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The Lexington Dispatch.
I VOL, XXVI. LEXINGTON, S. 0., MARCH 25, 1896. NO. 19.
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PHILIP EPSTII,
trustee, for
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TO WARM THE WORLD I
i CHRISTIAN SYMPATHY IS THE GLO- !
RIOUS FURNACE.
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| Rev. Dr. Talmago Finds a Lesson In the !
i
Weather?Christ the Great Warmer?A I
Word to Frosty Christians?Good Deeds i
Kindle the Fire?Come la Oat of the Cold, :
Washington, March 15.?The freez- !
ing blasts which have swept over the '
conntry at the time we expected spring |
weather make this sermon especially
appropriate. Dr. Talmago's text was |
Psalm cxlvii, 17, 44 Who can stand bofore j
his cold?"
The almanac says that winter is ended
and spring has come, but the winds, j
and the frosts, and the thermometer, in j
some places down to zero, deny it. The j
psalmist lived in a more genial climate j
than this, and yet he must sometimes !
have been cut by the sharp weather. In j
this chapter ho speaks of the snow like j
wool, the frost like ashes, the hail- j
stones like marbles, and describes the !
congealment of lowest temperature. We
have all studied the power of the heat.
How few of us have studied the power
of the frost! "Who can stand before his
cold?" This challenge of the test has
many times been accepted.
Oct. 19, 1812, Napoleon's great army
began its retreat from Moscow. One
hundred and fifty thousand men, 50,000
horses, GOO pieces of cannon, 40,000
stragglers. It was bright weather when
they started from Moscow, but soon
something wrathier than the Cossacks
swooped upon their flanks. An army of j
arctic blasts, with icicles for bayonets
and hailstones for shot, and commanded
by voice of tempest, marched after them,
the flying artillery of the heavens in
pursuit. The troops at nightfall would
gather into circles and huddle themselves
together for warmth, but when
the day broke they rose not, for they
were dead, and the ravens came for their
morning meal of corpses. The way was
strewn with tho rich stuffs of the east,
brought as booty from the Russian capital.
An invisible power seized 100,000 j
men and hurled them dead into the
snowdrifts, and on the hard surfaces of j
the chill rivers, and into the maws of the :
dogs that had followed thc-m from Mos- {
cow. The freezing horror which has ap- j
palled history was proof to all ages that
it is a vain thing for any earthly power
to accept the challenge of my text,
"Who could stand before his cold?"
Frigid Horrors.
In the middle of December, 1777, at
Valley Forge, 11,000 troops were, with j
frosted ears and frosted hands and frost- j
ed feet, without shoes, without blank- j
ets, lying on the white pillow of the ;
snow bank. As during our civil war the j
cry was, "On to Richmond!" when the !
troops were not ready to march, so in
the Revolutionary war there was a de:
maud for wintry campaign until Wash}
ington lost his equilibrium and wrote
j emphatically, "I assure those gentlemen
1 it is easy enough seated by a good fire- j
side and in comfortable homes to draw I
cut campaigns for the American army,
but I tell them it is not so easy to lie cn
a bleak hillside, without blankets and
without shoes." Oh, the frigid 1-orrors
that gathered around the American army
in the winter of 1777! Valley Forge
i was one of the tragedies of the century.
; Benumbed, senseless, dead! "Who can
stand before his cold?" ".Not we," say j
the frozen lips of Sir John Franklin and I
his men, dying in arctic exploration. 1
"Not we," answer Schwatka and his j
crew, falling back from the fortresses of j
ice which they had tried in vain to capture.
"Not we," say the abandoned and
crushed decks of the Intrepid, the Resistance
and the Jeaunette. "Not we,"
say the procession of American martyrs
returned homo for American sepulture,
De Long and his men. The highest pili
lars of th9 earth are pillars of ice?
Mont Blanc, Jung^rau, the Matterhcrn.
j The largest galleries of the world are
i galleries of ice. Some of the mighty
! rivers much of the year are in captivity
; of ice. The greatest sculptors of the ages
j are the gaciers, with arm and hand and
j chisel and hammer of ice. The cold is
i imperial and has a crown of glittering
crystal and is seated on a throne of ice,
j with footstool of ice and scepter of ice.
Who can tell the sufferings of the winter
of 143-3, when all the birds of Germany
perished? or the winter of] 1G58 in England,
when the stages rolled on the
Thames and temporary houses of merchandise
were built on the ice? cr the
winter cf 1821 in America, when New
York harbor was frozen over and the
J heaviest teams crossed on the ice to
Staten Island? Then como down to our
j own winters when there have been so
j many wrapping themselves in furs or
I gathering themselves around fires or
i thrashing their arms about them to re|
vive circulation?the millions of the
! temperate and the arctic zones who are
I orvmnoUd tr> pnilfftSS. "llOlie Of US CUU
j stand before bis cold."
