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J*. The Lexington Dispatch, G. M. Harm an, Editor and Publisher. Oix*cnlation, 1,885. Wednesday, Novemeber 16,1904. The result of tb* N dional eiecibn * came to us 8a * cUp of thunder from * a clear sky. We never anticipated the election of Mr. Parker, but we did think that the election would be close; but anyhow the vote has been c&8t and we are certainly assured of the fact that if the North can stand Roosevelt for four more years we are the South can do the same thing and not even ask to set down at the table with him and Bcoker Washington. . . The following is the result of the election in this county: Tbtf' official count gives Lever 2,413, Jacobs 52; governor 2,260; Biennial Sessions, yes 686, no 1,113; municipal corporotion, yes 422. no 1,102; road law, . yes 932, no 8 5; repeal of section 2, yes 550, no 918. The following is the vote received by Mr. Lever, candidate for Congress: Richland, 2968; Orangeburg, 1122; Lee, 1221; Sumter, (estimated) 12,00 Jacob, the colored preacher, received . the following vote; 0 angeburg, 238; Lexington, 25; Lee, 52; Sumter, 115; Richland, no report Jacob's vote in the entire district? only 420 Is this a basis for a contest? Hardly_;V' ' Ex Governor Hugh 8. Thompson is reported to. be in a dying condition at bis home in New York. Mr Thompson was at one time State Superintendent of Education then Governor of the State. After serving hi9 term, he received an appointment under President Cleveland in the Treasury department and from there he went to the New York Life, ?./ t to fill an important office. Mr Thompson is a'ripe scholar, a gentleman in its truest sense, kind and gentle in disposition, yet when occasion r< quires, a stern and rigid / disciplinarian. The best leaf that we c*n place in his wreath Is that the boys who were placed under his tutorlage have become useful and intelligent citizens. wvr ' ' p Dots from Shumports. To the Editor of the Dispatch: Very cold weather now eeems like winter time again. C Christmas is drawing near and < Santa Clans is fixing to make the ' children happy with presents. Mrs. Sadie Shealy and her accom- ] plished daughter, Miss Effie, spent ; one day last week at Mr. and Mrs Jesse McCartha's. Mr. S. S. Mc Cartha and bis lovely bride spent * 7 Sunday with the letter's mother. Mr. P. D Steele went to B&tes%: burg Saturday ou business. As it was so rainy Sunday there wasn't any services at St Matthews. \ Mr. and Mrs. C. P. McCartha and 1 % - family spent Sonday evening with ] PYthe former's parents. i / It seems like "Klondike" is tired of so many gates to open, but be likes to write about his route. Jack Greek. ? November 14,1904. ?e , Obituary. i I Barney C Lybrand, after a Jin- ] gering illness, depated this life Nor* ] 1st, 1901, aged 78 years, 8 months i and 18 days. He was married to Miss Bebecci Meetze and to them " Was given one daughter, who with 1 bis wife and four grand children survive him. He was a faithful member of Zion's < Evangelical Lutheran church, a brave soldier, a true citizen and affectionate husband, a kind father hnd a good neighbor, faithful in all the relations of life, we trust he has tViaf hpna<?or lifa which lies ^UlCltU ?MW* beyond. His remains were laid to rest near & bis home, by the writer in the presence of many friends. J. A. C. ??? mm ? To Cure a Cough. Tho coughs so prevalent these days usually develop before you realize what has happened. Now the best thing to take is the most reliable cough cure you can get. None better than Murray's Horehound Mallein and Tar. It is made | of the purest ingredients and can be given to infants as well as grown people.Above all else IT CURES. You will find it at druggists. 