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For any further information call on or ad- | clrQ3s? \ G. M. HARMAN, Editor and Publisher. Wednesday, July 29,1903. BETTER ROADS. We desire to impress upon" our readers the importance of attending the good roads meeting which is announced to be held in this place, on the 20th day of August and the necessity of giving this important matter their closest study in the interim ao that some definite and t practical results will come out 01 ine meeting. It is probable that both Senators Tillman and Latimer will be present that day as they both have signified their purpose to do 60 if their affairs could be arranged so as to permit them to come, but, however, Bhould they be unable to come there will be other speakers who will make the meeting both interesting and profitable to those present on that occasion. The crops will all be laid by by that time and there will be no pressing-Arm work calling for immediate attention and thus interfere with and prevent farmers from turning out in full force. This question of good roads is the most important one that the people of the Slate have to deal with, and the solution directly affects the farmers more than any other class of people, and they should certainly respond to the call for the meeting with promptness and in numbers. Considering this question from every stand point we are, with ai ll. i:.li i__* ? j__:j.. me preeeub ligui ueiuie lie, ueciutruijr in favor of a eastern of township or county taxation to raise funds, which are necessary to put the public highways of the county in permanant good repair. We risk nothing in asserting that there is scarcely a man in Lexington cunty but who will acknowledge the necessity of improving the roads in one way or another. Indeed the demand for improvement comes from every section of the county and the complaint by reason of their wretched condition has been long and loud. The hindering cause to their improvement heretofore has been the want of a concert of action in this direction by our people. We all admit the existence of an urgent necessity for their improvement and yet we have done absolutely nothing toward the accomplishment of this deserved end. It is true that we have tried, or rather permitted to be tried, by the County Commissioners, several systems of road working, but the results have been a dismal failure, or proven very unsatisfac'ory in giving us relief from the evil under which we have so long been suffering. We have for a long time given the system of compulsory road working, that is requiring all able bodied men, except a few exempted by law, between certain ages to perform, or cause to be performed a given number of days work'on the public highways. This system gave temporary relief only and the next rain left the roada in as bad, if not a worse condition than they were before the alledged working. Then besides this we have what is commonly known as the commutation tax by which persons subject to road duty can pay one dollar to the County Treasurer in lieu of work. This sum is so ridiculously small that it is totally inadequate to accomplish any good whatever. This leaves for our consideration the plan of increasing the commutation to a just and reasonable | amount together with national or State aid or both, supplemented by small tax levy for road purposes. It certainly will take a considerable amount of money to improve the roads at first. This must be considered as a foregone conclusion and must form the basis of'all our calculations. . The question then for us to <*on*ider is how this sum of money is tu b~ raised. Let us decide upon thai and half the battle will be won. These things will doubtless be fully discussed at the meeting on the 20th and some plan will be evolved that will give assurance that our roads will be greatly improved. Let us hope en n.1. lpnaf. anrl oicp t.hfi mpfitinr* nnr WW .www. J-,- - ~ D encouragement and endorsement by being present. "New County Talk." It seems that the proposition to cut the grand old county of Lexington so as to* form new counties to suit the fancy of those who feel themselves 8grieved from real or fancied causes is still on. It is a great mistake in the Constitution -to allow these questions to be agitated so frequently. The latest project on foot now is (thrashing old 6traw) to take a considerable portion of the lower, Edisto part of this county, Orangeburg and Aiken counties, to make a (Wagener) county. The Dispatch is now, as it has always been, opposed to such a scheme and does not piropose that one foot of Lexington's territory shell ? i 1 * L ?iL A KIDNEY TROUBLE CURED. General Health Greatly Improved by Pe-ru-na. | MRS. M "j. ^ANLEY. 