A Lesson In Coinmou Sense.
I One-half of the industries of oar day
i are employed in battling inclemency of
the weather. The furs of the north, the
j cotton of the south, the flax of cur own
' fields, the wool of our own flocks, the
i coal from our own mines, the wood
from our own forests, all employed in
battling these inclemencies, and still every
winter, with blue lips and chattering
| teeth, answers, "None of us can stand
: before this cold." Now, this being such
; a cold world, God sends out influences
j to warm it. I am glad that the God of
i the frost is the God of the heat; that
j the God of the snow is the God of the
! white blossoms; that the God of Janui
ary is the God of June. The question as
j to how shall we warm this world up is
There is more Catarrh in this section
of the country than all other
diseases put together, and until the
| last few years was supposed to be in!
curable. For a great manv rears
i ~ .
i doctors pronounced it a local disease,
j and prescribed local remedies, and
1 ? '*_:ii A_
j Dv cousianuy iauiu^ t j cuic
j local treatment, pronounced it incurj
able. Science has proven catarrh to
i be a constitutional disease, and there
J fore requires constitutional treat|
meni. Hall's Catanh C ire, manuj
faclured by F. J. Cheney & Co.,
j Toledo, Ohio is the only constitution
| al cure on the market. It is taken
j internally in doses from 10 drops to
; a teaspoonful. It acts directly on
I the blood and muc<u; sui faces of
j the system. They offer one hundred
.' dollars for any ca e it fails to cure.
I Send for circulars a'id testimonials.
! F. J. CHFsFY & CO., Props.,
Toledo, 0.
; ffg^Sold by druggists, price 75c.
19?
a question of immediate and all encompassing
practicality. In this zone and
weather there are so many fireless
hearths, so many broken window panes,
so many defective roofs that sift the
snow. Coal and wood and flannels and
thick coat are better for warming up
such a place than tracts and Bibles and
creeds. Kindle that flro where it has
gone out. Wrap something around those
shivering limbs. Shoe thoso bare feet.
Hat that bare head. Coat that bare back.
Sleeve that bare arm. Nearly all the
pictures of Martha Washington represent
her in courtly dross as hewed to by
foreign embassadors, but Mrs. Kirkland,
in her interesting book, gives a
more inspiring portrait of Martha Wash
ington. She conies forth from her husband's
hot in the encampment, the hot
1G feet long by 14 feet wide?she comes
forth from that hut to nurse the sick, to
sew the patched garments, to console
the soldiers dying of the cold. That is a
better picture of Martha Washington.
Hundreds of garments, hundreds of tons
of coal, hundreds of glaziers at broken
window sashes, hundreds of whole
souled men and women, are necessary to
warm the wintry weather. What are
wo doing to alleviate the condition of
those not so fortunate as wo? Know ye
not, my friends, there are hundreds of
thousands of people who cannot stand
before his cold? It is useless to preach
to bare feet, and to empty stomachs,
and to gaunt visages. Christ gave the
world a lesson in common sense when,
before preaching the gospel to the multitude
in the wilderness, he gave them a
good dinner.
Winter of Gladness.
When I was a lad, I remember seeing
n>U luugu nuwucuioi uuv
more impression tipon me than any pictures
I have ever seen. They were on opposite
pages. The one woodcut represented
tho coming of the snow in winter
and a lad looking out at the door of
a great mansion, and he was all wrapped
in furs, and his cheeks were ruddy,
and with glowing countenance he shouted,
"It snows, it snows!" On the next
page there was a miserable tenement,
and the door was open, and a child, wan
and sick and ragged and wretched, was
looking out, and he said, "Oh, my God,
it snows!" The winter of gladness or of
grief, according to our circumstances.
But, my friends, there is more than one
way of warming up this cold world, for
it is a cold world in more respects than
one, and I am here to consult with yon
as to the best way of warming up the
world. I want to have a great heater introduced
into all your churches and all
your homes throughout the world. It is
a heater of divine patent. It has many
pipes with which to conduct heat, and
it h3s a door in which to throw the fuel.
Once get this heater introduced and it
will turn the arctic zone into the temperate,
afcid the temperate into the
tropics. It is the powerful heater, it is
the glorious furnace of Christian sympathy.
The question ought to be, instead
of how much heat can wo absorb, How
much heat can we throw out? There are
men who go through the world floating
icebergs. They freeze everything with
their forbiddiug look. The hand with
which they shake yours is as cold as the
paw of a polar bear. If they float into
a religious meeting, the temperature
drops from 80 above to 10 degrees below
zero. There are icicles hanging from
their eyebrows. They float into a religious
meeting and they chill everything
with their jeremiads. Cold prayers, cold
| songs, cold greetings, cold sermons.