2-ie a bottle?extra large bottle. "Freedom to Worship God.,? One of the conditions which promote peace between the states of the United States is tiiat wherever any citizen may be he is free to enjoy whatever form of religion he prefers. lie may be a Christian, Mohammedan or pagan, as he pleases, only he must preserve the peace and live a decent life. World peace will be unspeakably promoted if there prevails such a system of world law that when a man goes into any part of the world he will be free to worship God after any form he prefers. Other liberties now not known in all countries may be expected in the growing toleration and homogeneity of the world.?R. L. Bridgman in Atlantic. Charms of Fossil Hunting:. One of tlie charms of the fossil huuter's life is the variety, the element of certainty, combined with the gambling element of chance. Like the prospector for gold, the fossil hunter may pass suddenly from the extreme of dejection to the extreme of elation. Luck comes in a great variety of ways, sometimes as the result of prolonged and deliberate scientific search in a region which Is known to je fossiliferous, sometimes in such a prosaic manner as the digging of a well.?Century. Improvident Man. "My husband is the most extravagant man," wailed little Mrs. Bargainhunt. "Yes?" said the sympathetic friend. "Yes. He paid $2 for a hat, when by looking around for a day or two he could probably have got one for $1.96."?Pittsburg Post. The Salt Dida't Salt. "Are you sure that my daughter favors your suit?" "Well/no. she doesn't. But I promised I'd go to another tailor ^s soon as I fixed things with you."?Cleveland Plain Dealer. Hi* "Worldly Good*. l)e Fly?Were you ever held up7 Blazaway?Well. I was relieved of ail I had. De Fly?Where was it? Blazaway?At the altar.?Detroit Free Press. "Old Chests" Are not safe depositories for mone*". What s contrast between the "old chest" and our maguificiebt burglar proof safe aod fire proof vauh! It will cost you no more to keep your money with U9 where it will be absolutely safe, and draw 4 per cent, interest, compounded quarterly, tfcaD in an "old chest" where it is decided ly unsafe and draws no interest. The Home Bank Lettw to Dr. 3d. Q. Seadrix. Lexington, S. C. Dear Sir: The way to buy paint- is to gu uy iuv name. xneie is a xiuiiiu never seen on sham paint or weak paint or short measure paint: Devoe. There are a hundred different names in paint. Some are sham; some weak; some short measure; and some all three, If there is another such paint as Devoe leaa-and-ziuc, we don't know it. There are a few fairly good paints; a few; only one, Devoe. A gallon Devoe- is worth a gallon-and-a-lialf of those few. Mr. Aaron Higgrns, of Plainfield, N. J., always used 15 gallons of mixed paint for his house. Last spring he bought 15 gallons of Devoe and had 4 gallons left. Yours truly, F. W. Devoe & Co., P. S. The Kaufmanu Drug Co., sell our paint. Trespass Notice. A LL PERSONS ARE HEREBY POSfl itively forbidden to trespass in manaer whatever upon our lands. "We will jeriainly prose ute each and ever}- indisidual caught on our lands? after this lotice. J. T. LAIRD. N. W. KING. W. N. KING. H. F. CAMPBELL. November 16, 1904. 4wo pd. Sale. TWILL SELL MY PERSONAL 1 property consisting of one mnle, one nare, one buggy, wagou, corn, fodder md peas, hogs and cattle, household and ritchen furniture, on the 21st day of November, 1904, at the Coogler Old rM c? i. i- a j _ i l r riace, on ocourer eree;*., iwvanua nau niles from Edmund. ~ "I ~LL 2pd J. W. COOGLER. EUrness from $ Repairing Promptly ?$8.50 up i ani> neatly done. J. V. STILLER, )3S Gervais St., - - COLUMBIA, S. C. Dealer in HARNESS, SADDLES, LAP ROBES. HORSE BLANKETS. WHIPS, BRIDLES. DITS, and all thiu^s found in a First Class Harness Shop. We Wake all the Harness We Sell. HAMLET'S MALADY. A Study of the Melancholy Dane and His Moods. The tragedy of Hamlet la that a man of a peculiar introspective temperament is called upon to settle a practical crisis. Hamlet knew this very well himself, and that makes the tragedy deeper. Brutus never doubted when once his decision was tatywi that he was the right man to cure the evils of Rome; Hamlet doubted from the very beginning. The times are out of joint. O cursed spite That ever I was born to set them right. He was too fine, too distinguished. too intellectual, a character to be the rough instrument which fate demanded. He lias the fatal malady of analyzing his own motives, which is generally destructive of action. If