1 i^ ^ Mrs. M. J. Danley, Treasurer of the Rebecca Lodge, I. O. O. P., writes from 12-1 First street, N., Minneapolis, Minn.: "I was afflicted for several years with kidney trouble which became quite serious and Caused me considerable anxiety. I spent hundreds of dollars trying to be cured, but nothing gave me any permanent relief until I tried Peruna. It took less than three months and only ten bottles to effect a permanent cure, but they were worth more than as many hundred dollars to me. I am mlly restored to health, know neither ache nor pain and enjoy life."?Mrs. M. J. Danley. This experience has been repeated many times. We hear of such cases nearly every day. Mrs. Danley had catarrh of the kidneys. As soon as she took the right remedy she made a quick recovery. A Prominent Southern Lady's Letter. Miss Laura Hopkins, of Washington, D. C., niece of Hon. E. O. Hopkins, one of the largest iron manufacturers of Birmingham, Ala., writes the following letter commending Peruna. She says: "lean cheerfully recommend Peruna for indigestion and stomach trouble and as a good tonic."?Laura Hopkins. Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. Peruna is a specific for the catarrhal derangements of women. Address The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio, for free book on catarrh written by Dr. S. B. Hartman. Hit 'Em Again. Senator Tillman Monday night, at Madison, Wis, matched his wit and sarcasm against the legal mind and western manners of Senator J. R. Barton, of Kansae, in a joint debate on the negro question. "Senator Tillman said the people of the North were as bad as those of i the South in their handling of the negroes who committed 'unspeakable crimes.' 'When a negro up here shows the outcroppiDgs of the instincts of his inferior race,' said Senator Tillman, 'you mob, string, lynch, burn and outrage humanity with him. It makes a mighty big difference whose family is struck, whose home is entered, whose wife or daughter is the victim. You men in the North are not slow to aot when your women are oiitraged, and I want to say you are men to do it' "If you bad as many niggers as we have in South Carolina you would feel as I do, and your people would not sustain your anti-nigger senators as my people sustain me " "The fiery Southern Senator, says the correspondent to the News and Courier, W3S unpopular at first with the audience of 8,000 people, but at the close of the debate the impression seemed to prevail that he had the better of the argument." Cures Blood Poison, Cancer, Ulcers, Eczema, Carbuncles, Etc. Medicine Free. If you have offensive pimples or eruptions, ulcers on any part of the body, aching bones or joints, falling hair, mucous patches, swollen glande, skin itches and burns, sore lips or gums, eating, festering sores, sharp, gnawiDg pains, then you suffer from serious blood poison or the beginnings of deadly cancer. You may be per- i manently cured by taking Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B) made especial- I ly to cure the worBt blood and skin ! diseases. It kills the poison in the j blood thereby giving a healthy olood ! supply to the effected parts, heals | every sore or ulcer, even deadly can- I cer, stops all aches and pains and rerlnpfis all nwfi!lincr?. Bntftnif* Tllnnrl Balm cures all malignant blocd ] troubles uch as eczema, scabs and \ scales, pimples, running sores, car- | buncles,scrofula, etc. Especially ad- j vised for all obstinate cases that have ! reached the second or third stage, i Druggists, $1. To prove it cures, j sample of Blood Balm sent free and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble ana free medical advice sent in sealed letter. De laaen away irom ner wunoui our protest, as we know it is beat for her general interest and that of her people to keep intact. Our information is that the larger number of our people residing within the territory which it is proposed to cut off are perfectly contented to remain just as they are now situated and do not desire a cbaDge of counties, and why create contention, strife and bitterness among them ? Speaking of this proposition a correspondent in the Wagener Record of last week says: "For the territory above referred to, we propose the following boundary subject tQ any alteration suggested by the people concerned: Beginning at Merritt's bridge on South IJdisfco river, thence Two Notch road to t i i a t i dones cross roaa in Aixen county: thence direct line via Steadman station to Huffman's burnt mill, on Black crek; thence direct line to the head of Salem branch, (leaving Pelion out or in according to her wishes); thence down said branch to where it intersects North Edisto below Witts' Mill: thence direct line to South Edisto river near Springfield, (leaving Springfield in or out according to her wishes), then up Baid river to starting point." The territory from Lexington it is estimated would take about 55 or 60 square miles, out of Black Creek and Bull Swamp townships with a valuation of about $100,000 taxable property, and a voting