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* THE LEXINGTON DISPATCH. Wednesday, June 6, 1906. SENATOR LATIMER EARNING HIS PAY. The Junior Senator From South Carolina ie Nnt Irilo An Enumeration of HUM *V l?V? ? ?? ? Some Substantia! Things He Has Accomplished in His First Term. The State Bureau, 1417 G St., N. W. > Washington, May 31. South Carolina has another senator up here. He is the junior senator and his name is Latimer. For many months during the present session several of the newspapers in South Carolina, generally in a jocular vein, have printed little squibs, such as, "By the way, haven't we another ? -*? ^^ a/vw> awtTI 86Q&U)r IKJSlues x iiiiuaa suxu^ >? uvi v. What's his name," and the like. Tillman has figured in the Associated Press reports pretty extensively this session. Little has been said about Latimer. Tillman was a delegate to the State convention. Latimer was not. Tillman was endorsed by the State convention. Latimer was not. Things have been said about all thfa and invidious comparisons have been made. The State's correspondent has known all along that the junior senator has noted them, and more than once has the senator been asked If he had anything to say about them. But he always declined. At last, however, he decided to make a few remarks appropriate to the accasion. He says he has not been prominent in the congressional record because the bills he has been working on have * not made so much noise as the rate bill, for instance, though he declares he is attending to business and has no fears that the people of the State or the country will forget -him. "I am serving my first term." he said, "and, as is well known, it is an immemorial custom of the senate for new senators to refrain from general debate. However, I have taken a modest part in the debates in the senate this session. I am sending my speech on the rate bill to my people and am willing to let it speak for itself. I have no fears as to the future endorsement of my record by the people when they are in possession of the facts." Concerning the things upon which he is working. Senator Latimer says further: "While perhaps, I am not in the public eye as much as some of my friends might desire, I am fairly well satisfied with the results of my work fnr t.hA session to date. I had not thought it necessary at this time to refer to my work here, but as comments made by some of the newspapers of the State may be misleading, you may say that my committee assignments are congenial and I have accomplished some substantial results. In the manufacturers' committee I helped frame the pure food bill. In the immigration committee I added an important provision to the immigration bill. On the agricultural committee I succeeded in retaining the item of $132,000 for seeds and a^so secured $20,000 for roads, $20,000 for surveys preparatory to draining swamp lands and $20,000 for gathering agricultural statistics. I secured in the senate an amendment to the postomce appropriation bill permitting the patrons of rural mail routes to erect their own mail boxes, thus putting a stop to the present practice of requiring the farmer to buy patented boxes from favored firms at fancy prices. On the public buildings committee I got through the $75,000 for a public building at Anderson. I now have pending before committee, bills for public buildings at Aiken, Chester, Greenwood and Sumter, also for enlargement of^the United States court house at Greenville, on all of which I expect to get favorable action. I secured the passage of the new judicial district bill and a number of bills for pensions and private claims." As to the possible effect of these criticisms on his future political course, Senator Latimer says: "I will not be before the people for endorsement for two years yet, and did not feel slighted by the action of the convention in not including me in the resolution. I have never yet failed to secure the endorsement of my political course by the people when I have appealed to them on my record." "What about the State convention?" he was asked. "I was not a delegate to that convention," he replied, "but I suppose that the fact that Senator Tillman is coming up for reelection this summer, and that Gov. Heyward is ending his services as governor, is the reason the convention passed resolutions endorsrn 4-V* am ' ' If your stomach troubles you do not conclude that there is no cure, for a great many have been permanently cured by Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. Try them, they are certain to prove beneficial. They only cost a quarter. Sold by Kaufinann Drug Co. : ge*see*m**e^I^^^*eeeaK3eiE***wee**g 1 j Why is it that Ayer's Hair 1 Vigor does so many remark- 8 able things? Because iris a j hair food. It feeds the hair, puts new life into it. The hair Hair Vigor i cannot keep from growing. j And gradually all the dark, I S m'nk AAlnr r\P AOrlw mmPS 1 iVil tUIUi vi vuh j ? back to gray hair. " Wlien I first used Ayer's Hair Vigor mr l<air was about all gray, iiut now it is h nire ncii b!a?*k. and as thick as I could wish." ? Mrs. Susan Klopkknrtikn.