Christianity on ice! The church a great
refrigerator. Christians gone into winter
quarters. Hibernation! On the other
hand, there are people who go through
the world like the breath of a spring
morning. Warm greetings, warm prayers,
warm smiles, warm Christian influ?
?A?A rkoreAr.o Wa Hoco
XXJCXO axe DUV.il JJUiDUiiU. .. v uavuu
! God for them. We rejoice iu their com!
pauionship.
Fellow Feeling.
A general in the English army, the
j army having halted for the night, havi
ing lost his baggage, lay down tired and
j sick without any blanket. An officer
! came up and said: "Why, you have no
; blanket. I'll go and get you a blanket."
' He departed for a few moments and
; then came back and covered the general
up with a very warm blanket. The general
said, "Whose blanket is this?" The
officer replied, "I got that from a private
soldier in the Scotch regiment,
Ralph MacDonald." "Now," said the
; general, "you take this blanket right
; back to that soldier. He can no more do
i without it than I can do without it.
| Never bring to me the blanket of a prij
vate soldier." How many men like that
! general would it take to warm the
j world up? The vast majority of us are
i anxious to get more blankets, whether
i anybody else is blanketed or not. Look
! at th6 "fellow feeling displayed in the
: rocky defile between Jerusalem and
Jericho in Scripture times. Here is a
j man who has been set upon by the
bandits, and in the struggle to keep his
! property he has got wounded and
; mauled and stabbed, and he lies there
j half dead. A priest rides along. He sees
him and says: "Why, what's the mat
j ter with that man? Why, lie must to
| hurt, lying on the flat of his back. Isn't
; it strange that he should lie there! But
i I can't step. I am on my way to temple
; services. Go along, you beast. Carry
j me up to my temple duties." After
awhile a Levite comes up. He looks
over and says: "Why, that man must
, be very much hurt. Gashed on the forehead.
What a pity. Stabbed under his
aim. What a pity. Tut, tut! What a
pity! Why, they have taken his clothes
i nearly away from him. But I haven't
time to stop. I lead the choir up in the
j temple service. Go along, you beast,
j Carry me up to my temple duties."
After awhile a Samaritan comes along
; ?one who you might suppose through a
national grudge might have rejected this
poor wounded Israelite. Coming along
he sees this man and says: "Why, that
man must be terribly hurt. 1 sec by his
features be is au Israelite, but he is a
man and he is a brother. 'Whoa!' " says
the Samaritan, and he gets down off the
beast and comes up to this wounded
man, gets down on one knee, listens tc
?ee whether the heart of the unfortunate
man is still berating, makes np his mine!
t'hPm is a chance for resuscitation, goes
to work at him, takes out of his sack a
bottle of oil aud a bottle of wine, cleanses
the wound with some wine, then pours
some of the restorative in the wounded
man's lips, then takes some oil and with
it soothes the wound. After awhile hf
takes off a part of his garments for ?
bandage. Now the sick and wounded
man sits up, pale and exhausted, bui
very thankftsL Now the good Samarb
: tan says, "You must get on my saddle,
i and I will walk." The Samaritan help:
end tenderly steadies this wounded mar
until be gets him cu toward the tavern
Knights of the Maccabees.
The State Commander writes us j
from Lincoln, Neb., as follows: "Af- :
ter trying other medicines for what :
seemed to be a very obstinate cough '
in our two children we tried Dr. j
King's New Discovery and at the
end of two days the cough entirely !
left them. We will not be without j
it hereafter, as our experience proves I
that it cures where all other reme- j
dies fail."?Signed F. W. Stevens, j
State Com.?Why not give this great '
medicine a trial as it is guaranteed
and trial bottles are free at the I
Bazaar.
. ^ ^
the wounded man holding gii with the
little strength he has left, ever and anon
looking down at the good Samaritan
and saying: "You are very kind. I had
r>n rioht tn frmoofc this thine of a Sa
-o~ - ? 1 r-.
maritan when I am an Israelite. Yen i
are very kind to walk and let me ride." :
Now they have come up to the tavern.
The Samaritan, with the help of
the landlord, assists the sick and wound- j
ed man to dismount and puts him to 1
bed. The Bible says the Samaritan staid j
all night. In the morning, I suppose, !
the Samaritan went in to lock how his
patient was and ask him how he passed
the night. Then he comes out?the
Samaritan comes out and says to the
landlord: "Here is money to pay that (
man's board, and if his convalescence j
is not as rapid as I hope for, charge the
whole thing tome. Good morning, all." \
He gets on the beast and says, "Go i
along, yon beast, but go slowly, for j
those bandits sweeping through the
land may have left somebody else '
wonnded and half dead." Sympathy!
Christian sympathy! How many such
men as that would it take to warm the I
cold world up? Famine in Zarepthath.