you once begin askiug yourself what will be the results and consequences of a definite act, you will find that at the moment of action your will is paralyzed by excess of scrupulosity, as Hamlet's was when with his drawn sword he saw his uncle praying. It was a disease of will from which Hamlet was suffering. In any other times it would not have been so fatal. In this particular time, when he was called upon to do a specific act ? to avenge his father and kill the usurper?it is not he. but a man rather of the Fortinbras build, who will be the savior of society. Observe, too, that, like many intellectual men. he cannot be sure of his own moods. He j sees the ghost of his murdered father, j but is it an honest, ghost, is it really his father's spirit? Hamlet believes In it on the battlements of Elsinore, but he entirely disbelieves it in another mood, when despite the evidences of his senses he talks of "the bourn from wliich no traveler returns." The traveler who had returned is dismissed apparently as a fantasy of his brain. And these supernatural visitlngs in such an analytic and introspective mind do not, as a matter of fact, supply him with the motive for his subsequent action. The ghost can make him put on an antic disposition, play with such creatures as Kosencrantz and Guildenstern. deride the senile humorings of Polo! nius and lessen the torrent of his words against his mother. lint what the ghost cannot do is to make him kill his uncle. He murders him at last, more or less accidentally, because his mother was poisoned and Laertes had played foul in the fencing bout. So curiously destructive of strong, practical volition is an intellectual malady when It has grown morbid?the tendency toward introspection, self analysis, metaphysical speculation.?W. L. Courtenay in National Review. A BUDGET OF MAXIMS. Rather than say nothing, men are content to speak ill of themselves. A proud man can uever be a loserno, not even when he renounces his pride. It is much less for a man's honor to distrust bis friends than to be deceived by them. Few people have the wisdom to like reproofs that would do them'good better than prajses that do them hurt. It is with true love as with ghosts and apparitions, a thing that everybody talks of and scarce anybody bath seen. The most disinterested love is, after all. but a kind of bargain in which the dear love of our own selves always proposes to be the gainer 3ome way or other.?Rochefouca uld. Naval Cadets. To enter the Naval academy at Annapolis a boy must be between fifteen and twenty years of age, physically sound, well formed and of robust constitution. lie will be examined in reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic, geography, English grammar, United States history, history of the world, algebra through quadratic equations and plane geometry. ?a* must sign articles by which he binds himself to serve in the United States navy eight years, including the time of probation at the academy, unless sooner discharged. His pay, which begins at date of admission, is $500 a year. A Pair Opportunity. Tasso, being {old that be bad a fair opportunity of taking: advantage of a very bitter enemy, replied, "I wish not to plunder him, but there are things which 1 wish to take from him?not his honor or his life, but his malice and ill will." Well spoken! A noble taking from an enemy, ''his malice and ill will!" How is that done? Love is the potent weapon. "Heap coals of fire on bis haad."?Exchange, HI* Farrwell*. "That young chap that calls on our Myrtilla reminds me of Patti," said th? old man in the diuing room. "Why so?" asked his wife. "He has so many farewell performance* in the vestibule." ? Baltimore Herald. Wor.f Than That. "Do you think that the governor's remarks were spontaneous, grandma?" "Worse. They were positively scand'lous."? Exchange. Those Clfrls. Stella?He wore my picture right over his heart, and it stopped the bullet. Bella?No wonder, dear: it would o / IaoL" ' I Bribery. Craeie? Oh! Stealing jaoiI I'm go- , lug to tel! mamma. Freddy?Wouldn't you nu her have some jam:?Harper's Bazar. Uemember that to he -aiccossful as a hypocrite you need to he a first class actor, t'oiwparatire!;/ few can play the part. SomerviUe Journal. * * $ * ? $ * s i FARMS FOR SALE. 1 3r "Sr ? ? * * * 2? ?