population of between 200 and 250. We do not know just where the proposed lines run, or those of our citizens they would cut off. They perhaps may know and will act accordingly. It is a matter for them to consider well before they act. This scheme was once overwhelmingly defeated and we dare say that it will meet the same fate again whenever a test is made. The revenue officers at Columbia seized a car load of whiskey Saturday, believed to be consigned to a dealer in contraband in that city. The car contained 165 kegs, each keg containing four and seven-eights gallons and at the average cost of $1.50 per gallon would be worth about $1,300. The first regiment of the State militia which has been in Colombia for the past week, broke camp early Sunday morniDg and the tents and other equipage were packed and sent to Charleston for the second regiment which went into camp on the Isles of Palms thi9 week. The recent troubles with the negroes in Indiana and Illinois have made it too hot for them and it is said they are returning South by the car loads. The railroad authorities are to build a Union depot at Fairfax. A PART OF THE PLAY. UlfiRinff That Bronsht Some Ruwilam Actors to a. Prison Cell. The course of true art does not always run smooth in Russia, as. for example, in the theater of Y'olizavetgrad. In the fourth act of a certain play there is a theater within a theater, as in Shakespeare's Ilamlot," only that some of the dramatis persona? have to mix with the public in the galleries and to hiss the chief actress, who duly faints. As soon as the gentlemen had taken their places among the gods and begun to hiss and whistle the policeman 011 duty came down upon them I like a wolf 011 the fold, and before they 1 could utter a word of explanation he and his colleagues "nabbed" two, reI iy^/- -<Yf1 f R/v?iy Ki* o n/1 tA j 1UI L'U lUtUi UJ IV/1VV7 (inu ivu?\ iv/ I the next police station, where they | were charged with disorderly conduct | at a public place. They protested that i they had only done their duty, but the police laughed their explainui us to scorn. The public left the theater en masse to see what was happening to the actors, but the latter had already been j consigned to the cells. The crowd in | the street before the station house grew | rapidly in numbers, and its noisy ; protests threatened to culminate in serious disorders. Fortunately, the manager of the theater appeared before the | superintendent and by the light of a j lamp declaimed, with manuscript in ! hand, the whole fourth act, in order to | show that hissing was an essential part of the performance. Only then did the representatives of the law release the innocent actors. Nativity of the Potato. There is as much mystery as history i connected with the common tuber callI ed the potato. Its nativity, original place in the kingdom of nature and several other things regarding it are still open questions. As to its nativity, j the weight of argument seems to favor I the tropical or subtropical regions of j America. There is a tradition that the vines once grew to monstrous size and j that the "balls" were of the "bigness i oi melons, aim at mm nine nit- iuuis were not tubers, the edible parts growing among the branches. It seems that they were first introduced into Europe in the year 1505. Haskell's "Roots and Wild Plants" says, "Wamkins first fetched a queer, bulbous root out of America which some called a 'bodado,' while others, who had heard the Peruvians mention it, spoke of it as a potato." Periam's Cyclopedia of Agriculture says that Sir John Wamkins found it growing wild near Santa Fe de Bogota at an altitude of S.COO to 13,000 feet. lie also says that it was "fetched out of America" at about the time settled upon by Haskell?viz, in the year 1505. A Royal Romance. Carmen Sylva, the royal authoress, met her husband, the king of Roumania, in quite a romantic way. As a girl of seveiiteen she was running down the staircase of the palace at Berlin when her foot slipped on the marble, and she would have fallen to the floor below, but at the moment Prince Charles of Hohenzollern stepped from an anteroom and caught her in his arms. She did not accept him, although he made her the offer at once. In joke ?fo". it was then most unlikely?she sa.. she preferred to remain queen of herself, but If she became queen of any country at all she would prefer Roumania. Eight years afterward the beautiful Carmen was married to Prince Charles, who had been proclaimed king of Roumania, and thus she realized her ambition. When Water Was Avoided. Until comparatively recent times there was a medical prejudice against drinking water. Sir William Yaughan in hie "Vntnrnl ;in<1 -\ ctifioiii 1 Diror tions For Health" declared that water "ought seldom to be drunk." Another doctor admitted that it might be healthful for children, but not for men i ?"except some odd, abstemious