Everything dried up. There is a widow
with a son and no food except a handful
of meal. She is gathering sticks to j
kindle a firo to cook the handful of
meal. Then she is going to wrap her
arms around her boy and die. Here ,
comes Elijah. Bis two black servants, j
the ravens, have got tired waiting "on I
him. Ho asks that woman for food.
Now, that handful of meal is to be di- j
I infr< fVirpo nnrts, 'Rpfnrp. it was i
to be divided into two parts. New. she {
says to Elijah, "Come in and sit down
at this solemn table and take a third of
the last morsel." Hew many women
like that would it take to warm the
cold world up?
WarminK the World.
Recently an engineer in the southwest,
on a locomotive, saw a train coming
with which he must collide. He resolved
to stand at his post and slow up
the train until the last minute, for
there were passengers behind. The engineer
said to the fireman: "Jump! One |
man is enough on this engine! Jump!"
The fireman jumped and was saved.
The crash came. The engineer died at
his post How many men like that engineer
would it take to warm this cold
world up? A vessel struck on a rocky
island. The passengers and the crew
were without food, and a sailor had a
shellfish under his coat. He was saving
it for his last morsel. He heard a little
child cry to her mother:"Oh, mother, I
am so hungry; give me something to
eat. I am so hungry!" The sailor took j
the shellfish from under his coat and !
said: "Here! Take that." How many
men like that sailor would it take to
warm the cold world up? Xerxes, fiee- j
ing from his enemy, got on board a |
boat. A great many Persians leaped into
the same boat and the beat was sink- j
ing. Some one said, "Are you not will- :
ing to make a sacrifice for your king?" :
and the majority of those who were in
the boat leaped overboard and drowned
to save thsir king. How many men like
that would it take to warm up this cold
world? Elizabeth Fry went into the
horrors of Newgate prison, and sho 1
turned the imprecation and the obseeni- j
ty and the filth into prayer and repent- !
ance and a reformed life. The sisters of
charity, in I8u3, on northern and southern
battlefields, came to boys in blue
and gray while they were bleeding to
death. The black bonnet with tho sides
pinned back and the white bandage on
the brow may hot have answered all |
the demands of elegant taste, but you
could net persuade that soldier dying '
1,000 miles from home that it was anything
but on angel that looked him in j
the face. Oh, with cheery look, with
helpful word, with kind action, try to
make the world warm !
Count that day lost whose low descending sun
Views from thy hand no generous action done.
Christ's Sympathy.
It W38 his strong sympathy that
brought Christ from a warm heaven to
a cold world. The land where he dwelt I
had a serene sky, balsamic atmosphere, j
tropical luxuriance. No storm blasts in
heaven. No chill fountains. On a cold i
December night Christ stepped out of a j
| warm heaven into the world's frigidity,
i The thermometer in Palestine never
drops below zero, but December is a
j cheerless mouth, and the pasturage is
j very poor cu the hilltops. Christ stepped
out of a warm heaven into tlie cold
i world that cold December night. The
world's reception was cold. The surf of
bestormed Galilee was cold. Joseph's
i sepulclier was cold. Christ came, the
great warmer, to warm the earth, and all
Christendom today feels the glow. He
will keep cn warming the earth until j
i the tropic will drive away the arctic j
and the antarctic. He ga\e an intima- '
i j ticn of what he was going to do when
i he broke up the funeral at the gate of
i Naiu and turned it into a reunion festi- j
: ! val, and when with his warm lips he |
i melted the Galilean hurricane and stood j
on the deck and stamped his foot, crying,
"Silence!'' and the waves crouch- j
; ed and the tempests folded their wings,
i Oh, it was this Christ who warmed
> the chilled disciples when they had no
food by giving them plenty to eat, and
; who in the tomb of Lazarus shattered
> the shackles until tire broken links of
i tne tinuu 01 Geainraiuca into uie uarK>
est crypt of the mausoleum. In his geu!
ial presence the girl who had fallen
i into the fire and the water is healed of
) the catalepsy, and the withered arm
i takes muscular, healthy action, and the
1 | ear that could net hear an avalanche
> j catches a leaf's rustle, and the tongro
t 1 that could not articulate trills a quatr
> ' rain, and the blind eyo was relumed,
i | and Christ, instead of staying three
[ | days and three nights in tho sepulcher,
i ; as was supposed, as soon as the worldly
> I curtain of observation was dropped bev
: gau the exploration of all tho under1
; ground passages of earth and sea, wher;
j ever a Christian's grave may after
. i awhile be, and started a light of Clnis?
tian hope, resurrection hope, which shall
> i not go out until the last cerement is
* j taken off and the last mausoleum breaks
. ' open.
Warmth and Hope.