- 500 acre farm, with three small # i* ?|r !? dwellings, barn, etc , three miles ? * from Gilbert, S. C., for $2,500. * 220 acre farm, with new four- # S" room dwelling, small tenant house, * ? good bam, tobacco barn, one and a ? % half miles from Gilbert, for $1,250. % * 140 acre farm, rich land, with * i *a v * dwelling, tenant houses, barn, three * % and a half miles from Leesville, 8. * C.. lor S3.000. * v at 146 acres of woodland, three miles ^ from Steadman, S. C.. lor $300. ^ v Three anarter acre lot, with nice * if). ? five-room dwelling at Gilbert, 8. C , | for$5C0. % 3 30 acre lot, with nice two story $ * dwelling, barn, etc., at Gilbert, lor * * SI.700. * * 90 acre iarrn, with small honse, $ % barn, etc , one mile from Gilbert, * * lor $700. * 5- S | GOOD TEEMS. | 1GHAS L. KELLY, | ! REAL ESTATE AGENT, | % 1108 Main Street, % * ? nar rrtjrar A _ _ a r* * ? " M. w. 4 * * Warning. TVTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO 11 all persons not to hunt, haul .wood, or trespass in any manner whatever, upon the lands of the undersigned. The i law will be enforced against all trespassers. S. E. BERRY, Estate ELIZA BERRY. Oct. 3i, 1904. 4w4pd. Land for Sale. T OFFER AT PRIVATE SALE MY JL farm, containing 97 acres, more or less, situate in Boiling Springs township j and adjoining lands of J. D. McCartha i and W. H. Donly. There is on the place ja good four room dwelling, a well and spring of pure water and all necessary outbuildings. Price, $500 cash. For further oarticulars, address GEORGE W. MILLER. ""* 2w2pd Gilbert, S. C. j Danger of a Cough. j Pneumonia, grippe, cold, bronchitis and aearly every other dangerous sickness of 1 this kind is usually the development of a slight cough. Too many people are laid up and too many die from diseases where they could/ so easily knock that first cough in the head. Murray's Horehound, Mullein and Tar cures colds. It A--s\-r\a Vi/\+twm nnf nf IV f*rvnodl JUaij vuv/ vi/mnu Every druggist has it for 25c. a bottle. Remember "Murray's" and take no other. R< g ilar 50c size. CAPITAL, FOUK PER CENT. per annum, payable quarterly on Savings Dope BOUNTY AND TOWN DEPOSI WE HAVE Riir.r,v m liuuii i /uu and now have makes in thes< Rock ? We invite the to call and ins their purchase CAUGt 1311-1313 ASSEMBLY STEEE P. S. We are looking for a lar^e shiprm is expected to arrive at any time between tl I Grove's 9 Has stood the test 25 years I bottles. Does this record o ^ ?x*n a ^n x T # ^ DULLi OtJlililg itl JUUWCSb i | Prices % * G-oods to everybody, every- ^ <c where, every day. "Why can't r S we sell to you ? J | We Bay by the Car Load 5 \ and give our customers the ad- \ % vantage of the extreme low 5 r prices. Whenever you trade r 4 \ with us you . get your money's i 5 worth and you will come again. # 5 Remember please, we sell every- J x tv''ag, furniture of all hind, bug- x 5 gies and wagons by the car load, 5 r in fact come and see the many * ? great bargains we will give you x ^ TT-> all livioo ^ y ??X Ct/XO. IXilVk't w \ To arrive fhis week a car of I "OLD HK'KORV" WAGONS. | . S Remember, too, we bay every- S IP thing yoa have for sale and give ? ^ yoa the highest prices. \ I ^ATTHEWS-|DUKMI6HT go., i K LEESVILLE, SC. J w * LEXINGTON, S. C. $30,000.00. ) TWO PEIi CENT, v >8its.) per annum, payable quarterly on Checking deposit* on inimimuxn amount of $200 rosy. PROMPT ANO COURTEOUS ATTENTION GUARANTEED.-^* i JUST OPENED UP OUE WAGON DEPOSITORY. on hand a full line of up-to-date e goods which we are offering at bottom JPpices. People of Lexington County -'" pect our stock before making ? TIT/\ n4>nnlTr 4*A v\l An C A '55. YV t7 DUUUjr \j\J T, COLUMBIA, S. C, ?nt of the finest Horses and Males ever seen in South Carolina. This shipmenttie I nth of December, 1004, and the 1st of January. I CAUGHMAN BROS. i Tasteless Chill Tonic 1 . Average Annual Sales over One and a Half MiQion I if merit appeal to yon? No Core, No Pay. 50c. 1 4