one | among a thousand perchance, dogenI erate and of a doggish nature, for dogs J of nature do abhor wine." Indeed, the recommendation of water as a beverage was supposed to be the sign of the quack. Even Wesley in his "Primitive Physic" wrote of it with caution: "Drink only water if it agrees with your stomach; if not, good, clear small beer." A Qneer Doff. Dagonet in the Iteferee tells a story of two little girls who were trying to explain what sort of a dog it was they had seen. Said one little girl. "It was one of those funny ones; you know, the ones that are a dog.and a half long and half a dog high." Said the other: "You must know the sort. It's a dog that only has four legs, but looks as if it ought to have six." It may interest Dagonet to hear of a fairly apt definition that a Public Opinion man once beard applied to the dachshund?"the dog with the Louis XIV. legs." The Appetite of Kitty. The number of wild animals sold as pets to private families in this country is said to be beyond belief, but the families generally return the leasts before long to the dealer. A writer on this wild beast traffic in Leslie's Monthly says that one animal dealer who recently sold a lion cub to a lady received only two months afterward a letter from her saying: ' please come and take Kitty away. She has eaten our Newfoundland dog." Relief at I.n.it. Man With Petition?I'd like to have your name on this, Ruggles. It is a mere formality, you know. butBusiness Man?I'd like to oblige you. Itaekstraw, but a fellow came around last week with a pledge binding the signer not to put his name on a petition of any kind for a year?and I signed it. ?Chicago Tribune. i Mill Business Continued. I have rented the Andrew Lorick Flour aDd Grist Mills and will run j tbem as usual, giving entire satisfac i tion to my patrons from v. horn I solicit patronage. J K. Swvgert. July 20, 1903?2w3S For Sals. A farm of ninety acre9 morp or less, near Ella post ( fficr; about Go acres open. Good pasture, good water and very good buildings. Also a young ; orchard of about 15 acres with about i lGf'O young trees. For further particulars and terms j apply to J. H. PRICE, July 22, 1903. Ella, S. C. W0FF0R0 COLLEGE, | SPABTAHBEEC, S. C. I n EN'RY iN. ONYDER, Liltt. U., M. A , ri>-8 j Four full College courses. Favor- j able surroundings. Gymnasium. Ath letic Ground. Lecture Course. Li- i brary Facilties. Next session begins September 23, 1003 For catalogue j apply to J. A. GAMEWELL, Secretary. j WOFFGRD7 COLLEGE FITTING SCHOOL. Spartanburg, S. C. Elegant new buildmg Careful attention to individual student. Board and tuition for year Si 10 All mforgiven by A. M. DuPre, Heed Master. NEWBERRY COLLEGE Chartered in 1856 Stands for thorough college worit under positive Christian influences, ana at moderate cost. Tuition $40. Twenty thousand dollar recitation hall in process of erection. Next session begins September 23. Adrbees GEO. B. CROMER, President July 23?tf Newberry, S. C. DR. C. J. 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The Editor ot this paper can testily to our skill as Opticians, J JEWELERS AND OPTICIANS, 1424 IIAIM 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. ___________ ** Barbecue. TTJE WILL FURNISH A FIRST VV class barbecue with refreshments, near Midway School House, three miles north of Lexington court house, on the Dreher Ferry road, on August 15. Prices: Ladies, 25 cents; men, 35 cents. Everybody invited and a pleasant day is promised to all. JUSTUS WIN GARB. BaCHMAN jieetze. July 1, 1903, 7w40. " DRUGS Are always a necessity, almost as much so as food. I am still saving my customers money and my trade still grows, and remamber your interests will always be looked aftei by .T. W. KINARD, The Licensed Diuggist, LEESVILLE, - - S. 0. Notice. All persons indebted to the E-rate of An ire w J. Lonck. deceased, are hereby notified that, they must make payment to the undersigned, on 'or before the 15th day of September, 1903, and those holding claims against said Estate must present them, properly attested, to J. K, SWXGERT, Eexecntor Est. A. J.Lorlck, dec. July 12. 1903. ' 3w39. For high grade perfumes, extracts sweet soaps and all kinds of toilet articles call at the Bazaar. >U WANT H , NOTIONS | D jj| SHINS GOODS, | -T A JL? JJI ilE NC'S | i rs for goods 1 se lines. a ?g RTEOUS ATTENTION. S EVERYBODY. S IESPECTFULLY SO- 2 ?ION GUARANTEED. ;?Best Attention?Cal! te to Us. <y OUNG, I if ever's Old Stand. _ _ as j HYMN ~ ' F PRAISE cnrnes our excellent PIANOS and CANS every time they are sounded, don't mean to say that our instruts are the only good ones in the world, we do mean that they are unsurpassed give great satisfaction. You know nlpfttjnrtt mil sir* fn r ? ? ? - . ~ p, - v-itlj UUC. :e ua for catalogues and prices, cess JSIC HOUSE, MCA - COLUMBIA, S. C. 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