Ah! I am so glad that the Sun of [
Righteousness dawned on the polar j
night of the nations. And if Christ is
the great warmer, then tho chnrch is !
the grear hothouse, with its plants and j
trees and fruits of righteousness. Do
you know, my friends, that tho church
is the institution that proposes warmth?
I have been for 27 years studying how
to make the church warmer. Warmer
architecture, warmer hynmology, warmer
Christian salutation. All outside Siberian
winter, we must have it a prince's j
hothouse. The only institution on earth j
today that proposes to make the world
warmer. Universities and observatories,
they all have their work. They propose
to make the world light, but they do
net propose to make the world warm.
Geology informs ns, but it is as cold as
the rock it hammers. The telescope
shows where the other worlds are, but
an astronomer is chilled while locking
through it. Christianity tells us of
strange combinations and bow inferior
affinity may bo overcome by superior i
affinity; but it cannot tell how all j
things work together for good. Worldly j
philosophy has a great splendor, but it j
is the splendor of moonlight on an iceberg.
The church of Gcd proposes
warmth and hope?warmth for the expectations,
warmth for the sympathies.
Oh! I am so glad that these great altar
fires have been kindled. Come in out
of the cold. Come in, and have your
wounds salved. Come, and have your
sins pardoned. Come in by the great
gospel fireplace.
A Blessed Conflagration.
Notwithstanding all the modern inventions
for heating, I tell you there is
nothing so full of geniality and sociality
as the old fashioned country fireplace.
The neighbors were to come in j
for a winter evening of sociality. In the
middle of the afternoon, in the best
room in tho house, some one brought in
a great backlog with great strain and
put it dowu on Hie back of tho hearth.
Then the lighter wood was put on, armful
after armful. Then a shovel of coals
was taken from another room and put
under the dry pile, and the kindliDg began,
and tho crackling, and it rose until
if. a rnnrinu flamp. which
filled all the room with geniality and
was reflected from *he family pictures
on the wall. Ihen the neighbors came
in two by two. They sat down, their
faces to the fire, which ever and anon
was stirred with tongs and readjusted
on the andirons, and there were such
times of rustic repartee and story tell- ,
ing and mirth as the black stovo and
the blind register never dreamed of. '
Meanwhile the table was being spread,
and so fair was the cloth and so clean i
was the cutlery, they glisten and glis- ;
ten in cur mind toduy. And then the
best luxury of orchard and farmyard
was roasted and prepared for the table,
to meet the appetites sharpened by the
cold ride.
Oh, my friends, the church of Jesus
Christ is the world's fireplace, and the
woods are from the cedars of Lebanon,
and the fires are fires of love, and with
the silver tongs of the altar we stir the
flame, and the light is reflected from all
the family pictures on the wall?pictures
of those who were here and are
gone now. Oh, ccme up close to the
fireplace! Have your worn faces transfigured
in the light. Put your cold feet,
weary of the journey, close up to the
blessed conflagration. Chilled through
with trouble and disappointment, come
close up until you can get warm clear
through. Exchange experience, talk over
the harvests gathered, tell all the gospel
news. Meanwhile the table is being |
spread. Chi it, bread of life. On it,
grapes of Eshcol. On it, new wine from
the kingdom. On it, a thousand luxuries
celestial. Hark! as a wounded hand raps
on the table, and a tender voice comes
through saying: "Come, for all things
are now ready. Eat, O friends! drink,
yea, drink abundantly, O beloved!"
My friends, that is the v/ay the cold
world is going to be warmed up, by the
great gospel fireplace. All uations will
come in and sit down at that bauquet.
While I was musing, the fire burned.
"Come in cut of the cold, come in out
of the cold!"
Cannot bo Without It.
Jamison. S. C. SeDfc. 2. '90.
Since the people know I keep St.
Joseph's Quick Relief they have taken
it all out but one bottle, and that one
I cannot sell until I get in some
more, for I cannot be without it myself.
It is beyond doubt the best
medicine for cramps, colic, and all
kinds of pain on the market. Send
me three dozen bottles per express.
R. D IvITTRELL.
For further information call on J.
E. Ivauffinann's drug store and get a
copy of St. Joseph's Four Seasons
Almanac. 19.
Russia's riague of Rodents.
Russia has suffered from a genuine
plague of rats and mice, and the story
is attractively told by United States
Consul Heeuan at Odessa, iu a report to
the state department. The vermin first
appeared in southern Russia in the autumn
of 1893, and they increased in
number with marvelous rapidity, owing
to the heavy grain harvests leaving
pinch unthrashed grain, and in the mild
weather. In addition to the common
house and field mouse, another and new
variety appeared, having a long, sharp
nose. These mice overran every place,
and they moved in vast numbers like
armies, and iu instances did not hesitate
to attack men aud animals. While
the rats were not so numerous as the
| mice, they were more destructive, eatj
ing evei^rthing, gnawing away woodwork,
and even ruining entire buildings.
