, 3903. 5**34 pd. Barbecue. WE WILL GIVE A FIRST CLASS Barbecue with refreshments at SaxeGotha Mills, Irene, S. C., on July 4tk. 1903. The meats will be prepared by the best cuist in the county. Speaking and music by brass band will be the order of the day. The best barbecue of the season is our motto. Evervbodv invited. GEORGE M KYZEB, JOHN G. BOOZER. June 10, 1903. 4w34, pd Barbecue. ON JULY ELEVENTH, 1903, I WILL furnish a fine barbecue aDd refreshments about 2.} miles south of Lewiedale. known as the Mims Old Mill Place. Everybody is invited. Meats will be cooked by Lewie Hallman. Music will be lnruished by a band. iN. S, (JKUUT. June 9th, 1903. 4w35 pd 3. H. FRICK, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Will practice in all the Courts. Office: Hotel Marion, 4th room, second tioor. CHAPIN, ------ S. C, Akuusc G. ly. Baker's bread, cakes and crackers all kinds, at the Bazaar. N the Peoole of m , . * ^ton in $j NOTIONS, I and g SHING GOODS. 1 Wi in each of these lines jnst our inspection. All new N?? nd the latest designs Np ns in the DS LINE, f & Line of Notions & 1ST NOVELTIES in vogue Jg iason. 3 GOODS DEPARTMENT. jfj jood.-s every (by. ^ ,'t fail to call on us. Yonr d. Satisfaction guaranteed. GHEST QUALITY. PRICES <$ i ABLE. <K .ever's Old Stand. ^ - S.C. % r