-Tuscumbia. Ala. r?l.P0 ft bottle. !. c. AYEP. CO.. All druggists. ? Lowell. Mass. mhomW IOr Gray Hair towfw 'i iin uw tamamtammmmmmmtmmm BOIL THE CZT7 WATER. Board of Health Issues Advice to Consumers After Consulting the Physicians. i The executive committee of the city board of health at a meeting yesterday morning decided to request all consummers of city water to boil it thoroughly before using it for cooking or drinking purposes. The committee thought it best to issue this warning because of the fact that the water ; used now is coming from the canal as well as the river. While this water has been used every year in the summer the members of the board, according to their statement and the statement of physicians who have looked into the matter, think that the water would be purer if boiled, especially in view of the fact that the. new plant is being installed and that the old; plant is not in the best condition. No particular danger is apprehended by the physicians, who think that the canal and river water is now about the same so far as purity is concerned. State of Ohio. City of Toledo, ) Lucas County ' f Frank J Cheney makes oath thu he is senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the city of Toledo, Countv and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDEED DOLLA.BS for each f*nd every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FBA.NK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day q? December, A. D., 1885. sC/mi ? A- GLEASON, (oeai.; Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken iDternally, and acts directly on the blood and mncons surfaces of the system. Send for tcsti monials free. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, 0. Sold bv all druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation No Souse of Humor. An old Georgia darkey owned a small and ancient mule, which at a casual question as to the price at which it was held became suddenly endowed with all the virtues of the best blood of Kentucky. "But he is at least 20 years old, uncle," tha would-be purchaser pretested. "Dat mule?" Uncle Moses said indignantly. "No, sah. Ef dat mules mo' 'an 6 years ole, Ah hope he dies fo' mawnin?" Upon visiting his stable the next day Uncle Mose was struck with consternation to find his animal stretched lifeless on the ground. "Look at dat now!" he exclaimed with intense disgust. "What yo' think o, dat. Never did see sich a fool mule?couldn't eben take er li'l joke like dat!"?Harper's Weekly. ? ? You can see the poison Pine-ales clears out of the kidneys and bladder. A single dose at bed time will show you more poison upon rising the next morning than can be expelled from the system in any other way. Pine-ules dissolve the impurities, lubricate the kidneys, cleanse the bladder, relieve pain and do away with backache speedily, pleasantly, permanently. Sold by Kaufmann Drug Co. Cotton Acrago. It is now claimed that there is an increase of 635,227 acres, or 2.29 per cent, in the cotton acreage this year over last year. The Southern Cotton Association sums it as follows: In Georgia the estimate is about the same as last year. Crop two weeks late and labor scarce. North Carolina, a decrease of 7 per cent. Crop late and labor scarce. South Carolina, acreage same as last year. Labor scarce. Texas, an inrvrease of 7 QO npr r>pnt. | with fair labor conditions, j Florida, Missouri and Virginia, an j increase of % per cent. This acreage estimate is made up | from a comparison of last year's crop ?with a good deal of guess work, of course. T. X. Ls cures rheumatism. i Mrs. Bowser FWiiaq Rpnnrl' Lyviiiv*j ixvi/viv She Contradicts the Story That Mr. B.'s Skating Trip Finished Him. MERELY HAD A BAD FALL His Ambition to Cut Pigeon Wings With the Young People Came to a Sudden End. [Copyright, 1906, by McClure, Phillips & Co.] "Vf t T'l? />nnimnn!^otiAn trv flto I IIUaXXVJU IUIO VVlUiliUUiVULivu i,v L*?V newspapers to correct a report that my husband, Mr. Bowser, met with a fatal accident a few days ago and will be heard of no more. While I very much dislike to bring our family troubles before the public, I feel that I ought to set myself right in certain matters. One evening a week ago Mr. Bowser came home from the office with a package under his arm. With natural feminine curiosity I wanted to know the contents at once, but with one excuse and another he put me off until after dinner. When we had reached the sitting room he opened the package and showed me a pair of new ice skates. "Did you find them ?" I asked. "I should say not." "Are you going to make a present to some one?" "Certainly not." "But they are not for yourself?" J'To be sure they are. Why not?" "But you can't skate, and you are too old and too heavy to learn. You tried it two years ago and had such a fall that your back was lame for three months." Irascible, as Usual. "Woman, what are you talking about?" he demanded as he flushed up. "Every time you get a chance you ring in that I am too old or too heavy for this or that as if I was some superannuHE HAD ON A KXIOKEBBOCKER SUIT. ated behemoth. Is a man in his dotage at forty-eight? Is a man weighing 150 pounds a haystack?" Mr. Bowser is fifty-four years old and troifiK isr? nounds. but as the matter is a painful one to hi in I never mention it. I did not correct him in this case, and after a glare at me he continued: "Yes, two years ago I went up to the park and did a little ice skating. Crowds congregated to see me cut pigeon wings. I carried off all the honors, and instead of having a fall and a lame back I got rid of my rheumatism for three or four months. Why can't you stick to the truth in making your statements?" "But you weren't thinking of trying it again?" I queried. "And why not?" "Because you will be sure to?to"? Would Cut Pigeon Wings. "Now, jus.t leave it right there. I bought these skates to skate with. There is skating at the park. I shall go up there this evening; I shall out pigeon wings; I shall perform curlycues; I shall make every other fancy skater take a back seat." "And you will come down with a crash and probably put both hips out of joint." "If I do I won't ask you to nurse me through i% By the seven spotted bulls of Indians, you are gradually driving me to the dead line. I don't wonder that husbands who have been nagged for years and years finally turn and chop their wives up with an ax." "I'm not