After exhausting all other ineaDS,
the plague was finally terminated iu
j 1894 by resort to bacteriology, when the
vermin were destroyed by the iuocula|
tion of a few rodents with contagious
disease germs.?Washington Pest.
.?
Threw Away His CanQ3.
?.??
Mr. D. Wiley, ex postmaster, Black
Creek, N. Y., was so badly atllicted
| with rheumatism that he was only
able to hobble around with canes,
j and even then it caused him great
paiu. After using Chamberlain's
Tain Balm he was so much improved
I that he threw away his canes. He
: says this liniment did him more good
| than all other medicines and treatment
put together. For sale at 50
: cents per bottle by Julian E. Kauffj
man. 15
The Proper Tim9
When the most benefit is to be derived
from a good medicine, is early
in the year. This is the season when
the tired body, weakened organs and
nervous system yearn for a buildingup
medicine like Hood's Sarsapariila.
Many wait for the open spring
weather and, in fact, delay giving
attention to their physical condition
so long that a long siege of sickness
is inevitable. To rid the system of
the impurities accumulated during
the winter season, to purify the blood
and to invigorate the whole system,
there is nothing equal to Hood's Sarsapariila.
Don't put it off, but take
Hood's Sarsapariila now. It will do
you good. Read the testimonials
published in behalf of Hood's Sarsapariila,
all from reliable, grateful
people. They tell the story. 20
Chicago's Wonderful Growth.
In the seventeenth century the present
site of Chicago was a swamp, which fur
traders and missionaries found fatally
miasmatic. About 1800 a government
! engineer, viewing that rank morass
j traversed by a sluggish stream, proi
nounced it the only spot on Lake Michi|
gan where a city could not be built. In
I 1804 Fort Dearborn was erected here to
j counteract British influence. In 1812 the
fort was demolished by Indians, but in
1816 rebuilt, and it continued standing
till 1871. Around the little fort in 1840
were settled 4,500 people. The number
was 30,000 in 1850; 109,000 in I860,
300,000 in 1870. In 1880 the community
embraced 503,185souls; in 1890 it had
! 1,099,850. In 1855 the indomitable city
illustrated her spirit by pulling herself
bodily out of her natal swamp, lifting
churches, blocks and houses from 8 to 10
feet, without pause in general business.
?President E. Benjamin Andrews in
Scribner's.
i
They Were Lorer*.
Of the deep attachment which existed
between the late Prince Henry of Battenberg
and Princess Beatrice it is almost
unnecessary to speak, so notorious
was it. They both carried their love for
each ether on their sleeves. In this connection
an anecdote is related: Last year
Princess Beatrico had her portrait done
by a well known lady pastelist, who,
while a thorough artist, knows how to
| combine a good likeness with a pretty
picture. One morning when the portrait
| was nearly finished Prince Henry hap
penea 10 emer ine siuaio. Airer a minute
examination, tho prince remarked:
I "But you have not made my wife stout
enough. I am fond of my stout frau,
since it shows the is happy." The portrait
was altered.?London Tit-Bits.
Attention Fellow-Survivors.
Head Quarters, Cam? Lexington,
No. 668, U. C. V.,
Lexington, S. C, March 11, 1896.
There will be a special meeting of
Camp Lexington, No. 668, U. C. V.,
in the Court House at Lexington, S.
C., April 6th, 1896. Members will
please take notice and attend
promptly at 10 o'clock a. m., as business
of great importance will be up
for discussion and transaction.
Members will please come prepared
to settle annual dues, as the same is
ordered to be paid on or by April 1st.
Delegates to the Charleston conven
tion which meets on the 22d or 23rd
of April, will be elected.
By order of S. M. ROOF,
Commander.
M. D. HARMAN, Adjutant.
Snatched From Death.
Cold Water, Ala,, Mar. 11, 1892.
My little child had the dropsy for
two years. We had tried various
remedies and the most prominent
physicians in the country but to no
avail. We commenced the use of St.
Joseph's Liver Regulator and she is
now as healthy as any child.
T. P. W. BROOC3, M. D.
For fuither information call on J.
E. Kauffmann's drug store and get a
copy of St. Joseph's Four Seasons
Almanac. 19.
A Laudable Effort.
% .
Fellow Soldiers of Company K, 13th
S. C. V.:
Our late Captain, Jeremiah "Wise,
is dead and his remain? are layiDg
in the cemetery at New Hope church.
I would ask my brother soldiers of
Captain Meetze's company to con
tribute a small mite to buy a monument
to mark his grave. I think
there are about foity of us that are
alive, and we can get a nice monument
for about thirty-seven dollars.
Captain Jeremiah Wise was a brave
officer and a kind, Christian gentleman,
and I hope all the veterans of
Co. K. will give $1.00 apiece for this
purpose, as his widow is not able to
pay for a monument, and if she was,
I think it is our duty to do it and I
hope every member will put this
undertaking in motion. I will ask
Mr. Preston George and Rev. Arthur
Taylor to see ail the soldiers
about the Court House aDd vicinity,
and I will do all I can in this part of
the county to raise the money to
buy the monument to mark his last
resting place. J. P. How? ll.
Beaver Pond, S. C-, March 3,1896.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.
I The Best Salve in the world for
j Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
j Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped
j Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and Skin
| Eruptions, and positively cures Piles
j or no pay required. It is guaranteed
; to give perfect satisfaction or money
| refunded. Price 25 cents per box.
| For sale at the Bazaar.
Root Beer, Cream Soda, Ginger
! Ale, Pepsin Cherry Tonic,?all delij
cious fall and winter drinks, served
! at the Bazaar's fountain. 5 cents a
| drink.
Log wocd, madder and all fancy
colored egg dyes, at the Bazaar.
nHHBinn
THE FARMER FEEDS THEM ALL.
You may talk of all the nobles of the
earth,
And the men who hold the nations in
their thrall,
But in this we'll all agree
If we'll only look and see
That the Farmer is the man that
feeds them all.
Chorus?
Then take him by the hand
All ye people of the land,
Stand by him what e'r trouble
may befall,
For the Farmer is the man that
feeds them all.
There's the President of these United
States,
And the Kings who'r holding nations
in their hands,
And the officers no end,
Lords and Nobles, oh! so grand,
But the Farmer is the man that
feeds them all.
Chorus?
There's the Governors and officers of
States,
And of Counties and of Cities all so
great,
Exercising lordly care,
Ov'r the people "oh! so dear,"
But the Farmer is the man that feeds
them all.
Chorus?
There's the Lawyer and the Doctor
and the "Beat,"
There's the Merchant and the Banker
and the "Cheat,"
Dressed in fine clothes every day,
Eating everything they may,
But the Farmer is the man that feeds
them all.
Chorus?
There's the Drummer and Agent, |
they will talk,
You can know them by their looks
and by their walk.
* ? Tk 1 1 1 _t
JL'bere's toe 1'reacner, Diesseu. man,
Doing all the good he caD,
But the Farmer is the man that feeds
them allChorus?
There's the paper man who gives us
all the news,
Editors and Printers on their p's
and q's,
There's the Teacher working too,
Showing pupils what to do,
But the Farmer is the man that feeds
them all.
Chorus?
There's the railroad men so Busy
with their cars,
And the Sailors on their ships upon
upon the seas.
There's the mighty men of war,
Bringing nations to their knees,
But the Farmer is the man who feeds
them all.
Chorus?
There's the "Gold Bug'' and the
speculator too,
Hoarding millions and oppressing?
cares not who,
There's the "Wall street "Bull and
Bear,"
Scattering ruin everywhere,
But the Farmer is the man that
feeds them all.
Chorus?
There's the crazy man, the dude, the
crank and the fool.
Bloated like a frog, and braying like I
a mule,
Vain, conceited, and so proud,
Twirling, twisting, talking loud,
io mfln tkof. j
DUl tUU i'ttllJJCi 10 tut iutm uiww *ww .
them all.
Chobis?
'Tis the Farmers and Mechanics and
the Smiths,
And the labor'g servants, never,
never quits,
Feeding, clothing, serving you,
Fousing, paying taxes, too,
But the proud refuse to honor them
at all.
Grand Chorus?
Then take them by the hand,
All ye people of the land,
Stand by them whate?r trouble
may befall,
For to them you owe your life,
your bread and all.
Respectfully dedicated to the
farmers, mechanics, and laboring
men of the world by
J. H. Koon.
New Brookland, March 15, 189G.
[The above has been arranged and
set to music by Maj. J. H. Koon.
At his request we publish the words,
but as the scale requires figures and
dots we cannot publish it. The tune
and music will doubtless be furnished
to those who desire them, by apply
ing to the Major, at Brookland?Ed.
Dispatch.]
mm
I
Caused by Vaccination.
From the Journal, Detriot, Micb.
Every one in tbe vicinity of Mel
dium avenue and Cbamplain street,
Detroit, knows Mrs. McDonald, and
maDy a neighbor has reason to feel
grateful to ber for tbe kind and
! friendly interest eke has manifested
j in oases of illness.
She is a kind hearted friend, anat!
ural nurse, and an intelligent aud refined
lady.
To a reporter she recently talked !
at some length about Dr. Williams' j
Pink Pills, giving some very interest- i
ing instances in her immediate knowlj
edge of marvelous cures, and the
i universal beneficence of the remedy
I to those who had used it.
"I have reason to know," said Mrs.