nagging," I answered. "I'm Just saying that it is curious that you should go and buy a pair of skates when you can hardly stand up on them. You will only give the papers another 1 ? -i- f 9 I cnance 10 aig ut you. He looked around the room for the cat and a crowbar to strike her dead with, but, not finding either, he turned and walked upstairs to change his clothes. When he came down I saw that he must have smuggled a parcel into the house the night before. He had on a knickerbocker suit, leather leggings and cap. and to save my life I couldn't help smiling as he stood before me. He looked like a fat boy in the circus. "Still on the grin. I see!" he thundered at me, but as I didn't answer he went down the hall for his overcoat i nrwi iwnwd thr? rionr after him as he went out. A woman can be two hours or ten minutes getting ready to go somewhere. I was only ten minutes in get ting ready to follow Mr. Bowser. I caught the next car behind him. I knew what entrance he would take to j reach the lake in the park, and he i hadn't got his skates on when I found him. He didn't seem to be in any j hurry cither. He sat around like a boy with the toothache, and once or twice he seemed to be oil the point of going home. A policeman nnauy sauiuereu j up and said: "These benches are for the use of skaters." "Well, ain't I a skater?" replied Mr. Bowser. "You don't look like it to me. You look more like a man who'd roll around. However, if you are a skater get busy." The conversation was overheard by half a dozen people, and, being put on his mettle, Mr. Bowser began to fasten on his skates. He had had them on for five minutes, looking distrustfully at the ice all the time, when the police- \ man came along again and said: "What! Loafing around yet? If you can't skate you'd better give that rig to some cross eyed orphan boy. Shall I get a ten-year-old girl to take your arm and tell you which foot goes first?" He Is Guyed. "You can mind your own business, sir!" replied Mr. Bowser as he got the boiled lobster color in nis face. "Don't sass me!" "And don't you be guying me!" The officer walked on, and a score of skaters gathered around Mr. Bowser and indulged in such remarks as: "T*" 1- - -L K-Ml -.1 ~ 4S*. "I 11 UOL Lie II SUUW US il ICH UlLfliO when he does get started." Til bet so too. He's got the right sort of legs for a skater." "What are you guys talking about? Can a cider bar'l skate?" "If he's going to smash the ice I'm going home to play with my rag dolly," said a girl of sixteen. Mr. Bowser had to get a move on him. I could read his thoughts as plain as print. He was saying to himself that he'd give a thousand dollars if he was safe home with me and the cat. It was too late for that. He got up and wabbled around and finally reached the | ice and grabbed hold of a bush to j steady himself. He was standing there, ! with his eyes as big as saucers and his chin quivering, when there were some TnrtTY* rpmnrks. Thev were to the fol- I lowing effect: j "Some one get him a pair of crutches!" "If you can't skate get down and roll over!" "By George, he thinks he sees a ghost!" "Hang to the limb, old coon! If you j move you are a goner!" "Oh, shut up, and give the old gent a show! He'll start off pretty quick and make us all look silly." | Then the girl who had spoken before chipped in with: "My ma told me that if the baby ele- i pliant broke loose and got on the ice I was to come right home and study my j spelling lesson." Hid Usual Finish. Poor Mr. Bowser had to draw a long breath, commend Lis soul to a higher power and get a hump on him. He hadn't scrambled along over ten feet when one of his legs went up in the i air, he spun around two or three times j and then came down with a jar that j Don Castro would have paid a thousand dollars for to present to the ! French cable company. My shriek was echoed by fifty others, and the po- ' liceman came running up and grabbed j the poor victim by the collar and drew j him to land and said: thr? same old coon that was sit- i tins around here ten minutes ago. I told him then that he was no skater." j "Is he dead?" asked one of the ! crowd. "Xo. but he's got a lesson. That jar has sort of driven him together, | and he won't be more than five feet high after this. Does any one here know him?" "I went forward and gave his identity and address, and the ambulance was summoned, and he was conveyed home. They told me he was very quiet on the trip. As be was carried Into the house he simply sighed. As I got out plasters and liniments and cared for him he looked at me in a puzzled way and muttered something about pigeon wings. I have had the doctor for him, but the M. D. says that no bones are actually broken. It is a case of telescope. The victim is still j lying in a lethargic state, opening his eyes and looking around now and then, and it will probably be another week before he can shout "Woman!" at me and announce that I can go home to mother while he is arranging about the divorce. Meanwhile all reports of his J untimely demise may be contradicted by the press. SARAH BOWSER, Wife of Mr. Bowser. Per M. Quad. Taking: Hia Word For It. J ' ' J "Come and let me introduce you to Lady Diana. (Soto voce) Trettiest girl In London, old chap/? Bystander. IREEN PEAS with a ferti high percentage oi to get the healthiej "Truck Farming are two practical b( which we mail free ligation to those v They contain val truck-gardening as 5 Address, QEEMA New York?93 Nassau Street, or liTiinv rniir WnULtMLL 1603 main stree' wash goods. C ilored organdies in all the latest figures 12.}c. quality 10c. 100 pieces Scotch Lawn 4c. We have a special value in large figured Lawn?Ask to see them.. 6',c. 27-inch Erown Linen 10c. 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