McDonald, "something of the worth
of this medicine, fur it has been
demonstrated in my own immediate
f mily. My daughter Kittie is at
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Marriage notices inserted free.
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Address
G. M. HARMAN, Editor.
tending high school and has never
been very strong since she began. I
suppose she studies hard, and she
has quite a distance to go every day.
When the small pox broke out all of
the school children had to be vaccinated.
I took her over to Dr. Jame1
1 < 1 T
son ana ne vaccinatea ner. ? never
saw such an arm in my life and the
doctor said he never did. She was
broken out on her shoulders and
back and was just as sick as she
could be. To add to all neuralgia
set in, and the poor child was in misery.
She is naturally of a nervous
temperament and she suffered most
awfully. Even after she recovered
the neuralgia did not leave her.
Stormy days or days that were damp
or preceded a storm, she could not
go out at all. She was pale and thin,
and had no appetite.
4*I have forgotten just who told
me about the Pink Pills, but I got
some for her and they cured he right
up. She has a nice color in her face,
eats and sleeps well, goes to school
every day, and is well and strong in
every particular. I have never heard
of anything to build up the blood to
compare with Pink Pills. I shall always
keep them in the house and
recommend them to my neighbors.*1
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale
People are considered an unfailing
specific in such diseases as locomotor
ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus'
dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism,
nervous headache, the after effects
of la giippe, palpitation of the
heart, pale and sallow complexions,
that tired feeling resulting from nervous
prostration; all diseases resulting
from vitiated humors in the blood,
such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas,
etc. They are also a specific for
troubles peculiar to females, such as
suppressions, irregularities, and all
forms of weakness. In men they
effect a .idical cure in all cases arising
from mental worry, overwork, or
excesses of whatever nature. Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all
dealers, or will be sent post paid on
receipt of price (50 cents a box or
six boxes for $2.50?they are never
sold in bulk or by the 100) by addressing
Dr. Williams' Medicine Co.,
a
Schenectady, ST. Y.
Still at the Old Stand Answering
Questions.
Union Gates, Columbia, S. C,
March 12,1896.
To the Editor of the Dispatch.
Today my gates are eight years
old and I am still winding them up
and down, drinking fat and swinging
on the gate answering questions as
usual: What time er day? When
does the 5 o'clock train go out? Is
the Irmo train come? How much
you get? You know where I can
get a job? Where is the Richland
Mills? How far to the Penitentiary?
Is there a dispensary close? You
think it will rain? How is cotton?
How far to Brookland? Got any
matches? Give me a drink of water.
Where is John Folk? Have you seen
Bill Griffin lately? Who was that
killed? Where is Capt. C. 0. Little?
Seen Tom Harper's wagons?
Where is Reamers coal yard ? Where
is the street cars and how often do
they run? Do you know whether
Mimnaugh's 2c calico is out? &c., &c.
On last week I went home looking
rough, my wife said Darla what s
tne matter ? I said, I can't, tell, 1
feel all out of strts. She said, did
get the old cain cutter ? No ! That's
what is troubling you, I bet. And
Josh that was the trouble. Whenever
the Dispatch fails to reach me,
I'm out of sorts and everything goes
wrong, for it brings glad tidings to
the troubled mind and rest to the
weary soul.
My best wishes to you and all?
By by G. A. Swygert, Sr.
If strength is what you want, you
should study what causes your weakness.
It is practically lack of food.
But you eat three meals a day,
and all you can eat at a time.
Yes, but do you digest it?
Food undigested, is not food. It
is not nourishment.
It doesn't create strength.
To digest your food take Shaker
Digestive Cjrcid at meals. After a
whiie you will digest your food without
it. Then you will get well, and
strong and healthy.
Shaker Digestive Cordial cures indigestion
and all its symptoms, such
as nausea, headache, eructations,
pain in the stomach, giddiness, less ?
of appetite, etc. It makes your food
nourish you, and make you strong
and fat and hearty.
Druggists sell it. Trial bottles
10 cents.
Not to bo Trifled With.
From Cincinnati Gazette.
Will people never learn that a
"cold" is an accident to be dreaded,
and that when it occurs treatment
should be promptly applied? There
is no knowing where the trouble will
end: and while complete recovery is
the rule, the exceptions are terribly
frequent, and thousands upon thousands
of fatal illnesses occur every
year ushered in by a lit'leinjudicious
exposure and seemingly trifling symptoms.
Beyond this, there are to-day
countless invalids who can trace their
complaints to ''colds," which at the
time of occurrence gave no concern,
and were therefore neglected.?"When
troubled with a co'd use Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy. It is prompt
and effectual. 25 and 50 cent bottles
for sale by Julian E. Kauffmann. 19.
Now is the time to begin to think
about planting your gardens, and
the Bazaar is the place to get ycur
seed. They are fresh and reliable.